I would like to see a rising salary cap. With the cap locked at $71.4m all teams have salary issues in a couple of seasons. In 1 savegame I was in the 2021/2022 season and stars like Seguin and Stamkos get signed in februari to 1,5 year $3m per year deals. The UFA market is flooded every year with star/superb players, and some star players even sit out a complete season as FA.
I think the problem is more with how bad the AI is with managing a team with a salary cap and how the AI can't seem to plan ahead for anything such as free agent signings or current players that will be demanding much larger contracts when they re-sign. In real life, players' salary demands will increase with the salary cap so having a fixed salary cap is not the cause of the AI's salary cap issues in the game.
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I think the problem is more with how bad the AI is with managing a team with a salary cap and how the AI can't seem to plan ahead for anything such as free agent signings or current players that will be demanding much larger contracts when they re-sign. In real life, players' salary demands will increase with the salary cap so having a fixed salary cap is not the cause of the AI's salary cap issues in the game.