The BOG meetings are on Monday and Tuesday...
from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
The salary cap: This is the annual meeting during which the league gives clubs their first projected number for next season's salary cap. It's a projection, not an exact number, but normally it gives teams enough direction in order to plan head for next season. There's been much hand-wringing among some of the bigger-market, high-spending clubs that the salary cap isn't quite going up as much as they thought it was going to, which is leaving them pressed up against the ceiling trying to juggle how to re-sign and keep their core together.
International update: There isn't expected to much talk about future Winter Olympics participation at this meeting, however, there will definitely be a formal update on how plans are going for the return of the World Cup of Hockey, a source said....
The event is scheduled to return in September 2016, hosted entirely in Toronto....
Legal updates: There will be several reports for governors to hear from the league, including the business report and a legal report. Within that legal report, the league will update owners on the ongoing concussion litigation with former players and the league's motion to dismiss those claims.
Quebec update ... but not about expansion: Pierre Dion of Quebecor, whose TVA Sports French TV network has begun a 12-year national relationship with the NHL, will also make a presentation....
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