Player salaries in the National Hockey League

Here are several lists of National Hockey League players' salaries since the 1989–90 NHL season. This list does not include income from corporate endorsements or salaries before 1988–89.

This is a list of the twenty NHL players who have earned the most in salaries between the 1989–90 season and the 2007–08 season.

These figures have been gleaned from different sources, and so may not be perfectly accurate. This is merely an estimation that, for the most part, does not take into account bonuses and sponsor contracts.

These totals also do not take into account partial seasons played—for which a player would only receive a partial salary—except for the shortened 2004–05 season, which affected every player. Thus, the listed totals are a sum of the amounts each player was contracted to receive for a full season.

After the 1994–95 NHL season was shortened to 48 games due to a lockout, players earned only about 56% of their predicted salary.

Season cancelled (see 2004–05 NHL lockout).

The team salary cap was $39 million. Under the latest NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement, no player could earn more than 20 percent of the team salary cap ($7.8 million).

The team salary cap was $44 million. No player could earn more than $8.8 million.

The team salary cap was $50.3 million. No player could earn more than $10.06 million.

The team salary cap was $56.7 million. No player could earn more than $11.34 million.

The team salary cap was $56.8 million. No player could earn more than $11.36 million.

The team salary cap was $59.4 million. No player could earn more than $11.88 million.

The team salary cap was $64.3 million. No player could earn more than $12.86 million.

The team salary cap was $70.2 million. No player could earn more than $14.04 million.

The team salary cap was $64.3 million. No player could earn more than $12.86 million.

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