{"id":654159,"date":"2026-05-06T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654159\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:47:08","slug":"nhl-informs-teams-of-2026-27-salary-cap-and-payroll-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654159\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL informs teams of 2026-27 salary cap and payroll range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL has set the salary cap for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The league officially informed teams Wednesday of the figures that they will operate under next season, according to Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman.<\/p>\n<p>The cap floor will be $76.9 million, the midpoint $90.4 million and the ceiling $104 million.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum salary for individual contracts will be $20.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025-26, the floor was $70.9 million, and the ceiling was $95.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>It continues the dramatic rise of the NHL&#8217;s cap, which is expected to reach $113.5 million for 2027-28. <\/p>\n<p>The sides agreed on the numbers to \u201cprovide increased predictability on core salary cap economics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Each year-over-year leap is the largest since the cap was implemented in 2005 at $39 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL has set the salary cap for the 2026-27 season. The league officially informed teams Wednesday of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-654159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}