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Defenseman SpendingDefenseman Spending

A real-time look at how NHL teams are spending their 2018 cap dollars on Defensemans.

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Cap Allocation: Active Roster

Rank Team Players 2018 Cap Dollars Avg Cap Dollars % of 2018 Cap
1 SJS 8 $30,545,000 $3,818,125 38.04%
2 WPG 10 $29,712,122 $2,971,212 39.29%
3 CAR 8 $27,320,011 $3,415,001 43.69%
4 PIT 9 $26,388,588 $2,932,065 34.51%
5 TBL 8 $26,276,393 $3,284,549 33.59%
6 STL 8 $25,833,789 $3,229,224 32.28%
7 NYR 8 $24,613,053 $3,076,632 33.07%
8 EDM 8 $24,555,639 $3,069,455 30.04%
9 WAS 8 $23,560,832 $2,945,104 29.01%
10 FLA 8 $23,304,690 $2,913,086 30.33%
11 CGY 9 $23,026,322 $2,558,480 29.38%
12 AZ 8 $22,887,500 $2,860,938 31.18%
13 COL 8 $22,868,418 $2,858,552 32.32%
14 NSH 8 $21,904,703 $2,738,088 28.86%
15 TOR 10 $21,194,081 $2,119,408 27.93%
16 NYI 9 $21,091,891 $2,343,543 30.23%
17 LAK 8 $20,449,910 $2,556,239 26.13%
18 MIN 7 $20,374,403 $2,910,629 26.84%
19 BOS 9 $19,357,181 $2,150,798 24.83%
20 CHI 7 $19,101,064 $2,728,723 25.85%
21 VGK 8 $18,894,892 $2,361,862 23.95%
22 NJD 8 $17,971,529 $2,246,441 28.67%
23 VAN 12 $17,555,351 $1,462,946 24.14%
24 MTL 7 $16,999,141 $2,428,449 23.48%
25 BUF 7 $16,895,261 $2,413,609 22.18%
26 ANA 5 $16,793,596 $3,358,719 22.03%
27 PHI 7 $16,457,500 $2,351,071 23.26%
28 CBJ 9 $16,235,753 $1,803,973 21.16%
29 DET 5 $14,962,916 $2,992,583 21.61%
30 DAL 8 $11,377,256 $1,422,157 15.39%
31 OTT 6 $8,682,422 $1,447,070 12.48%
Total 248 $647,191,207 $81,768,732 26.33%
Average 8 $20,877,136 $2,609,642 27.93%


Rank Player 2018 Cap Dollars % of 2018 Cap
1 P.K. Subban $9,000,000 11.32%
2 Brent Burns $8,000,000 10.06%
John Carlson $8,000,000 10.07%
4 Victor Hedman $7,875,000 9.92%
5 Shea Weber $7,857,143 9.88%
6 Dustin Byfuglien $7,600,000 9.56%
7 Ryan Suter $7,538,462 9.49%
8 Aaron Ekblad $7,500,000 9.43%
9 Kris Letang $7,250,000 9.12%
10 Marc-Edouard Vlasic $7,000,000 8.81%
Dion Phaneuf $7,000,000 6.60%
Drew Doughty $7,000,000 8.81%
13 Brent Seabrook $6,875,000 8.78%
14 Mark Giordano $6,750,000 8.49%
15 Kevin Shattenkirk $6,650,000 8.36%
16 Erik Karlsson $6,500,000 8.18%
Cam Fowler $6,500,000 8.18%
Alex Pietrangelo $6,500,000 8.19%
19 Keith Yandle $6,350,000 7.99%
20 Johnny Boychuk $6,000,000 7.55%
Erik Johnson $6,000,000 7.55%
22 Dougie Hamilton $5,750,000 7.23%
Matt Niskanen $5,750,000 7.24%
24 Marc Staal $5,700,000 7.17%
25 Duncan Keith $5,538,462 7.08%
26 Nick Leddy $5,500,000 6.92%
Colton Parayko $5,500,000 6.93%
Jeff Petry $5,500,000 6.92%
Oliver Ekman-Larsson $5,500,000 6.92%
Andrej Sekera $5,500,000 6.92%
Jacob Trouba $5,500,000 6.92%
Tyler Myers $5,500,000 6.92%
Tyson Barrie $5,500,000 6.92%
Justin Schultz $5,500,000 6.92%
35 Alex Goligoski $5,475,000 6.89%
36 Jay Bouwmeester $5,400,000 6.81%
Rasmus Ristolainen $5,400,000 6.79%
Seth Jones $5,400,000 6.79%
39 Jaccob Slavin $5,300,000 6.67%
40 Hampus Lindholm $5,250,000 6.60%
Brady Skjei $5,250,000 6.60%
Torey Krug $5,250,000 6.67%
43 Shea Theodore $5,200,000 6.61%
44 Jared Spurgeon $5,187,500 6.53%
45 Zach Bogosian $5,142,857 6.47%
46 Dmitry Orlov $5,100,000 6.42%
47 Danny DeKeyser $5,000,000 6.35%
