I bet there is a lot of misinformation going around about injury replacements in the new CBA. Hockey media guys who have no expertise are probably feeding junk info to the general public. It makes no sense whatsoever that the NHL would create a cap system that penalizes any team for having injuries. I bet all of this doomsaying will be wrong and the Leafs and any other NHL team in the same position can replace their injured player with a minor league call up.
If you read this paragraph then I think if Fraser goes on the IR we can replace him with anyone in our system. ie. if we want to bring up liles we can becasue its not
his cap hit that is added/ because he is a replacement for fraser and he assumes frasers cap hit.
Myabe i'm wrong ?????
The replacement Player Salary and Bonuses for any Player(s) that replace(s) an unfit-to-play Player may be added to the Club's Averaged Club Salary until such time as the Club's Averaged Club Salary reaches the Upper Limit.
A Club may then exceed the Upper Limit due to the addition of replacement Player Salary and Bonuses of Players who have replaced an unfit-to-play Player, provided, however, that when the unfit-to-play Player is once again fit to play (including any period such Player is on a Bona Fide Long-Term Injury/Illness Exception Conditioning Loan to another league),
the Club shall be required to once again reduce its Averaged Club Salary to a level at or below the Upper Limit prior to the Player being able to rejoin the Club. To the extent any Player who is unfit-to-play becomes fit to play during the period of the Roster Freeze set forth in Article 13, the provisions of this Section 50.10(d)(iv) requiring a Club to come back into compliance with the Payroll Range shall supersede the provisions of Article 13 restricting transactions during the Roster Freeze;