NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
NHL PLAYER SALARIES (through 1995-96)
(in numerical order)
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Rank Player and Team Annual Salary
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1 Wayne Gretzky, STL $6,545,363
2 Mark Messier, NYR $6,000,000
3 Keith Tkachuk, WPG $6,000,000
4 Mario Lemieux, PIT $4,571,429
5 Pavel Bure, VAN $4,500,000
6 Pat LaFontaine, BUF $4,300,000
7 Eric Lindros, PHL $4,182,000
8 Sergei Fedorov, DET $4,162,033
9 Patrick Roy, COL $4,019,200 *
10 Brett Hull, STL $3,800,000
11 Alexander Mogilny, VAN $3,750,000
12 Steve Yzerman, DET $3,703,803
13 Paul Coffey, DET $3,600,000
14 Brendan Shanahan, HFD $3,475,000
15 Pierre Turgeon, MTL $3,400,000
16 Joe Sakic, COL $3,362,500
17 Jaromir Jagr, PIT $3,350,000
18 Scott Stevens, NJD $3,200,000
19 Al MacInnis, STL $3,200,000
20 Dominik Hasek, BUF $3,095,299
21 Doug Gilmour, TOR $3,050,000 *
22 Mike Richter, NYR $3,000,000
23 Kevin Stevens, LOS $2,937,614
24 Mats Sundin, TOR $2,930,000 *
25 Mike Modano, DAL $2,921,875
26 Bill Ranford, BOS $2,915,000 *
27 Alexandre Daigle, OTT $2,850,000 *
28 Teemu Selanne, ANA $2,750,000
29 Ed Belfour, CHI $2,750,000
30 Chris Chelios, CHI $2,725,000
31 Brian Leetch, NYR $2,612,500
32 Dale Hawerchuk, PHL $2,600,000
33 Luc Robitaille, NYR $2,533,333
34 Tom Barrasso, PIT $2,517,000
35 Raymond Bourque, BOS $2,502,400
36 Cam Neely, BOS $2,500,000
37 Shayne Corson, STL $2,395,000
38 Robert Blake, LOS $2,325,000
39 Mike Vernon, DET $2,323,419
40 Theoren Fleury, CGY $2,300,000
41 Vincent Damphousse, MTL $2,300,000 *
42 Adam Graves, NYR $2,300,000
43 Trevor Linden, VAN $2,300,000
44 Larry Murphy, TOR $2,275,000
45 Paul Kariya, ANA $2,272,600
46 Kirk McLean, VAN $2,250,000
47 Kevin Hatcher, DAL $2,200,000
48 Curtis Joseph, EDM $2,200,000
49 Phil Housley, NJD $2,200,000
50 John Vanbiesbrouck, FLA $2,185,000
51 Mark Recchi, MTL $2,150,000
52 Mark Tinordi, WSH $2,125,000
53 Peter Forsberg, COL $2,123,400 *
54 Dave Andreychuk, NJD $2,100,000
55 Oleg Tverdovsky, WPG $2,100,000
56 Ulf Samuelsson, NYR $2,010,000
57 Gary Roberts, CGY $2,000,000 *
58 Jeff Brown, HFD $2,000,000
59 Sean Burke, HFD $2,000,000
60 Jari Kurri, NYR $2,000,000
61 Steve Duchesne, OTT $2,000,000
62 Geoff Courtnall, STL $2,000,000
63 Joe Juneau, WSH $2,000,000
64 Craig Janney, WPG $2,000,000
65 Adam Oates, BOS $1,950,000
66 Rick Tocchet, BOS $1,927,200
67 Marty McSorley, NYR $1,925,000
68 Kirk Muller, TOR $1,900,000 *
69 Ron Francis, PIT $1,840,000
70 Ed Jovanovski, FLA $1,800,000
71 Wendel Clark, TOR $1,800,000
72 Brendan Witt, WSH $1,800,000
73 Patrick Verbeek, NYR $1,750,000
74 Joe Nieuwendyk, DAL $1,700,000
75 Daren Puppa, TMP $1,700,000
76 Jyrki Lumme, VAN $1,700,000
77 Kelly Hrudey, LOS $1,690,600
78 John MacLean, NJD $1,655,687
