Can the public access a calculator for how much cap space can be accrued?
Like how much are we really adding by not going into LTIR w/ Poolman?
How much more can we accrue by the TDL if we do dump Poolman's contract?
Etc.
this is all rough because i'm not sure if league shutdowns (like for christmas and the four nations) count as days for salary cap purposes but the relevant dates are:
oct 8 (or oct 4, if the roster deadline is before the europe games)
march 6 (trade deadline)
april 17 (final day of regular season)
that translates to 149 days from the season opener to the trade deadline (or 153 if the roster deadline is when the euro games are played or 141 if the four nations break doesn't count or 145 if both are true but i'm just gonna use 149) and 43 days from the trade deadline to the end of season
the cap is 88 million but you divide that per day so 88000000 / (149 + 43) for $458,333.33 per day
for every dollar each day you don't spend you get to bank it to exceed the cap later in the season. each dollar you are under the cap "banks" 0.776 dollars at the deadline ($1 multiplied by 149 days pre deadline divided by 192 total days)
the canucks are at $87809167 in cap spending which equates to $457339.41 per day. that means they'll bank just under $994 per day until the deadline
assuming no roster changes that means $148106 to spend on deadline acquisitions which doesn't sound like much but you get a 77.6% discount on added players contracts (because you only need to pay them for 22.4% of the season) so that means they can add $661187.50 in player salaries at the deadline (plus the cap space they already have, so about 850k)
i'm not sure if you can retain past the league min on a contract (but i doubt it) but that means the canucks probably can't do much with their banked cap space because you can't combine it with LTIR space
tl;dr: for every dollar you don't spend pre-deadline you can spend about $3.50 at the deadline on a player
