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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Why are all the Oilers fans I've talked to today assuming that the NHL salary cap is going to advance so fast to these lofty heights? There seems to be a lot of assumption but no crystal balls to provide any evidence that this is set in stone. How exactly are teams like the Panthers, Coyotes, Stars, Avalanch, etc going to be able to ice competitive teams (without undergoing complete 180 in attendance figures) with an $80 million cap?
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Its probably because of this
article from the Globe&Mail. They feel that it is a pretty conservative guess that the salary cap will be around $75M by 2017-18 and then carry on to $90M.