Salary Cap to Jump to $78M-$82M

[LeafChief]

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[hockeykicker]

So basically means John Carlson will be back with the caps

 

[GoldiFox]

Great offseason to have a new Billionaire owner. Canes have $50 million in Cap spent for next year with basically only Hanifin, TVR and Elias Lindholm to re-sign.

Maybe the new owner throws a max contract at Tavares (if he gets to UFA)? So many possibilities. Canes fans are in for a treat.

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

Looks like those McDavid and Draisaitl contracts won't be killing the Oilers as soon as some thought.

Cap will continue to rise with Vegas being successful and Seattle joining the league in a couple years time. Oilers won't have a problem spending 90-100 million when it eventually gets that high in 5-8 years or so.

 

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[Sam Spade]

So basically means John Carlson will be back with the caps

Caps have 12 players signed for next year, good luck.

As to the cap going up, if it's 78 that is not much help, if it is 82, it will be better.

 

[LeafChief]

82 would be #wet.

 

[ChuckLefley]

Looks like those McDavid and Draisaitl contracts won't be killing the Oilers as soon as some thought.

Cap will continue to rise with Vegas being successful and Seattle joining the league in a couple years time. Oilers won't have a problem spending 90-100 million when it eventually gets that high in 5-8 years or so.

Except you forget one thing, exapansion has inflated revenues. If Vegas had not come into the league this season the cap would be going up very little.

 

[rent free]

So basically means John Carlson will be back with the caps

yup. the caps could have used this last off season

 

[Syckle78]

Oh great another long term terrible contract signing by Holland incoming before his ass finally leaves.

 

[Esq]

Thank the lord.

 

[PBandJ]

82 million would be tight.

My problem is it might save Chiarelli's ass and give him more room to do damage.

 

[qwerty]

Players loathe using the escalator because of the escrow. I could see the players declining the use of the escalator this time around with the increased natural growth.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

So anywhere from a $3-7M cap raise... And the UFA pool is absolute garbage... And league scoring is seriously inflated this year.

There's gonna be a lot of bad contracts handed out July 1st. I'm glad Ken Holland has almost no cap space...

 

[ottawa]

Haha players like McDavid must be pissed, they just left money on the table if the cap is rising that much

 

[boredmale]

Everytime the cap goes up Price's contract doesn't look so bad

 

[Sol]

The sexiness of an 82 million dollar cap made fans all stiff.

 

[Sol]

Everytime the cap goes up Price's contract doesn't look so bad

It can be 90 million and still an awful contract. Sorry no redemption here.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Does this mean more Mike Komisarek, Jeff Finger, and David Clarkson type signings should be expected in the upcoming summer? I can't wait!

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Looks like those McDavid and Draisaitl contracts won't be killing the Oilers as soon as some thought.

Cap will continue to rise with Vegas being successful and Seattle joining the league in a couple years time. Oilers won't have a problem spending 90-100 million when it eventually gets that high in 5-8 years or so.

Those contracts won't kill the Oilers, it's not the star players getting paid that kills teams it's the overpaid guys that make more money than they are worth that kills teams.

In the Oilers case that's Lucic, his contract and contracts like his is what will kill teams

 

[WingsMJN2965]

That means Jonathan Ericsson's cap hit under an $80M cap is like $3.4M when he was originally signed. What a steal!

 

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

Cool, we can give Erik 12 mil and still have 63 mil left over for non-Stone players. I like it!

 

[Syckle78]

That means Jonathan Ericsson's cap hit under an $80M cap is like $3.4M when he was originally signed. What a steal!

Yea a steal for big rig.

If the cap goes up to max and Holland actually sells at the deadline like he should I am legit terrified what he'll do with that cap space.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

Yea a steal for big rig.

If the cap goes up to max and Holland actually sells at the deadline like he should I am legit terrified what he'll do with that cap space.

I expect him to sell Green, but I honestly don't see him doing much more. (Even though he should)

That'll leave us enough to re-sign Mantha/Larkin/AA. After that, I don't really see how we have much money to be a player, thankfully.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

so we know that cap will likely be 82 million and no less than 80, because for it to be 78 that would the players don't use the 5% bump that they have the riht to use.

They have never elected not to use at least a portion of it and in all but 1 year they have used all of it, the only time they didn't was last year.

I love this as a Leaf fan the more money we have to spend the better