As the league emerges on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Hockey League will be dealing with a flat salary cap for the next several seasons. For the Calgary Flames, the flat cap requires a few key decisions in the 2021 off-season and several very big decisions in the 2022 off-season.
Based on the cap math, it’s doubtful that they’ll be able to keep the team’s core together.
Under the flat cap system, the long and the short of it is every off-season basically needs to be money-in for money-out. So each summer, the Flames can only re-sign players with the funds made available by other contracts expiring.