More cap mismanagement: With Laperriere on LTIR, the Flyers are broke

Well, nobody is trading for him. The question is why you don’t just waive him instead.

How does Lappy’s contract come off the books? Even if he retired it wouldn’t bc it’s a 35+

1) If anything, it sets them up worse for next year’s cap. It provides less salary cap space, which leaves less space to pay bonuses, creating a higher probability that the Flyers will face a penalty next year equal to the amount of bonuses they couldn’t fit this year; The problem is that we don’t know how likely those bonuses are to be reached, or even how much they will cost.

2) Being on a two-way contract doesn’t effect waivers, and JVR only has 34 more games of waiver exemption. Either way, forcing yourself to demote a player because you have no cap space is a problem.

Then, Zherdev can’t be “moved down”, he would have to clear waivers. Further, if you put Briere on LTIR, you can spend up to his amount. But what if he gets hurt and has to miss two weeks? You either put him on LTIR and wait 24 days to dress him, or you don’t and go with both Carcillo and Zherdev. What if, at the same time, O`Donnell takes a puck in the face and has some concussion like symptoms. You want to sit him out for a week. You have no healthy scratches now, because you have two guys injured and unable to play, but not injured enough to go on LTIR in order to afford a replacement.

Rather than waive Walker, and have $5,069 in daily cap space (projecting to ending with $598,142 in cap space at the end of the year), the Flyers just said “we don’t need that cap space, we’ll live and die with LTIR”.

I’m not going to hit every point there, but just to address a few…. First off, Nodl is not waiver exempt. If we want to send him to the Phantoms, we have to risk him being claimed by another team on the way down. Given the way he is playing this year, this is definitely possible. We cannot risk demoting Nodl, just get that idea off the table. Zherdev is also risky, if we send him down, it’s possible for him to get claimed. If he somehow makes it to Adirondack, and we want to call him back up, I don’t see him clearing re-entry waivers where some other team can steal him for half price. This whole swapping players business is both incorrect and unrealistic.

Now, as far as injuries go, a guy can only go on LTIR if they’re going to be out for at least 24 days and 10 games. So if Briere gets the flu and can’t play for two games, we can’t put him on LTIR to pay someone else to play while he’s only sick for a couple of days. LTIR is only for serious injury. If we would have waived Walker instead of putting Lappy on LTIR, we would have had flexibility to handle a theoretical AHL call-up to cover for something minor like a short suspension or a flu epidemic.

And as phinally already pointed out, Lappy’s contract stays on the books next year. It’s not going anywhere.

Quite possibly and yes.

I’m with you. If anything, I think this is them putting all chips down for this year. Yes, that means they think Matt Walker is a crucial depth defenseman who could help win a Stanley Cup.

lol I admit, I may have a problem. But if you don’t know it 40 minutes before, how are you going to know it 40 minutes later?