Zdeno Chara $5,000,000 6.35%
Andrew MacDonald $5,000,000 6.29%
Morgan Rielly $5,000,000 6.50%
Andy Greene $5,000,000 6.29%
Alexander Edler $5,000,000 6.29%
53 Noah Hanifin $4,950,000 6.23%
54 Michael Matheson $4,875,000 6.13%
Sami Vatanen $4,875,000 6.13%
56 Justin Faulk $4,833,333 6.08%
57 Niklas Kronwall $4,750,000 6.03%
58 Ryan McDonagh $4,700,000 5.92%
59 T.J. Brodie $4,650,000 5.85%
60 Calvin de Haan $4,550,000 5.72%
61 Anton Stralman $4,500,000 5.67%
Shayne Gostisbehere $4,500,000 5.66%
Nikita Zaitsev $4,500,000 5.85%
64 Chris Tanev $4,450,000 5.60%
65 Brendan Smith $4,350,000 5.47%
66 Dmitry Kulikov $4,333,333 5.45%
67 Cody Ceci $4,300,000 5.41%
68 John Klingberg $4,250,000 5.35%
Jonathan Ericsson $4,250,000 5.40%
Ian Cole $4,250,000 5.35%
David Savard $4,250,000 5.35%
72 Oscar Klefbom $4,167,000 5.24%
73 Jonas Brodin $4,166,666 5.24%
Adam Larsson $4,166,666 5.24%
Damon Severson $4,166,666 5.24%
76 Josh Manson $4,100,000 5.16%
Niklas Hjalmarsson $4,100,000 5.16%
Brian Dumoulin $4,100,000 5.16%
79 Olli Maatta $4,083,333 5.14%
80 Jake Gardiner $4,050,000 5.26%
81 Brett Pesce $4,025,000 5.06%
82 Kris Russell $4,000,000 5.03%
Roman Josi $4,000,000 5.03%
Jacob Muzzin $4,000,000 1.90%
Erik Gudbranson $4,000,000 1.11%
Alec Martinez $4,000,000 5.03%
87 Jason Demers $3,937,500 4.95%
88 Colin Miller $3,875,000 4.93%
89 Travis Hamonic $3,857,143 4.85%
90 Connor Murphy $3,850,000 4.92%
91 Justin Braun $3,800,000 4.78%
92 Mattias Ekholm $3,750,000 4.72%
93 Braydon Coburn $3,700,000 4.66%
94 Brandon Montour $3,387,500 0.96%
95 Radko Gudas $3,350,000 4.21%
96 Brenden Dillon $3,270,000 4.11%
97 Jack Johnson $3,250,000 4.09%
98 Darnell Nurse $3,200,000 4.03%
99 Joshua Morrissey $3,150,000 3.96%
100 Michael Del Zotto $3,000,000 0.83%
Joel Edmundson $3,000,000 3.78%
Dan Girardi $3,000,000 3.78%
Ron Hainsey $3,000,000 3.90%
104 Carl Gunnarsson $2,900,000 3.65%
105 Ben Hutton $2,800,000 3.52%
106 John Moore $2,750,000 3.49%
Adam McQuaid $2,750,000 0.76%
108 Mark Pysyk $2,733,333 3.44%
109 Markus Nutivaara $2,700,000 3.40%
110 Ben Lovejoy $2,666,667 0.78%
111 Derek Forbort $2,525,000 3.18%
112 Thomas Hickey $2,500,000 3.14%
Brayden McNabb $2,500,000 3.18%
Michal Kempny $2,500,000 3.15%
Ryan Ellis $2,500,000 3.14%
Kevan Miller $2,500,000 3.18%
Patrik Nemeth $2,500,000 3.14%
118 Nathan Beaulieu $2,400,000 0.67%
119 Troy Stecher $2,325,000 2.92%
120 Trevor Van Riemsdyk $2,300,000 2.89%
Jan Rutta $2,300,000 1.34%
122 Greg Pateryn $2,250,000 2.83%
Matt Hunwick $2,250,000 2.83%
124 Nate Schmidt $2,225,000 2.83%
125 Esa Lindell $2,200,000 2.77%
Nick Holden $2,200,000 2.80%
127 Nikita Zadorov $2,150,000 2.70%
128 Jamie Oleksiak $2,137,500 0.98%
129 Ryan Pulock $2,000,000 2.52%
130 Alex Petrovic $1,950,000 1.29%
131 Matthew Benning $1,900,000 2.39%
132 Adam Pelech $1,600,000 2.01%
Jake McCabe $1,600,000 2.01%
134 Luca Sbisa $1,500,000 1.89%
Deryk Engelland $1,500,000 1.91%
136 Scott Mayfield $1,450,000 1.82%
Mark Barberio $1,450,000 1.82%
138 Steven Santini $1,416,666 1.78%
139 Ben Chiarot $1,400,000 1.76%
Matthew Grzelcyk $1,400,000 1.78%
141 Jon Merrill $1,375,000 1.75%
Kevin Connauton $1,375,000 1.73%
143 Roman Polak $1,300,000 1.64%
Connor Carrick $1,300,000 0.38%
