Hockey Stars' Salary: How Much Do They Bank?
Kayleigh Conn
2025-04-09 02:09:09
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Centre Nathan MacKinnon currently holds the title of the highest earner in the United States’ leading ice hockey competition. He earns around £13.6 million per season while on the books of the Colorado Avalanche. It’s extraordinary that NHL teams can dedicate enormous sums to single players in pursuit of titles, while teams in the EIHC would not challenge the likes of MacKinnon’s wage packet with their entire team’s earnings. 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.
Nayeli Sawayn
2025-04-09 01:46:54
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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. NHL salaries are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year (often millions) and the KHL average salaries are hundreds of thousands of US dollars.
Angeline Kessler
2025-04-09 01:14:16
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In the NHL, it was calculated the average player earns £1,240,314 per year (or £23,852 week), so we’re talking big business, underlined by more than 20m tickets sold in the 2008-09 season. For example the EIHL has a salary cap so modest that the average NHL player earns about as much in two days as an entire 20-man roster at a typical EIHL team earns in a week combined.
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