79 Saku Koivu, MTL $1,650,000
80 Bob Probert, CHI $1,600,000
81 Gary Suter, CHI $1,600,000
82 Ray Ferraro, LOS $1,600,000
83 Sergei Zubov, PIT $1,600,000
84 Steve Thomas, NJD $1,563,259
85 Ray Sheppard, FLA $1,550,000
86 John LeClair, PHL $1,526,140
87 Stephane Richer, NJD $1,504,074
88 Nicklas Lidstrom, DET $1,500,000
89 Martin Brodeur, NJD $1,500,000
90 Michael Gartner, TOR $1,500,000
91 Russ Courtnall, VAN $1,485,000
92 Tony Granato, LOS $1,425,000
93 Steve Chiasson, CGY $1,400,000
94 Zarley Zalapski, CGY $1,400,000
95 Jeremy Roenick, CHI $1,400,000
96 Sandis Ozolinsh, COL $1,400,000
97 Scott Niedermayer, NJD $1,400,000
98 Rod Brind'Amour, PHL $1,400,000
99 Petr Nedved, PIT $1,400,000
100 Dave Gagner, TOR $1,400,000
101 Felix Potvin, TOR $1,400,000 *
102 Mathieu Schneider, TOR $1,400,000
103 Vladimir Malakhov, MTL $1,350,000
104 Chris Pronger, STL $1,325,000
105 Uwe Krupp, COL $1,300,000
106 Roman Hamrlik, TMP $1,300,000
107 Claude Lemieux, COL $1,276,289
108 Gerald Diduck, HFD $1,275,000
109 Benoit Hogue, DAL $1,250,000
110 Dino Ciccarelli, DET $1,250,000
111 Bob Rouse, DET $1,250,000
112 Glen Wesley, HFD $1,250,000
113 Alexei Zhamnov, WPG $1,250,000 *
114 Bernie Nicholls, CHI $1,200,000
115 Tim Cheveldae, PHL $1,200,000
116 Pat Falloon, PHL $1,200,000
117 Joel Otto, PHL $1,200,000
118 Tomas Sandstrom, PIT $1,200,000
119 Dave Manson, WPG $1,200,000
120 Teppo Numminen, WPG $1,200,000
121 Brad May, BUF $1,188,800
122 Peter Bondra, WSH $1,178,247
123 Murray Craven, CHI $1,150,000
124 Brett Lindros, NYI $1,150,000
125 Garry Galley, BUF $1,125,000
126 Jimmy Carson, HFD $1,100,000
127 Bruce Driver, NYR $1,100,000
128 Kevin Lowe, NYR $1,100,000
129 David Ellett, TOR $1,100,000 *
130 Ken Daneyko, NJD $1,099,589
131 Dana Murzyn, VAN $1,076,250 *
132 Grant Fuhr, STL $1,075,000
133 Trevor Kidd, CGY $1,050,000 *
134 Vladimir Konstantinov, DET $1,050,000
135 Doug Bodger, SJS $1,050,000
136 Ray Whitney, SJS $1,050,000
137 Todd Gill, TOR $1,050,000 *
138 Radek Bonk, OTT $1,025,000 *
139 Steve Smith, CHI $1,000,000
140 Derian Hatcher, DAL $1,000,000
141 Valeri Kamensky, COL $1,000,000 *
142 Vyacheslav Kozlov, DET $1,000,000
143 Igor Larionov, DET $1,000,000
144 Jeff Norton, EDM $1,000,000
145 Dimitri Khristich, LOS $1,000,000
146 Todd Bertuzzi, NYI $1,000,000
147 Eric Desjardins, PHL $1,000,000
148 Mikael Renberg, PHL $1,000,000
149 Ulf Dahlen, SJS $1,000,000
150 Owen Nolan, SJS $1,000,000 *
151 Brian Noonan, STL $1,000,000
152 Brian Bellows, TMP $1,000,000
153 Mike Ridley, VAN $1,000,000
154 Esa Tikkanen, VAN $1,000,000 *
155 Neal Broten, NJD $979,216
156 Glenn Healy, NYR $975,000
157 Martin Gelinas, VAN $975,000 *
158 Kjell Samuelsson, PHL $968,024
159 Jason Bonsignore, EDM $965,300 *
160 Alexei Yashin, OTT $965,000
161 Andy Moog, DAL $963,259
