Bookmark and come back for the latest Colorado Avalanche salary cap data, including cap hits, LTIR, and projected space.<\/p>\n
Colorado Avalanche Cap Snapshot 2025-2026 <\/p>\n
Projected Cap Hit<\/p>\n
$93,132,395<\/p>\n
Cap Breakdown<\/p>\n
Forwards $57,917,500 <\/p>\n
Defense $25,900,000 <\/p>\n
Goalies $6,750,000 <\/p>\n
LTIR $2,222,161 <\/p>\n
46 contracts \u00b7 21 on roster <\/p>\n
Roster Cap Hits<\/p>\n
Player Pos Cap Hit Expiry Status Nathan MacKinnon C $12,600,000 2030-2031 UFA Cale Makar D $9,000,000 2026-2027 UFA Brock Nelson C $7,500,000 2027-2028 UFA Devon Toews D $7,250,000 2030-2031 UFA Gabriel Landeskog LW $7,000,000 2028-2029 UFA Martin Necas C $6,500,000 2025-2026 UFA Valeri Nichushkin RW $6,125,000 2029-2030 UFA MacKenzie Blackwood G $5,250,000 2029-2030 UFA Josh Manson D $4,500,000 2025-2026 UFA Artturi Lehkonen LW $4,500,000 2026-2027 UFA Ross Colton C $4,000,000 2026-2027 UFA Brett Kulak D $2,750,000 2025-2026 UFA Logan O’Connor RW $2,500,000 2030-2031 UFA Jack Drury C $1,725,000 2025-2026 RFA Victor Olofsson LW $1,575,000 2025-2026 UFA Scott Wedgewood G $1,500,000 2025-2026 UFA Sam Malinski D $1,400,000 2025-2026 UFA Joel Kiviranta LW $1,250,000 2025-2026 UFA Brent Burns D $1,000,000 2025-2026 UFA Ilya Nabokov G $975,000 2026-2027 RFA Gavin Brindley RW $950,000 2025-2026 RFA Taylor Makar LW $925,000 2025-2026 RFA Alex Gagne D $910,000 2026-2027 RFA Sean Behrens D $905,833 2026-2027 RFA Chase Bradley LW $872,500 2025-2026 RFA Isak Posch G $872,500 2026-2027 RFA Cooper Gay RW $872,500 2026-2027 RFA Zakhar Bardakov C $867,500 2025-2026 RFA Ivan Ivan C $845,000 2025-2026 RFA Parker Kelly C $825,000 2025-2026 UFA Nikita Prishchepov C $806,667 2026-2027 RFA Saige Weinstein D $783,334 2027-2028 RFA TJ Tynan C $775,000 2025-2026 UFA Keaton Middleton D $775,000 2026-2027 UFA Jacob MacDonald D $775,000 2025-2026 UFA Alex Barre-Boulet C $775,000 2025-2026 UFA Tye Felhaber LW $775,000 2025-2026 UFA Matthew Stienburg C $775,000 2025-2026 RFA Ronald Attard D $775,000 2025-2026 UFA Trent Miner G $775,000 2026-2027 RFA Valtteri Puustinen RW $775,000 2025-2026 UFA Jack Ahcan D $775,000 2025-2026 UFA Danil Gushchin LW $775,000 2025-2026 RFA Wyatt Aamodt D $775,000 2026-2027 UFA Jason Polin RW $775,000 2025-2026 UFA Tristen Nielsen C $775,000 2026-2027 UFA <\/p>\n
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NHL Salary Cap FAQ<\/p>\n
What is a salary cap? <\/p>\n
The salary cap is the maximum amount an NHL team can spend on player salaries during one season.<\/p>\n
What is cap hit? <\/p>\n
A cap hit is the amount of a player\u2019s contract that counts toward the team\u2019s salary cap in a given season.<\/p>\n
What is cap space? <\/p>\n
Cap space is the money a team still has available to spend before hitting the salary cap.<\/p>\n
What is LTIR? <\/p>\n
LTIR stands for Long-Term Injured Reserve. It gives a team temporary cap relief when a player is expected to miss a long period due to injury.<\/p>\n
What is dead cap? <\/p>\n
Dead cap is salary cap money committed to players who are no longer with the team, such as from buyouts, retained salary in trades, or contract terminations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bookmark and come back for the latest Colorado Avalanche salary cap data, including cap hits, LTIR, and projected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-476886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116147808074060225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}