Looking to know what the plan is here. I have a lot of free agents. Need to have an idea what I can do with the cap dropping. NHL is rolling back salaries to get to 50/50 and next years cap. Make whole money is not included... So that should mean all league contracts go down by a percentage to match. Which should also mean extension rates should go down. Hope to get an answer asap.
Thanks
Dallas stars
Great question Dallas!
my thinking (Phoenix / Hockeyfreak47 can jump in on this chat with your feedback as well)
Without an official ratified CBA I'm not sure what's what.
But based on highlevel talking pts around the new CBA + what you've mentioned, i would say this:
1. 2012-13 to remain unchanged (per my rule of trying not to make in-season changes)
2. 2013-14 NHL projected cap is expected to be $64.3M ... FNHL can mimic that
3. if the new CBA calls for % roll backs of player salaries, i will ask that "we" / FNHL
not copy that as it would be an administrative pain to redo all player contracts for 30 teams
(approx 900 contracts to recalculate 
).
Bottomline: that would mean teams need to continue doing what they do now, maneuver around the cap + extensions values would remain since they haven't been touched since 2010-11 when this league launched and the 2010-11 salary cap was even lower, at $59.4 million.
btw, in case anyone's interested here's what the
NHL salary cap values for the past 5 NHL seasons - LINK:
2008-09 = $56.7
2009-10 = $56.8
2010-11 = $59.4
2011-12 = $64.3
2012-13 = $70.2
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