Flyers GM Paul Holmgren has kept the Flyers at the peak of the Upper Limit. AP Photo/Matt Slocum
By: Tyler J. Altemose (@HockeyGuyTy)
The Flyers are a team that perennially operate toward the very top of the NHL’s upper limit. Given the various complexities within the CBA, it can make for very confusing situations.
One such situation was being discussed between myself and Eric, a contributing writer for Broad Street Hockey. He wrote an article discussing the issue of suspensions and its effect on a team’s cap, and within the thread for that article inquired about whether a team is allowed to put a player on long-term injured reserve (LTIR) prior to the start of the season.
I did some investigating and to the best of my knowledge this is how the Flyers’ cap situation would work with respect to Ian Laperriere being on LTIR.
The first place I looked was Section 50.9, which deals with timing in relation to calculating a team’s averaged salary. Remember, a team...
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