I'm getting cap confused again. How much money do they have? My understanding was that they could be over the cap by Pronger's hit on day one, yet 10% over until then. Are you saying they just need breathing room for a call-up?
I am going to try and rewrite this capgeek explanation of what Detroit did last year to match what I think the Flyers will do
this year.
http://www.capgeek.com/faq/how-does-long-term-injured-reserve-LTIR-work
The Philadelphia Flyers followed Option 2. The upper limit was $69M and the Flyers’ Averaged Club Salary or cap payroll on the final day of training camp was $72,061,429, including one injured player, Chris Pronger ($4,941,429 cap hit).
Rather than simply place Pronger on LTIR, a move that would have left them with no cap space and a new upper limit of $72,061,429, they recalled Petr Straka ($925K) and Robert Hagg ($925K), two players with an aggregate Averaged Amount totalling $1,850,000.
That increased their Averaged Club Salary to $73,911,429 — $4,911,429 above the upper limit or almost exactly Pronger's cap hit of $4,941,429. Only then did they place Pronger on LTIR, leaving the Flyers with an upper limit to $73,911,429 for the duration of the LTIR designations.
The Flyers demoted Straka and Hagg the next day, bringing their Averaged Club Salary back down to $72,061,429, while leaving them with the flexibility to add $1,850,000 in Averaged Amounts, space created by the one-day recall of Straka and Hagg.
