NHL teams will have Willie McGee Jersey $4 million more to spend under the salary cap in the 2015-16season.

The upper limit will be set at $73million for 2014-15, commi sioner Gary Bettman said at the Board of Governors meeting a suming the Canadian dollar's value stays constant.

That'd be a boon for big-market teams with money tied up in bad contracts; think Flyers (more than $9 million committed to Vincent Lecavalier and R.J. Umberger alone) and Leafs ($5.25 St. Louis Cardinals Jersey million to David Clarkson). That won't resolve all their problems, but it'll help them field competitive teams, and regime changes there over the last year mean that they're le s likely to waste their money.

It's also helpful for teams with RFAs due raises. Gustav Nyquist in Detroit comes to mind.

Bettman also said that the league is Paul DeJong Jersey listening to cities interested in applying for expansion, but that the formal proce s hasn't started. Still, Monday is a positive step for Stan Musial Jersey Las Vegas: Bettman said the prospective ownership group, , can start a season-ticket drive to gauge local interest.

Naturally, Bettman stre sed that the new doesn't guarantee anything and went so far as to ask the media not to make a big deal out of it. Good luck with that, he typed, as he started planning his opening weekend trip for 2017. ?

For a full Vegas progre s report, . Given all we know already there's an ownership group, an arena anda ton of money in expansion fees for the rest of the league a season-ticket drive seems like relevant news and a wise move. The size of the local ticket-buying base, odd as it sounds, might be the biggest hurdle of Brett Cecil Jersey all for the Vegas experiment. It's time to figure it out.

Quebec City and Seattle remain the other theoretical candidates to land an expansion team.