[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

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.

This could work for the playoffs, but for the regular season it wouldn't work because you are essentially allowing teams to bury a cap hit by not dressing him. Last year's Flames could have picked up an extra 5 million (or whatever we had on the cap for the guy) by not dressing Lucic all year.