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Originally Posted by Ped
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They could have traded Dadonov for future considerations and achieved exactly the same result. Adding Weber allowed them to exceed the cap by the amount of Weber's salary, but also added Weber's salary to their cap figure.
Weber's cap hit is $7.86 million. I'll round off the other figures, since the exact numbers don't matter for the purpose of illustration. Suppose the Knights, without Dadonov, were right at the cap, and the cap was $80 million. Adding Weber on LTIR allows them to go over the cap by the amount of Weber's salary… but it ALSO adds Weber's salary to their cap hit.
Without Weber: $80 million cap hit, $80 million cap space, $0 remaining
With Weber: $87.86 million cap hit, $87.86 million cap space (with LTIR), $0 remaining
Weber's salary gets counted against the cap even when he is on LTIR. From the very link you gave me:
Despite the common misconception, LTIR does not remove a Cap Hit from a team’s overall Cap Hit, it just potentially allows the team to exceed the salary cap.
Whoever has Weber's contract at any given time still has the full amount of that contract counting against the cap.
The trade was Dadonov for Weber. Vegas was over the cap and had to get rid of a player. They could use LTIR to take on a contract that Montreal wanted to get rid of, so they did that to make the deal happen. Montreal could activate Dadonov using some of the extra cap space they gained by putting Carey Price on LTIR.
If adding an LTIR player created cap space out of nothing, as you seem to suggest, then the Knights could have added Weber for future considerations (relieving Montreal of having to pay him) and kept Dadonov. But it doesn't work that way.