What

anybody know how much money you can put on LTIR?

As much as you want

This move is genius...
We effectively get more LTIR space this year

As long as players are truly injured and eligible for "long term" as many players, cap or $$$$ as you want.

But this Clarkson and all the others are truly ridiculous. Clarkson does not affect Vegas' cap at all.

There is an off season cap that the Golden Knights were up against

And all we could get was a 4th for that relief and sparks? Weak sauce

I hear by elect David Clarkson the new owner of Robidas Island

Fourth is alot for a guy who was most likely going be waived

It doesn't affect them very much. This trade was mostly abut the money but it was there. Raising Sparks return to a 4th is fine overall

Not genius at all... helps our cap not one bit to add salary to receive relief from it.

Dude we got a 4th for Sparks and can exceed the cap by 10.5 million dollars.
I call that a win

Here read this thread.
https://twitter.com/EarlSchwartz27/status/1153799226175848454

Yeah but you added another 5m in cap.... so it’s a wash. What if sparks comes out of camp takes the backup spot and kills it this year? Think there will be many apologies owed on this site...

@random2152

One word... Pridham...


If anyone doubts that leafs will get full relief just look at his resume...

The other thing this dumb dumb doesn’t understand is that Horton diesn’t Have to go on ltir right away either. He can be placed later.

I’m more than happy that Sparks is gone. The guy has no business being in the National Hockey League and is straight up cancer in the locker room. Not only does he perform badly and give up soft goals every time he faces a shot he also refuses to take responsibility and blames his teammates. As a goaltender he plays the last line of defence therefore it is his job to make timely saves, yet he doesn’t even give the team a chance to win. A dreadful attitude from a beyond pathetic player.

Yes, and this trade allows him to get that full value off on LTIR.
They are preparing for a holdout. Don't expect Mitch back day 1.
https://twitter.com/EarlSchwartz27/status/1153799226175848454

I would have signed gardiner instead, with no nmc in the first year.

Im not sure what you are saying. This doesn't open space in that way. There was a loophole where we couldn't use Horton's full LTIR if Marner held out meaning he couldn't be signed into the season. Adding another player on LTIR gives us the difference to do that. What it doesn't do is open any REAL cap space to sign Gardiner for example.

Leafs hedging bets and removing any Marner leverage.

Sign gardiner, put Horton on ltir Trade gardiner if marner signs. Clarkson opens up $0 in cap space

We'd have to pay to do that and it opens up all sorts of issues.
Realistically it wasn't possible (at least how you describe it).

100% possible. I just don’t think the leafs wanted to do that to gardiner. This is really a nothing move by the leafs. There are about 10 different ways Pridham could have done this.

Not really. Have you read the thread I linked you?

You are almost coaxing me to make an agm. The leafs don’t have to have an ltir contract. Any contract that they can trade will work. If the leafs were to put gardiner on the roster and be tight against the cap they could ltir Horton and then trade gardiner if Mitch signs.

To me this seems like more of a hedged bet by Pridham. The issue is if Mitch doesn’t sign how do you spend that ltir? It would be December before you could make a trade to fill that 1 and I’m not sure how that affects the salary relief pool.