What are the cap implications for this? Isnt he LTIR? Wouldnt this mean no buy out required next year?
...And most importantly, a player on LTIR does not generate any extra cap room for the team. He does not come off the books, and will be factored into the calculations of the year-end salary cap of the team.
What are the cap implications for this? Isnt he LTIR? Wouldnt this mean no buy out required next year?
Career ending.
And I don't say that in a way to be a jerk, an awesome guy who had a solid NHL career but I can't imagine he comes back from it. All the best Andrew.
He's still on the payroll next year unless he goes the 'Pronger' way out, IE LTIR for the rest of his career, then takes a front office job with the Oilers.
He gets paid and gets saved the embarrassment of being bought out, the Oilers get the roster spot. Win-win.
I'm absolutely certain there are some kind of cap savings involved with LTIR too.
Found this article snippet on Horton, a similar situation:
As we explained, the LTIR contract is not added on top of any additional cap space the team has. If the Leafs have $3 million in cap space, they don’t have $8.3 million in space once Horton goes on LTIR. They are, however, allowed to exceed the cap by up to $2.3 million in that case. That is why, at the start of next season, the team would have two options to maximize the space availed by Horton’s LTIR status: One is to be right up against the cap (as tight as possible) with Horton on the roster, before placing him LTIR on day one of the season. Or, they can place him on LTIR before the first day of the season and build a roster that’s over the cap by as close to $5.3 million as possible to maximize their space.
Read more at: https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2015...jury-reserve-as-it-pertains-to-nathan-horton/
So technically no, we don't gain any space, but in a different way, we do, because we'd be able to exceed the upper limit of the cap.
Good stuff. Sounds like Ference will take the Pronger route. Saves faces for both him and the organization.
Career ending.
And I don't say that in a way to be a jerk, an awesome guy who had a solid NHL career but I can't imagine he comes back from it. All the best Andrew.
Didn't Mike Comrie's career end because of a hip injury.Career ending.
And I don't say that in a way to be a jerk, an awesome guy who had a solid NHL career but I can't imagine he comes back from it. All the best Andrew.
Pronger when he was 36 and no matter what the contract stays. Ference signed his contract prior to 35 so the contract would stay if he had to retire. The 35+ is a big difference.Do we have to trade him to Arizona too?
Season ending injury could actually potentially be bad for the Oilers. If he's still injured come offseason they wont be able to buy him out. And of course the easy answer to that is 'well he can just spend all of next year on LTIR". But he actually needs to be hurt for that. If he recovers, we'll need to keep him on the roster again.
hip hip hooray?
sorry
maybe overtraining isn't always such a great idea..
Season ending injury could actually potentially be bad for the Oilers. If he's still injured come offseason they wont be able to buy him out. And of course the easy answer to that is 'well he can just spend all of next year on LTIR". But he actually needs to be hurt for that. If he recovers, we'll need to keep him on the roster again.
HAH. I laughed.
And I'm going to give you credit where it's due, you've been calling him out for improperly training for the NHL game for years now. Looks like you were right.