The Maple Leafs cap situation just got a little easier, and with this news we can also assume Kalle Kossila, injured in training camp, is healthy now.
Kossila was on SOIR and $97,850 of his cap hit was counting against the upper limit. This is an amount prorated on his number of days in the NHL last year.
Now that he’s presumably healthy, the Leafs can loan him to the Marlies, but he needs to clear waivers first. When he does clear (or if he’s claimed which is unlikely) the LTIR pool available will be $186,183 with 23 healthy players.