What the Salary Cap increase means for the Minnesota Wild.
The NHL recently announced that they will be increasing the Salary Cap for the next season by $4.5 million to a total of $88 million.
The Salary cap was at $81.5 million from 2019-22 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It did rise $1 million in each of the past two seasons but it will now take a $4.5 million increase next season.
The lower limit per team for next season will be $65 million. This won't matter for the Wild though. They enter the season next year with the highest dead cap space in the whole league with just over $15 million.
But what does this new cap space mean for the Wild?
Not much really. Marco Rossi could get an extra bonus if he makes the All-Rookie team when the NHL announces the awards. If he was to make it, the Wild would owe an extra $212,500. The original estimated salary cap for next season was $87.7 million but it will now be $88 million. That increase pretty much covers Rossi's bonus if he were to get it.
The Wild have $6,256,410 available in cap space according to PuckPedia right now. This includes both Liam Ohgren and Marat Khusnutdinov on the roster. They also have a pending RFA in Declan Chisholm whom the Wild plan on signing.
Assuming the Wild go with basically the same team next year and bring back Chisholm, they will have just about five million left in cap space depending on how much Chisholm gets.
What the Wild will do with that cap space will remain to be unseen until July 1st when free agency opens. Maybe they use it to sign Patrick Kane? Let us know what you think. Comment below or on that link!
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