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Who Tops the Ice: Highest Paid Hockey Star?

Isaias Romaguera
Isaias Romaguera
2025-04-20 04:00:02
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The Colorado centre is the league's highest paid player with a reported yearly salary of $16,500,000. Here are the 10 highest paid players in the NHL in 2024. From Nathan MacKinnon to Alex Ovechkin.
Delores Daniel
Delores Daniel
2025-04-12 04:10:54
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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.
Abbie Hartmann
Abbie Hartmann
2025-04-12 03:41:09
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The New York Rangers signed goalie Igor Shesterkin to an eight-year, $92 million contract that makes him the highest-paid goalie in NHL history, beating Carey Price's previous record contract. Shesterkin's deal averages $11.5 million per year, just behind Artemi Panarin, who has an AAV of $11.6 million. Shesterkin's camp had argued that he should be the team's highest-paid player.
Milton Reichert
Milton Reichert
2025-04-12 02:45:11
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He later told the Ottawa Journal: “I was the highest paid player anywhere in the world. Sir Arthur paid me $10,000 a year, which was a lot of money then. It was more than any player was getting in the National Hockey League (NHL).”
Rene Ledner
Rene Ledner
2025-04-12 02:17:43
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The Colorado Avalanche are making Nathan MacKinnon the highest-paid player in the NHL's salary cap era, surpassing rival Connor McDavid's $12.5 million average annual take by $100,000 a year. His new $12.6 million salary cap hit that goes into effect at the start of the 2023-24 season. McDavid's $100 million, eight-year deal with the Edmonton Oilers signed in 2017 was the previous record for the highest annual cap hit since the system went into place in 2005.