NHL/NHLPA announce Salary Cap increases for the next 3 seasons (2025-26: $95.5M, 2026-27: $104M, 2027-28: $113.5M)

[eojsmada]

Interesting they decided to forgo the 85% thing and simply negotiate a lower end.

 

[10YearsHaveGone]

Does this mean a lockout isn't very likely now?

 

[OilersFanatics505]

But he has to reach the floor, which would still make Rantanen affordable.

They also have Makars contract coming up in two years? and potentially Landy coming back.

 

[TheBeard]

Gonna be interesting to see which franchise players get locked up between now and the start of the new year.

 

[Ace]

So the cap floor will be:

81.5 for 25-26

88.4 for 26-27

96.475 for 27-28

Kevyn Adams thanks you for your service

 

[TheBeard]

They also have Makars contract coming up in two years? and potentially Landy coming back.

Makar is gonna be a 16 million dollar player now.

 

[SomeDude]

Does this mean a lockout isn't very likely now?

This is the NHL. A lockout is always likely.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

I wonder if guys like Rantanen, Marner take a two-year deal and then try again for even more when the cap has gone up almost 20 mill

 

[OilersFanatics505]

4th Line players gonna be making $6 million

 

[elmaco]

rAnTaNeN iS gReEdY

 

[eojsmada]

Kevyn Adams thanks you for your service

And Central Scouting released their report in the last week or so. So he should be able to go back to bed until around the Trade Deadline, now. No more scouting or business to think about...LOL.

 

[SomeDude]

No wonder Gary is retiring soon. Those numbers must have him like

 

[Koivu11]

 

[Barry Amsterdam]

should’ve locked your players up when you had the chance…

 

[MuckOG]

8 years x $8.5 million for Brock Faber now looks like a steal.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

The one thing I don't like is this.

The owners get paid, the players get paid and us, fans have to pay for what is honestly a deteriorating product.

There's honestly a very good chance I'm not attending a game live anymore unless I win tickets to it.

 

[SEALBound]

Friedman mentioned on his pod the cap will go up, but now will probably not see all teams spend to it, this year there is only a handful of teams not right up against the cap, i think that will grow to well more than half the league.

The potential benefit of this will be more trades, as more teams should have space to facilitate trades.

My sincerest hope is that GMs don't use this new found space to give bloated contracts out to second rate players. I don't want to see guys like Noel Acciari getting $4-5mil because the GM has the space. It would actually be shrewd of all the GMs to leave open room to help better facilitate trades throughout the season and certainly at the TDL.

I was going to also say, this might help a few teams get out of cap hell but I don't think there are many teams in that position. I can only name a handful of "bad deals" that are high dollar and even then, I think the team elects to keep them and just use the additional space as a buffer (Nurse, Huberdeau, etc).

 

[WarriorofTime]

Who will be the first $20 million player?

 

[Avs2022]

They also have Makars contract coming up in two years? and potentially Landy coming back.

No one would take Landy (who hasn't played since game 6 of the Cup year) over Rants.

 

[hangman005]

Can we have an advance

 

[Some Other Flame]

Who will be the first $20 million player?

McDavid if he wants to be. Otherwise Matthews whenever his deal is up.

McDavid for example, when he signed his current 12.5M per season contract, it was for 16.67% of the 75M ceiling. The equivalent in an 113.5M ceiling is a shade under 19M.

 

[Jixer19]

Until the cap actually goes to X number, it is hard to pay a player based on a projection I would think. Remember what happened last time the cap was about to "skyrocket"

 

[WarriorofTime]

My sincerest hope is that GMs don't use this new found space to give bloated contracts out to second rate players. I don't want to see guys like Noel Acciari getting $4-5mil because the GM has the space. It would actually be shrewd of all the GMs to leave open room to help better facilitate trades throughout the season and certainly at the TDL.

I was going to also say, this might help a few teams get out of cap hell but I don't think there are many teams in that position. I can only name a handful of "bad deals" that are high dollar and even then, I think the team elects to keep them and just use the additional space as a buffer (Nurse, Huberdeau, etc).

I honestly think GMs and Agents don't even look at the real number. Maybe just in negotiation to try and bully RFAs that haven't made a lot to date to extend at way below market value.

I'm guessing everything in the spreadsheets is listed by percentages. At least that's how I'd do it. I'm not looking at $5 million as $5 million, I'm looking at $5 million as 5.68 % of the $88 million salary cap. If the cap is going to be $104 million, that means the price for that level of player is $5.9 million now.

Extend that all the way up and down the lineup, and that's how you're constructing your roster on a go-forward basis with rising caps.

 

[red devil]

Interesting they decided to forgo the 85% thing and simply negotiate a lower end.

The 85% rule is for the mid point of the cap so in 25-26 it would be 83.04 million

 

[LTIR]

Why couldn't they release these numbers AFTER McDavid signed his extension at 16M per.

He will get 20M+ now