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Boston Bruins career earnings

$1,030,553,222 across 36 careers, led by Patrice Bergeron on $95,284,153.

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 3.9% of the money in the NHL file.

CAREER MONEY $1.03bn
PER CAREER $28.6m
CAREERS 36
SHARE OF LEAGUE 3.9%
RANK 7 of 32

Boston Bruins at a glance

What the roster has been paid

2003 to 2029

Career money
$1,030,553,222
Careers
36
Per career
$28,626,478
Paid through 2026-27
$993,403,222
Still to be paid
$37,150,000
Rank
7 of 32 franchises

The Boston Bruins 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 Boston Bruins careers

Total contract money, 2003 to 2029

36 careers

Patrice Bergeron $95m Charles Mcavoy $93m Hampus Lindholm $87m Taylor Hall $77m Brad Marchand $72m David Krejci $72m Tuukka Rask $63m Nick Foligno $53m Charlie Coyle $50m Anton Stralman $48m David Pastrnak $42m Craig Smith $36m Brandon Carlo $32m Pavel Zacha $32m Linus Ullmark $26m

Every Boston Bruins career

Ranked by total contract money

36 careers

# Player Position Seasons Span Still owed Career earnings
01 Patrice Bergeron Center 19 2003 to 2022 - $95,284,153$95.3m
02 Charles Mcavoy Paid in 2026-27 Defenseman 14 2016 to 2029 $22.7m $93,450,000$93.4m
03 Hampus Lindholm Paid in 2026-27 Defenseman 18 2012 to 2029 $14.4m $87,005,000$87.0m
04 Taylor Hall Left Wing 15 2010 to 2024 - $76,700,000$76.7m
05 Brad Marchand Left Wing 18 2007 to 2024 - $72,446,464$72.4m
06 David Krejci Center 16 2006 to 2022 - $71,623,171$71.6m
07 Tuukka Rask Goaltender 14 2007 to 2020 - $63,098,780$63.1m
08 Nick Foligno Left Wing 15 2007 to 2022 - $52,558,415$52.6m
09 Charlie Coyle Center 14 2012 to 2025 - $49,916,829$49.9m
10 Anton Stralman Defenseman 16 2007 to 2022 - $48,095,000$48.1m
11 David Pastrnak Right Wing 8 2015 to 2022 - $41,850,000$41.9m
12 Craig Smith Center 12 2011 to 2022 - $35,763,171$35.8m
13 Brandon Carlo Paid in 2026-27 Defenseman 10 2016 to 2026 - $32,042,500$32.0m
14 Pavel Zacha Paid in 2026-27 Center 12 2015 to 2026 - $32,033,952$32.0m
15 Linus Ullmark Goaltender 9 2016 to 2024 - $25,707,812$25.7m
16 Matthew Grzelcyk Defenseman 8 2016 to 2023 - $18,893,542$18.9m
17 Erik Haula Center 10 2013 to 2022 - $18,550,000$18.5m
18 Derek Forbort Defenseman 9 2015 to 2023 - $16,681,950$16.7m
19 Jake DeBrusk Left Wing 6 2017 to 2023 - $16,275,000$16.3m
20 Mike Reilly Defenseman 9 2015 to 2023 - $15,954,063$16.0m
21 Kevan Miller Defenseman 8 2013 to 2020 - $13,400,000$13.4m
22 Chris Wagner Center 9 2014 to 2022 - $9,757,257$9.8m
23 Tomas Nosek Left Wing 8 2015 to 2022 - $8,093,978$8.1m
24 Keith Kinkaid Goaltender 10 2013 to 2022 - $7,152,076$7.2m
25 Connor Carrick Defenseman 6 2015 to 2020 - $5,939,865$5.9m
26 Connor Clifton Defenseman 5 2018 to 2022 - $3,960,870$4.0m
27 Jakub Zboril Defenseman 5 2018 to 2023 - $3,838,263$3.8m
28 Trent Frederic Center 5 2018 to 2022 - $3,118,046$3.1m
29 A.J. Greer Left Wing 8 2016 to 2023 - $3,083,777$3.1m
30 Dan Renouf Defenseman 6 2016 to 2023 - $2,930,942$2.9m
31 Jeremy Swayman Goaltender 3 2020 to 2022 - $2,033,453$2.0m
32 Vinni Lettieri Center 4 2017 to 2021 - $1,138,242
33 Tyler Lewington Defenseman 4 2018 to 2021 - $971,583
34 Zach Senyshyn Right Wing 3 2018 to 2020 - $428,106
35 Jack Ahcan Defenseman 2 2020 to 2021 - $399,894
36 Oskar Steen Center 2 2020 to 2021 - $377,068

Boston Bruins money by season

What these careers were paid, year by year

20 seasons

2022-23 is the biggest year on this chart at $91,050,000. 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 Boston Bruins player?

Patrice Bergeron. His contracts are worth $95,284,153 across 19 seasons from 2003 to 2022.

What have Boston Bruins players earned in total?

$1,030,553,222 across 36 careers, an average of $28,626,478 each. That is 3.9% of every dollar in the NHL file.

How does that rank?

Boston Bruins is 7 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind St Louis Blues on $1,047,460,243 and ahead of Colorado Avalanche on $954,364,208.

How many are still being paid?

4 of the 36 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $37,150,000 is written into deals that run past it.

Is this the Boston Bruins 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.

The franchises either side

The same table, 16 other franchises

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