The NHL salary cap for next season will remain $81.5 million.
The 2020-21 salary cap, set the same as this season, was part of the four-year extension to the NHL/NHLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement ratified by the Board of Governors and the NHL Players' Association on Friday.
The CBA will run through the 2025-26 season with an escrow provision that could extend it through the 2026-27 season.
The Board of Governors and NHLPA also ratified the NHL Return to Play Plan for this season, including training camp beginning Monday and the start of the Stanley Cup Qualifiers on Aug. 1.
The free agency period this offseason will begin after the 2020 NHL Draft (scheduled for Oct. 9-10) and Stanley Cup Final are completed.
Defensemen Alex Pietrangelo (St. Louis Blues) and Torey Krug (Boston Bruins), forward Taylor Hall (Arizona Coyotes), and goalies Braden Holtby (Washington Capitals), Robin Lehner (Vegas Golden Knights) and Corey Crawford (Chicago Blackhawks) are among the players who can become unrestricted free agents after this season.
The extension eliminates the free agent interview period that was allowed as per the terms of the previous CBA. Previously, teams were allowed to speak with and begin to discuss parameters of a contract with pending free agents in the days following the NHL Draft leading up to the opening of the free agent signing period on July 1.
Players who have a contract that expire after next season will be allowed to sign a contract extensions starting July 13. Among the players eligible to do so are Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin, Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask, Anaheim Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf, and Colorado Avalanche forward Gabriel Landeskog.
The salary cap could grow incrementally following next season provided hockey-related revenues begin to recover from losses created by the impact of the coronavirus, which caused the season to be paused March 12.
The cap will remain at $81.5 million until hockey-related revenue surpasses $3.3 billion for the previous season. The salary cap won't rise more than $1 million until HRR reaches $4.8 billion unless the NHL and NHLPA mutually agree to inflate it in excess of $1 million.
Once HRR reaches $4.8 billion, the cap could increase by $2 million per season and transition to a formula-based calculation for establishing the cap for the 2023-24 season and beyond. As an example, the 2023-24 salary cap would be calculated using HRR results from 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Escrow, which is a percentage withheld from player salaries and placed in an account that is used to calculate a 50-50 split in HRR between the players and owners per CBA rules, will be capped at 20 percent for the 2020-21 season and go down from there, according to the terms of the extension.
Escrow will be capped between 14-18 percent in 2021-22 depending on HRR from 2020-21, 10 percent in 2022-23, and 6 percent in the final three seasons of the CBA (2023-26).
The money owed to the players for their final paychecks for this season, which were due to them April 15, will go in full to the NHL to fulfill escrow requirements. The full balance in the 2019-20 escrow account will be paid to the NHL within 15 days.
The CBA will automatically extend through the 2026-27 season (effective termination Sept. 15, 2027) if the escrow balance owed to the owners following the calculation of HRR after the 2024-25 season is between $125 million and $250 million.
For this season, the money in the Stanley Cup Playoff fund will double from $16 million to $32 million. The NHL and NHLPA agreed to split the cost of the $16 million increase, which means $24 million will go to the players.
The playoff fund will go down to $20 million next season and rise to as high as $24 million by the end of the CBA term.
Next season, players will defer 10 percent of their salary plus any applicable signing bonus money with the caveat that they will be made whole through three equal interest-free installments on Oct. 15 in 2022, 2023 and 2024, when escrow rates are capped at lower amounts.
Effective immediately, all no-trade and no-movement clauses will carry with the player if he agrees to waive it to be moved to a different team. Previously, no-trade and no-movement clauses negotiated into contracts became inactive if a player agreed to waive it and was moved.
Entry-level contract compensation will rise from $925,000 to $1 million through the course of the CBA. The NHL minimum salary will rise from $700,000 to $775,000.
Teams will not carry a salary cap charge for players ages 35 or older who sign a multiyear contract that features flat or ascending year-over-year compensation during the contract and retire before their contract expires. Previously, the cap charge remained if the player retired before his contract expired.
Teams will no longer be allowed to include conditions in trades that involve the future signing of the player to a new contract. The Ottawa Senators received draft picks from the San Jose Sharks when they traded defenseman Erik Karlsson that were conditional on Karlsson signing a contract with the Sharks. That will no longer be allowed.
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