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Highest paid players in European hockey

2026-27 · 14 leagues · gross annual value

Check the Basis column. 39 of these 50 figures were published by a named source. The rest are EuroCap's estimate model and have never been officially reported.

#	Player	Pos	Age	Nat	Club	League	Gross	Basis
1	Alexander Barabanov	RW	32	RUS	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHL	€1,052,500	Reported
2	Sam Anas	RW	33	USA	Dinamo Minsk	KHL	€1,018,500	Estimate
3	Michael McLeod	C	28	CAN	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€1,000,000	Reported
4	Alexander Khmelevsky	C	27	USA	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	€1,000,000	Reported
5	Rocco Grimaldi	LW	33	USA	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€968,500	Reported
6	Daniel Sprong	LW	29	NED	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHL	€947,500	Reported
7	Vladimir Tkachev	LW	30	RUS	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	€947,500	Reported
8	Konstantin Okulov	LW	31	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€894,500	Reported
9	Damir Sharipzyanov	D	30	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€894,500	Reported
10	Daniil Isaev	G	26	RUS	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	€842,000	Reported
11	Maxim Shalunov	C	33	RUS	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	€842,000	Reported
12	Sergey Tolchinsky	RW	31	RUS	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	€842,000	Reported
13	Sven Andrighetto	RW	33	SUI	ZSC Lions	NL	€810,500	Estimate
14	Denis Malgin	C	29	SUI	ZSC Lions	NL	€795,500	Estimate
15	Trevor Murphy	D	31	CAN	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€789,500	Reported
16	Danil Aimurzin	C	24	RUS	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€789,500	Reported
17	Nikita Zaitsev	D	34	RUS	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€789,500	Reported
18	Jordan Weal	C	34	CAN	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€789,500	Reported
19	Vladislav Podyapolsky	G	31	RUS	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€789,500	Reported
20	Daniil Pylenkov	D	25	RUS	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€789,500	Reported
21	Marat Khairullin	RW	30	RUS	CSKA Moscow	KHL	€789,500	Reported
22	Nathan Todd	C	30	CAN	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	€789,500	Reported
23	Kirill Semenov	C	31	RUS	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	€789,500	Reported
24	Vitaly Kravtsov	RW	26	RUS	Traktor Chelyabinsk	KHL	€789,500	Reported
25	Alex Limoges	LW	28	USA	Dinamo Minsk	KHL	€789,500	Reported
26	Austin Czarnik	C	33	USA	Lausanne HC	NL	€788,500	Estimate
27	Dominik Kubalík	LW	30	CZE	EV Zug	NL	€763,000	Estimate
28	Zachary Fucale	G	31	CAN	Dinamo Minsk	KHL	€747,500	Reported
29	Filip Zadina	RW	26	CZE	HC Davos	NL	€746,000	Estimate
30	Tomas Tatar	LW	35	SVK	EV Zug	NL	€742,000	Estimate
31	Andrew Poturalski	C	32	USA	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
32	Alexander Volkov	RW	29	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
33	Ilya Karpukhin	D	28	RUS	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHL	€737,000	Reported
34	Georgy Ivanov	C	27	RUS	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	€737,000	Reported
35	Artur Kayumov	LW	28	RUS	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	€737,000	Reported
36	Mikhail Grigorenko	C	32	RUS	Traktor Chelyabinsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
37	Grigory Dronov	D	28	RUS	Traktor Chelyabinsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
38	Andrey Svetlakov	C	30	RUS	Traktor Chelyabinsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
39	Sheldon Rempal	RW	30	CAN	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	KHL	€737,000	Reported
40	Dmitry Yashkin	RW	33	CZE	Shanghai Dragons	KHL	€737,000	Reported
41	Marcus Sörensen	C	34	SWE	Fribourg-Gottéron	NL	€732,000	Estimate
42	Markus Granlund	C	33	FIN	Genève-Servette	NL	€720,500	Estimate
43	Erik Brännström	D	26	SWE	Lausanne HC	NL	€720,000	Estimate
44	Ahti Oksanen	LW	33	FIN	Lausanne HC	NL	€706,500	Estimate
45	Jordan Gross	D	31	USA	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHL	€694,500	Reported
46	Dmitry Rashevsky	RW	25	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€684,000	Reported
47	Maxim Letunov	C	30	RUS	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€684,000	Reported
48	Denis Zernov	C	30	RUS	CSKA Moscow	KHL	€684,000	Reported
49	Pavel Karnaukhov	C	29	BLR	CSKA Moscow	KHL	€684,000	Reported
50	Alexey Bereglazov	D	32	RUS	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	€684,000	Reported