The salary-cap is finally rising, but it doesn’t look like it’ll be high enough to truly effect the Toronto Maple Leafs.
During the NHL’s board of governors meetings this week, it was announced that the salary cap is expected to rise to $87.7M next season, which will give the Toronto Maple Leafs an estimated $4.2M more to play with.
As we all know, the Leafs have been victims of the salary-cap for years. Previous GM Kyle Dubas forecasted the cap to rise much earlier than it did, based on the contracts he gave John Tavares, Mitch Marner, William Nylander and Auston Matthews, but unfortunately the pandemic changed everything.