So now we know. Cristal is back to WHL and Miro to Hershey for the right reasons which is they need big minutes, in all situations and they are better served to do that on their respective teams. I’m good with that.
now, there is the salary cap dance, which works like this. You want to be as close to the $88M cap as possible because every dollar you are short, you have to fill that up before you use LTIR. Here is how the Caps make that happen with Cristal and Miro out and Vrana without contract until Tuesday:
21 players including Oshie 5.75M on IR. Includes Mac and Alexyev. Lapierre will get sent down in a paper transaction to make the numbers right. Including all of the above we’ll be 168k short of $88M which is really good.
Then on Tuesday, Oshie goes to LTIR which frees up 5.75M (minutes 168k). Lapierre gets reassigned to Caps. Vrana signs contract which will likely be two-way or a one-way under 1.1M. But they are signing him to be a Cap and not a Bear. That should leave us $4.5M in cap space to use during the year. We will also have 49 contracts so we have 1 that we can use in any kind of trade or use for Leonard.
now, there is the salary cap dance, which works like this. You want to be as close to the $88M cap as possible because every dollar you are short, you have to fill that up before you use LTIR. Here is how the Caps make that happen with Cristal and Miro out and Vrana without contract until Tuesday:
21 players including Oshie 5.75M on IR. Includes Mac and Alexyev. Lapierre will get sent down in a paper transaction to make the numbers right. Including all of the above we’ll be 168k short of $88M which is really good.
Then on Tuesday, Oshie goes to LTIR which frees up 5.75M (minutes 168k). Lapierre gets reassigned to Caps. Vrana signs contract which will likely be two-way or a one-way under 1.1M. But they are signing him to be a Cap and not a Bear. That should leave us $4.5M in cap space to use during the year. We will also have 49 contracts so we have 1 that we can use in any kind of trade or use for Leonard.
