2019-20 Salary Cap $81.4-85.4m (Oct BOG) UPD: $83m @ Dec BOG; Final: $81.5m

[LadyStanley]

Tomorrow? Geez. Way to really sustain the anxiety.

 

[LadyStanley]

Still waiting

 

[jiggsawpuzzle35]

$81.5 million salary cap.

 

[TheLegend]

 

[StreetHawk]

$81.5 million salary cap.

On this current cba the average increase has been $2 million except for 2 massive bumps.

The lockout recovery for the 14-15 season and Las Vegas coming into the last season so the 18-19 season jumped.

Without something drastic the annual increase is less than 3%.

A cap of $83 million would have been a 4.5% bump.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Don't forget that the Sportsnet contract kicked in for 2014-15 so there was a notable bump from it.

Escalators have been coming down as the NHLPA tries to deal with escrow, so that has to be considered in the cap change per year as well. If you applied a constant factor across all years, you'd get a better idea of what the cap change averages due to revenues.

 

[LadyStanley]

For those who track the mid-point.

 

[TheWhiskeyThief]

For those who track the mid-point.

Adjusted midpoint.

 

[Ernie]

So does anyone know where the escalator is at? Is it all the way down to 0% now?

 

[LadyStanley]

31 Thoughts: Could short-term deals break RFA stalemates? - Sportsnet.ca

Escalator 0.5% this season.

 

[sawchuk1971]

don't understand this statement made by fehr wanting to do away of a hard salary cap...

what does he mean?

or its maybe traikos misleading sentence question...he should say "Could the NHLPA try to negotiate a soft cap in the next CBA?"...

TRAIKOS: Fallout from small cap increase could come July 1

HARD CAP UNLIKELY
Could the NHLPA try to negotiate a hard cap in the next CBA? Not a chance, said Fehr, although it would be ideal.

“I lived without a cap for a long, long time,” he said. “And in a perfect world, that’s what you would likely see. Obviously, that is not something the NHL owners have indicated an interest in.”

 

[LeHab]

don't understand this statement made by fehr wanting to do away of a hard salary cap...

what does he mean?

or its maybe traikos misleading sentence question...he should say "Could the NHLPA try to negotiate a soft cap in the next CBA?"...

TRAIKOS: Fallout from small cap increase could come July 1

Yeah that statement does not make sense. Fehr does not seem interested in any sort of cap like back good ol days. A soft cap like MLB while maintaining hard 50-50 revenue splits would only amplify escrow issue.