162 Ronald Hextall, PHL $963,000
163 Don Beaupre, TOR $962,500
164 Arturs Irbe, SJS $955,000
165 Calle Johansson, WSH $950,000
166 Kenny Jonsson, NYI $931,000 *
167 Petr Svoboda, PHL $925,000
168 Chris Gratton, TMP $925,000
169 Nelson Emerson, HFD $918,000
170 Adam Foote, COL $915,000 *
171 Guy Hebert, ANA $900,000
172 Bob Bassen, DAL $900,000
173 Guy Carbonneau, DAL $900,000
174 Darryl Sydor, DAL $900,000
175 Mike Ricci, COL $900,000 *
176 Darren McCarty, DET $900,000
177 Scott Mellanby, FLA $900,000
178 Rob Niedermayer, FLA $900,000
179 Brian Skrudland, FLA $900,000
180 Andrew Cassels, HFD $900,000
181 Jamie Storr, LOS $900,000
182 Patrick Flatley, NYI $900,000
183 Sergio Momesso, NYR $900,000
184 Darren Turcotte, SJS $900,000
185 Jason Wiemer, TMP $900,000
186 Cliff Ronning, VAN $900,000
187 Sylvain Cote, WSH $900,000
188 Darrin Shannon, WPG $900,000 *
189 Luke Richardson, EDM $885,000 *
190 Dale Hunter, WSH $885,000
191 Sylvain Lefebvre, COL $875,000 *
192 Brian Bradley, TMP $875,000
193 Jeff Friesen, SJS $855,000
194 Adam Burt, HFD $850,000
195 Lyle Odelein, MTL $850,000
196 Stephane Quintal, MTL $850,000
197 Igor Kravtchuk, STL $850,000 *
198 Chad Kilger, WPG $850,000
199 Joe Murphy, CHI $842,857
200 Shawn Chambers, NJD $840,507
201 Chris Terreri, SJS $826,289
202 Derek King, NYI $825,000
203 Geoff Sanderson, HFD $812,500
204 Don Sweeney, BOS $800,000
205 Adam Deadmarsh, COL $800,000 *
206 Mike Keane, COL $800,000 *
207 Curtis Leschyshyn, COL $800,000
208 Bryan Marchment, EDM $800,000
209 Doug Weight, EDM $800,000 *
210 Gord Murphy, FLA $800,000
211 Jeff O'Neill, HFD $800,000
212 Petr Klima, TMP $800,000
213 Michal Pivonka, WSH $800,000
214 Shane Doan, WPG $800,000
215 Jon Casey, STL $794,699
216 Stephane Fiset, COL $787,500 *
217 Brent Sutter, CHI $775,000
218 Greg Adams, DAL $775,000
219 Michael Donnelly, DAL $775,000
220 Kelly Miller, WSH $766,667
221 Aki Berg, LOS $759,000
222 Josef Beranek, VAN $756,000 *
223 Fredrik Olausson, ANA $750,000 *
224 Donald Audette, BUF $750,000
225 James Patrick, CGY $750,000
226 Anthony Amonte, CHI $750,000
227 Todd Harvey, DAL $750,000
228 Scott Young, COL $750,000
229 Viacheslav Fetisov, DET $750,000
230 Stu Grimson, ANA $750,000
231 Martin Straka, FLA $750,000
232 Kevin Miller, PIT $750,000
233 Yves Racine, SJS $750,000
234 Adam Creighton, STL $750,000
235 Craig MacTavish, STL $750,000
236 Shawn Burr, TMP $750,000
237 Paul Ysebaert, TMP $750,000
238 Bill Guerin, NJD $743,671
239 Bob Carpenter, NJD $742,852
240 Niklas Sundstrom, NYR $740,000
241 Jeff Beukeboom, NYR $725,000
242 Murray Baron, STL $725,000
243 Eric Weinrich, CHI $715,000
244 Craig Muni, WPG $712,500
245 Nolan Baumgartner, WSH $710,000
246 Trent Yawney, CGY $705,900 *
247 Bobby Dollas, ANA $700,000
248 Kyle McLaren, BOS $700,000
249 Denis Savard, CHI $700,000
