The NHL and NHLPA have agreed to expedite a playoff salary cap and changes to long-term injured reserve rules for the 2025-26 season, multiple NHL sources told ESPN on Tuesday.

The playoff salary cap rule is one of several changes in the league's new Collective Bargaining Agreement that will be fast-tracked for this season. The current CBA ends on Sept. 15, 2026. The new agreement, which the NHL and NHLPA announced in July, has a four-year term.

NHL general managers will be briefed on the CBA rules for this season at their meetings in Detroit this week, a source told ESPN. The salary cap rules for the playoffs address an ongoing concern for some players and general managers: teams using long-term injured reserve (LTIR) rules to ice rosters that would have been well over the regular-seaso

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