How will the NHL's rising salary cap IMPACT the Chicago Blackhawks in 2026 Free Agency?

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	Where is everyone?
0:02.6	There's no one left.
0:04.4	It's not totally true.
0:07.2	Not yet at least.
0:08.3	Not yet, but with the rising cap, a lot of these guys that we have been eyeing,
0:13.4	and this happened last year too, or Mitch Marger never reached for agency.
0:17.9	And Brock Besser never reached for agency.
0:20.6	Leon Driesledo a couple years ago never reached.
0:22.7	Nico Rantan.
0:23.7	Yeah, the only guys that reached were Nikolai Eilers,
0:27.1	and there's somebody else I'm missing that reached last year.
0:30.9	That was really it, though.
0:31.9	Elers was the big name.
0:32.9	Eelers was the big fish, yeah.
0:34.3	And that was it.
0:35.5	And now...
0:36.4	And big fish in the sense of like B-tier...
0:41.3	The biggest fish at Meyer in the fish section.
0:44.4	Yes, exactly.
0:45.3	Right.
0:45.9	Nothing against him, but he's just not that level of superstar.
0:48.8	So over the last week, Carreel Caprisov, Connor McDavid, Jack O'Eco, and Kyle Connor,
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