The NHL has been placed on hiatus for a while now. We haven’t had Carolina Hurricanes hockey for almost a month. The season should have been over by now. The playoffs should have started. This is all lost revenue for the teams, the league, and the players. But the effects can go deeper than that.
In fact, the losses to the league are estimated to be up to a Billion dollars. That’s billions with a capital ‘B’. Which in turn will have an effect on the upcoming season’s cap limit. While the NHLPA won’t allow the cap limit to be any lower than it is, chances are, the lost revenue will limit any increases to the limit, meaning that chances are high that it won’t change at all.