mouser
Business of Hockey
Which, honestly, is a bit weird. Little is for all intents and purposes retired. He's not playing next season. I'm hoping that he'll be able to have a normal life after his hockey career. Obviously he's not about to retire and walk away from that kind of money, because normal people wouldn't.
So why does his contract still count toward the cap, but only up until the season starts? Why is the only reasonable course of action here for the Jets to dump that contract on some other team, just so we don't have to deal with the headache for exactly one day every year?
Them's the rules, but why? Surely they should be able to work something out for cases like this?
Little’s contract counts towards the cap 365 days a year—His cap hit doesn’t suddenly become $0 after being placed on LTIR.
LTIR allows a team to replace a player’s contract AAV even if that would cause the team to exceed the cap ceiling. LTIR doesn’t remove the player’s cap hit.
Everything you read on Capfriendly or any other cap site are projections of what the team cap and roster will be on October 12th when the team submits its opening Regular Season roster and the regular season salary cap takes effect.
Little will go to LTIR on either October 11th or 12th when Winnipeg announces their opening day roster.
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