Dubinsky Placed On Long Term IR

Now that Ilkka Heikkinen has been called up, the Rangers needed a way to get his salary under the cap. They did it by placing Brandon Dubinsky retroactively on Long Term Injury Reserve. Basically, and Dave can explain this better than I can, LTIR allows teams to go over the cap to fit in a replacement player. Putting Dubi on LTIR allowed them to call up Heikkinen.

Update 5:45pm (Dave): Just to expand on what Jeremy stated, when a player is placed on LTIR, a team is allowed to go over the salary cap by that player’s cap hit. In this case, the Rangers are allowed to go over the cap by $1.85 million, which gives them enough room to recall both Chad Johnson and Ilkka Heikkinen. However, the downside to this is that it does not help them save on cap flexibility at the end of the season, so the temporary (prorated) hits of Heikkinen and the extra forward(s) will stay with the cap number for the rest of the season.