The NHL’s salary ceiling will increase significantly.
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There has been a lot of talk in Finland lately in the hockey NHL’s salary cap when it comes to salaries. Mikko Rantanen Suddenly sold from Colorado to Carolina.
For example, there was talk of a Colorado salary – that the club would not be willing to pay Rantanen more than its number one star Nathan to MacKinnonwith a salary of $ 12.6 million for the season.
Rantanen himself has said that the trade became shocking because he was ready to meet significantly in relation to his market value.
MacKinnon’s agreement was signed in 2023. Rantanen will become an unlimited free agent next summer, unless he concluded before the contract.
However, the contract patterns of MacKinnon and Rantanen, for example, are not fully compared, as the NHL’s salary cap was known to rise.
This was made on Friday. The pay ceiling rises even more than it was rushed.
NHL and League Players’ Association NHLPA announcedhow the pay ceiling will settle in the next three seasons. This season, the pay ceiling is EUR 88 million per team.
In the season 2025-26, the pay ceiling is $ 95.5 million, $ 95.5 million in the following season and then $ 113.5 million in the season 2027-28.
The condition for these policies is that the collective agreement between the NHL and its players is valid after the 2025-26 season. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman He said he hoped that the league and the player association’s employment contract negotiations would be finished this year, preferably before the Stanley Cup finals.
Of course, the increase in the pay ceiling is of enormous importance for negotiating star players whose contract is coming to an end. Tsn listed This is especially the case with Mikko Rantanen, Toronto Maple Leafs attackers Mitch Marner and John TavaresWinnipeg Jets Nikolaj Ehlers and the captain of the Boston Bruins Brad Marchand.