The Pittsburgh Penguins’ salary bind will shape their next off-season. The NHL and NHLPA have to come a “memorandum of understanding”, which will serve as the guidance for the next six years of collectively bargained landscape of the league*. In the new economic landscape of a world still dealing with a pandemic, the impact will be shared by the players and league alike. The upper limit of the salary cap for the 2020-21 season will be $81.5 million, the same amount it was in 2019-20. It will remain at $81.5 million until “preliminary HRR for the just-completed league year surpasses $4.
What a flat salary cap in 2020-21 means for the Penguins
