2010-2011 Salary Cap Number Announced

Thanks to everyone's favourite TSN hockey analyst, Bob McKenzie (via Twitter), we have ourselves the official numbers from the NHL for the Salary Cap Ceiling and Floor for the upcoming 2011 season. The ceiling has been set at $59.4 million, up from $56.8 million for the 2010 season, while the floor has been raised up from $40.8 million to $43.4 million.  This should make a few teams happy, as they have now been given a fair bit of space to stuff some more spending underneath.

With the new salary cap number, there is a new league max, which is 20% of the league max, which will now stand at roughly $11.9 million.  I think that's only relative to Ilya Kovalchuk and his desires for a new contract this year, but that's another story for another time.

I do have a quick mock up of what I have at the moment, in regards to the numbers for each team as of the announcement.  I have only included the players that I think are signed and are locks for the upcoming season, as there are plenty of bubble players with contracts, that probably don't have a place on the roster... yet.

Row Labels	Players	Avg. Age	Goals	Avg. Points	PPG	Cap Hit
CHI	14	27.3	205	45.2	0.65	57.4
CAL	17	29.4	186	33.1	0.47	53.7
DET	16	32.2	168	36.6	0.59	52.7
BOS	14	28.7	133	35.2	0.58	49.8
CBJ	19	27.3	174	29.9	0.46	49.3
MTL	13	29.5	135	29.6	0.51	48.4
PHI	14	29.7	175	35.3	0.50	47.2
OTT	15	30.1	168	36.0	0.58	47.1
PIT	16	27.7	188	36.6	0.57	46.9
TOR	15	26.9	98	24.2	0.44	46.2
VAN	15	28.9	198	44.3	0.61	45.7
NJD	16	31.1	168	35.7	0.51	45.6
BUF	15	27.8	177	39.2	0.59	45.5
MIN	16	28.0	138	30.3	0.42	45.3
FLA	15	29.1	150	31.9	0.51	44.1
WAS	13	27.7	232	45.9	0.64	43.6
LOS	15	26.8	180	39.0	0.58	43.4
NYR	12	28.0	131	34.3	0.47	43.4
EDM	14	28.3	112	23.9	0.43	41.4
CAR	12	28.8	158	35.6	0.55	39.7
DAL	15	28.2	174	31.9	0.50	39.5
NAS	15	29.1	138	31.5	0.46	37.4
TAM	10	28.4	140	39.7	0.55	37.4
ANA	15	28.4	129	28.3	0.50	36.0
SAN	10	27.9	109	38.7	0.60	34.6
PHO	15	29.1	133	30.1	0.48	34.4
COL	16	27.3	126	30.1	0.53	32.9
STL	13	26.8	121	27.2	0.44	29.1
ATL	12	27.4	110	28.0	0.38	28.7
NYI	13	28.2	102	26.7	0.48	26.0
Grand Total	430	28.5	4556	33.7	0.52	1272.5

These numbers are just current salary cap totals for the players signed, so this is not a 100% accurate reflection of what each team's salary cap number will be in the coming year. There are some buyouts remaining, the Chicago Blackhawks bonus penalties for Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews and possibly some other bonuses that have yet to be determined.

For a more up-to-date list of numbers with bonuses, penalties and buy-outs, look to CapGeek.com for all those needs. That's the site I use, it's pretty damn good.