This is a SUPER rough draft right now but what about a structure like this??

I will expand it with the rest of the other teams later tonight when I am home and have more time to work this out. But I am using Calgary as a base example.

New Salary Structure Tab – Tab 5 at the bottom!

So more or less we set a BASE Expected salary for a TPE value. (See on the left)
We allow “Hometown” discounts to a max amount (again on the left)

So in Calgary’s current situation with NO Hometown discounts they are 10 million over the league salary cap. Forcing them to make some hard choices on who to keep. BUT if players are willing to stay on the team and take some Hometown discounts (Like I assume many would) it would bring that number down quickly and give them still some space to make some moves (Pretty sure some players just re signed at like the 3-4M mark when by my chart they should be in the 6 range for example).

Max FA years on signing: 5
Max Re sign years: 7

Allows teams to sign longer if player want, but still restricts the massive contract a bit, but 7 seasons is plenty.
I Feel like this could create some creativity with managing rosters. Allow a hometown discount to a degree, and maybe make FA a bit more exciting. Thoughts?


Edit #1: Entering salary for MINIMUM contract expectations on my scale, not using CURRENT contracts signed too. Heres some more comparables.

Edmonton - $57.0 Million (+13.0 in cap space) no hometown discounts
Hamilton - $35.0 Million (+35.0 in cap space) NHD
Portland - $23.5 Million (+46.5) NHD
New England - $75.0 Million (-5.0) NHD


(I will finish all 12 teams later tonight!!