- $100M salary cap
- 20 man roster (12 forwards, 6 defense, 2 goalies)
- every player/goalie must have at least 3 years remaining on their contract (including this year, so they have to be signed at least through the 21-22 season)
- no ELCs
- cant use players whose contracts change between now and 21-22 (eg. Morrissey - even though he is technically under contract for the next 3 years you still cant use him since his current contract has $3.15M AAV and his new contract begins in 20-21 worth $6.25M AAV)
- no using retained salary contracts unless you count the players full AAV towards the $100M salary cap (eg. if you use Kessel you must allocate $8M in cap for him instead of just $6.8M by creating a fake 'new player' worth $1.2M to account for the retention)