But it really doesn't matter. The cap is just a number that serves as a guideline for how a team balances it's contracts, it doesn't represent real dollars. If the cap was 100 million right now the same teams would be capped out and the same teams would be at the cap floor because teams and players treat signings as a percentage of the cap. Again, it's not real dollars, real dollars are determined after escrow is applied, a higher cap means higher escrow.
Example: (these are made up numbers, assumes every team is capped out) Say the cap is 80million and the players get 70 million, every player gets docked 12.5% of their paycheck. If the NHLPA insists that the cap be 100 million then the players still get 70 million so every player gets 30% of their paycheck docked.
The players and owners split revenues 50/50, that isn't changing without another work stoppage.