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Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews' $13.25 million cap hit makes him the NHL's highest-paid player in 2024-25. Highest-paid NHL players by salary cap hit Player, team, cap hit, contract
Although Wayne Gretzky is considered one of the greatest hockey players of all time, and his annual salary was in the top five for eight of his last ten seasons (including five seasons at No. 1), he retired before the end of the 20th century, so his total salaries have long ago fallen off the list of top 20 salary earners of all time.
Due to the much greater number of teams, the greater salaries paid to today's players, and the greater number of games played in a season, the list is dominated by post-expansion players. No NHL player surpassed 1,000 games before Gordie Howe on November 26, 1961, against the Chicago Black Hawks .
List of players with eight or more points in an NHL game; List of NHL players with 50-goal seasons; List of NHL players with 100-point seasons; List of NHL goaltenders with 300 wins; List of NHL players with 500 consecutive games played; List of NHL players with 500 goals; List of NHL players with 1,000 games played; List of NHL players with ...
When players choose to play professional hockey, many face the risk of suffering from mental health issues, strains, bruises and sprains. RELATED: The highest-paid Kentucky Derby jockeys of all time
180 NHL games (games missed for injury or illness count), AND; 60 NHL games in the previous season (games missed for injury or illness do not count), AND; Not cleared waivers during the previous season. $660,000.00 to $999,999.99 5 percent increase in salary, but not more than $1 million $1 million or more Zero percent increase in salary
5. Best journeyman. I love a good journeyman and a good story. A player that toiled from organization to organization until they finally got a shot or extended look and stuck in the league.
Fifty of the listed players who have played 1,000 games have played for only one franchise (of which 17 are still active as of the current 2023–24 season). Five of those players played exclusively for the Detroit Red Wings and four played for the Montreal Canadiens , those teams having the most such players.