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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
LTIR isn't free cap. You can exceed the cap by the equivalent (for simplicity if you were at max cap) but you no longer bank that additional cap while the player is on the LTIR.
So if a team starts the season 4M under the cap (based on full year projection) and nothing changes, by the time they get to the trade deadline (for simplicity assume it is 3/4th of the season) they have banked 3M in cap. They can therefore get a player who would cost 3M over 1/4th of the season, or a player with a cap-hit of 12M.
Now if that same team needed to place a player on LTIR making 5M, they could replace him with 5M, sure, but they are now 'exceeding' the cap. Come the trade deadline they would not be able to acquire a player making 12M because they haven't banked any cap.
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I still felt like the issue in regards to Hossa was more than that... they felt like and communicated that they couldn't start the season with that replacement player in the line-up. If the cap was $80M, they were planning on a $75M roster, plus Hossa at $5M, to get to $80M... that part is a real disadvantage... not being able to acquire a star player at the deadline isn't really that big an issue, as few teams do so anyways.