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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
After the 1994–95 NHL season was shortened to 48 games due to a lockout, players earned only about 56% of their predicted salary. Wayne Gretzky ( Los Angeles Kings ) $3.66 million (Predicted salary of $6.54 million)
Compliance buyouts (sometimes referred to as amnesty buyouts) allow National Hockey League (NHL) teams to buy out a player's contract without the amount paid out counting against the NHL salary cap. In either a compliance or ordinary-course buyout, the team pays the player two-thirds of the remaining value of a contract over twice the remaining ...
Guaranteed player contracts in the NHL differ from other leagues, notably the National Football League, where teams may opt out of the salary obligations of a contract by waiving or cutting a player. NHL teams may buy-out player's contracts, but must still pay a portion of the base salary still owed which along with the associated cap hit is ...
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
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.
[1] [2] [3] Over 13 NHL seasons, he amassed 202 goals, 250 assists, 911 penalty minutes and a plus-141 rating in 598 games with five teams. In the 1975-76 season, Sanderson scored his 32nd career short-handed goal to surpass Toronto Maple Leafs center Dave Keon as the all-time league leader. He owned the record for eight seasons.
If a game is tied after regulation time (which lasts three 20-minutes periods), there will be as many 20-minute periods of "overtime" as necessary during the playoffs to determine a winner. The player who scores during this extra time is given the overtime goal.