NEW YORK — After a year of record revenue, the NHL salary cap is going up again.

The exact figure for the 2014-15 season hasn’t been set, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Thursday after a meeting of the league’s board of governors, but he hoped it would be worked out with the players association in time for the start of the two-day entry draft Friday in Philadelphia.

The final number is expected to be in the high $60 millions or low $70 millions. That gives general managers a guideline as they head into the draft and the free-agent shopping season that begins Tuesday.

“We hope to have a mutual understanding as to what the cap will be within the next day, hopefully at the latest,” Bettman said. “It’s something that obviously we do in conjunction with the players association.

“There have been ongoing meetings, but our goal would be to move this as quickly as possible. But we have a dance partner, and we want to make sure the music is playing appropriately and we’re both hearing the same things.”

Many team officials rushed out of the midtown Manhattan hotel where Thursday’s meeting took place and headed to Philadelphia for the draft, which will open with the first round Friday night and conclude with rounds 2-7 on Saturday.

Teams that have large amounts of cap space can already make their offseason plans, whether it be trades or free-agent signings, without knowing the final cap number.

Last season’s salary cap sat at $64.3 million, quite a jump from the original cap number of $39 million, established after the lockout-canceled season of 2004-05. The only time the cap number dropped from the previous season was in 2012-13 following another lockout when the figure was set at $60 million after being $64.3 million in 2011-12.