Defenseman SpendingDefenseman Spending

A real-time look at how NHL teams are spending their 2023 cap dollars on Defensemans.

 

Cap Allocation: Active Roster

Rank Team Players 2023 Cap Dollars Avg Cap Dollars % of 2023 Cap
1 CBJ 8 $33,166,830 $4,145,854 41.52%
2 NSH 8 $30,814,508 $3,851,814 40.25%
3 CAR 7 $30,042,500 $4,291,786 36.92%
4 STL 8 $29,300,000 $3,662,500 35.22%
5 BOS 7 $28,580,114 $4,082,873 35.47%
6 WPG 8 $28,150,000 $3,518,750 34.36%
7 EDM 7 $26,721,580 $3,817,369 32.13%
8 LAK 7 $26,555,583 $3,793,655 31.06%
9 PIT 6 $26,004,817 $4,334,136 30.00%
10 SEA 7 $25,562,500 $3,651,786 31.20%
11 TBL 7 $25,000,000 $3,571,429 27.37%
12 CGY 6 $24,762,500 $4,127,083 29.04%
13 VGK 8 $24,292,250 $3,036,531 27.24%
14 VAN 8 $24,140,720 $3,017,590 27.71%
15 COL 7 $23,865,838 $3,409,405 27.79%
16 BUF 8 $22,939,652 $2,867,457 30.98%
17 WAS 8 $22,462,500 $2,807,813 25.69%
18 DAL 7 $21,975,833 $3,139,405 26.58%
19 CHI 7 $21,898,335 $3,128,334 31.44%
20 DET 7 $21,882,083 $3,126,012 26.71%
21 FLA 8 $21,061,667 $2,632,708 25.48%
22 MIN 7 $21,000,000 $3,000,000 25.06%
23 NJD 7 $20,875,000 $2,982,143 25.42%
24 PHI 8 $18,960,150 $2,370,019 23.47%
25 TOR 7 $17,795,952 $2,542,279 18.53%
26 NYI 6 $17,534,352 $2,922,392 20.99%
27 NYR 6 $17,434,500 $2,905,750 20.87%
28 SJS 9 $17,001,667 $1,889,074 20.67%
29 ANA 7 $16,840,000 $2,405,714 22.07%
30 OTT 6 $13,983,700 $2,330,617 16.43%
31 ARI 7 $10,646,233 $1,520,890 13.30%
32 MTL 7 $9,617,565 $1,373,938 10.72%
Total 231 $720,868,929 $100,257,103 27.09%
Average 7 $22,527,154 $3,120,645 27.24%


