True, I haven’t thought about that. Makes it less important to accrue cap space but still a bit helpful. Teams can play a short bench in playoffs if they want to squeeze in another star player for example.

I don’t care about teams abusing it. Every potential playoff team or cup contender could’ve circumvented the cap if savvy enough. Or put in a position where they could do so. The cap was easy to understand. No need to add further parameters to add more confusion. As other have pointed out. We as fans shouldn’t want the NHL salary cap to become as impossible to understand as the NFL.

Cheers to that, the NBA salary cap system makes absolutely no sense. Ag the the NHL has a hard cap that simplifies it a little.

Right? Now try figuring out the NFL or NBA cap… that shit makes my head spin.

Once game 1 of the playoffs hits they are then in trouble as the roster they had iced for the 2nd half of the season is no longer playoff cap compliant as they have been operating over the daily cap.

This isn’t likely to happen as there will be depth players taking up cap etc but it demonstrates how a team could do everything right and end up with a cap issue for the playoffs. Just another wrinkle that front offices will need to consider in roster management. May ultimately end up seeing some decent players having to sit for cap purposes not just on LTIR teams but also Cap Accrual teams.

I believe Florida planned on having Tkachuk on LTIR most, if not all of the season. That’s why they may not have had a need to trade a guy like Rodrigues. However, as Aarif said, their roster as currently constructed is well over the hard cap, so they’ll have to unload someone before bringing Tkachuk back onto the roster – which they wouldn’t have had to if he came back in the playoffs before this rule took effect.

Vegas (or any team doing what they usually do) on the other hand won’t be able to rest Stone from TDL in order to trade for another star.