The new CBA still requires ratification from both the owners and PA membership.
The National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players’ Association have agreed to a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), set to take effect with the 2026-27 NHL season, pending ratification. The two sides have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with the deal now requiring ratification from both league owners and the full PA membership.
The current CBA is set to expire at the end of this coming season. The extension, under the new agreement, will begin for the 2026-27 NHL season and carry through until 2030. The current CBA was signed in 2013 and extended in 2020.
While the league and the PA did not release full details of the CBA, it has been widely speculated that the following will be part of the new agreement, based on several media reports:
Players with 100 or more career games played can play in a maximum of two preseason games.
The addition of two extra games to the schedule would be played within your division, ensuring that each team in a division plays each other four times, instead of the current rotation, where some inter-division teams only face one another three times a season.
Similarly, there will be no deferred salary option in contracts.
Signing bonuses will be capped at 60 percent of the full player’s salary.
You can read more about the CBA here.
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