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Highest paid players in European hockey

2026-27 · 14 leagues · gross annual value

Check the Basis column. 38 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	Sam Anas	RW	33	USA	Dinamo Minsk	KHL	€1,059,000	Estimate
2	Alexander Barabanov	RW/LW	32	RUS	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHL	€1,052,500	Reported
3	Michael McLeod	C	28	CAN	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€1,000,000	Reported
4	Alexander Chmelevski	C/LW	27	USA	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	€1,000,000	Reported
5	Rocco Grimaldi	LW/C	33	USA	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€968,500	Reported
6	Daniel Sprong	LW/RW	29	NED	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHL	€947,500	Reported
7	Vladimir Tkachev	F	31	RUS	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	€947,500	Reported
8	Konstantin Okulov	LW/C	31	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€894,500	Reported
9	Damir Sharipzyanov	D	30	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€894,500	Reported
10	Daniil Isayev	G	26	RUS	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	€842,000	Reported
11	Maxim Shalunov	C	33	RUS	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	€842,000	Reported
12	Sergei Tolchinsky	RW/LW	31	RUS	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	€842,000	Reported
13	Austin Czarnik	C	33	USA	Lausanne HC	NL	€817,500	Estimate
14	Sven Andrighetto	RW	33	SUI	ZSC Lions	NL	€813,000	Estimate
15	Denis Malgin	C	29	SUI	ZSC Lions	NL	€798,000	Estimate
16	Trevor Murphy	D	31	CAN	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€789,500	Reported
17	Danil Aimurzin	C	24	RUS	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€789,500	Reported
18	Nikita Zaitsev	D	34	RUS	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	€789,500	Reported
19	Jordan Weal	C	34	CAN	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€789,500	Reported
20	Vladislav Podyapolsky	G	31	RUS	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€789,500	Reported
21	Daniil Pylenkov	D	25	RUS	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€789,500	Reported
22	Marat Khairullin	RW	30	RUS	CSKA Moscow	KHL	€789,500	Reported
23	Nathan Todd	C/LW	30	CAN	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	€789,500	Reported
24	Kirill Semyonov	C	31	RUS	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	€789,500	Reported
25	Vitali Kravtsov	RW/LW	26	RUS	Traktor Chelyabinsk	KHL	€789,500	Reported
26	Alex Limoges	LW/C	29	USA	Dinamo Minsk	KHL	€789,500	Reported
27	Dominik Kubalík	LW	31	CZE	EV Zug	NL	€773,500	Estimate
28	Tomas Tatar	LW	35	SVK	EV Zug	NL	€752,000	Estimate
29	Filip Zadina	RW	26	CZE	HC Davos	NL	€749,500	Estimate
30	Zachary Fucale	G	31	CAN	Dinamo Minsk	KHL	€747,500	Reported
31	Erik Brännström	D	27	SWE	Lausanne HC	NL	€746,500	Estimate
32	Dario Rohrbach	RW	28	SUI	SC Bern	NL	€737,500	Estimate
33	Andrew Poturalski	C/RW	32	USA	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
34	Alexander Volkov	F	29	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
35	Ilya Karpukhin	D	28	RUS	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHL	€737,000	Reported
36	Georgi Ivanov	C	27	RUS	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	€737,000	Reported
37	Artur Kayumov	LW/RW	28	RUS	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	€737,000	Reported
38	Mikhail Grigorenko	C/RW	32	RUS	Traktor Chelyabinsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
39	Grigori Dronov	D	28	RUS	Traktor Chelyabinsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
40	Andrei Svetlakov	C	30	RUS	Traktor Chelyabinsk	KHL	€737,000	Reported
41	Sheldon Rempal	RW/LW	31	CAN	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	KHL	€737,000	Reported
42	Dmitrij Jaskin	RW/C	33	CZE	Shanghai Dragons	KHL	€737,000	Reported
43	Ahti Oksanen	LW	33	FIN	Lausanne HC	NL	€732,500	Estimate
44	Markus Granlund	C	33	FIN	Genève-Servette	NL	€700,000	Estimate
45	Jordan Gross	D	31	USA	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHL	€694,500	Reported
46	Marcus Sörensen	C	34	SWE	Fribourg-Gottéron	NL	€687,000	Estimate
47	Dmitri Rashevsky	RW	25	RUS	Avangard Omsk	KHL	€684,000	Reported
48	Maxim Letunov	C	30	RUS	Dynamo Moscow	KHL	€684,000	Reported
49	Denis Zernov	C	30	RUS	CSKA Moscow	KHL	€684,000	Reported
50	Pavel Karnaukhov	C	29	BLR	CSKA Moscow	KHL	€684,000	Reported