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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
As far as your certainty that expanding to Vegas would necessarily drive the cap down, consider that the Cap and Floor this season were $71.4m/52.8m, creating a midpoint of $62.1 million - and that is after the NHLPA inflates the cap b 5%.
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Pet peeve, but the NHLPA can't inflate the cap by 5%. This isn't how the escalator works. It's presumed the midpoint will grow by 5%, and either party can opt out of that in which case they have to set a new escalator percentage.