Friedman: Salary cap could rise as high as $95-97 million next season

[Isles72]

I did my part by paying 50$ more than usual for SN + this season .

 

[dirtydanglez]

must have sold out of those $145 hoodies.

 

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

Ya both
from 21-22 to 23-24,
1 million increases.
81.5
82.5
83.5

My original post mentioned the covid years where it was deemed the “flat” cap..

21-22 to 23-24 is post pandemic, the upper cap limit started to rise 22-23. You’re being obtuse for no reason here.

 

[Golden_Jet]

My original post mentioned the covid years where it was deemed the “flat” cap..

21-22 to 23-24 is post pandemic, the upper cap limit started to rise 22-23. You’re being obtuse for no reason here.

No

If it weren’t for covid we would’ve been at $100 million or surpassed it.

The flat cap at $81.5 million lasted for 3 seasons.

You never said Covid years, you said if weren’t for Covid, it would be a 100 million.

The flat cap and the 1 million increases are all due to the Covid MOU, all you have to do is read the MOU and the flat cap and increases were exactly as expected for the revenues.

 

[WTFMAN99]

They haven't done the inflator in a while, would be surprised if they did this year.

 

[Golden_Jet]

They haven't done the inflator in a while, would be surprised if they did this year.

Ya took years for the PA to realize, the inflator just meant 5% more added to the existing escrow.

 

[ToDavid]

I thought 5% was the max it could rise

The 5% cap does technically exist through the end of the cba extension next year. But there’s really isn’t any reason for it anymore and the league and the NHLPA are free to come to an agreement to ditch it.

 

[I am Canadian]

In 2019-2020 at 81.5M cap, a 12% total contract would be valued at 10M
With a 95M cap, a 12% total contract would be at about 11.7M

I wonder if it will impact the top level contracts more, or the middling guys.

 

[strattonius]

Both???

2019-20: $81.5M
2020-21: $81.5M
2021-22: $81.5M

That’s literally 3 seasons it stayed flat. Where do you even see a rise of $1M increase??

Does the 19-20 season really count as part of the flat CAP though? It rose from the 18-19 season the year prior.

In my mind the flat CAP is the 20-21 and then the 21-22 seasons since it didn't rise from the previous years.

It's technically two straight seasons of flat CAP since there was a rise to 81.5M in 19-20. It's mostly pedantic but you were giving someone a hard time about specifics.