The National Hockey League\u2019s (NHL) salary cap will reach a record high $104M per team starting from the 2026-27 season. This is an increase of $8.5 million (8.9%) from the previous season and may even increase to $113.5 million the following season.<\/p>\n
The salary cap floor, which is the minimum total amount of money a professional sports team is required to spend on player salaries during a season, is $76.9M, making the minimum higher than what the ceiling was 8 years ago in 2018. The individual player maximum will therefore increase to $20.8M during the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n
Seven teams reportedly surpassed the cap during the 2025-26 season, and the Vegas Golden Knights spent the most at $107.49M. Teams are permitted to exceed the cap using the salaries of players who are out injured for a long period of time.<\/p>\n
Deals with ESPN and TNT Sports will help see NHL surpass $7B in mixed currency this season. The league just had its most viewed first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Commissioner of the NHL, Gary Bettman, voiced: \u201cIt’s a really good time, and we don’t even have the \u200bbiggest markets (involved in the playoffs). \u201cThis is about how good the hockey \u2060is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bettman also highlighted the spread of hockey internationally due to events such as the Olympics and even credited Heated Rivalry, a Canadian TV drama centring on romance between two rival professional ice hockey players, which is a global streaming hit. Even though Bettman cited the high-level competition being demonstrated currently as the leading factor driving growth, he also recognises that \u201cit\u2019s never one thing\u201d which enables such development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Hockey League\u2019s (NHL) salary cap will reach a record high $104M per team starting from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-658237","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\/658237","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=658237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}