NHL informs teams of 2026-27 salary cap and payroll range

The NHL has set the salary cap for the 2026-27 season. The league officially informed teams Wednesday of the figures that they will operate under next season, according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.

The cap floor will be $76.9 million, the midpoint $90.4 million and the ceiling $104 million.

The maximum salary for individual contracts will be $20.8 million.

In 2025-26, the floor was $70.9 million, and the ceiling was $95.5 million.

It continues the dramatic rise of the NHL’s cap, which is expected to reach $113.5 million for 2027-28.

The NHL and NHLPA announced the cap numbers for 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28 in January 2025, but the projections for the latter two seasons were subject to potential minor adjustments up or down.

The sides agreed on the numbers to “provide increased predictability on core salary cap economics.”

Each year-over-year leap is the largest since the cap was implemented in 2005 at $39 million.

— with files from The Associated Press

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