Ten days before the potential opening of training camps the NHL and the NHLPA are still in talks regarding a new collective bargaining agreement and protocols for Phase 3 and 4 of the NHL’s Return to Play plan. On Friday Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet revealed some new details on what it might look like. However, given how the things developed before, it still can change.
Friedman basically confirmed what we already knew before: the salary cap for the 2020-21 season will be set at $81.5 million, cap on escrow is 20 per cent next season and it should drop to 14-18 per cent for the 2021-22 season and to 10 per cent a year later.