Hockey Pay: What's the Salary for UK Elite Players?
Ernest Hahn
2025-04-18 21:03:20
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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.
Claude Dickens
2025-04-08 10:38:56
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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. The EIHL is comprised of a large percentage of North American players, attracted by opportunities denied to them at home because of more intense competition in prime positions. So even while the EIHL is governed by a salary cap, British hockey has still managed to attract some 50 or more experienced former NHL players since the late 1980s.
Lonny Corkery
2025-03-30 05:32:02
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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.
Brad Davis
2025-03-30 02:36:09
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Salaries here are understandably lower and EIHL players will bank something in the region of £10–30K yearly.
Jay Cartwright
2025-03-30 01:37:08
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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.
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