Burke the Legend
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Right now, if we move Byron to LTIR, we got 21 players signed with a little over $1M in cap space. This with KK not signed yet. So we have no choice but to put Weber on LTIR before the season starts. Or like I said in another post... unless someone knows how to manage around this? Leafs had several guys on LTIR a few seasons ago and I believe they might have been 10% over the cap so they must have had an exemption from the NHL? Not sure
Yeah I think you get an exemption when it's obvious injury because we have seen that before multiple times where clubs move forward with deals despite breaching the 10% excess and LTIR technically not beginning until season starts.
I think it's a rule in place to prevent loophole shenanigans not so much to give an extra hard time to a club trying to put a team together while juggling a difficult injury situation (already a handicap)