What a difference a few weeks can make. It wasn’t that long ago that reports suggested the salary cap for 2020-21 could rise to as much as $88 million, which would have been very good news for the Vegas Golden Knights.
In the worst-case scenario, the cap would have come in at around $84 million which still would have been on a significant rise on the $81.5 million salary cap for the 2019-20 regular season.
However, the sporting landscape has changed and is still ever-changing in the wake of COVID-19, and it is now nearly impossible to imagine the cap rising for next year.