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They have a cap hit of $60.613MM, which is $3.8MM over this year's cap ceiling (keeping in mind that next year's ceiling is supposed to go down by a couple million or, at best, stay the same). But...

ESPN is reporting that Kane and Toews extensions are imminent, at five years/$6MM+, and the Keith extension is also close, at around 13 years/undisclosed $. Were those deals to turn out to be true,...

Scotty Bowman, the legendary former coach and now an adviser for the Chicago Blackhawks, believes next year's NHL salary cap could drop about $2-million, a reasonable prediction given how little...

On the flipside, look at the grumblings among some Tampa fans regarding Vincent Lecavalier's contract now. You'll find more than a few of them grousing about how Lecavalier should have been moved...

Revenues for 2008-09 have yet to be finalized. But based on current projections, players will earn only 85-87 percent of their contracts because of escrow. For example, Alex Ovechkin, due $9...

Cap# = cap hit. SGND = number of players signed. C-Sp = cap space remaining. cush = the off-season cushion (teams are allowed to go over 10% but they must be down to the cap by the time the season...

Tom Reed reports the Blue Jackets may have $10 million in available cap space but they're a "budget team, not a cap team", meaning the club is already likely close to their self-imposed ceiling,...

Tom Benjamin blogs on/for/re the Canucks and weighs in on the Hawks fiasco: The good news going forward was that the excellent young team grew into an excellent team period. The bad news was that...

Actually, it's Mlive (from Detroit) quoting a block from the Chicago Daily Herald [with my comments in brackets]: The Hawks are under the NHL's $56.8 million salary cap for this season [no, you're...