Why wouldn't Ottawa just trade with a team that has a LTIR player. They have 3x 2nd's next year and Detroit is sitting with Zetterberg's 1M salary but $6,083,333 in cap hit.

You do know Eugene Melnyk's got a reputation of picking up pennies on the sidewalk. 1M < 5M.

First. Not how it works.

2nd, read the description, again

Eriksson also makes 1M this year in real salary. 5M is combined cap hit over two years so Ottawa gets to pay low on 2 consecutive years as well

1) Yes, LTIR can be used to get to the cap floor..why do you think Arizona acquired all those contracts a few years ago when they were a cap floor team. LTIR counts against the cap floor.

2) Description doesn't matter as I pointed out a fundamental flaw in trading with Ottawa...their cheap owner.

3) Eriksson makes 1M in salary this year and 4M in salary next year (3M bonus + 1M in salary) = 5M total. Again Ottawa's owner is cheap so much easier to take on 1 year of 1M salary for $6,083,333 in cap floor spending then find a similar situation next year costing only 2M in real dollars vs your 5M solution.

did I mention Eugene Melnyk being super tight with money enough?