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Ceiling for a ceiling: Next season’s salary cap could be $74.5M

Gary Bettman

Gary Bettman

AP

In what may be a best-case scenario, the 2016-17 salary cap ceiling could go as high as $74.5 million for the 2016-17 season.

(This season’s mark is $71.4M, so that’s about a $3.1 million increase ... potentially.)

That’s the number stemming from Monday’s Board of Governors meetings, via various reporters including ESPN’s Pierre LeBrun.

Keep in mind that the final number could change quite a bit.

Assuming that ends up being the ceiling, which teams should be the happiest and which ones may be scrambling for funds?

Note: While the cap was discussed, expansion came up, though it sounds like it was very preliminary.