UK Ice Hockey Salaries: What's the Real Score?
Delilah Dicki
2025-05-27 07:05:53
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The average player wage in EIHL equates to around £34,000. This suggests that the highest salary for a player in the UK league only amounts to a tiny fraction of the biggest contract in the NHL – the top earners in history may have penned contracts of around £50,000 per year. The level of finances that clubs have to utilise for player recruitment is simply in totally different stratospheres between the NHL and the EIHL. The EIHL possesses a tiny fraction of the NHL’s wealth, and its lack of a broadcasting partnership at present is likely to gatekeep any significant growth of the league across the UK and beyond.
Eldora Wintheiser
2025-05-22 08:06:35
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For context, the very top players in the UK might earn £50k in the Elite League, but the average is half of that. Below that level no one is full-time just as a player.
That £50k salary is similar for someone on an entry-level “prospect” salary in the NHL, but you can add a zero to that figure if you join the 1st team squad. These players on below-average UK salaries competed alongside players earning in excess of $10m per year.
Vinnie Daniel
2025-05-12 08:57:45
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Average salaries are believed to be in the range of £12,500 to £47,000 for players in the Elite League. Let’s be clear however, compared to the big leagues (NHL and KHL), the UK does not pay that well.
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