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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I wonder if there is an insurance reason that Couture needs to be on LTIR so they need to keep him there but can then have Price not on LTIR to get them to the cap floor
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Originally Posted by Robbob
That is the thing I don't get, when we went through the whole Klyington thing, Treliving said there is no point to put him on LTIR as the flames at the time didn't need to leverage the cap space with LTIR. Which is why I never understood Coulture being on LTIR and not counting. Like you mentioned, there might be some obscure thing or just maybe the cap sites are incorrectly deducting his 8M.
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That's not quite how LTIR works. The cap hits on LTIR still count towards the cap. LTIR allows a team to exceed the cap by up to that amount. However placing a player on LTIR sets your LTIR pool, and once you exceed the cap by using said pool then cap space can no longer be accured.
That's why Kylington wasn't placed on LTIR, and why I doubt either Couture or Price go on LTIR in the offseason, especially while the Sharks are well below the salary cap.