Salary cap concerns have never been bigger in the sports world than perhaps now, where every major sports league is looking at ways to compensate for losing out on revenue during the coronavirus pandemic. For the Sharks, these concerns are heightened and the situation worsened, but the team was heading toward a cap crunch at the very least after inking Erik Karlsson’s $11.5 million contract extension last year.
The league’s high-paid defender, however, shouldn’t bear the brunt of the blame for the situation the Sharks find themselves in while staring down a static salary cap, ahead of what is likely going to be another weird and bad season in 2021.