The NHL salary cap is going up significantly next season, with even bigger increases set for the coming years. The league and the Players’ Association on Friday released the cap numbers for the next three seasons: $95.

The cap ceiling will jump from $88 million to a record $95.5 million in 2025-26. It then would jump to $104 million in 2026-27 and all the way up to $113.5 million in 2027-28.

The NHL and NHL Players Associate (NHLPA) have released their estimates for the salary cap for each of the next three seasons. The projected cap for the 2025-26 season is $95.5 million, 2026-27 to be $104 million,

The NHL is about to get a whole lot more fun. Rises to the NHL’s salary cap are coming forth in the following years, with the NHL and its Players Association releasing a memo to teams Friday detailing mammoth increases that haven’t been seen since the first three years of the hard cap coming out of the 2005-06 lockout.

The financial future of the NHL is about to change, and the league and the union have laid out a potential road map of salary cap structures in the coming years. From the report: The National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players’ Association announced today an agreement that will provide increased predictability on core Salary Cap economics for a minimum of the next three years (through 2027-28).