For years, the Islanders and the NHL salary cap had a distant, almost adversarial relationship. The team spent so little on players that hitting the cap seemed like something only our grandchildren would experience.
Don't look now but the Islanders are a for real NHL team these days and they (and us) have to navigate a suddenly shrinking amount of cap space with many tough decisions to make on who to keep and who to part ways with.
Inspired by posts like this at Broad Street Hockey, I exchanged some Batman: Arkham Knight timefor spreadsheet time and wrote up some charts detailing who's making what and how much of the owners' money Garth Snow has to play with.