After the Slater Koekkoek call up from the Syracuse Crunch, the Lightning are $1.82 million under the upper limit of the NHL salary cap. That equals out to a $5.8m AAV contract in cap room. The team is not getting close enough to the cap to put Jason Garrison on LTIR to gain any benefit. The Lightning also doesn't have the contracts in the AHL to be able to manipulate the cap enough to get there. They'd have to have a guy or two go on IR to be able to call up enough players to make a LTIR declaration and it just wouldn't save that much cap room, so not likely to happen or be needed for that matter.
A very quick update on the Lightning's salary cap sitaution
