{"id":116952,"date":"2025-09-03T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116952\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:52:08","slug":"report-nhl-to-implement-playoff-salary-cap-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116952\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: NHL to implement playoff salary cap this season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-term injured reserve ploys are no more.<\/p>\n

The NHL and NHLPA agreed to bump up the implementation of a playoff salary cap in time for the 2026 post-season, NHL insider Frank Seravalli reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

A post-season salary cap was agreed upon as part of the latest collective bargaining agreement, which is set to kick in for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n

However, the sides came together to enforce the salary cap immediately as part of a rolling enactment of some new rules.<\/p>\n

In the past, teams have stashed players with significant injuries on LTIR until Game 1 of the playoffs when the cap disappeared. The move raised suspicion as it allowed teams to backfill that player’s salary in a trade, while the player often seemed to return right in time for the post-season.<\/p>\n

Last season, with Matthew Tkachuk and his $9.5 million cap hit on LTIR, the Florida Panthers added defenceman Seth Jones and forward Brad Marchand ahead of the trade deadline. Tkachuk returned for Game 1 of the first round.<\/p>\n

The new rule<\/a> requires playoff teams to dress a lineup of players whose full-season cap hits combined do not surpass the cap for each playoff game. Players who are injured or healthy scratches do not count against the playoff cap. <\/p>\n

This could mean the benefit of “accruing” cap space through the season is less impactful since playoff game day lineups will need to be cap compliant anyway.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the league and union agreed to enforce the softened dress code and changes to players’ ability to endorse wine and spirits starting this season, Seravalli added.<\/p>\n

All contracts signed through Sept. 15, 2026, will be subject to the current CBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-term injured reserve ploys are no more. The NHL and NHLPA agreed to bump up the implementation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-116952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}