LTIR and ELC bonuses

[voxel]

I heard the Oilers will be hit with bonus overages (McDavid + Draisaitl) next year due to going over the cap with LTIR.

So the Leafs and Flames could suffer the same consequences.

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?p=5601195
http://theleafsnation.com/2016/5/7/...and-the-leafs-need-to-be-cautious-in-using-it

What other team could be hit with cap penalties next season? Columbus? Hawks?

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[voxel]

I never received any answers but recently stumbled upon this:

https://tipofthetower.com/2017/06/28/toronto-maple-leafs-rookie-bonuses-impact-salary-cap/

Leafs will be penalized $5.37M overages and the Oilers $5.25 M for the next season.

 

[ELab2]

The Flyers have a little over $1mil in combined overage from Konecny and Provorov.

 

[drewshoo]

I never received any answers but recently stumbled upon this:

https://tipofthetower.com/2017/06/28/toronto-maple-leafs-rookie-bonuses-impact-salary-cap/

Leafs will be penalized $5.37M overages and the Oilers $5.25 M for the next season.

The Oilers done have that much in an overage. That is how much they paid out in bonuses but I believe they only ended up less a million over the cap. They were quite a ways under the cap all season in anticipation of the bonuses.

https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/oilers

 

[Eric Sachs]

You only have roll-over bonuses if you are at the cap limit. This tends to happen with teams who are using LTIR space as you are technically over the cap limit when using LTIR but there is no direct connection between LTIR and ELC bonuses. A team close to the cap can get hit with rollover bonuses as well.

Basically, take end of year cap space and subtract all bonuses earned. If you have leftover bonuses (not enough cap space to absorb it all), you get rollover to the next year. If you have enough cap space to pay out all the bonuses that year, you're fine.

For the Oilers, seems like they had roughly 4.5M in cap space at the end of the season so were able to absorb most of the bonuses they owed to their ELC guys, with only ~800k of carryover. A team like the Flyers only had 51k in cap space at the end of the year and didn't really utilize LTIR that much.. but they owe bonuses because they can't fit them all in.