After over three months out of the lineup, Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen is on the verge of making his 2025 Stanley Cup Playoff debut. Stars head coach Pete DeBoer announced that Heiskanen ...

Washington Capitals forward T.J. Oshie is considered "the heartbeat of the team," so losing him to long-term injured reserve (LTIR) to start the season will be a critical blow to the locker room.

Plus, Kevin Sherrington's A La Carte. While LTIR does free up significant cap space, it comes with a catch. Teams using the LTIR pool cannot accrue cap space. Each day of the season, an NHL team ...

Other teams have felt the pressure of this new LTIR mandate. Gabriel Landeskog didn’t play Game 1 or Game 2 for the Colorado Avalanche. Teams like the Dallas Stars brought back players in Game ...

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NHL teams only get temporarily relief when they place a player on LTIR. In the Panthers' case, Tkachuk and his $9.5 million cap hit are set aside for now. It would go back into effect once he's ...

Escrow was set at 6% for 2023-24. What's next for LTIR One way teams have gotten around the constraints of the salary cap is through the long-term injured reserve exemption. Teams such as the ...

Anthony Duclair was finally placed on long-term injured reserve Saturday, and the Islanders used their extra salary cap space to make a flurry of moves. With Duclair’s $3.5 million salary no ...

Mat Barzal was formally placed on LTIR Saturday with a timeline of 4-6 weeks, the team announced. Adam Pelech, who appeared to suffer a jaw injury when a puck caught him in the face while blocking ...

The Toronto Sceptres have activated forward Sarah Nurse from long-term injured reserve (LTIR). She is in the lineup today for the Toronto Sceptres as they play the Montréal Victoire. The 30-year ...

We’ve finally arrived at the NHL's opening day in North America, which meant teams had to get their final rosters cap-compliant and submitted on Monday. GMs made flurries of waiver moves in the ...