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

[qc14]

Winnipeg better win this year ...

 

[behemolari]

colorado you f***ed big time

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Kaprizov is going to sign for > $17M this summer.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Makes the Rantanen trade look bad. If he was willing to take what 13$? That's a steal with these projections.

you think he and his agent had no clue the cap was about to rise?

 

[Koivu11]

 

[5cotland]

Makes Shesterkin contract look more beautiful

 

[Koivu11]

 

[Team_Spirit]

Based on a Canadian dollar of 0.70?

Get ready to pay escrow.

This chart in usd.

 

[kingsholygrail]

FInally. We can overpay a vet.

 

[KlefDown]

Draisaitl will have another steal of a contract come next year AGAIN

thats 19 years of his career (3+8+8) that he'll be on a team friendly contract while being top 5 in the world

 

[Flukeshot]

Wow going up 28% over those 3 seasons, each year roughly an 8.5% increase over the last. That's compared to what the 5% PA direct optional multiplier?

 

[WarriorofTime]

This is phenomenal as a Leafs fan. We got Matthews/Nylander locked up

Matthews isn't "locked up", he needs to be re-upped in three years, a number of notable forwards are locked up longer than Matthews. They have to re-up Marner right now, fill out depth and hope their Defense doesn't fall apart given their ages. The main plus for the Leafs is if more teams have to drop out of being cap spending teams.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Mfw at Leafs fans when they realize all that space is going straight to Mitch and Paul Marner

 

[Ub the Bub]

They really think profits gonna rise that quickly?

 

[MrHeiskanen]

Based on a Canadian dollar of 0.70?

Get ready to pay escrow.



This chart in usd.

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Posting charts of revenue from private businesses is the dumbest thing ever. No one knows the real numbers.

 

[Hennessy]

Everyone talking about today's numbers when talking about tomorrow's cap.
Yeah, it's increasing. But so is the price tag for every player.

They really think profits gonna rise that quickly?

They already have.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Matthews isn't "locked up", he needs to be re-upped in three years, a number of notable forwards are locked up longer than Matthews. They have to re-up Marner right now, fill out depth and hope their Defense doesn't fall apart given their ages. The main plus for the Leafs is if more teams have to drop out of being cap spending teams.

Cap structure wise, I think the biggest winner is Florida by far

Barkov $10 million until 2030
Tkachuk $9.5 million until 2030
Reinhart $8.625 million until 2032
Verhaeghe $7 million until 2033
Lundell $5 million until 2030

they're basically all set up front, of course early decline could happen, but that could happen for everyone

On Defense, Forsling $5.75 million until 2032

Also have Bobrovsky's $10 million coming off the books in 2026, which will give a lot of money to fill out their defense.

They're in a great spot to have a good run of sustained success.

 

[TheDoldrums]

The main plus for the Leafs is if more teams have to drop out of being cap spending teams.

Nah the main plus for the Leafs is making it easier to bring McDavid home.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Nah the main plus for the Leafs is making it easier to bring McDavid home.

McDavid wil re-up with Oilers on a blank check.

 

[SirPaste]

colorado you f***ed big time

They obviously knew this was coming, its not news to NHL teams

 

[CaviarAndRinkFries]

 

[Sota Popinski]

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

He will get 20M+ now

Imagine being such a weiner that you hope players make less

 

[Sota Popinski]

This coming out within the week Rantanen was traded is wild.

Do you think owners weren't privy to revenue projections? Or that they didn't share that info with the GMs that were negotiating extensions?

 

[qc14]

wrong thread

 

[hatterson]

I can’t decide if I think McDavid will get $20 just to break that barrier or if he’ll do a bit of a “team friendly” deal and take something like 17.5 (which is still obviously a truckload of money)


The big impact will be on the lower earning teams in the league where the cap floor will now be something like 2/3 of their entire revenues.

Wonder how often we’ll see deals where a team like the Leafs gives a vet a giant front loaded deal (like $40m over 4 years with as much of it in early bonuses as possible), with the plan to offload them after 2 years when their cap hit is way higher than their cash due.