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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
More NTCs and NMCs? Seems like they're handed out like candy these days. Used to be only the top, top talent would get them.
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Originally Posted by VilleN
I think part of the reason is the cap stagnation since COVID. Teams are waiting to see what happens with the cap so they can plan accordingly. So for now, things are a bit locked up because of that.
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Originally Posted by Bingo
Expected gap increase in the next few years has players on expiring contracts not wanting to sign extensions and the tight cap since covid has too many teams with zero space to add without shedding equal salary.
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Originally Posted by Robbob
Looking at Capfirendly, 18 of 32 teams have less than a 1M in cap space right now. 12 are in the red. Once Bouchard signs in Edmonton that gets bumped to 19 and 13. There isn't a lot of room right now to make trade as 2/3 of the league have painted themselves into a corner. Every GM knows this and that probably makes the prices higher as those ELC contracts are worth their weight in gold when the cap is flat.
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Also, this was a very very deep draft so no one was prepared to give up picks in it. That chilled things pre draft. Afterwards, teams were stuck with what they had.
Top end salaries have vastly outpaced cap increases as well. So teams are not able to pay their core guys and make deals for other help.