Adam wrote on Wed, 24 September 2025 17:14

Jay wrote on Tue, 23 September 2025 06:32 oilfan94 wrote on Thu, 04 September 2025 08:26 smyth260 wrote on Thu, 04 September 2025 01:05 Rules are only as good as their punishment, what’s the penalty if a team decides to dress a team above the playoff cap? Anything besides forfeiting the game falls short. This is a complicated but necessary change. I am willing to bet that it will be up to the other team to catch them during the game. Then they would be forced to take a player out of the game and receive a delay of game penalty. If they are not caught during the game it will likely be a reduction in cap space for the next game, which could force them to dress one less player. I don't see a world where the NHL would allow a team to forfeit a playoff game due to the salary cap. Looks like Peter Angelo has un-retired now that they've signed marner. Pretty funny how blatant they are with this stuff. I guess they aren't overly worried about a big Evander Kane style league investigation It's not that big a deal. He's going to sit out all year, but if he wants to come back in the playoffs then they need to be cap-compliant each game so if they spent the money on Marner or on another high-value defenceman then someone else needs to be sitting to make room for him. They also will struggle to make more deals at the deadline and if they did add people there, they might have to make some line-up decisions based entirely on how much people make. It will be interesting to see how it works this year and a healthy Pietrangelo come playoff time would be a great test case to say the least.

There is a catch now.

NHL Rumour Report @NHLRumourReport
Chris Johnston: "The NHL and NHL Players’ Association have left open the possibility of making adjustments to the playoff salary cap if they don’t like how it’s working, so where these rules start in 2025-26 may not be where they end up" - The Athletic (9/20)


How much do you want to bet that the NHL makes an exception for players that were out the entire year? :) The Oilers are not lined up for any full season LTIR guy this year like we had with Kane. So the NHL can play with the rules as they please, and maybe only focus on guys that get put in LTIR close to the deadline. Or maybe just be more blatant and whatever day Florida puts someone in LTIR in Jan/Feb, the day after that is the cutoff.

[Updated on: Wed, 24 September 2025 17:21]

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