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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The simplest solution is just to declare that your total on-ice salary, prorated to an 82 game season, can’t exceed the cap in any individual game, playoff or otherwise.
EDIT: similar to IronMaiden above, but make it so that if a team like Vegas wants to pick up an extra 6M player to cover for a 6M player on LTIR and that LTIR player returns in the playoffs, then they have the option of playing either of them throughout the playoffs, but wouldn’t be able to play both in one game (unless they scratch 6M elsewhere).
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This is the solution IMO.
And it's funny if you look at Vegas...
Eichel, Stone, Hertl, Karlsson, Marchessault, Barbashev, Roy, Mantha, Stephenson, Howden, Amadio, Cotter = $53.7M
Pietrangelo, Theodore, McNabb, Whitecloud, Hague, Hanifin = $23.25M
Hill, Thompson: $5.7M
Total= $83.15M
For all the noise about Vegas cheating their best dressed roster come playoff time actually is still under the Salary Cap. And it was the same thing last year.
It allows them to build depth and squeeze these guys in, but it's easy to build a 20 man roster with most of their best players that is still below the cap of $83.5M.
You can't dress Carrier / Kolesar and have to dress Cotter, and Martinez can't play (not sure he would anyways with those other 6), but not like they have to make any really tough decisions.
And since they are in LTIR all season long most of the time they can't accrue cap space like another team can, any team can be over the cap in the playoffs if they use their cap accrual space wisely...not just LTIR teams.