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 TBL 9 $33,350,000 $3,705,556 40.16%
2 BOS 7 $30,925,000 $4,417,857 41.76%
3 PHI 6 $30,125,000 $5,020,833 40.38%
4 VAN 6 $28,785,000 $4,797,500 34.55%
5 VGK 8 $28,783,317 $3,597,915 35.96%
6 STL 7 $28,487,500 $4,069,643 37.50%
7 SJS 8 $28,175,000 $3,521,875 40.60%
8 CGY 7 $27,262,500 $3,894,643 33.15%
9 WPG 6 $25,737,500 $4,289,583 36.50%
10 NSH 5 $24,809,000 $4,961,800 36.51%
11 EDM 7 $23,638,333 $3,376,905 30.83%
12 COL 5 $23,587,500 $4,717,500 33.93%
13 TOR 7 $23,425,000 $3,346,429 31.50%
14 DAL 7 $23,038,333 $3,291,190 30.42%
15 LAK 5 $22,625,000 $4,525,000 29.80%
16 NYR 5 $22,212,500 $4,442,500 31.23%
17 CBJ 6 $22,091,666 $3,681,944 33.14%
18 PIT 6 $20,750,175 $3,458,363 32.78%
19 CAR 5 $20,617,500 $4,123,500 34.99%
20 BUF 7 $19,652,381 $2,807,483 29.53%
21 CHI 4 $19,650,000 $4,912,500 47.17%
22 NYI 5 $19,225,000 $3,845,000 24.60%
23 MIN 5 $19,225,000 $3,845,000 25.83%
24 NJD 5 $18,825,000 $3,765,000 38.58%
25 OTT 4 $18,125,000 $4,531,250 27.29%
26 MTL 9 $17,420,832 $1,935,648 23.88%
27 WAS 5 $17,275,000 $3,455,000 22.68%
28 FLA 4 $14,591,667 $3,647,917 19.98%
29 ARI 6 $14,382,143 $2,397,024 25.48%
30 SEA 4 $12,362,500 $3,090,625 19.61%
31 DET 4 $12,013,333 $3,003,333 22.74%
32 ANA 4 $9,037,500 $2,259,375 20.33%
Total 188 $700,211,180 $120,735,690 26.31%
Average 6 $21,881,599 $3,724,528 31.67%


Rank Player 2023 Cap Dollars % of 2023 Cap
1 Erik Karlsson $11,500,000 13.78%
2 Drew Doughty $11,000,000 13.17%
3 Zachary Werenski $9,583,333 11.48%
4 Adam Fox $9,500,000 11.46%
Seth Jones $9,500,000 11.38%
Charles Mcavoy $9,500,000 12.03%
7 Darnell Nurse $9,250,000 11.19%
8 Roman Josi $9,059,000 10.85%
9 Cale Makar $9,000,000 10.86%
Dougie Hamilton $9,000,000 10.83%
11 Alex Pietrangelo $8,800,000 10.54%
12 Mikhail Sergachev $8,500,000 10.18%
13 Miro Heiskanen $8,450,000 10.17%
14 Oliver Ekman-Larsson $8,250,000 9.98%
15 Jacob Trouba $8,000,000 9.65%
Brent Burns $8,000,000 9.58%
Thomas Chabot $8,000,000 9.58%
John Carlson $8,000,000 9.58%
19 Victor Hedman $7,875,000 9.43%
20 Shea Weber $7,857,143 9.41%
21 Quinn Hughes $7,850,000 9.50%
22 Jared Spurgeon $7,575,000 9.07%
23 Aaron Ekblad $7,500,000 9.01%
Morgan Rielly $7,500,000 8.98%
25 Marc-Edouard Vlasic $7,000,000 8.39%
26 Brent Seabrook $6,875,000 8.23%
27 Ivan Provorov $6,750,000 8.20%
Ryan McDonagh $6,750,000 8.08%
29 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%
34 MacKenzie Weegar $6,250,000 7.49%
Travis Sanheim $6,250,000 7.59%
Ryan Ellis $6,250,000 7.59%
Jeff Petry $6,250,000 7.49%
Joshua Morrissey $6,250,000 7.49%
Mattias Ekholm $6,250,000 7.56%
40 Ryan Pulock $6,150,000 7.37%
41 Kris Letang $6,100,000 7.31%
42 Tyler Myers $6,000,000 7.26%
Jonas Brodin $6,000,000 7.19%
Rasmus Dahlin $6,000,000 7.19%
45 Nate Schmidt $5,950,000 7.13%
46 Neal Pionk $5,875,000 7.04%
47 Esa Lindell $5,800,000 6.98%
48 Adam Pelech $5,750,000 6.89%
49 Jacob Muzzin $5,625,000 6.74%
50 Jaccob Slavin $5,300,000 6.35%
51 Brady Skjei $5,250,000 6.29%
Alec Martinez $5,250,000 6.29%
53 Shea Theodore $5,200,000 6.23%
Erik Cernak $5,200,000 6.23%
55 Rasmus Ristolainen $5,100,000 6.20%
56 T.J. Brodie $5,000,000 5.99%
Anthony DeAngelo $5,000,000 6.07%
Samuel Girard $5,000,000 6.03%
59 Noah Hanifin $4,950,000 5.93%
60 Michael Matheson $4,875,000 5.92%
61 Ben Chiarot $4,750,000 5.69%
62 Jakob Chychrun $4,600,000 5.51%
Artem Zub $4,600,000 5.51%
Jamie Oleksiak $4,600,000 5.52%
65 Rasmus Andersson $4,550,000 5.45%
66 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%
70 Connor Murphy $4,400,000 5.27%
Filip Hronek $4,400,000 5.32%
John Marino $4,400,000 5.30%
73 Mattias Samuelsson $4,285,714 5.13%
