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Main Leafs Hockey Talk / Re: Dell and Spezza placed on waivers
« on: January 18, 2021, 12:25:31 AM »Let?s see if I?m reading this right:
1. Waive Dell and Spezza
2. Call up Engvall and another (Lehtonen?) to max the cap hit (including Robertson) as close to 81.5 as possible, and play that game
3. After the game, send Robertson to LTIR if it?s a full ACL/MCL issue and expand the Leafs upper number to 81.5+0.82
4. On game days, carry 22; on off days carry 20 and drop below 81.5 to accrue a modicum of space
Can I do an example to test this newly acquired knowledge? Let?s suppose
Player R costs 1 million.
Players S, T costs 1 million each.
The rest of the Leafs (L) cost 79.5
Cap is 81.5
Start of the season:
L + S + R = 81.5
R goes on LTIR
You can replace R with T so you are paying:
L + S + T + R = 82.5
But then you can play just L and not S and not T (but you still pay R) so you are paying:
L + R = 80.5
And now you are accruing (1 million/# of days) per day in that state.
But you can always play S and T any time you want. The cost is just that every time you play S and T (or even just S so you might as well play both from a cap perspective) you go right up to your limit.
I had thought ?once in LTIR, always in LTIR?. But that was wrong (although common ? to drop back under, you?d have to be just barely over in most cases). Sometimes the salary including the injured LTIR player can drop below the cap and then things are just like the player is on the regular IR and you accrue unused space.
