You may remember that the CWHL started paying players in the 2017-18 season. Players are paid a minimum of two thousand dollars a season, up to an individual maximum of ten thousand, with a team cap of $100,000. Through some enterprising work from colleagues in Montréal, (who asked Canadiennes players and GM Meg Hewings) we learned that rookies had a base salary of $2,000, sophomore players $2,500 and players with three or more years in the league received a base salary of $3,000. How GMs distribute any leftover money is up to them.
This year also saw the first trade involving cap space as former Blade Jordan Hampton was acquired by Toronto for an undisclosed amount of cap space.