Rank Player 2023 Cap Dollars % of 2023 Cap
1 Erik Karlsson $11,500,000 13.77%
2 Drew Doughty $11,000,000 13.17%
3 Zachary Werenski $9,583,333 11.48%
4 Charles Mcavoy $9,500,000 12.03%
Seth Jones $9,500,000 11.38%
6 Darnell Nurse $9,250,000 11.19%
7 Roman Josi $9,059,000 10.85%
8 Cale Makar $9,000,000 10.86%
Dougie Hamilton $9,000,000 10.83%
10 Alex Pietrangelo $8,800,000 10.54%
11 Mikhail Sergachev $8,500,000 10.18%
12 Miro Heiskanen $8,450,000 10.17%
13 Brent Burns $8,000,000 9.63%
Jacob Trouba $8,000,000 9.65%
John Carlson $8,000,000 9.58%
16 Victor Hedman $7,875,000 9.43%
17 Quinn Hughes $7,850,000 9.50%
18 Dmitry Orlov $7,750,000 9.33%
19 Jared Spurgeon $7,575,000 9.07%
20 Aaron Ekblad $7,500,000 9.01%
Morgan Rielly $7,500,000 8.98%
22 Vince Dunn $7,350,000 8.82%
23 Marc-Edouard Vlasic $7,000,000 8.39%
24 Ivan Provorov $6,750,000 8.08%
Ryan McDonagh $6,750,000 8.08%
26 Cam Fowler $6,500,000 7.78%
Hampus Lindholm $6,500,000 8.23%
Torey Krug $6,500,000 7.79%
Colton Parayko $6,500,000 7.79%
Justin Faulk $6,500,000 7.79%
31 MacKenzie Weegar $6,250,000 7.49%
Damon Severson $6,250,000 7.49%
Jeff Petry $6,250,000 7.49%
Mattias Ekholm $6,250,000 7.56%
Travis Sanheim $6,250,000 7.59%
Joshua Morrissey $6,250,000 7.49%
37 Ryan Pulock $6,150,000 7.37%
38 Kris Letang $6,100,000 7.31%
39 Rasmus Dahlin $6,000,000 7.19%
Jonas Brodin $6,000,000 7.19%
Tyler Myers $6,000,000 7.26%
42 Nate Schmidt $5,950,000 7.13%
43 Vladislav Gavrikov $5,875,000 7.04%
Neal Pionk $5,875,000 7.04%
45 Esa Lindell $5,800,000 6.98%
46 Jaccob Slavin $5,300,000 6.38%
47 Brady Skjei $5,250,000 6.32%
Alec Martinez $5,250,000 6.29%
49 Erik Cernak $5,200,000 6.23%
50 Rasmus Ristolainen $5,100,000 6.20%
51 T.J. Brodie $5,000,000 5.99%
52 Noah Hanifin $4,950,000 5.93%
53 Michael Matheson $4,875,000 5.92%
54 Ben Chiarot $4,750,000 5.69%
55 Jakob Chychrun $4,600,000 5.51%
Artem Zub $4,600,000 5.51%
Jamie Oleksiak $4,600,000 5.52%
58 Rasmus Andersson $4,550,000 5.45%
59 Chris Tanev $4,500,000 5.39%
Nikita Zaitsev $4,500,000 5.39%
Josh Manson $4,500,000 5.43%
Tyson Barrie $4,500,000 5.39%
Ryan Graves $4,500,000 5.39%
64 Connor Murphy $4,400,000 5.27%
John Marino $4,400,000 5.30%
Filip Hronek $4,400,000 5.32%
67 Mattias Samuelsson $4,285,714 5.13%
68 Shayne Gostisbehere $4,125,000 4.94%
Michael Anderson $4,125,000 4.94%
70 Brandon Carlo $4,100,000 5.19%
Devon Toews $4,100,000 4.95%
72 Nick Jensen $4,050,000 4.85%
73 Marcus Pettersson $4,025,175 4.82%
74 Brett Pesce $4,025,000 4.85%
75 Radko Gudas $4,000,000 4.79%
Erik Gudbranson $4,000,000 4.79%
Noah Dobson $4,000,000 4.79%
Adam Larsson $4,000,000 4.80%
Nick Leddy $4,000,000 4.79%
Jake McCabe $4,000,000 4.79%
81 Mathew Dumba $3,900,000 4.67%
Evan Bouchard $3,900,000 4.72%
Brenden Dillon $3,900,000 4.67%
84 K'Andre Miller $3,872,000 4.67%
85 Bowen Byram $3,850,000 4.65%
86 Nikita Zadorov $3,750,000 4.49%
87 Matthew Grzelcyk $3,687,500 4.67%
88 Ryan Suter $3,650,000 4.39%
89 Brandon Montour $3,500,000 4.20%
Scott Mayfield $3,500,000 4.19%
Joel Edmundson $3,500,000 4.19%
92 Jake Walman $3,400,000 4.07%
Justin Holl $3,400,000 4.07%
Jonas Siegenthaler $3,400,000 4.09%
95 Connor Clifton $3,333,333 3.99%
96 Marco Scandella $3,275,000 3.92%
97 Erik Johnson $3,250,000 3.89%
Cody Ceci $3,250,000 3.93%
Mario Ferraro $3,250,000 3.89%
100 Matt Roy $3,150,000 3.77%
Brian Dumoulin $3,150,000 3.78%
102 Derek Forbort $3,000,000 3.80%
Olli Maatta $3,000,000 3.59%
Ryan Lindgren $3,000,000 3.62%
Justin Schultz $3,000,000 3.60%
Ian Cole $3,000,000 3.63%
Trevor Van Riemsdyk $3,000,000 3.59%
Dylan Demelo $3,000,000 3.59%
109 Brayden McNabb $2,850,000 3.41%
110 Ilya Lyubushkin $2,750,000 3.29%
Andrew Peeke $2,750,000 3.29%
Brett Kulak $2,750,000 3.33%
Luke Schenn $2,750,000 3.29%