145 Dan Hamhuis $1,250,000 1.57%
146 Erik Gustafsson $1,200,000 1.53%
Mark Borowiecki $1,200,000 1.51%
148 Robert Bortuzzo $1,150,000 1.45%
Robert Hagg $1,150,000 1.45%
150 Derrick Pouliot $1,100,000 1.38%
Jordie Benn $1,100,000 1.38%
152 Madison Bowey $1,000,000 0.27%
Brooks Orpik $1,000,000 1.26%
Joe Morrow $1,000,000 1.26%
155 Brogan Rafferty $925,000 0.04%
Josh Teves $925,000 0.16%
Jimmy Schuldt $925,000 0.03%
Neal Pionk $925,000 1.16%
Jakob Chychrun $925,000 1.16%
Ilya Lyubushkin $925,000 1.16%
Dante Fabbro $925,000 0.07%
Bogdan Kiselevich $925,000 0.26%
Brady Keeper $925,000 0.13%
Ian McCoshen $925,000 0.51%
Igor Ozhiganov $925,000 1.20%
Calle Rosen $925,000 0.05%
Will Butcher $925,000 1.16%
Egor Yakovlev $925,000 0.55%
Rasmus Dahlin $925,000 1.16%
Vladislav Gavrikov $925,000 1.16%
Zachary Werenski $925,000 1.16%
172 Charles Mcavoy $916,667 1.16%
173 Quinn Hughes $916,666 0.17%
Andrew Peeke $916,666 0.04%
175 Korbinian Holzer $900,000 1.00%
Brett Kulak $900,000 1.13%
Dylan Demelo $900,000 1.13%
MacKenzie Weegar $900,000 1.13%
179 Mikhail Sergachev $894,167 1.13%
Ivan Provorov $894,167 1.12%
181 Juuso Valimaki $894,166 0.71%
Miro Heiskanen $894,166 1.12%
183 Gustav Forsling $872,500 0.98%
184 Slater Koekkoek $865,000 0.51%
185 Julius Honka $863,333 1.09%
Anthony DeAngelo $863,333 1.09%
Jake Bean $863,333 0.05%
Haydn Fleury $863,333 0.65%
Thomas Chabot $863,333 1.09%
Travis Sanheim $863,333 1.09%
Travis Dermott $863,333 1.12%
192 Mirco Mueller $850,000 1.07%
193 Matt Roy $833,750 0.28%
194 Libor Hajek $833,333 0.22%
195 Paul Ladue $825,000 1.04%
Alex Biega $825,000 0.91%
197 Nick Jensen $812,500 0.24%
Casey Nelson $812,500 1.02%
199 Luke Schenn $800,000 0.57%
Dalton Prout $800,000 1.01%
Christian Folin $800,000 0.31%
Martin Marincin $800,000 0.89%
203 Marcus Pettersson $794,167 0.67%
204 Brandon Carlo $789,166 1.00%
205 Sami Niku $775,000 0.62%
206 Rasmus Andersson $755,833 0.95%
207 Christian Jaros $755,000 0.87%
208 Carl Dahlstrom $750,833 0.60%
209 Luke Witkowski $750,000 0.95%
210 Victor Mete $748,333 0.85%
211 Sean Walker $745,000 0.60%
212 Oliver Kylington $730,833 0.70%
213 Samuel Girard $728,333 0.92%
214 Dean Kukan $725,000 0.91%
Nick Seeler $725,000 0.91%
Mike Reilly $725,000 0.91%
Ben Harpur $725,000 0.91%
Connor Clifton $725,000 0.13%
219 Vince Dunn $722,500 0.91%
220 Jonas Siegenthaler $714,166 0.46%
221 Dennis Seidenberg $700,000 0.20%
Devon Toews $700,000 0.48%
Fredrik Claesson $700,000 0.88%
Kevin Gravel $700,000 0.75%
Samuel Morin $700,000 0.88%
226 Guillaume Brisebois $697,500 0.29%
Brendan Guhle $697,500 0.19%
Erik Cernak $697,500 0.69%
229 Scott Harrington $675,000 0.85%
Kurtis Macdermid $675,000 0.18%
Ashton Sautner $675,000 0.21%
Radim Simek $675,000 0.85%
Matt Irwin $675,000 0.85%
Yannick Weber $675,000 0.85%
Joshua Brown $675,000 0.55%
Justin Holl $675,000 0.88%
237 Chad Ruhwedel $650,000 0.82%
Zach Trotman $650,000 0.18%
Oscar Fantenberg $650,000 0.18%
Taylor Fedun $650,000 0.59%
Tim Heed $650,000 0.82%
Joakim Ryan $650,000 0.82%
Anthony Bitetto $650,000 0.31%
Brad Hunt $650,000 0.33%
Christian Djoos $650,000 0.82%
Jordan Oesterle $650,000 0.82%
Steven Kampfer $650,000 0.83%
Ryan Graves $650,000 0.36%