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NHL Rumors: Agent Predicts Lack of a 'Big Market' for Top 2020 Free Agents

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Some of the NHL's top teams may need to prepare to stand pat with their rosters this summer depending on the salary cap.

The league is predicted to either keep the cap flat at $81.5 million in 2020-21 or raise it by $1 million, according to TSN's Frank Seravalli, who noted that may force some of the offseason's marquee free agents to look elsewhere for new deals.

As one anonymous agent told Seravalli:

"There's not going to be a big market for top UFAs. Teams like St. Louis and Tampa Bay—they have no available cap space.