[News] NHL GMs frustrated by new salary cap rules at trade deadline

[Macindoc]

Originally Posted by Stampede2TheCup

People are snarky because of how GMs are complaining about the loophole being closed after being warned. The fact GMs had plans before the rule change in September is ridiculous and shows how blatantly the system was abused.

Yes, we like trades. Yes we want buyers for Kadri. But people also disliked the blatant abuse of the cap system in the playoffs. It’s possible to hold both points of view. It’s even possible to be snarky about GMs and wish this had happened one year later.

Having this change is much better for the parity of the league going forward. The cap rising so much is potentially starting to create more of a gap between richer teams and the rest.

But it’s still not ideal for parity. All the Oilers have to do is put Nurse and Bouchard on LTIR during the regular season, replace them with real defencemen and some depth forwards with the cap relief, then continue to sit them during the playoffs.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Macindoc

But it’s still not ideal for parity. All the Oilers have to do is put Nurse and Bouchard on LTIR during the regular season, replace them with real defencemen and some depth forwards with the cap relief, then continue to sit them during the playoffs.

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.

[McG]

Originally Posted by Macindoc

But it’s still not ideal for parity. All the Oilers have to do is put Nurse and Bouchard on LTIR during the regular season, replace them with real defencemen and some depth forwards with the cap relief, then continue to sit them during the playoffs.

I don’t know if clueless counts for LTIR for those two.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Haha, cry us a river.

You guys handed out those contracts that put your team in a crunch.

Maybe GM better?

[Macindoc]

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.

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.

[PaperBagger'14]

“ Teams made plans and then, in September, the league changes the rules. It's bush league," one NHL team executive told ESPN. "All of a sudden, if you're one of these teams that's been kind of planning a certain way, they just changed the rules on you."

Teams made plans, and then when rules changed 6 months ago they failed to adapt.

Sort of like seeing a psychics convention cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

[Reign of Fire]

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[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Macindoc

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.

Yup. One of the new rules they brought in is that your LTIR relief for any one player is capped at the league average salary, unless the player is out for the entire season. If so, the old rule applies and you get full relief.

[Stampede2TheCup]

Originally Posted by Macindoc

But it’s still not ideal for parity. All the Oilers have to do is put Nurse and Bouchard on LTIR during the regular season, replace them with real defencemen and some depth forwards with the cap relief, then continue to sit them during the playoffs.

Lol that’s funny, I’d love to see it happen because the Oilers would only be guaranteed to make things worse for themselves.

I said it was better for parity and I still believe so.

[Macindoc]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

Yup. One of the new rules they brought in is that your LTIR relief for any one player is capped at the league average salary, unless the player is out for the entire season. If so, the old rule applies and you get full relief.

So will Nurse be injured for the full 2026-2027 season then? And Bouchard, and Jarry, and Mangiapane? Might be the Oilers' only hope for success while Mavi is still with them.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Macindoc

So will Nurse be injured for the full 2026-2027 season then? And Bouchard, and Jarry, and Mangiapane? Might be the Oilers' only hope for success while Mavi is still with them.

They still have to find the players to replace them with, and the free agent market this summer looks pretty bad.

[SuperMatt18]

It's also why GMs kind of screwed themselves.

All the rule changes made it make way more sense to be more proactive with your trades and cap managment this year. Accrual has very little value unless you have bad contracts you are just going to sit in the playoffs anyways.

There were some teams where it made way more sense to be proactive to try to get players in early to get adjusted and help the team longer, and most teams still just decided to wait until the deadline still.

[The Fonz]