Far more likely they just scale back contracts. No way NHLPA agrees to this.

This would be a total possibility if the entire season and playoffs were scrubbed, But seeing that there will be playoffs probably prevents this from happening..

First I've heard of scaling back contracts, with CBO's the players still get paid, but they don't affect the cap. Scaling back would reduce everyone's contract 10-20% I assume. I'm not sure he PA would support a pay cut.

I agree it is unlikely but I'm not convinced the revenues will see a significant bump with the return of playoffs assuming no fans and lots of additional costs.

Agreed the only thing that might save them would be Television and even then that wont be enough.

If you have a $70M cap, Taffoli doesn't get $5M per

Implementing a really low salary cap and 2 CBOs does next to nothing to actually cut the costs for teams, since they still need to pay bought out players.

What is most likely to happen IMO is that the cap stays the same, and the players’ salaries are scaled back, while their cap hit remains the same. That way it keeps the amount of escrow the players need to pay to as little as possible.

i would buy out baertschi, roussel or sutter before Beagle

he doesn't have the most glamorous role but he is a pk specialist and wins face offs like crazy