NHL Player Earnings NHL Player Earnings

Listing the top earnings for all active NHL players.

Player Earnings
Total
Seasons Earnings
Total
1

Sidney Crosby

Center
2005: R1, #1
$152,890,244 19 $152,890,244
2

Alex Ovechkin

Left Wing
2004: R1, #1
$150,720,893 19 $150,720,893
3

Evgeni Malkin

Center
2004: R1, #2
$141,270,893 18 $141,270,893
4

Shea Weber

Defenseman
2003: R2, #49
$130,831,000 19 $130,831,000
5

Anze Kopitar

Center
2005: R1, #11
$129,250,000 19 $129,250,000
6

Patrick Kane

Right Wing
2007: R1, #1
$118,387,195 17 $118,387,195
7

Ryan Suter

Defenseman
2003: R1, #7
$117,625,999 19 $117,625,999
8

Steven Stamkos

Center
2008: R1, #1
$116,675,000 16 $116,675,000
9

Carey Price

Goaltender
2005: R1, #5
$116,050,000 17 $116,050,000
10

Zach Parise

Left Wing
2003: R1, #17
$111,901,731 19 $111,901,731
11

Joe Thornton

Center
1997: R1, #1
$111,541,561 24 $111,541,561
12

Erik Karlsson

Defenseman
2008: R1, #15
$111,429,878 15 $111,429,878
13

Drew Doughty

Defenseman
2008: R1, #2
$110,929,878 16 $110,929,878
14

Nicklas Backstrom

Center
2006: R1, #4
$107,550,000 17 $107,550,000
15

John Tavares

Center
2009: R1, #1
$103,091,463 15 $103,091,463
16

Sergei Bobrovsky

Goaltender
0: Undrafted
$100,866,829 14 $100,866,829
17

Brent Burns

Defenseman
2003: R1, #20
$98,650,000 17 $98,650,000
18

Jamie Benn

Left Wing
2007: R5, #129
$95,694,512 16 $95,694,512
19

Tyler Seguin

Center
2010: R1, #2
$94,150,000 14 $94,150,000
20

Corey Perry

Right Wing
2003: R1, #28
$93,595,883 19 $93,595,883
21

Philip Kessel

Right Wing
2006: R1, #5
$93,002,866 17 $93,002,866
22

Claude Giroux

Center
2006: R1, #22
$92,548,780 17 $92,548,780
23

Marc-Andre Fleury

Goaltender
2003: R1, #1
$88,491,432 20 $88,491,432
24

Eric Staal

Center
2003: R1, #2
$87,613,415 18 $87,613,415
25

Jeff Skinner

Left Wing
2010: R1, #7
$87,050,000 14 $87,050,000
26

Jakub Voracek

Right Wing
2007: R1, #7
$86,112,805 17 $86,112,805
27

Connor McDavid

Center
2015: R1, #1
$85,625,000 9 $85,625,000
28

Kris Letang

Defenseman
2005: R3, #62
$84,918,780 16 $84,918,780
29

Ryan O'Reilly

Center
2009: R2, #33
$82,140,000 15 $82,140,000
30

Logan Couture

Center
2007: R1, #9
$81,234,756 17 $81,234,756
31

Jordan Staal

Center
2006: R1, #2
$80,134,146 18 $80,134,146
32

Joe Pavelski

Center
2003: R7, #205
$79,676,463 18 $79,676,463
33

Jeff Carter

Center
2003: R1, #11
$79,485,737 19 $79,485,737
34

Matt Duchene

Center
2009: R1, #3
$78,907,995 15 $78,907,995
35

Victor Hedman

Defenseman
2009: R1, #2
$78,700,000 15 $78,700,000
36

Alex Pietrangelo

Defenseman
2008: R1, #4
$78,250,000 14 $78,250,000
37

Blake Wheeler

Right Wing
2004: R1, #5
$78,101,220 16 $78,101,220
38

Marc-Edouard Vlasic

Defenseman
2005: R2, #35
$77,820,854 18 $77,820,854
39

Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Defenseman
2009: R1, #6
$77,083,496 14 $77,083,496
40

