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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Unless a player is medically certified to be unable to play for the entire season including playoffs, putting him on LTIR only gives you cap relief equal to the league average salary. The Oilers would only get about $8 million in LTIR space for both those players – and that's assuming they both consented not to play for an entire year, which I very much doubt.
Then they have to come up with assets from somewhere to trade for the replacement players. They're already trading away 2029 picks, for Pete's sake. There isn't much more in that well.
All that work, just to shore up a team that is below average right now, would not affect league parity in the slightest.
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Is this new? I thought LTIR gave you cap relief up to a player’s cap hit. And it would be pretty easy to argue that any player has injuries at any given time.
But yes, the Oilers are running out of assets to trade. Just trying to use a humorous example. Because E=NG in any thread.