2017 Cap Floor Nhl

Total cap cap space.

2017 cap floor nhl. Rank team record pts active players forward cap defense cap goaltender cap est. Published on wednesday june 28 2017. The league and nhl players association announced the cap and the salary floor for the 2017 18 season in a joint statement sunday. That means both limiting how much a team can spend the salary cap ceiling but also ensuring that every team is competitive with a minimum expenditure the salary cap floor.

It is a hard cap meaning there are no exemptions and thus no luxury tax penalties are required. The nhl s salary cap will be marginally going up for the 2016 17 season but not as much as some big spending teams might have hoped for. Flatlining revenue under a small picture commissioner whose objective seems to be maintaining a low cap floor and a system that somehow conflates widespread mediocrity into an asset is. The nhl salary cap is the total amount of money that national hockey league nhl teams are allowed to pay their players.

A real time look at the 2017 salary cap totals for each nhl team including estimated cap space. With each salary cap there s a salary floor that each team must meet for the upcoming. One team is facing a 5 3 million penalty. The purpose of the salary cap in the nhl is to maintain a sense of competitive balance across the league.

The figures are set by the league s hockey related revenue. For instance in 2007 08. One team is facing a 5 3 million penalty. Nhl team salary cap tracker.

The league and nhl players association announced the cap and the salary floor of 55 4 million in a joint statement sunday. The actual amount of the cap varies on a year to year basis and is calculated as a percentage of the league s revenue from the previous season.