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This is a list of the twenty NHL players who have earned the most in salaries between the 1989–90 season and the 2023–24 season. These figures have been gleaned from certain financial sites dedicated to professional sports, and so may not be perfectly accurate.
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
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 .
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
This is a list of the largest sports contracts. These figures include signing bonuses but exclude options, buyouts , and the endorsement deals. This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing .
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.
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.