Injury Report: Ohlund and Lee placed on LTIR

[TheDaysOf 04]

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Both Mattias Ohlund and Brian Lee have been placed on long-term injury

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Ondrej Palat not on the ice for practice, team says his absence is due to administrative reasons #tblightning

Here is explanation: in a paper transaction Palat was assigned to Syr yesterday, Connolly called up, Palat will be recalled today, Conn down

It's all pretty complicated to figure out at this point, but it had to do with salary cap manipulation, hope to know more later

#tblighting move that on paper sent Palat to Syracuse and Connolly to Tampa was used to maximize long-term injury cap space

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[TheDaysOf 04]

http://www.syracuse.com/crunch/inde..._works_for_defenseman_brian.html#incart_river

Lightning assistant general manager Julien BriseBois said he spoke with Lee on Wednesday morning. While his return date is still not clear, once he's ready he could stay with Tampa Bay, be assigned here on a rehab basis or put on waivers and then sent to Syracuse for a longer stretch if he clears.

BriseBois did not commit to any of those three options, saying only that right now Lee remains on Tampa Bay's roster.

"He's progressing really well,'' BriseBois said. "He's skating. He's still a few weeks away. We don't have a definite timeline.

"He's been working hard. He looks good. We can tell he's spent a lot of time in the gym.''

 

[Ricebox]

Who is Ohlund?

 

[The Macho King]

Who is Ohlund?

Is this a joke?

 

[Ricebox]

Is this a joke?

 

[ultra63]

Seems like a day of financial sleight of hand. Are we looking to make room for one of the players T.O is trying to unload?

"Teams are eligible to receive cap relief when a player is considered to have a "bona-fide long-term injury" — injuries that cause a player to miss at least 10 games and 24 days. In such cases, the team can place the player on long-term injured reserve (LTIR).
The placement of a player on LTIR does not remove the player's cap hit from the team's cap payroll — the cap hit continues to count. Nor does the placement of a player on LTIR provide the team with any additional cap-space savings that can be banked for future use while the team operates below the upper limit.
Placing a player on LTIR only provides relief if the team's cap payroll or "Averaged Club Salary" begins to exceed the upper limit. The amount of LTI relief is limited to the amount the team has gone over the cap — less the amount of cap space the team had at the time the LTIR transaction took place — and not the entire amount of the injured player's salary.
Further to the previous paragraph, eligible long-term injury space is calculated on the day the player is placed on LTIR. If the salary cap is $70.0 million and the team has a $69.0 million cap payroll the day Player A with a $4.0 million cap hit is placed on LTIR, the team's cap payroll or "Averaged Club Salary" can only exceed the cap by $3.0 million at any point thereafter."

http://www.capgeek.com/faq/how-does-long-term-injured-reserve-LTIR-work