Highest paid players in European hockey

2026-27 · 14 leagues · gross annual value · ranks 151–200

Check the Basis column. 30 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
151	Nick Merkley	RW/C	29	CAN	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€473,500	Reported
152	Artyom Blazhiyevsky	D	32	RUS	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€473,500	Reported
153	Robert Hamilton	D	32	CAN	CSKA Moscow	KHL	€473,500	Reported
154	Ivan Drozdov	RW/LW	26	BLR	CSKA Moscow	KHL	€473,500	Reported
155	Maxim Sorkin	C	26	RUS	CSKA Moscow	KHL	€473,500	Reported
156	Mitchell Miller	D	24	USA	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	€473,500	Reported
157	Alexei Marchenko	D	34	RUS	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	€473,500	Reported
158	Michael Vecchione	LW/C	33	USA	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL	€473,500	Reported
159	Denis Kostin	G	31	RUS	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL	€473,500	Reported
160	Rhett Gardner	C	30	CAN	Dinamo Minsk	KHL	€473,500	Reported
161	Xavier Ouellet	D	33	CAN	Dinamo Minsk	KHL	€473,500	Reported
162	Artur Tyanulin	LW	29	RUS	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	KHL	€473,500	Estimate
163	Jake Massie	D	29	CAN	Barys Astana	KHL	€473,500	Reported
164	Alexander Galchenyuk	C/RW	32	USA	Spartak Moscow	KHL	€473,500	Reported
165	Maxime Comtois	LW/RW	27	CAN	Spartak Moscow	KHL	€473,500	Reported
166	Pavel Poryadin	RW	30	RUS	Spartak Moscow	KHL	€473,500	Reported
167	Jack Rodewald	C	32	CAN	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	KHL	€473,500	Reported
168	Brett Murray	LW/RW	28	CAN	Shanghai Dragons	KHL	€473,500	Reported
169	Vitaly Abramov	RW/LW	28	RUS	Amur Khabarovsk	KHL	€473,500	Reported
170	Thomas Grégoire	D	28	CAN	Severstal Cherepovets	KHL	€473,500	Reported
171	Andreas Wingerli	LW	29	SWE	EV Zug	NL	€459,500	Estimate
172	Jimmy Vesey	LW	33	USA	Genève-Servette	NL	€449,000	Estimate
173	Nate Schnarr	C	27	CAN	HC Ambrì-Piotta	NL	€448,500	Estimate
174	Brendan Lemieux	LW	30	CAN	HC Davos	NL	€445,500	Estimate
175	Romain Loeffel	D	35	SUI	Lausanne HC	NL	€445,000	Estimate
176	Tino Kessler	C	30	SUI	HC Davos	NL	€445,000	Estimate
177	Simon Johansson	D	27	SWE	HC Kloten	NL	€444,000	Estimate
178	Liam Kirk	LW	26	GBR	Eisbären Berlin	DEL	€443,000	Estimate
179	Artyom Shvets-Rogovoi	C	31	RUS	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€442,000	Reported
180	Mikhail Berdin	G	28	RUS	Sibir Novosibirsk	KHL	€442,000	Reported
181	Anton Krasotkin	G	29	RUS	Sibir Novosibirsk	KHL	€442,000	Reported
182	Alexei Vasilevsky	D	33	RUS	Amur Khabarovsk	KHL	€442,000	Reported
183	Calvin Thürkauf	C	29	SUI	HC Lugano	NL	€439,500	Estimate
184	Arttu Ruotsalainen	C	28	FIN	HC Kloten	NL	€439,500	Estimate
185	Dean Kukan	D	33	SUI	ZSC Lions	NL	€435,500	Estimate
186	Kevin Labanc	RW	30	USA	Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	NL	€430,000	Estimate
187	Simon Hrubec	G	35	CZE	ZSC Lions	NL	€429,500	Estimate
188	Nick Shore	C	33	USA	HC Lugano	NL	€426,000	Estimate
189	Jan Rutta	D	36	CZE	Genève-Servette	NL	€425,000	Estimate
190	Marc Marchon	C	31	SUI	SC Bern	NL	€424,000	Estimate
191	Connor Hughes	G	30	CAN	SC Bern	NL	€423,500	Estimate
192	Dominik Egli	D	28	SUI	HC Davos	NL	€423,500	Estimate
193	Ty Ronning	RW	28	CAN	Eisbären Berlin	DEL	€421,500	Estimate
194	Kirill Adamchuk	D	32	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€421,000	Reported
195	Artyom Ilyenko	C/LW	30	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€421,000	Reported
196	Linus Weissbach	LW/RW	28	SWE	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€421,000	Reported
197	Nikolai Goldobin	RW/LW	30	RUS	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€421,000	Reported
198	Alexei Maklyukov	D	32	RUS	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€421,000	Reported
199	Nikolai Chebykin	RW	29	RUS	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€421,000	Reported
200	Yevgeni Alikin	G	31	RUS	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHL	€421,000	Reported