Artemi Panarin

Left Wing
0: Undrafted
$77,032,500 9 $77,032,500
41

John Carlson

Defenseman
2008: R1, #27
$76,946,951 15 $76,946,951
42

Milan Lucic

Left Wing
2006: R2, #50
$72,842,805 17 $72,842,805
43

Tyler Myers

Defenseman
2008: R1, #12
$71,625,000 15 $71,625,000
44

Roman Josi

Defenseman
2008: R2, #38
$71,599,695 14 $71,599,695
45

Taylor Hall

Left Wing
2010: R1, #1
$71,450,000 14 $71,450,000
46

Mark Stone

Right Wing
2010: R6, #178
$70,200,000 11 $70,200,000
47

Nathan MacKinnon

Center
2013: R1, #1
$69,287,500 11 $69,287,500
48

Vladimir Tarasenko

Right Wing
2010: R1, #16
$69,116,829 12 $69,116,829
49

Nikita Kucherov

Right Wing
2011: R2, #58
$68,517,500 11 $68,517,500
50

Brad Marchand

Left Wing
2006: R3, #71
$68,446,464 17 $68,446,464
51

Evander Kane

Left Wing
2009: R1, #4
$67,843,193 15 $67,843,193
52

T.J. Oshie

Right Wing
2005: R1, #24
$66,843,902 16 $66,843,902
53

Ryan McDonagh

Defenseman
2007: R1, #12
$66,669,695 14 $66,669,695
54

Erik Johnson

Defenseman
2006: R1, #1
$66,652,439 17 $66,652,439
55

Jordan Eberle

Right Wing
2008: R1, #22
$66,125,000 15 $66,125,000
56

Jonathan Quick

Goaltender
2005: R3, #72
$65,200,122 17 $65,200,122
57

Mark Giordano

Defenseman
0: Undrafted
$64,875,000 16 $64,875,000
58

Gabriel Landeskog

Left Wing
2011: R1, #2
$63,983,963 13 $63,983,963
59

Bryan Little

Center
2006: R1, #12
$63,706,098 17 $63,706,098
60

Johnny Gaudreau

Left Wing
2011: R4, #104
$63,625,000 11 $63,625,000
61

Dougie Hamilton

Defenseman
2011: R1, #9
$63,325,000 13 $63,325,000
62

Justin Faulk

Defenseman
2010: R2, #37
$63,270,000 13 $63,270,000
63

James Van Riemsdyk

Left Wing
2007: R1, #2
$63,088,415 15 $63,088,415
64

Jack Eichel

Center
2015: R1, #2
$62,987,500 9 $62,987,500
65

Aleksander Barkov

Center
2013: R1, #2
$62,387,500 11 $62,387,500
66

Jared Spurgeon

Defenseman
2008: R6, #156
$62,330,000 14 $62,330,000
67

Max Pacioretty

Left Wing
2007: R1, #22
$62,149,390 16 $62,149,390
68

Semyon Varlamov

Goaltender
2006: R1, #23
$62,118,598 17 $62,118,598
69

Leon Draisaitl

Center
2014: R1, #3
$61,756,040 9 $61,756,040
70

Evgeny Kuznetsov

Center
2010: R1, #26
$61,747,884 11 $61,747,884
71

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Center
2011: R1, #1
$61,275,000 13 $61,275,000
72

Auston Matthews

Center
2016: R1, #1
$60,945,000 8 $60,945,000
73

Cam Fowler

Defenseman
2010: R1, #12
$60,792,153 14 $60,792,153
74

Jeff Petry

Defenseman
2006: R2, #45
$60,580,121 14 $60,580,121
75

Alex Goligoski

Defenseman
2006: R2, #61
$60,224,137 17 $60,224,137
76

Kyle Okposo

Right Wing
2006: R1, #7
$60,215,732 17 $60,215,732
77

Alexander Edler

Defenseman
2004: R3, #91
$59,552,439 17 $59,552,439
78

Mitchell Marner

Right Wing
2015: R1, #4
$59,420,500 7 $59,420,500
79

Filip Forsberg

Center
2012: R1, #11
$58,893,910 12 $58,893,910
80

Marc Staal

Defenseman
2005: R1, #12
$58,739,756 17 $58,739,756
81

Jacob Trouba

Defenseman
2012: R1, #9
$58,607,500 11 $58,607,500
82

Seth Jones

Defenseman
2013: R1, #4
$57,887,499 11 $57,887,499
83

Brayden Schenn

Center
2009: R1, #5
$57,116,829 14 $57,116,829
84

Aaron Ekblad

Defenseman
2014: R1, #1
$56,625,000 10 $56,625,000
85

Nick Foligno

Left Wing
2006: R1, #28
$56,558,415 16 $56,558,415
86

Chris Kreider

Left Wing
2009: R1, #19
$56,101,220 13 $56,101,220
87

Andrei Vasilevskiy

Goaltender
2012: R1, #19
$55,845,323 10 $55,845,323
88

Nick Leddy

Defenseman
2009: R1, #16
$55,816,829 14 $55,816,829
89

Anders Lee

Center
2009: R6, #151
$55,694,038 12 $55,694,038
90

Kevin Shattenkirk

Defenseman
2007: R1, #14
$55,583,027 14 $55,583,027
91

Jonathan Huberdeau

Left Wing
2011: R1, #3
$55,521,463 13 $55,521,463
92

Adam Henrique

Center
2008: R3, #82
$54,937,499 15 $54,937,499
93

David Pastrnak

Right Wing
2014: R1, #25
$54,850,000 9 $54,850,000
94

Mats Zuccarello-Aasen

Right Wing
0: Undrafted
$54,834,146 14 $54,834,146
95

David Perron

Left Wing
2007: R1, #26
$53,493,598 17 $53,493,598
96

Jack Johnson

Defenseman
2005: R1, #3
$53,231,669 18 $53,231,669
97

Nazem Kadri

Center
2009: R1, #7
$53,124,530 14 $53,124,530
98

Torey Krug

Defenseman
0: Undrafted
$52,967,115 13 $52,967,115
99

Brandon Saad

Left Wing
2011: R2, #43
$52,885,000 13 $52,885,000
100

Mika Zibanejad

Center
2011: R1, #6
$52,723,963 12 $52,723,963