Hockey Pay in the UK: What's the Score?
Meta Bahringer
2025-04-28 22:35:34
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For the 2019/20 season, an inside report from Chasing the Puck revealed that the ‘Big Four’ were operating on estimated wages between £17,000-£20,000 per week. Compared to other national sports, the wages seem minute. Teams would allocate funds elsewhere such as university education to entice overseas and home grown talent, to sign with them over their European counterparts and UK rivals.
Derek Hane
2025-04-26 23:45:37
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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.
Reggie Morar
2025-04-17 01:29:39
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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.
Tyrell Bayer
2025-04-07 20:56:42
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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. On the show, he explained that players in the Elite League earned approximately $17,000 to $65,000. This equates to roughly £12,500 to £47,000 (based on exchange rates and whether he was talking about Canadian or US dollars will make a small difference).
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