When it is paid off this season, the cap will begin to rise under terms of the Memo of Understanding to which the NHL and NHLPA agreed in July 2020.
We are told that neither side offered a settlement on the dispute. The league was adamant that no cap-related deal would be made without the union agreeing to elevate this season’s 6 percent escrow cap. The PA did not offer to take a discount on the funds in dispute. This unforced error represents another backwards step for the NHL. With folks on the outside calling for civil disobedience, we’ve been told that there is belief — and hope — among players that there will be an accommodation for those who feel strongly about their role in promoting inclusion and acceptance within the sport.Tampa Bay’s ruthlessness has always been an integral part of its success.
One game and Tyler Motte is already “out indefinitely” with an unidentified upper-body injury. Talk about a player whose body just cannot cash the checks his spirit and intensity demand, that player is Motte. Oshie skated away, there was no immediate response to a legal hit, albeit as crushing as this one was that was laid onto the face of future hopes of this wayward franchise. There was apparently no response at all to Oshie.