The salary cap for next year will be $75,000,000.
The NHLPA voted today to apply an inflator to raise the cap to that amount. The official release of the numbers has not yet been made, but we know the ceiling and the floor.
The expected escrow percentage will be a touch lower than the current one, and sometime next off-season the players will know if this gamble on the inflation of the cap paid off for everyone, and they all get most or all of their escrow deductions back, or if it just helped the free agents signing contracts on July 1.