I don’t think Sidney Crosby would ever say anything publically about topics as gauche as money or escrow, but his two training buddies pictured above occasionally complain that escrow is too high. It’s actually too low, but it’s understandable they feel the way they do.
Before the Pandemic and the CBA extension that quantified cap increases and escrow, we used to get news in early June on the official salary cap projections from the league. Next would come a period of speculation as the NHLPA voted on using the “escalator clause”, aka the inflator, which allowed them to goose the salary cap by as much at 5%, depending on how optimistic they were about the economic future of the NHL.