Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | Where's The Beef?

[Oilslick941611]

With the CAD dropping and Trump threatening to nuke the economic status quo, the cap situation is murky imo. The projections may hold, or not.

Yeah, very true, but for next season at least the cap will be 97million according to Alan Walsh on his podcast today. Seemed pretty sure of it and said he had info from the league.

 

[McTonyBrar]

Murphy scores more points at 5on5 than Matheson.

Seems pretty good.

Personal preference then. I would take Matheson

 

[McDoused]

Yeah, very true, but for next season at least the cap will be 97million according to Alan Walsh on his podcast today. Seemed pretty sure of it and said he had info from the league.

That would be a pretty significant bump from the 92M that we were originally told at the start of the year.

An extra 5M next year would absolutely change what the Oilers should do at the deadline this year. It would actually allow us to go get a big name with term.

 

[foshizzle]

It's my understanding that he has not been on LTIR and that the space was just set. We put him on LTIR to set his limit and then took him off to accrue space

The accrual vs LTIR thing is not connected to a player. They are totally separate sources of cap space. If you are using LTIR then by definition you are not allowed to accrue cap at all. Accruing cap means that if you have 1 million in cap space, you can gain cap space over the season and have like 5 million by the deadline. If you use LTIR space then by definition you have zero cap space. That's the the total BS that Vegas was allowed to get away with this past summer. They were allowed to pay Lehner not to play AND not have him on LTIR and that allowed them to accrue space for the deadline. I'm actually shocked that was allowed

No. The way it works.

1) You put the player on LTIR before the season starts- you can then exceed the cap by that LTIR amount. The oilers did this last year. Essentially- say the cap is 88 mil and oilers have Kane at 5.1M. The Oilers have spent 87M and know with Kane they will be over at the beginning of the season so they put him on LTIR before rosters are due. Oilers total cap space is 87M+5.1M=92.1 m. They haven’t maximized LTIR.

No- say the Oilers are at 87M with Kane on the roster. Day one of the season, they put Kane on LTIR- now they can sign a player of equivalent value (5.1m) and they accrue the original 1M of space.

Last year- the Oilers managed to maximize LTIR before the season started but were dollar in dollar out at the deadline. This year- because they put him on LTIR after- they can backfill his spot while still accruing. That’s why timing is important. According to Oilers twitter, Kane was placed on LTIR Oct 8- a day after rosters were due. Puckpedia is saying it was before (which contradicts Oilers own twitter). This is the key distinction you’re missing