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 NSH 8 $30,339,894 $3,792,487 36.58%
2 CAR 7 $30,042,500 $4,291,786 35.27%
3 VAN 8 $29,767,614 $3,720,952 34.95%
4 CBJ 7 $29,653,986 $4,236,284 44.14%
5 VGK 8 $29,231,650 $3,653,956 28.94%
6 WPG 8 $29,225,000 $3,653,125 33.45%
7 STL 8 $28,803,446 $3,600,431 34.85%
8 BOS 8 $28,706,538 $3,588,317 34.28%
9 EDM 7 $27,012,500 $3,858,929 31.84%
10 NYR 7 $26,934,500 $3,847,786 30.67%
11 COL 7 $26,678,338 $3,811,191 29.60%
12 LAK 7 $26,498,792 $3,785,542 30.69%
13 PIT 6 $26,225,175 $4,370,863 30.61%
14 SEA 7 $25,349,783 $3,621,398 31.46%
15 NYI 9 $22,775,000 $2,530,556 26.37%
16 DAL 7 $22,313,333 $3,187,619 26.62%
17 WAS 7 $22,012,500 $3,144,643 26.95%
18 DET 7 $21,882,083 $3,126,012 27.51%
19 OTT 6 $20,883,700 $3,480,617 24.99%
20 TBL 8 $20,837,280 $2,604,660 20.84%
21 FLA 8 $20,508,045 $2,563,506 23.60%
22 TOR 8 $19,252,360 $2,406,545 18.69%
23 BUF 7 $18,661,016 $2,665,859 25.60%
24 CHI 6 $17,515,148 $2,919,191 24.84%
25 SJS 7 $16,278,834 $2,325,548 22.18%
26 CGY 8 $15,514,577 $1,939,322 19.95%
27 MIN 8 $14,463,848 $1,807,981 17.34%
28 ANA 8 $13,672,640 $1,709,080 19.66%
29 NJD 10 $13,279,503 $1,327,950 16.13%
30 PHI 6 $13,193,050 $2,198,842 15.58%
31 MTL 7 $12,454,739 $1,779,248 14.66%
32 ARI 6 $6,446,233 $1,074,372 9.16%
Total 236 $706,413,605 $96,624,595 26.55%
Average 7 $22,075,425 $2,993,278 26.5%


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%
Adam Fox $9,500,000 11.46%
7 Darnell Nurse $9,250,000 11.19%
8 Roman Josi $9,059,000 10.85%
9 Cale Makar $9,000,000 10.86%
10 Alex Pietrangelo $8,800,000 10.54%
11 Miro Heiskanen $8,450,000 10.17%
12 Brent Burns $8,000,000 9.63%
Jacob Trouba $8,000,000 9.65%
Thomas Chabot $8,000,000 9.58%
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 Aaron Ekblad $7,500,000 9.01%
Morgan Rielly $7,500,000 8.98%
21 Vince Dunn $7,350,000 8.82%
22 Marc-Edouard Vlasic $7,000,000 8.39%
23 Ivan Provorov $6,750,000 8.08%
Ryan McDonagh $6,750,000 8.08%
25 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%
30 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%
36 Ryan Pulock $6,150,000 7.37%
37 Kris Letang $6,100,000 7.31%
38 Rasmus Dahlin $6,000,000 7.19%
Jonas Brodin $6,000,000 7.19%
Tyler Myers $6,000,000 7.26%
41 Nate Schmidt $5,950,000 7.13%
42 Vladislav Gavrikov $5,875,000 7.04%
Neal Pionk $5,875,000 7.04%
44 Esa Lindell $5,800,000 6.98%
45 Adam Pelech $5,750,000 6.89%
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%
Shea Theodore $5,200,000 6.23%
51 Samuel Girard $5,000,000 6.03%
T.J. Brodie $5,000,000 5.99%
53 Noah Hanifin $4,950,000 5.93%
54 Michael Matheson $4,875,000 5.92%
