I dont think Ferlands LTIR figures into the day to day cap expenditures as it was before the start of season compliance. (He would have to come back for it to fit into the equation) The only issue was setting up as close to the 81.5 as possible to start the year or we would have been capped at the amount below up to his 3.5 AAV ex: 78million if we didn't use it upon end of training camp compliance.
We set our upper limit with him on LTIR on day 1 just under the 81.5.
The thing im murky about is whether the LTIR accumulations of Sutter and Hamonic ongoing is space we can use to pay bonuses (i dont believe we can) and/or if we move a player (above the 750k paygrade) or run at below the day to day operations can we slide in bonus payments to knock down the amounts for carryover.
I'm pretty certain that not pertaining to Covid and LTIR that if we operate below our upper Accrued Cap Space Limit we can pay off any bonuses owed to Halak. Meaning if we trade anyone at the deadline (above 750k) and we bring back less in salary or operate with less players we could probably pay it off by seasons end.
I could be wrong here