Salary cap

Sorry for the lack of posts, but the days are taken up by workshops here at this sports editors conference in Minneapolis.

So by now, this is fairly old news, but next season’s salary cap will be $56.7 million and the “floor” will be $40.7 million. Except the Kings to be much closer to the floor than the ceiling.

So the salary cap increases by six million. I saw one of the comments asking about whether this was a positive and a negative. I see it as a real negative, and the discussion around the NHL is trending this way. The sense is that it’s creating the type of class warfare that existed before the lockout, although to a lesser extent. The “haves” will be able to spend $56 million and the “have nots” won’t. You might ask, wasn’t the new collective-bargaining agreement supposed to prevent that? Yes, yes it was. It’s a good question for Gary Bettman and some of the owners…

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