The Montreal Canadiens are likely not looking to be big spenders this offseason, but they anxiously await the official word on the league’s upper limit of the salary cap like every other team in the league.
It has long since been rumoured that the cap would not rise much at all between this season and next, but it sounds like it is now official. Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff writes that the cap will go up from $82.5 million this season to $83.5 million next year.
The cap was rising quickly since its inception in 2005.