Loophole

Created by: pasha123

Team: 2020-21 Tampa Bay Lightning

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 8, 2020

Published: Jul. 8, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Not necessarily the trade or the signings but the idea of acquiring a player for LTIR purposes. Something along what Toronto did last year, where they used/acquired players on LTIR to get the quasi cap needed to field their team. I'm sure Tampa would love to move McDonagh but that may be hard. Tampa will be able to sign their main pieces and still have a fantastic team. Yzerman's familiarity with TB and it's players will allow him to get what he wants.
Another team TB could target is Anaheim for Kesler as he would have an extra year of LTIR that Tampa could use.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Cirelli, Anthony	3	$4,625,000
Sergachev, Mikhail	3	$4,625,000
Joseph, Mathieu	2	$850,000
Verhaeghe, Carter	2	$750,000
Volkov, Alexander	1	$925,000
Cernak, Erik	4	$2,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Shattenkirk, Kevin	2	$2,750,000
Schenn, Luke	1	$700,000
Thornton, Joe	1	$900,000
Gaunce, Cameron	1	$700,000
Stone, Michael	1	$700,000

Trades

TBL

Zetterberg, Henrik

DET

Buyouts

Vincent Lecavalier: $0

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$87,425,000	$0	$500,000	-$5,925,000

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Stamkos, Steven $8,500,000$8,500,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 4	Point, Brayden $6,750,000$6,750,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Kucherov, Nikita $9,500,000$9,500,000 RW NMC UFA - 7
Killorn, Alex $4,450,000$4,450,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Cirelli, Anthony $4,625,000$4,625,000 C, LW UFA - 3	Palat, Ondrej $5,300,000$5,300,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 2
Coleman, Blake $1,800,000$1,800,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Thornton, Joe $900,000$900,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW NTC UFA - 4
Joseph, Mathieu $850,000$850,000 LW, RW UFA - 2		Goodrow, Barclay $925,000$925,000 C, LW UFA - 1
Verhaeghe, Carter $750,000$750,000 LW UFA - 2	Paquette, Cédric $1,650,000$1,650,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Hedman, Victor $7,875,000$7,875,000 LD NMC UFA - 5	Shattenkirk, Kevin $2,750,000$2,750,000 RD UFA - 3	Vasilevskiy, Andrei $9,500,000$9,500,000 G UFA - 8
Sergachev, Mikhail $4,625,000$4,625,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Cernak, Erik $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 3	McElhinney, Curtis $1,300,000$1,300,000 G UFA - 1
McDonagh, Ryan $6,750,000$6,750,000 LD NTC UFA - 6	Foote, Cal $925,000$925,000 ($500,000$500K) RD RFA - 1
	Stone, Michael $700,000$700,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Zetterberg, Henrik $6,083,333$6,083,333 C UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jul. 8, 2020 at 1:10 a.m.

TSTTrocks

Joined: Apr. 2020

Posts: 61

Likes: 22

Acquiring Zetterberg would give them zero additional cap room effectively. They would take on the 6.0833M cap hit and in return get 6.0833 of cap relief, leaving them at net 0 from the transaction

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Jul. 8, 2020 at 1:20 a.m.

pasha123

Joined: Jan. 2016

Posts: 279

Likes: 52

Quoting: TSTTrocks

Acquiring Zetterberg would give them zero additional cap room effectively. They would take on the 6.0833M cap hit and in return get 6.0833 of cap relief, leaving them at net 0 from the transaction

That is true, but since Zetterberg isn't playing anymore he will be on LTIR for the whole year from day one. so effectively a team can go over the cap by the amount of salary on LTIR. it doens't give the team actual cap space just allows the team to replace that player up to his cap hit. The closer to that players cap hit a team is the better. That's what Toronto, Arizona and numerous other teams did last year.

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Jul. 8, 2020 at 2:05 a.m.

mhockey91

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 15,921

Likes: 6,980

Quoting: pasha123

Yeah that’s such a weird and confusing concept. I remember Steve dangle tried to explain it and he even struggled

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Jul. 8, 2020 at 2:07 a.m.

GenXHockey

Formerly Jamiepo

Joined: Jul. 2018

Posts: 21,157

Likes: 10,700

Quoting: pasha123

I still don’t think you are quite understanding. This does absolutely nothing to give them any wiggle room. Infact since salary is no longer accrued daily it actually gets worse come deadline.

Toronto was already in Ltir. They picked up the clarkson contract in case negotiations with marner ran long in order to get the ltir relief they needed to sign him.

If the cap is 81.5m and you spend 82m you are over by 500k. If you add a player to ltir and you now spend 88m you are still over by 500k.

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Jul. 8, 2020 at 2:11 a.m.

GenXHockey

Formerly Jamiepo

Joined: Jul. 2018

Posts: 21,157

Likes: 10,700

Quoting: mhockey91

Yeah that’s such a weird and confusing concept. I remember Steve dangle tried to explain it and he even struggled

It’s simple, the leafs without marner would no longer be able to get ltir relief. The clarkson contract would allow them to keep him on ir and assemble a team that would qualify for max relief. When marner is signed clarkson goes on ltir.

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