250 Randy Wood, DAL $700,000
251 Doug Brown, DET $700,000
252 Anders Eriksson, DET $700,000
253 Keith Primeau, DET $700,000
254 Ryan Smyth, EDM $700,000 *
255 Terry Carkner, FLA $700,000
256 Radek Dvorak, FLA $700,000
257 Bob Kudelski, FLA $700,000
258 Robert Svehla, FLA $700,000
259 Robert Kron, HFD $700,000
260 Randy McKay, NJD $700,000
261 Darius Kasparaitis, NYI $700,000
262 Alexander Semak, NYI $700,000
263 Sergei Nemchinov, NYR $700,000
264 Steve Leach, STL $700,000
265 Daymond Langkow, TMP $700,000
266 Wayne Presley, TOR $700,000
267 Dimitri Yushkevich, TOR $700,000
268 Paul Cavallini, DAL $695,000
269 Bobby Holik, NJD $690,815
270 Valeri Zelepukin, NJD $690,184
271 Kevin Dineen, HFD $688,404
272 Shawn McEachern, BOS $687,500
273 Jamie Macoun, TOR $687,500
274 Rick Zombo, BOS $684,500
275 Todd Elik, BOS $675,000
276 Ethan Moreau, CHI $675,000
277 Craig Wolanin, COL $675,000
278 Stu Barnes, FLA $675,000
279 Bret Hedican, VAN $675,000
280 Norm Maciver, WPG $675,000 *
281 Bob Errey, DET $665,000
282 Mike Sullivan, CGY $655,500 *
283 Ken Baumgartner, ANA $650,000
284 Alexei Kasatonov, BOS $650,000
285 Warren Rychel, COL $650,000
286 Kelly Buchberger, EDM $650,000 *
287 Alexander Godynyuk, HFD $650,000
288 Scott Lachance, NYI $650,000
289 Tommy Soderstrom, NYI $650,000
290 Greg Gilbert, STL $650,000
291 Pat Elynuik, OTT $626,750 *
292 Grant Ledyard, DAL $625,000
293 Alexei Gusarov, COL $625,000
294 Marc Bergevin, DET $625,000
295 J.J. Daigneault, PIT $625,000 *
296 Viktor Kozlov, SJS $625,000
297 Ken Sutton, STL $625,000 *
298 Richard Matvichuk, DAL $606,971
299 Randy Ladouceur, ANA $600,000
300 Wayne Primeau, BUF $600,000
301 Jason Arnott, EDM $600,000 *
302 Nick Stajduhar, EDM $600,000 *
303 Dave Lowry, FLA $600,000
304 Steven Rice, HFD $600,000
305 Steven Finn, LOS $600,000
306 Dmitri Mironov, PIT $600,000
307 Yuri Khmylev, STL $600,000
308 Jamie Rivers, STL $600,000
309 Patrick Poulin, TMP $600,000
310 Tie Domi, TOR $600,000
311 Dave Babych, VAN $600,000
312 Frantisek Kucera, VAN $600,000
313 Markus Naslund, VAN $600,000
314 Jason Allison, WSH $600,000
315 Jim Johnson, WSH $600,000
316 Dominic Roussel, WPG $600,000
317 Shane Churla, NYR $596,064
318 Mike Peluso, NJD $590,814
319 Jim Carey, WSH $588,333
320 Joe Reekie, WSH $579,345
321 Neil Wilkinson, PIT $577,500
322 Nick Kypreos, TOR $577,500
323 Mike Wilson, BUF $575,000 *
324 Mike Lalor, DAL $575,000
325 Petr Sykora, NJD $575,000
326 Damian Rhodes, OTT $575,000 *
327 Stephane Matteau, STL $575,000
328 Corey Millen, CGY $568,966
329 Jiri Slegr, EDM $562,500 *
330 Sheldon Kennedy, CGY $560,000 *
331 Rick Tabaracci, CGY $555,000 *
332 Andrei Trefilov, BUF $550,000
333 Tommy Albelin, CGY $550,000
334 Ronnie Stern, CGY $550,000
335 Craig Ludwig, DAL $550,000
336 Darcy Wakaluk, DAL $550,000