55 Ben Chiarot $4,750,000 5.69%
56 Jakob Chychrun $4,600,000 5.51%
Artem Zub $4,600,000 5.51%
Jamie Oleksiak $4,600,000 5.52%
59 Rasmus Andersson $4,550,000 5.45%
60 Nikita Zaitsev $4,500,000 5.39%
Josh Manson $4,500,000 5.43%
Chris Tanev $4,500,000 5.41%
Tyson Barrie $4,500,000 5.39%
Ryan Graves $4,500,000 5.39%
65 John Marino $4,400,000 5.30%
Filip Hronek $4,400,000 5.32%
67 Shayne Gostisbehere $4,125,000 4.94%
Michael Anderson $4,125,000 4.94%
69 Brandon Carlo $4,100,000 5.19%
Devon Toews $4,100,000 4.95%
71 Nick Jensen $4,050,000 4.85%
72 Marcus Pettersson $4,025,175 4.82%
73 Brett Pesce $4,025,000 4.85%
74 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%
80 Evan Bouchard $3,900,000 4.72%
Mathew Dumba $3,900,000 4.67%
Brenden Dillon $3,900,000 4.67%
83 K'Andre Miller $3,872,000 4.67%
84 Bowen Byram $3,850,000 4.61%
85 Nikita Zadorov $3,750,000 4.54%
86 Matthew Grzelcyk $3,687,500 4.67%
87 Ryan Suter $3,650,000 4.39%
88 Brandon Montour $3,500,000 4.20%
David Savard $3,500,000 4.25%
Joel Edmundson $3,500,000 4.19%
91 Jake Walman $3,400,000 4.07%
Justin Holl $3,400,000 4.07%
Jonas Siegenthaler $3,400,000 4.09%
94 Connor Clifton $3,333,333 3.99%
95 Marco Scandella $3,275,000 3.92%
96 Cody Ceci $3,250,000 3.93%
Erik Johnson $3,250,000 3.95%
Mario Ferraro $3,250,000 3.89%
Carson Soucy $3,250,000 3.93%
100 Matt Roy $3,150,000 3.77%
Brian Dumoulin $3,150,000 3.78%
102 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%
108 Brayden McNabb $2,850,000 3.41%
109 Andrew Peeke $2,750,000 3.48%
Brett Kulak $2,750,000 3.33%
Luke Schenn $2,750,000 3.29%
Jan Rutta $2,750,000 3.29%
Ilya Lyubushkin $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 3.20%
119 Adam Boqvist $2,600,000 3.11%
120 Henri Jokiharju $2,500,000 2.99%
Oliver Kylington $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%
126 Jacob Middleton $2,450,000 2.93%
127 Jake Bean $2,333,333 2.79%
128 Nicolas Hague $2,294,150 2.75%
129 Oliver Ekman-Larsson $2,250,000 2.70%
130 Ethan Bear $2,062,500 2.47%
131 Alex Goligoski $2,000,000 2.40%
Jeremy Lauzon $2,000,000 2.40%
Erik Brannstrom $2,000,000 2.40%
134 Jacob Bryson $1,850,000 2.22%
Colin Miller $1,850,000 2.22%
136 Sean Durzi $1,700,000 2.04%
137 Anthony DeAngelo $1,675,000 2.02%
138 Cameron York $1,600,000 1.94%
139 Jani Hakanpaa $1,500,000 1.80%
140 Jordan Harris $1,400,000 1.70%
Timothy Liljegren $1,400,000 1.68%
Rasmus Sandin $1,400,000 1.68%
Dylan Samberg $1,400,000 1.68%
144 Joshua Brown $1,275,000 1.53%
145 Jarred Tinordi $1,250,000 1.50%
146 Jon Merrill $1,200,000 1.44%
147 Nick Perbix $1,125,000 1.35%
148 Troy Stecher $1,100,000 1.33%
