Post by St. Roch Hawks on Jan 1, 2021 1:49:24 GMT -5
I'm proposing a Long Term Injured Reserve for our league. We're no different than NHL teams in the sense that we have a limit on how much we can spend each year, a limit on how many players we can sign and we sign players to multi-year contracts. If a player is hurt and misses the entire season, or a majority of it, we are often in a bad spot as a result as we can't get cap relief by releasing them (unless they're an ELC player), we don't want to have to release prospects just to create a spot for a one-year replacement and we may not want to lose their rights in future years by dropping the player just because they're hurt this year.
If we had the option to put a player on LTIR I think it could work like this:
- Once you put the player on LTIR you cannot use him again that season
- The player would no longer count against your roster for that season so if you were at a full 40 player roster and then put a player on LTIR you'd gain a roster spot by having that player removed for the year and being at 39 players
- You have 20% of that player's salary added to your available funds. For example - a player making $5 a year would add $1 to your available funds to allow you to sign a replacement player
- You could only sign a replacement player to a one-year deal
- You could only sign a replacement player at the same position the player you placed on LTIR - you cannot put a Center on LTIR and sign a defenseman or goalie
- The minimum salary for a player to be placed on LTIR would be $5 a year as we don't want to deal with fractions and if you lose a player making less that that on a TERM deal he wasn't an impact player to begin with
- You cannot place a player on LTIR until the season begins to prevent you from gaining cap space during free agency
We need look no further than our Commissioner Adam's Moscow Red Army for an example of how this would work. He's at a full 40 man roster and has lost three players for the season - Nikita Kucherov, Jonathan Toews and Tyler Seguin. If LTIR were in place in our league using the parameters above he would be able to gain three roster spots and $25 in cap space to sign up to three forwards to a one-year deal.
If we had the option to put a player on LTIR I think it could work like this:
- Once you put the player on LTIR you cannot use him again that season
- The player would no longer count against your roster for that season so if you were at a full 40 player roster and then put a player on LTIR you'd gain a roster spot by having that player removed for the year and being at 39 players
- You have 20% of that player's salary added to your available funds. For example - a player making $5 a year would add $1 to your available funds to allow you to sign a replacement player
- You could only sign a replacement player to a one-year deal
- You could only sign a replacement player at the same position the player you placed on LTIR - you cannot put a Center on LTIR and sign a defenseman or goalie
- The minimum salary for a player to be placed on LTIR would be $5 a year as we don't want to deal with fractions and if you lose a player making less that that on a TERM deal he wasn't an impact player to begin with
- You cannot place a player on LTIR until the season begins to prevent you from gaining cap space during free agency
We need look no further than our Commissioner Adam's Moscow Red Army for an example of how this would work. He's at a full 40 man roster and has lost three players for the season - Nikita Kucherov, Jonathan Toews and Tyler Seguin. If LTIR were in place in our league using the parameters above he would be able to gain three roster spots and $25 in cap space to sign up to three forwards to a one-year deal.