Why can we not place Ferland on LTIR right now? He basically confirmed he will never play again but he will be on IR till the start of the season? That extra 3.5mill would be great on cap savings
He will be put on LTIR. We can spend the extra 3.5M of cap and be cap compliant by the start of the season by moving contracts to Abbotsford and LTIR. We have about 20M to work with after contracts are moved and LTIR.
its complicated, but if ferland is placed on LTIR now we will actually lose cap space even with the bonus cushion, so long story short we wait until at least petey and hughes are signed. just imagine he isn't there and all will be good.