CRANBERRY, Pa. -- Three Penguins are dealing with injuries sustained in training camp.
Forward Adam Johnson hasn't skated since Sept. 16 with a lower-body injury. On Sept. 19, Mike Sullivan said that Johnson was day-to-day, but on Tuesday he said there is now no timetable.
Defenseman John Marino is day-to-day with a lower-body injury, presumably sustained in Sunday's preseason game in Detroit.
Both Johnson and Marino have stalls in the Penguins' main locker room.
Zach Trotman hasn't skated since Sept. 18, when he practiced with the group of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton players. Sullivan announced on Tuesday that Trotman had sports hernia surgery and is out "longer term." To Sullivan's knowledge, this was not a lingering problem that Trotman was dealing with prior to camp. He does not have a stall in the Penguins' locker room.
As explained in the long-term injured reserve primer, putting a player on LTIR doesn't just make their contract "come off the books." Instead, the team is given a temporary new salary cap. During training camp, the rules are a little different.
If a player is put on LTIR during training camp, the new cap is calculated by taking the team's current total cap hit and subtracting the player's cap hit. Once the team is operating above that sum, they are given cap relief equal to 100 percent of that player's contract. This means that the Penguins would be able to exceed the cap by the full value of Trotman's $700,000 cap hit.
Typically, during the year, teams accrue their daily unused cap space, which can be banked and used later in the season. Putting a player on LTIR prevents any unused space from being accrued, since the team is operating under a different salary cap.
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