HOW RISING NHL SALARY CAP HELPS STARS DUE NEW DEALS

With the NHL announcing the rise in the NHL salary cap, TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger joins Domino's That's Hockey to share his thoughts on what this will mean for smaller market teams and players looking to negotiate new deals.

[@Knova_20]

I honestly wonder in Colorado isn’t kicking themselves right now after trading Raantanan. Cale’s contract won’t be up for another 2 years and the cap will be much much hhigher than it is when next year alone. They could of kept him

[@j.mallay]

Just conjecture but apparently they didn't want to pay him more than Mackinnon and Makar is due for a raise as well. Silly to me as financial realities always change.

[@ij8502]

@@j.mallay yea if you pay your third best player the highest rate now who knows what its gonna be like for your number 1 and 2 when their contracts come up

[@jjjfo1818]

@@j.mallayI mean that’s just kinda how that works isn’t it? The timing of it all, they had to pay Mackinnon before Mikko. Not paying a player what he’s worth just because of the timing is stupid

[@ML-my8qq]

Can’t wait to see what GM’s pay third liners in the next few summers lol

[@kurtwpg]

I think we're going to see teams with big cap space way overpay on 1 and 2 year deals for stars, just to win the bidding war. Why wouldn't a team with excessive cap space offer Rantanen or Marner 18mx2? Tell the player up front it's an overpay and that you intend to extend them at a fair to generous number later. It's often hard to seperate a UFA from his current team, and this is a tactic that would be available to them.

[@jamesnewman48]

This is the only way the leafs get better