Will the flat cap help or hurt the over 30 player in free agency?

BigEezyE22

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In a vacuum, it hurts. The addition of Seattle numbs that pain, though, since adding another $81m bucket is comparable to about $2.6m cap increase for 31 teams (though some gets eaten by additional draft picks entering the fold so there's not 100% benefit).
 

Rafafouille

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They'll get offers. Just not ones as rich as they would like. They'll get pushed out of the league if they're too greedy. A guy like Bonino might have to settle with a 50% pay cut if he wants to stay in the NHL.
 

StreetHawk

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limited term for those over 30. 2 maybe 3 year terms for them at solid money rather than a 4 year term. Can't take the risk that their play drops.

That's why for high end players, it's best to hit UFA at around 28 or so to get that max term contract that takes you to 35 or 36 rather than sign away too many UFA years coming out of ELC.

When you are talking secondary players, they don't command those 7/8 year deals. The future into your 30's the shorter term your contract will be, as it should.
 

Ace Card Bedard

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The cap is too high already.
The league's losses in 2020 and 2021 should have the cap somewhere around $76M.
 

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