Brendan Smith $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%
153 Kevin Shattenkirk $1,050,000 1.33%
Kevin Bahl $1,050,000 1.26%
155 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%
160 Kurtis Macdermid $987,500 1.19%
161 Gustav Lindstrom $950,000 1.14%
Robert Bortuzzo $950,000 1.14%
163 Jackson Lacombe $925,000 1.11%
Michael Kesselring $925,000 1.11%
Mason Lohrei $925,000 1.17%
Nils Lundkvist $925,000 1.11%
Joshua Mahura $925,000 1.11%
Brock Faber $925,000 1.11%
Spencer Stastney $925,000 1.11%
Luke Hughes $925,000 1.11%
Braden Schneider $925,000 1.12%
Jake Sanderson $925,000 1.11%
173 Pavel Mintyukov $918,333 1.10%
Kevin Korchinski $918,333 1.10%
Simon Nemec $918,333 1.11%
176 Owen Power $916,667 1.10%
Alex Vlasic $916,667 1.10%
178 Henry Thrun $912,500 1.09%
179 Ryker Evans $897,500 1.08%
180 Janis Moser $886,667 1.06%
181 Matthew Kessel $883,750 1.06%
182 Emil Martinsen-Lilleberg $870,000 1.04%
183 Jayden Struble $867,500 1.05%
184 Thomas Harley $863,333 1.04%
Moritz Seider $863,333 1.03%
Kaiden Guhle $863,333 1.05%
187 Santeri Hatakka $850,833 1.02%
188 Urho Vaakanainen $850,000 1.02%
Zach Bogosian $850,000 1.02%
Ronald Attard $850,000 1.03%
Ben Hutton $850,000 1.02%
192 Olen Zellweger $844,167 1.01%
193 Arber Xhekaj $828,333 1.01%
194 Sebastian Aho $825,000 0.99%
Erik Gustafsson $825,000 1.00%
Pierre-Olivier Joseph $825,000 0.99%
Calen Addison $825,000 0.99%
Alexander Alexeyev $825,000 0.99%
199 Jordan Spence $820,000 0.98%
200 Zachary Jones $812,500 0.98%
201 Jacob Bernard-Docker $805,000 0.96%
202 Travis Dermott $800,000 0.96%
Samuel Bolduc $800,000 0.96%
Chad Ruhwedel $800,000 0.96%
Tyler Tucker $800,000 0.96%
206 Nikita Okhotyuk $789,167 0.95%
207 Joel Hanley $787,500 0.94%
208 William Lagesson $775,000 0.93%
Parker Wotherspoon $775,000 0.98%
Kale Clague $775,000 0.93%
Brayden Pachal $775,000 0.93%
Jack Johnson $775,000 0.94%
Caleb Jones $775,000 0.94%
Jacob Christiansen $775,000 0.93%
Tobias Bjornfot $775,000 0.93%
Declan Chisholm $775,000 0.93%
Dakota Mermis $775,000 0.93%
Yegor Zamula $775,000 0.94%
John Ludvig $775,000 0.93%
Scott Perunovich $775,000 0.93%
Calvin de Haan $775,000 0.93%
Simon Benoit $775,000 0.93%
Mark Friedman $775,000 0.94%
Noah Juulsen $775,000 0.94%
225 Johnathan Kovacevic $766,666 0.93%
226 Dennis Gilbert $762,500 0.91%
Daniil Miromanov $762,500 0.91%
Jalen Chatfield $762,500 0.92%
Jaycob Megna $762,500 0.91%
Vincent Desharnais $762,500 0.92%
Jacob Moverare $762,500 0.91%
Nick DeSimone $762,500 0.92%
Tyler Wotherspoon $762,500 0.92%
Jacob MacDonald $762,500 0.91%
Haydn Fleury $762,500 0.91%
Darren Raddysh $762,500 0.91%