Could Evander Kane's setback be a good thing?
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Recently, the Edmonton Oilers announced that Evander Kane underwent successful knee surgery, and this has major implications for Stan Bowman.
While Evander Kane seems adamant about a return this season, a 4-8 week recovery period signifies that he won't be ready until the post season.
If that is the case, GM Stan Bowman will have a handsome chunk of change to work with come trade deadline.
At the salary cap website, Puckpedia reported: «If Kane is out for rest of regular season, the Oilers can exceed the cap by $5.1M. Because they already set their LTIR pool at start of year with Kane on LTIR, they won't be able to effectively add accrued cap space + use LTIR pool, it's 1 or the other.
«Their roster right now has an annual cap hit of $88.05M. If they use LTIR, this can go up to $93.1M, meaning they can add $5.05M annual cap hit compared to roster right now. At the deadline, without LTIR, they can add $1M of annual cap hit and still be under cap. But if they do that, the annual cap hit is $89M, leaving only 93.1-89= $4.1M available to add if they use LTIR. So, the most they can add, even with Kane on LTIR, is $5.1M total more annual cap hit than the current roster. Had they waited to add Kane to LTIR, they could have used accrued space to add cap hit, then added Kane to LTIR, and then had another $5.1M available to add.»
Obviously there's a massive benefit to the Oilers, and also possibly to Kane, in him making sure he's fully healthy and not returning until the start of the playoffs, thus allowing the Oilers to make one or two monster moves at the trade deadline.
Regardless, Oilers can fully expect the most entertaining NHL deadline in franchise history.
| POLL | ||
JANVIER 10 | 299 ANSWERS Could Evander Kane's setback be a good thing? Do you think the Edmonton Oilers will be making a blockbuster signing at the NHL trade deadline? | ||
| Yes | 210 | 70.2 % |
| No | 89 | 29.8 % |
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