Injured players and salary cap

[CalgaryCannons]

It appears that players on the injured reserve are still counted against the salary cap. I ran into problems when I had five high-salary players injured for four weeks each and ran out of cap space to call up replacements. I'm not sure what the actual NHL rule is but I believe teams should be permitted to exceed the cap by the salary of the players on IR.

[Edster007]

Originally Posted by CalgaryCannons

It appears that players on the injured reserve are still counted against the salary cap. I ran into problems when I had five high-salary players injured for four weeks each and ran out of cap space to call up replacements. I'm not sure what the actual NHL rule is but I believe teams should be permitted to exceed the cap by the salary of the players on IR.

At four weeks you should get cap relief. I believe a player has to be out for 12 games or 24 days for a team to get relief. I don't know at what percentage of the injured players salary you get to use to replace him but part of the injured players salary still goes towards the cap.

[CalgaryCannons]

OK, so the issue is more the number of three and four week injuries (and some bad luck with their timing). I'll keep an eye on it when I get a longer injury.