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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Big variable here is the future salary cap. Hockey revenues seem to be growing every year but the value of the Canadian $ relative to the greenback is a big unknown. One school of thought is that the Canadian $ is down right now and ultimately has nowhere to go but up.
But I also remember a 65 cent dollar too.
I would hate to bank on predicting where that will go. I wonder how much the league invests in models helping teams predict where the cap could go, or if that is solely up to the teams.
I suppose the CBA prohibits a contract that is indexed to the cap...
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If the dollar continues to soften, but the league continues to grow revenue as it has under the salary cap, and the league adds revenue from expansion teams as it is expected to, I could see the cap at $80M in 5-6 years. If you have the same environment but with a stable dollar, $90M isn't out of the question. It would probably be closer to $88M though.