So if leafs trade for a player today cap hit 4mil and gets injured 1st game season ending . Can the leafs use that LTIR towards the cap ? Muzzin still on LTIR
Just asking trying to figure how this works
If the Leafs trade for a player and that player plays for them, then that player had to fit under the cap. So you'd have to make that player fit first.
When a player is placed on LTIR, the cap ceiling is adjusted for the team as follows: current cap expenditure + player cap hit. So if the team is spending 72 mil out of 81.5 mil and the player has a cap hit of 5 mil, putting him on LTIR does nothing (other than free up a roster spot, but regular IR does that already). If the team is spending 80 mil out of 81.5 and places the 5 mil player on LTIR, they can then spend up to 85 mil.
Players on LTIR still count against the cap, so adding a player on LTIR without subtracting other players off the roster won't result in any added cap space.