74 Michael Anderson $4,125,000 4.94%
75 Devon Toews $4,100,000 4.95%
Brandon Carlo $4,100,000 5.19%
77 Nick Jensen $4,050,000 4.85%
78 Marcus Pettersson $4,025,175 4.82%
79 Brett Pesce $4,025,000 4.82%
80 Jake McCabe $4,000,000 4.79%
Erik Gudbranson $4,000,000 4.79%
Adam Larsson $4,000,000 4.80%
Nick Leddy $4,000,000 4.79%
Noah Dobson $4,000,000 4.79%
85 Brenden Dillon $3,900,000 4.67%
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%
David Savard $3,500,000 4.25%
Joel Edmundson $3,500,000 4.25%
92 Jonas Siegenthaler $3,400,000 4.09%
Jake Walman $3,400,000 4.07%
94 Marco Scandella $3,275,000 3.92%
95 Mario Ferraro $3,250,000 3.89%
Cody Ceci $3,250,000 3.93%
97 Matt Roy $3,150,000 3.77%
98 Ryan Lindgren $3,000,000 3.62%
Trevor Van Riemsdyk $3,000,000 3.59%
Dylan Demelo $3,000,000 3.59%
Justin Schultz $3,000,000 3.60%
Mike Reilly $3,000,000 3.80%
Olli Maatta $3,000,000 3.59%
Derek Forbort $3,000,000 3.80%
105 Brayden McNabb $2,850,000 3.41%
106 Zach Whitecloud $2,750,000 3.29%
Jan Rutta $2,750,000 3.29%
Andrew Peeke $2,750,000 3.29%
Ilya Lyubushkin $2,750,000 3.29%
Brett Kulak $2,750,000 3.33%
111 Gustav Forsling $2,666,667 3.20%
112 Sean Walker $2,650,000 3.17%
113 Adam Boqvist $2,600,000 3.11%
114 Oliver Kylington $2,500,000 2.99%
Tucker Poolman $2,500,000 3.03%
Dante Fabbro $2,500,000 2.99%
Patrik Nemeth $2,500,000 2.99%
Henri Jokiharju $2,500,000 2.99%
Alexander Romanov $2,500,000 2.99%
120 Jacob Middleton $2,450,000 2.93%
121 Jake Bean $2,333,333 2.79%
122 Nicolas Hague $2,294,150 2.75%
123 Radim Simek $2,250,000 2.70%
124 Alex Goligoski $2,000,000 2.40%
Jeremy Lauzon $2,000,000 2.40%
126 Colin Miller $1,850,000 2.23%
Jacob Bryson $1,850,000 2.22%
128 Sean Durzi $1,700,000 2.04%
129 Jani Hakanpaa $1,500,000 1.80%
130 Philippe Myers $1,400,000 1.68%
Timothy Liljegren $1,400,000 1.68%
Jordan Harris $1,400,000 1.70%
Rasmus Sandin $1,400,000 1.68%
134 Riley Stillman $1,350,000 1.62%
135 Joshua Brown $1,275,000 1.53%
136 Jarred Tinordi $1,250,000 1.50%
Matthew Benning $1,250,000 1.50%
Nikolai Knyzhov $1,250,000 1.50%
139 Jon Merrill $1,200,000 1.44%
140 Jakub Zboril $1,137,500 1.44%
141 Nick Perbix $1,125,000 1.35%
142 Conor Timmins $1,100,000 1.32%
Brendan Smith $1,100,000 1.32%
144 Juuso Valimaki $1,000,000 1.20%
145 Kurtis Macdermid $987,500 1.19%
146 Robert Bortuzzo $950,000 1.14%
147 Braden Schneider $925,000 1.12%
Joshua Mahura $925,000 1.11%
Jake Sanderson $925,000 1.11%
Justin Barron $925,000 1.12%
Jackson Lacombe $925,000 1.11%
Nils Lundkvist $925,000 1.11%
Luke Hughes $925,000 1.11%
154 Owen Power $916,667 1.10%
155 Henry Thrun $912,500 1.09%
156 Janis Moser $886,667 1.06%
157 Kaiden Guhle $863,333 1.05%
Victor Soderstrom $863,333 1.03%
Thomas Harley $863,333 1.04%
Moritz Seider $863,333 1.03%
Philip Broberg $863,333 1.05%
162 Zach Bogosian $850,000 1.02%
Ben Hutton $850,000 1.02%
Urho Vaakanainen $850,000 1.02%
165 Arber Xhekaj $828,333 1.01%
166 Pierre-Olivier Joseph $825,000 0.99%
Nick Blankenburg $825,000 0.99%
Alexander Alexeyev $825,000 0.99%
Sebastian Aho $825,000 0.99%
170 Mark Giordano $800,000 0.96%
Chad Ruhwedel $800,000 0.96%
172 Kaedan Korczak $789,167 0.95%
173 Ben Harpur $787,500 0.95%
174 Guillaume Brisebois $775,000 0.94%
Nick Seeler $775,000 0.94%
176 Johnathan Kovacevic $766,666 0.93%
177 Markus Niemelainen $762,500 0.92%
Haydn Fleury $762,500 0.91%
Darren Raddysh $762,500 0.91%
Dennis Gilbert $762,500 0.91%
Jalen Chatfield $762,500 0.91%
Chris Wideman $762,500 0.93%
Colton White $762,500 0.91%
Jacob MacDonald $762,500 0.91%
Kyle Capobianco $762,500 0.91%
Jaycob Megna $762,500 0.92%
Calle Rosen $762,500 0.91%
Vincent Desharnais $762,500 0.92%