Highest-Paid NHL Players By Team

We listed the top 50 highest-paid NHL players on Wednesday for the 2024-25 season. That list is a good tool for pointing out what stars are actually getting paid and identifying some inefficient spending habits among the richer deals, but it didn’t include every team. Five clubs – the Ducks, Islanders, Flyers, Sharks, and Kraken – didn’t have anyone in that top 50, essentially a list of players making over $10MM in guaranteed salary this season.

Our list of the highest-paid players for 2024-25 is also limited in its long-term scope. Predators free-agent signing Brady Skjei, for example, cracked the top 50 and will earn eight figures this season. But he’s on a front-loaded contract and will fall off the list next year with a significant salary reduction coming in the second season of his fresh seven-year deal.

Today, we’re shifting our focus to the highest-paid players by team. This will allow us to check in on the clubs that weren’t represented on our initial list and identify some of the league’s most lucrative multiyear commitments – we’ve included each club’s highest-paid player for the current season (by 2024-25 total salary) and its highest-paid player in total (by total guaranteed base salary and signing bonuses still unpaid).

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Anaheim Ducks

• 2024-25: Cam Fowler ($7.5MM)
• Total: Troy Terry (six years, $42MM)

Boston Bruins

• 2024-25: David Pastrňák ($13MM)
• Total: David Pastrňák (seven years, $77MM)

Buffalo Sabres

• 2024-25: Rasmus Dahlin ($13MM)
• Total: Rasmus Dahlin (eight years, $88MM)

Calgary Flames

• 2024-25: Jonathan Huberdeau ($10.5MM)
• Total: Jonathan Huberdeau (seven years, $73.5MM)

Carolina Hurricanes

• 2024-25: Sebastian Aho ($12MM)
• Total: Sebastian Aho (eight years, $78MM)

Chicago Blackhawks

• 2024-25: Seth Jones ($12.5MM)
• Total: Seth Jones (six years, $53.5MM)

Colorado Avalanche

• 2024-25: Nathan MacKinnon ($16.5MM)
• Total: Nathan MacKinnon (seven years, $84.3MM)

Columbus Blue Jackets

• 2024-25: Zach Werenski ($11.5MM)
• Total: Johnny Gaudreau (five years, $48.75MM)

Dallas Stars

• 2024-25: Roope Hintz ($11.25MM)
• Total: Roope Hintz (seven years, $56.1MM)

Detroit Red Wings

• 2024-25: Dylan Larkin ($11MM)
• Total: Dylan Larkin (seven years, $59.6MM)

Edmonton Oilers

• 2024-25: Darnell Nurse ($12MM)
• Total: Darnell Nurse (six years, $51.6MM)

Florida Panthers

• 2024-25: Aleksander Barkov ($12MM)
• Total: Sam Reinhart (eight years, $69MM)

Los Angeles Kings

• 2024-25: Drew Doughty ($11MM)
• Total: Kevin Fiala (five years, $40.5MM)

Minnesota Wild

• 2024-25: Kirill Kaprizov ($10MM)
• Total: Brock Faber (nine years, $68.925MM)
  • Note: this figure includes the final season of Faber’s entry-level contract in 2024-25 before his eight-year, $68MM extension kicks in the following season. As part of the last year of his ELC, Faber can earn up to $250K in additional performance bonuses.

Montreal Canadiens

• 2024-25: Nick Suzuki ($10MM)
• Total: Juraj Slafkovsky (nine years, $61.75MM)
  • Note: this figure includes the final season of Slafkovsky’s entry-level contract in 2024-25 before his eight-year, $60.8MM extension kicks in the following season. As part of the last year of his ELC, Slafkovsky can earn up to $3.5MM in additional performance bonuses.

Nashville Predators

• 2024-25: Filip Forsberg / Brady Skjei ($10MM)
• Total: Juuse Saros (nine years, $66.92MM)
  • Note: Saros is still owed $5MM as part of his current contract in 2024-25 before his eight-year, $61.92MM extension kicks in the following season.

New Jersey Devils

• 2024-25: Dougie Hamilton ($12.6MM)
• Total: Timo Meier (seven years, $58.4MM)

New York Islanders

• 2024-25: Mathew Barzal ($9.15MM)
• Total: Ilya Sorokin (eight years, $66MM)

New York Rangers

• 2024-25: Adam Fox ($12MM)
• Total: Mika Zibanejad (six years, $50MM)

Ottawa Senators

• 2024-25: Brady Tkachuk ($10.5MM)
• Total: Jake Sanderson (eight years, $64.4MM)

Philadelphia Flyers

• 2024-25: Sean Couturier ($9MM)
• Total: Travis Konecny (nine years, $77MM)
  • Note: Konecny is still owed $7MM as part of his current contract in 2024-25 before his eight-year, $70MM extension kicks in the following season.

Pittsburgh Penguins

• 2024-25: Erik Karlsson ($11MM)
  • Note: the Penguins only owe Karlsson $9,565,215 (86.9565%) of his salary. The other 13.0435% was retained by the Sharks in an Aug. 2023 trade.
• Total: Erik Karlsson (three years, $27.5MM)
  • Note: the Penguins will only pay Karlsson $23,913,038 (86.9565%) of his salary due to the aforementioned salary retention by the Sharks. 

San Jose Sharks

• 2024-25: Logan Couture / Marc-Édouard Vlasic ($7MM)
• Total: Tyler Toffoli (four years, $24MM)

Seattle Kraken

• 2024-25: Vince Dunn / Brandon Montour ($8MM)
• Total: Matthew Beniers / Brandon Montour (seven years, $50MM)

St. Louis Blues

• 2024-25: Jordan Kyrou / Robert Thomas ($10.9MM)
• Total: Jordan Kyrou / Robert Thomas (seven years, $56MM)

Tampa Bay Lightning

• 2024-25: Jake Guentzel ($13,263,157)
• Total: Jake Guentzel (seven years, $63MM)

Toronto Maple Leafs

• 2024-25: Auston Matthews ($16.7MM)
• Total: William Nylander (eight years, $92MM)

Utah Hockey Club

• 2024-25: Mikhail Sergachev ($11.05MM)
• Total: Mikhail Sergachev (seven years, $56.95MM)

Vancouver Canucks

• 2024-25: Elias Pettersson ($14.5MM)
• Total: Elias Pettersson (eight years, $92.8MM)

Vegas Golden Knights

• 2024-25: Alex Pietrangelo ($12.5MM)
• Total: Noah Hanifin (eight years, $58.8MM)

Washington Capitals

• 2024-25: Pierre-Luc Dubois ($11.25MM)
• Total: Pierre-Luc Dubois (seven years, $59MM)

Winnipeg Jets

• 2024-25: Connor Hellebuyck / Mark Scheifele ($10MM)
• Total: Connor Hellebuyck / Mark Scheifele (seven years, $59.5MM)

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Information from PuckPedia was used in the creation of this post.

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