NHL ON-ICE PAY.FORBES 2026–27
Leo Carlsson leads at USD 20,800,000.
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First 10 prepared rows
| Rank | Identity / sample | Reported on-ice pay · currency | Evidence |
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| 1 | USD 20,800,000 | Evidence |
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| 2 | USD 19,500,000 | Evidence |
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| 3 | USD 19,100,000 | Evidence |
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| 4 | USD 17,700,000 | Evidence |
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| 5 | USD 17,000,000 | Evidence |
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| 6 | USD 16,500,000 | Evidence |
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| 7 | USD 16,000,000 | Evidence |
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| 8 | USD 15,900,000 | Evidence |
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| 9 | USD 14,300,000 | Evidence |
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| 10 | USD 14,000,000 | Evidence |
Key definitions
Reported on-ice pay · currency
Gross season salary plus signing bonuses; publisher-rounded.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this comparison cover?
Salary plus signing bonuses, rounded to USD 100,000. Cohort selected by total earnings; not the league-wide cash-salary top ten. Gross before taxes and agent fees. Contracts cutoff September 28, 2026. Cap hits, base pay splits and career totals unavailable.
Why can equal-looking values have different ranks?
Ranks use full precision. Displayed values are rounded, so two values can look equal without tying. Exact ties share a rank.
Why is a player or team missing?
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How current are the rankings?
Data cutoff marks the source observation time. Generated marks when the page data was prepared. A delayed-update notice means the previous dated values remain in use.
Sources & methodology
Source coverage: 10 included · 0 excluded.
Generated 2026-10-06T12:13:16.262794+00:00 · Retrieved 2026-10-06T12:13:16.262794+00:00
Freshness deadline 2026-10-07T12:13:16.262794+00:00
Sources for this comparison
All ten players in Forbes 2026 highest-paid cohort; 2026-27 on-ice pay only.
Reported on-ice pay · Method salaries-source-observations-v1
Source and scope: salaries-source-observations-v1 · Effective 2026-10-06
- Forbes · Observed 2026-09-28 · Published 2026-10-03 · Publisher-rounded on-ice cash salary plus signing bonuses; total-earnings-selected cohort. · Original Forbes regional edition by Brett Knight; explicitly credits the English original published September 29, 2026. Same publisher, not independent corroboration. · Normalized factual observations with attribution; no article text or images reproduced.
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