Robertson isn’t on ltir and I doubt that they want to spend all their accrued space on honka.

Honka doesn't have much more to give at this point. I pass on this

Why not? He's out for a month.

Could you explain to me how a team can accrue cap space during the season? I’m not too familiar with this thanks.

Cap is not calculated yearly it is calculated daily. Any extra cap space that is not used is carried over to the next day... and so on. (I believe it is actually averaged out but either formula will give you the same number)

Leafs lose all accrued cap space if they exceed the ACSL.

I thought the move with Spezza was to set the ACSL but apparently they wanted a bit more flexibility. Soezza loves being sent down on days off since this apparently from what I read saves him money on escrow. Everyone happy.

Thanks for letting me know!

No chance you'll get anything more than a 6th for Engvall.

But I'm talking about Robertson. Why not put him on LTIR? What do they have to loose?

More fascination with other teams RHD. What makes you think Honda can make the Leafs lineup?

Sharks pass.

Again... if they put Robertson on ltir and exceed the ACSL then they lose all accrued cap space.

What is ACSL? I always though LTIR just made it so that player doesn't count against the cap.

No, their cap hit always counts.

ACSL is accumulated cap space limit. When a player is put on ltir this is the cap hit of the team including the player to be put on ltir (when it is done in season)

Let’s just forget about Thornton’s injury for a bit and concentrate on Robertson.

Now if we were to do nothing but leave the current roster intact and use ltir it would look like this:

Leafs current cap hit -$80,971,408 -this will become ACSL
Robertson cap hit -$821,667- this will become relief pool

Toronto’s new upper limit would be ACSL+relief pool
$80,971,408 + $821,667 = $81,793,075

Robertson’s cap hit never goes away. The leafs are just allowed to spend up to the new upper limit.

In this case an extra $293,075. This is why teams arrange the roster to get as close to the upper limit (81.5m) to set the ACSL as high as possible and get the most relief by getting a higher upper limit.

The issue is, (in this hypothetical) as soon as leafs hit $80,973.408 they can no longer accrue cap so ace as they are using the salary relief pool.

Performance bonuses get their own relief pool as well. When using ltir and replacing an injured player performance bonuses have to be included in the teams cap hit.

If that seems as clear as mud there is an faq on this site. The cba is also available in PDF.

Thanks. That's makes more sense.