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

Evgeni Malkin

Center
2004: R1, #2
$141,270,893 18 $141,270,893
3

Erik Karlsson

Defenseman
2008: R1, #15
$111,429,878 15 $111,429,878
4

Kris Letang

Defenseman
2005: R3, #62
$84,918,780 16 $84,918,780
5

Jeff Carter

Center
2003: R1, #11
$79,485,737 19 $79,485,737
6

Jack Johnson

Defenseman
2005: R1, #3
$53,231,669 18 $53,231,669
7

Reilly Smith

Right Wing
2009: R3, #69
$43,150,000 11 $43,150,000
8

Lars Eller

Center
2007: R1, #13
$38,748,171 16 $38,748,171
9

Rickard Rakell

Center
2011: R1, #30
$36,685,893 11 $36,685,893
10

Jake Guentzel

Center
2013: R3, #77
$32,202,500 8 $32,202,500
11

Bryan Rust

Right Wing
2010: R3, #80
$26,170,000 9 $26,170,000
12

Tristan Jarry

Goaltender
2013: R2, #44
$19,689,672 9 $19,689,672
13

Colin White

Center
2015: R1, #21
$18,546,682 8 $18,546,682
14

Marcus Pettersson

Defenseman
2014: R2, #38
$18,106,653 7 $18,106,653
15

Ryan Graves

Defenseman
2013: R4, #110
$16,275,085 6 $16,275,085
16

Matt Nieto

Left Wing
2011: R2, #47
$11,395,423 11 $11,395,423
17

Noel Acciari

Center
0: Undrafted
$11,317,266 9 $11,317,266
18

Alex Nedeljkovic

Goaltender
2014: R2, #37
$9,109,284 7 $9,109,284
19

Jesse Puljujarvi

Right Wing
2016: R1, #4
$8,671,760 7 $8,671,760
20

Michael Bunting

Left Wing
2014: R4, #117
$7,095,970 5 $7,095,970
21

Chad Ruhwedel

Defenseman
0: Undrafted
$6,300,000 9 $6,300,000
22

Emil Bemstrom

Center
2017: R4, #117
$3,795,168 5 $3,795,168
23

Alexander Nylander

Right Wing
2016: R1, #8
$3,386,093 7 $3,386,093
24

Jansen Harkins

Center
2015: R2, #47
$2,890,442 5 $2,890,442
25

Drew O'Connor

Left Wing
0: Undrafted
$2,349,486 4 $2,349,486
26

Pierre-Olivier Joseph

Defenseman
2017: R1, #23
$1,990,483 4 $1,990,483
27

John Ludvig

Defenseman
2019: R3, #69
$987,500 2 $987,500
28

Valtteri Puustinen

Left Wing
2019: R7, #203
$562,612 2 $562,612
29

Ryan Shea

Defenseman
2015: R4, #121
$182,610 1 $182,610