Les Hurricanes ont placé l’attaquant Evgeny Kuznetsov au ballottage inconditionnel aujourd’hui, dans le but de mettre fin à son contrat. [Hurricanes PR via X]
Extra $3.9 in cap space? Ohhhh baby. Wonder if they make one more move or wait and see what they can do with it at the trade deadline
SliceMcNuts
He will always have a place in our hearts! All the best to Kuzi!!!
DaniCapsFan
I guess the Caps would be off the hook for the $3.9M then?
brspies
This does create an interesting situation for the Caps in terms of what they do at the start of the season. If Oshie is LTIRetired, they have to either load up as high as possible on their cap number in the offseason, and put him on LTIR before the season starts, to lock in as much room as possible; or they have to get just barely cap compliant *before* LTIR-ing him, wait for the season to start, then LTIR him.
This year, for example, I wonder if they waive alexeyev, and start lapierre, alexeyev, miro, sgarbossa (or any other 13th F candidate) in Hershey on paper just to get under, before then LTIRing Oshie and calling up everyone.
Gonna be interesting to watch. The Caps are notoriously pretty good at optimizing situations like these.
tyler289
Masterclass by GMBM to get something for Kuzy and also get us basically out of the contract entirely immediately after.
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Extra $3.9 in cap space? Ohhhh baby. Wonder if they make one more move or wait and see what they can do with it at the trade deadline
He will always have a place in our hearts! All the best to Kuzi!!!
I guess the Caps would be off the hook for the $3.9M then?
This does create an interesting situation for the Caps in terms of what they do at the start of the season. If Oshie is LTIRetired, they have to either load up as high as possible on their cap number in the offseason, and put him on LTIR before the season starts, to lock in as much room as possible; or they have to get just barely cap compliant *before* LTIR-ing him, wait for the season to start, then LTIR him.
[Puckpedia post](https://puckpedia.com/LTIR23) explaining the options, using last season cases as examples.
This year, for example, I wonder if they waive alexeyev, and start lapierre, alexeyev, miro, sgarbossa (or any other 13th F candidate) in Hershey on paper just to get under, before then LTIRing Oshie and calling up everyone.
Gonna be interesting to watch. The Caps are notoriously pretty good at optimizing situations like these.
Masterclass by GMBM to get something for Kuzy and also get us basically out of the contract entirely immediately after.