Arizona Coyotes career earnings
$818,990,779 across 36 careers, led by Marian Hossa on $93,024,390.
Every man on the roster, ranked by what his contracts have been worth across his whole career rather than by what this franchise is paying him now. It comes to 3.1% of the money in the NHL file.
Arizona Coyotes at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $818,990,779
- Careers
- 36
- Per career
- $22,749,744
- Paid through 2026-27
- $810,290,779
- Still to be paid
- $8,700,000
- Rank
- 16 of 32 franchises
The Arizona Coyotes squad page carries the current roster and what each man is paid this season. What follows is the other question: what those same men have earned across every season of their careers.
The fifteen richest Arizona Coyotes careers
Total contract money, 1998 to 2027
Every Arizona Coyotes career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Marian Hossa | Right Wing | 22 | 1998 to 2020 | - | $93,024,390$93.0m |
| 02 | Philip Kessel | Right Wing | 16 | 2006 to 2021 | - | $91,502,866$91.5m |
| 03 | Andrew Ladd | Left Wing | 18 | 2005 to 2022 | - | $70,134,600$70.1m |
| 04 | Loui Eriksson | Right Wing | 17 | 2005 to 2021 | - | $64,717,683$64.7m |
| 05 | Bryan Little | Center | 17 | 2007 to 2023 | - | $63,706,098$63.7m |
| 06 | Clayton Keller Paid in 2026-27 | Center | 12 | 2016 to 2027 | $8.7m | $60,782,500$60.8m |
| 07 | Niklas Hjalmarsson | Defenseman | 14 | 2007 to 2020 | - | $45,228,780$45.2m |
| 08 | Nick Schmaltz | Center | 10 | 2016 to 2025 | - | $43,725,000$43.7m |
| 09 | Jason Demers | Defenseman | 13 | 2008 to 2020 | - | $33,349,194$33.3m |
| 10 | Jakob Chychrun | Defenseman | 9 | 2016 to 2024 | - | $31,650,000$31.6m |
| 11 | Michael Grabner | Right Wing | 15 | 2006 to 2020 | - | $30,039,963$30.0m |
| 12 | Nick Bjugstad | Center | 10 | 2013 to 2022 | - | $28,600,000$28.6m |
| 13 | Zack Kassian | Right Wing | 13 | 2010 to 2023 | - | $26,331,721$26.3m |
| 14 | Jay Beagle | Right Wing | 14 | 2008 to 2021 | - | $21,976,829$22.0m |
| 15 | Carter Hutton | Goaltender | 12 | 2010 to 2021 | - | $14,642,317$14.6m |
| 16 | Riley Nash | Center | 10 | 2012 to 2021 | - | $13,883,750$13.9m |
| 17 | Nicholas Ritchie | Left Wing | 8 | 2015 to 2022 | - | $12,282,500$12.3m |
| 18 | Troy Stecher | Defenseman | 7 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $10,317,500$10.3m |
| 19 | Johan Larsson | Left Wing | 10 | 2011 to 2021 | - | $9,673,261$9.7m |
| 20 | Travis Boyd | Left Wing | 8 | 2016 to 2023 | - | $7,560,923$7.6m |
| 21 | Juuso Valimaki | Defenseman | 6 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $6,548,168$6.5m |
| 22 | Christian Fischer | Center | 7 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $6,408,375$6.4m |
| 23 | Joshua Brown | Defenseman | 6 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $6,072,895$6.1m |
| 24 | Lawson Crouse | Left Wing | 5 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $5,759,959$5.8m |
| 25 | Barrett Hayton | Center | 6 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $5,054,201$5.1m |
| 26 | Liam O'Brien | Center | 7 | 2016 to 2023 | - | $3,180,348$3.2m |
| 27 | Hudson Fasching | Right Wing | 6 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $3,067,016$3.1m |
| 28 | Jon Gillies | Goaltender | 6 | 2014 to 2021 | - | $2,556,564$2.6m |
| 29 | Aaron Ness | Defenseman | 5 | 2016 to 2020 | - | $1,917,116$1.9m |
| 30 | Kyle Capobianco | Defenseman | 5 | 2017 to 2021 | - | $1,543,422$1.5m |
| 31 | Ivan Prosvetov | Goaltender | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $1,278,912 |
| 32 | Jan Jenik | Right Wing | 2 | 2020 to 2021 | - | $947,068 |
| 33 | Jean-Sebastien Dea | Center | 5 | 2016 to 2020 | - | $937,629 |
| 34 | Victor Soderstrom | Defenseman | 2 | 2020 to 2021 | - | $385,107 |
| 35 | Josef Korenar | Goaltender | 1 | 2020 | - | $168,952 |
| 36 | Bokondji Imama | Left Wing | 2 | 2020 to 2021 | - | $35,172 |
Arizona Coyotes money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2019-20 is the biggest year on this chart at $69,986,110. A roster assembled recently draws a spike rather than a run: the chart follows the men who are here now, wherever they were paid it.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the highest paid Arizona Coyotes player?
Marian Hossa. His contracts are worth $93,024,390 across 22 seasons from 1998 to 2020.
What have Arizona Coyotes players earned in total?
$818,990,779 across 36 careers, an average of $22,749,744 each. That is 3.1% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
Arizona Coyotes is 16 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Toronto Maple Leafs on $836,458,686 and ahead of Los Angeles Kings on $788,123,956.
How many are still being paid?
1 of the 36 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $8,700,000 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the Arizona Coyotes payroll?
No. It is career money carried by the current roster: everything each man's contracts have been worth across every season, at this franchise or anywhere else. A payroll is one season and this is every one of them.
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The same table, 16 other franchises
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