[JeffR]

Originally Posted by asilvermtzion

also just noticed that every team, when viewing from the roster overview screen, has a different salary cap number. for example, the ducks have a cap of $81,289,661, the coyotes have $90,667,862, the red wings are have $74,530,831. all of the floor numbers are the same, $44,000,000, and all of the teams are under the actual cap, which i think was $71million something.

That's how accumulated cap space is displayed. The amount will gradually increase through the year, so you know how much annual cap hit you can add. Saves you the trouble of doing a bunch of extra math to figure out how much cap hit you can afford to add.