Nithoniniel
Registered User
At the beginning of the year, it was. I think cap is calculated daily.
You're actually both right.Absolutely not. Cap hit doesn't change. Money owed does...hit does not
The cap hit of a player is what he'll cost over an entire season. It is calculated on a day-per-day basis as a projection through a full season. Outside of situations like with Nylander last year, this only matters for trades and it's largely just semantics. So let's say that it's the TDL and we have acquired this player. His cap hit is the same, what he will cost in total to both teams across the season is still the same. What percentage he'll cost us across the rest of the season is the same as what he would have cost us if he had been here the whole season. It's just a matter of how you present it.
Man, that was maybe not the best explanation. I'll try with an example instead:
We want to trade for a player after exactly half the season. He has a cap hit of $2M. That means he uses up $1M of that on his old team, and the rest on ours. You can describe that in two ways:
1. His overall cap hit is $2M, and we draw that from the $81.5M salary cap we have overall this season.
2. His remaining cap hit is $1M, and we draw that from the $40.75M salary cap that remains this season.
Both are correct. It only becomes incorrect when you mix the two, like if you say that he costs $2M but we only have $40.75M space left, or that he costs us $1M of our $81.5M full season budget.