I wouldn't bank on that happening. In the 2005 CBA, they had compliance buyouts because the salary cap was brand new and teams needed to become compliant. In the 2012 CBA, the cap dropped by a significant amount, prompting the need for compliance buyouts.
We have no idea what will happen in the next CBA. Will the cap drop again? If so, by how much? I have a hard time seeing the NHLPA taking less than the 50% they are getting now. If the cap doesn't drop, I wouldn't expect there to be compliance buyouts.
Nothing is certain but I have a hard time believing league revenues will grow by percentage that much more than they did this past year, eventually the owners are going to say the players share is still too high.
The union is still messed up, if they would have been basically telling players to get large amounts of bonus money only in the possible years of a work stoppage, they'd have some leverage but as far as I have seen only a few players or agents actually figured out a way to do that.
But it works both ways, if the Canadian dollar improves it's possible real revenue growth takes place again and they will not want to stagnant it by having a lengthy battle.
Depends on how one would bet, I'd bet the first thing happens. It's not like expansion teams are going to raise the revenue figure all that much, in fact I'd guess they end up being takers on the revenue sharing list by then.
The league is about to add in a whole boat load of new player salaries to the players share, add another whole boat load of operating expenses, if revenue can not keep up, it's not going to be the owners who decide to cover the difference in the next CBA.