With a $7.5MM increase to the Upper Limit of the salary cap for next season (from $88MM to $95.5MM), there is a big expectation of spending going up across the league. But not every team is obviously going to spend to the new ceiling and it appears the Senators will be one of them. Speaking with reporters including Postmedia’s Janson Duench , GM Steve Staios indicated that he’s not expecting to spend to the maximum:

“It’s probably not going to be up there and we’ll leave ourselves a little bit. You got to remember, when I first got here, we had no room and it’s nice to be able to create some flexibility, lengthen the roster, lengthen the lineup and give ourselves some options.”

While Staios spoke of staying enough below the cap to create some flexibility for in-season movement, owner

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