Zach Whitecloud $2,750,000 3.29%
115 William Borgen $2,700,000 3.24%
116 Martin Fehervary $2,675,000 3.20%
117 Gustav Forsling $2,666,667 3.20%
118 Sean Walker $2,650,000 3.22%
119 Adam Boqvist $2,600,000 3.11%
120 Henri Jokiharju $2,500,000 2.99%
Niko Mikkola $2,500,000 3.00%
Alex Carrier $2,500,000 2.99%
Dante Fabbro $2,500,000 2.99%
Alexander Romanov $2,500,000 2.99%
125 Jacob Middleton $2,450,000 2.93%
126 Jake Bean $2,333,333 2.79%
127 Nicolas Hague $2,294,150 2.75%
128 Oliver Ekman-Larsson $2,250,000 2.70%
129 Alex Goligoski $2,000,000 2.40%
Jeremy Lauzon $2,000,000 2.40%
Erik Brannstrom $2,000,000 2.40%
132 Jacob Bryson $1,850,000 2.22%
133 Sean Durzi $1,700,000 2.04%
134 Anthony DeAngelo $1,675,000 2.02%
135 Cameron York $1,600,000 1.94%
136 Jani Hakanpaa $1,500,000 1.80%
137 Rasmus Sandin $1,400,000 1.68%
Dylan Samberg $1,400,000 1.68%
139 Joshua Brown $1,275,000 1.53%
140 Matthew Benning $1,250,000 1.50%
Nikolai Knyzhov $1,250,000 1.50%
142 Jon Merrill $1,200,000 1.44%
143 Nick Perbix $1,125,000 1.35%
144 Troy Stecher $1,100,000 1.32%
Brendan Smith $1,100,000 1.32%
Travis Hamonic $1,100,000 1.32%
Marc Staal $1,100,000 1.34%
Kyle Burroughs $1,100,000 1.32%
Conor Timmins $1,100,000 1.32%
150 Kevin Shattenkirk $1,050,000 1.33%
Kevin Bahl $1,050,000 1.26%
152 Juuso Valimaki $1,000,000 1.20%
Dmitry Kulikov $1,000,000 1.20%
Andreas Englund $1,000,000 1.20%
Mike Reilly $1,000,000 1.20%
Logan Stanley $1,000,000 1.20%
157 Kurtis Macdermid $987,500 1.19%
158 David Jiricek $950,000 1.14%
Gustav Lindstrom $950,000 1.15%
Robert Bortuzzo $950,000 1.14%
161 Jackson Lacombe $925,000 1.11%
Michael Kesselring $925,000 1.11%
Ryan Johnson $925,000 1.11%
Nils Lundkvist $925,000 1.11%
Brock Faber $925,000 1.11%
Justin Barron $925,000 1.12%
Spencer Stastney $925,000 1.11%
Luke Hughes $925,000 1.11%
Braden Schneider $925,000 1.12%
Jake Sanderson $925,000 1.11%
171 Cole McWard $922,500 1.12%
172 Pavel Mintyukov $918,333 1.10%
Kevin Korchinski $918,333 1.10%
174 Owen Power $916,667 1.10%
Wyatt Kaiser $916,667 1.10%
Alex Vlasic $916,667 1.10%
177 Tristan Luneau $896,667 1.07%
178 Janis Moser $886,667 1.06%
179 Uvis Balinskis $870,000 1.05%
180 Jayden Struble $867,500 1.05%
181 Thomas Harley $863,333 1.04%
Moritz Seider $863,333 1.03%
Philip Broberg $863,333 1.05%
Kaiden Guhle $863,333 1.05%
185 Isaak Phillips $859,167 1.03%
Mattias Norlinder $859,167 1.04%
187 Urho Vaakanainen $850,000 1.02%
Zach Bogosian $850,000 1.02%
Ben Hutton $850,000 1.02%
190 Erik Gustafsson $825,000 1.00%
Calen Addison $825,000 0.99%
Alexander Alexeyev $825,000 0.99%
193 Jordan Spence $820,000 0.98%
194 Zachary Jones $812,500 0.98%
195 Jacob Bernard-Docker $805,000 0.96%
196 Samuel Bolduc $800,000 0.96%
Tyler Tucker $800,000 0.96%
Mark Giordano $800,000 0.96%
199 Nikita Okhotyuk $789,167 0.95%
Kaedan Korczak $789,167 0.95%
201 Joel Hanley $787,500 0.95%
Akito Hirose $787,500 0.95%
203 Ian Mitchell $775,000 0.98%
Jack Johnson $775,000 0.94%
Caleb Jones $775,000 0.94%
John Ludvig $775,000 0.93%
Grant Hutton $775,000 0.93%
Nick Seeler $775,000 0.94%
Louis Belpedio $775,000 0.94%
Yegor Zamula $775,000 0.94%
Dmitri Samorukov $775,000 0.93%
Ty Smith $775,000 0.93%
Ty Emberson $775,000 0.93%
Scott Perunovich $775,000 0.93%
Calvin de Haan $775,000 0.93%
Simon Benoit $775,000 0.93%
William Lagesson $775,000 0.93%
Mark Friedman $775,000 0.94%
Noah Juulsen $775,000 0.94%
Brayden Pachal $775,000 0.93%
Declan Chisholm $775,000 0.93%
222 Johnathan Kovacevic $766,666 0.93%
223 Dennis Gilbert $762,500 0.91%
Jalen Chatfield $762,500 0.92%
Vincent Desharnais $762,500 0.92%
Jacob Moverare $762,500 0.91%
Jacob MacDonald $762,500 0.91%
Jaycob Megna $762,500 0.92%
Haydn Fleury $762,500 0.91%
Darren Raddysh $762,500 0.91%
Lucas Johansen $762,500 0.91%