337 Zdeno Ciger, EDM $550,000 *
338 Johan Garpenlov, FLA $550,000
339 Geoff Smith, FLA $550,000
340 Andrei Nikolishin, HFD $550,000
341 Paul Ranheim, HFD $550,000
342 Patrice Brisebois, MTL $550,000 *
343 Dennis Vaske, NYI $550,000
344 Dan Quinn, PHL $550,000
345 Michel Petit, TMP $550,000
346 David Shaw, TMP $550,000
347 Mike Craig, TOR $550,000
348 Jesse Belanger, VAN $550,000
349 Gino Odjick, VAN $550,000
350 Ed Olczyk, WPG $550,000
351 Deron Quint, WPG $550,000
352 Bob Sweeney, CGY $528,600
353 Ted Donato, BOS $525,000
354 Mark Fitzpatrick, FLA $525,000
355 Marty McInnis, NYI $525,000
356 Alexei Kovalev, NYR $525,000
357 John Druce, PHL $525,000
358 Shean Donovan, SJS $525,000
359 Claude Lapointe, CGY $515,000
360 German Titov, CGY $515,000
361 Joe Mullen, BOS $500,000
362 Curtis Brown, BUF $500,000
363 Jocelyn Lemieux, CGY $500,000
364 Brent Gilchrist, DAL $500,000
365 Chris Simon, COL $500,000
366 Landon Wilson, COL $500,000 *
367 Benoit Brunet, MTL $500,000
368 Andrei Kovalenko, MTL $500,000
369 Martin Rucinsky, MTL $500,000
370 Richard Pilon, NYI $500,000
371 Peter Ferraro, NYR $500,000
372 Doug Lidster, NYR $500,000
373 Frantisek Musil, OTT $500,000
374 Bob Corkum, PHL $500,000
375 Kevin Haller, PHL $500,000
376 Jay More, SJS $500,000
377 Tom Pederson, SJS $500,000
378 Rob Pearson, STL $500,000
379 John Tucker, TMP $500,000
380 Keith Jones, WSH $500,000
381 Steve Konowalchuk, WSH $500,000
382 Pat Peake, WSH $500,000
383 Sean Haggerty, NYI $498,128
384 Tom Chorske, OTT $496,000
385 Todd Ewen, ANA $478,500
386 Mathieu Dandenault, DET $475,000
387 Jose Theodore, MTL $475,000 *
388 Eric Fichaud, NYI $475,000 *
389 Chris Ferraro, NYR $475,000
390 Phil Bourque, OTT $475,000
391 Janne Laukkanen, OTT $475,000 *
392 Jeff Odgers, SJS $475,000
393 Paul Broten, STL $475,000
394 Mark Janssens, HFD $462,277
395 Anatoli Semenov, ANA $460,000
396 Rob Zettler, TOR $455,000
397 Joe Sacco, ANA $450,000
398 Jozef Stumpel, BOS $450,000
399 Grant Jennings, BUF $450,000
400 Rob Ray, BUF $450,000
401 Alexei Zhitnik, BUF $450,000
402 Dean Evason, CGY $450,000
403 Ravil Gusmanov, CHI $450,000
404 Jeff Hackett, CHI $450,000
405 Cam Russell, CHI $450,000
406 Brent Fedyk, DAL $450,000
407 Martin Lapointe, DET $450,000
408 Kent Manderville, EDM $450,000 *
409 Scott Thornton, EDM $450,000
410 Tom Fitzgerald, FLA $450,000
411 Mike Hough, FLA $450,000
412 Jody Hull, FLA $450,000
413 Brian Glynn, HFD $450,000
414 Kevin Todd, LOS $450,000
415 Robert Dirk, MTL $450,000
416 Marko Kiprusoff, MTL $450,000
417 Pat Conacher, NYI $450,000
418 Sean Hill, OTT $450,000
419 Dave McLlwain, PIT $450,000 *
420 Jamie Baker, SJS $450,000
421 Wade Flaherty, SJS $450,000
422 Basil McRae, STL $450,000
423 Jay Wells, STL $450,000
424 Rob Zamuner, TMP $450,000
425 Todd Krygier, WSH $450,000
