You can't buy out an injured player, LTIR or not.
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Teams receive cap relief when a player is considered to have a "bona-fide long-term injury" — injuries that cause a player to miss at least 10 games or 24 days. This is one of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of the CBA.
Just because a player is on LTIR does not automatically grant the team extra cap space. In the event a player is placed on LTIR, his cap hit still counts toward the team's overall cap payroll. Relief only comes if replacing the player's salary pushes the team's cap payroll to date over the cap. The amount of relief is limited to the amount the team has gone over the cap (less the amount of payroll room the team had at the time the LTIR transaction took place), not the entire amount of the injured player's salary.
Does the games missed requirement "reset" each season?
Players like Savard and Pronger have been LTIR forever, I just assumed their hits never counted anymore because they've been off for so long.
If their LTIR qualification doesn't reset, then their respective teams have the luxury of going over the cap during the off season, do they not?
Because as of game one they will be cap compliant again.
Also, any team can be over the cap during the off season.
The Flyers were over the cap forever last off season or the one before until pretty late.
This post was edited by chreeeis on Jun 25 2013 07:22pm