Fourier
Registered User
Here is why this claim is made. The revenues this year were estimated to be $6.2B in April. The success of the playoffs may bump this a little. But even at this number once you strip off incidentals the players get 50% of at least $5.7B. Under normal conditions that would put the mid point of the cap at $89M and the ceiling at $102.4M.We need two game breakers and that's McDavid and Drai. The reality is the deals can't start with 14M. Vegas and Florida are the only 2 teams that won the cup with 10M player(Eichel and Barkov). Both teams has no state tax tho. Vegas has been cheating. People keep saying, well the cap is going to 100M. Well they said the same thing during McDavid and Drai first big deal
Now the new CBA capped escrow at 6% and held back cap increases while the players paid back covid money. The latter has been accomplished and this year it looks like the players will get back not only all of their escrow but even more. That means we are at the very least likely to see the full permissible 5% year over year increases and probably more. The 5% increases would take the cap to $97M which would still be $5M under this years cap if we were using the old formula.