426 Kris King, WPG $450,000
427 Scott Langkow, WPG $450,000 *
428 Miroslav Satan, EDM $446,728 *
429 Andrei Nazarov, SJS $445,000
430 Louie DeBrusk, EDM $440,000 *
431 Craig Berube, WSH $438,144
432 Trent Klatt, PHL $437,500
433 Mike Rathje, SJS $430,000
434 Boris Mironov, EDM $425,500 *
435 Garry Valk, ANA $425,000
436 Dave Reid, BOS $425,000
437 Marty Murray, CGY $425,000 *
438 Jimmy Waite, CHI $425,000
439 Dave Hannan, COL $425,000
440 Mike Ramsey, DET $425,000
441 Paul Laus, FLA $425,000
442 Marek Malik, HFD $425,000
443 Matt Johnson, LOS $425,000
444 Eric Lacroix, LOS $425,000
445 Marc Bureau, MTL $425,000
446 Brad Dalgarno, NYI $425,000
447 Jason Strudwick, NYI $425,000
448 Mick Vukota, NYI $425,000
449 Randy Cunneyworth, OTT $425,000
450 Kerry Huffman, PHL $425,000
451 Ken Wregget, PIT $425,000
452 Paul DiPietro, TOR $425,000
453 Craig Mills, WPG $425,000 *
454 Kris Draper, DET $415,000
455 Chris Joseph, PIT $415,000
456 Philippe Boucher, LOS $412,500
457 Doug Houda, BUF $410,000
458 Brent Hughes, BUF $405,000
459 Mark Lamb, MTL $405,000
460 Mikhail Shtalenkov, ANA $400,000
461 Shaun Van Allen, ANA $400,000
462 Craig Billington, BOS $400,000
463 Brian Holzinger, BUF $400,000
464 Darryl Shannon, BUF $400,000
465 James Black, CHI $400,000
466 Jere Lehtinen, DAL $400,000
467 Josef Marha, COL $400,000
468 Troy Murray, COL $400,000
469 Kirk Maltby, DET $400,000 *
470 Tim Taylor, DET $400,000
471 Rhett Warrener, FLA $400,000
472 Robert Lang, LOS $400,000
473 Denis Tsygurov, LOS $400,000
474 Denis Pederson, NJD $400,000
475 Bob Beers, NYI $400,000
476 Travis Green, NYI $400,000
477 Bryan McCabe, NYI $400,000
478 Tommy Salo, NYI $400,000
479 Dave Archibald, OTT $400,000 *
480 Stanislav Neckar, OTT $400,000 *
481 Glen Murray, PIT $400,000
482 Chris Wells, PIT $400,000
483 Ville Peltonen, SJS $400,000
484 Glenn Anderson, STL $400,000
485 Charles Huddy, STL $400,000
486 Igor Ulanov, TMP $400,000
487 Todd Warriner, TOR $400,000 *
488 Larry Courville, VAN $400,000 *
489 Tim Hunter, VAN $400,000
490 Mike Sillinger, VAN $400,000
491 Sergei Gonchar, WSH $400,000
492 Igor Korolev, WPG $400,000
493 Brent Thompson, WPG $400,000
494 Chris Dahlquist, OTT $398,700
495 Mikael Andersson, TMP $395,000
496 Sami Kapanen, HFD $387,500
497 Christer Olsson, STL $387,500
498 Cory Stillman, CGY $380,000 *
499 Pavel Torgajev, CGY $380,000
500 Dave Brown, SJS $380,000
501 Milos Holan, SJS $375,000
502 Valeri Karpov, ANA $375,000
503 Dean Chynoweth, BOS $375,000
504 Scott Pearson, BUF $375,000
505 Steve Shields, BUF $375,000
506 Ladislav Kohn, CGY $375,000 *
507 Eric Daze, CHI $375,000
508 Mariusz Czerkawski, EDM $375,000
509 Bill Lindsay, FLA $375,000
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* compensated in Canadian currency
Richard Crowe (rcrowe@hubble.uhh.hawaii.edu)