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Chicago Blackhawks career earnings

$783,490,568 across 40 careers, led by Patrick Kane on $115,637,195.

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 3.0% of the money in the NHL file.

CAREER MONEY $783.5m
PER CAREER $19.6m
CAREERS 40
SHARE OF LEAGUE 3.0%
RANK 19 of 32

Chicago Blackhawks at a glance

What the roster has been paid

2005 to 2029

Career money
$783,490,568
Careers
40
Per career
$19,587,264
Paid through 2026-27
$760,133,425
Still to be paid
$23,357,143
Rank
19 of 32 franchises

The Chicago Blackhawks 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 Chicago Blackhawks careers

Total contract money, 2005 to 2029

40 careers

Patrick Kane $116m Seth Jones $111m Jonathan Toews $109m Christian Ehrhoff $53m Tyler Johnson $46m Corey Crawford $45m Connor Murphy $44m Andrew Shaw $29m Petr Mrazek $28m Jake McCabe $27m Max Domi $22m Zack Smith $22m Brett Connolly $20m Andreas Athanasiou $15m Jason Dickinson $13m

Every Chicago Blackhawks career

Ranked by total contract money

40 careers

# Player Position Seasons Span Still owed Career earnings
01 Patrick Kane Right Wing 16 2007 to 2022 - $115,637,195$115.6m
02 Seth Jones Paid in 2026-27 Defenseman 17 2013 to 2029 $22.5m $111,387,499$111.4m
03 Jonathan Toews Center 15 2007 to 2022 - $109,062,195$109.1m
04 Christian Ehrhoff Paid in 2026-27 Defenseman 23 2005 to 2027 $857k $52,790,929$52.8m
05 Tyler Johnson Center 11 2013 to 2023 - $45,840,000$45.8m
06 Corey Crawford Goaltender 11 2009 to 2019 - $44,667,073$44.7m
07 Connor Murphy Defenseman 14 2011 to 2025 - $43,832,500$43.8m
08 Andrew Shaw Center 11 2011 to 2021 - $28,925,732$28.9m
09 Petr Mrazek Goaltender 10 2014 to 2023 - $28,290,395$28.3m
10 Jake McCabe Defenseman 10 2015 to 2024 - $27,425,000$27.4m
11 Max Domi Left Wing 7 2015 to 2022 - $22,250,000$22.2m
12 Zack Smith Center 11 2010 to 2020 - $21,574,626$21.6m
13 Brett Connolly Right Wing 10 2013 to 2022 - $19,850,115$19.9m
14 Andreas Athanasiou Center 8 2015 to 2022 - $15,069,961$15.1m
15 Jason Dickinson Center 9 2015 to 2023 - $13,220,933$13.2m
16 Alex Stalock Goaltender 13 2009 to 2022 - $10,608,910$10.6m
17 Dylan Strome Center 6 2016 to 2021 - $8,266,345$8.3m
18 Brandon Pirri Center 11 2010 to 2020 - $6,830,114$6.8m
19 Jujhar Khaira Left Wing 8 2015 to 2022 - $6,647,380$6.6m
20 Riley Stillman Defenseman 6 2018 to 2023 - $4,994,591$5.0m
21 Ryan Carpenter Center 7 2015 to 2021 - $4,900,074$4.9m
22 Sam Lafferty Center 5 2019 to 2023 - $4,434,184$4.4m
23 Colin Blackwell Center 6 2018 to 2023 - $4,205,416$4.2m
24 Caleb Jones Defenseman 5 2018 to 2022 - $3,813,982$3.8m
25 Jarred Tinordi Defenseman 5 2015 to 2022 - $3,174,117$3.2m
26 Kurtis Gabriel Right Wing 6 2015 to 2021 - $3,074,886$3.1m
27 Reese Johnson Right Wing 4 2020 to 2023 - $2,472,028$2.5m
28 Mackenzie Entwistle Right Wing 4 2020 to 2023 - $2,453,296$2.5m
29 Philipp Kurashev Center 3 2020 to 2022 - $2,440,124$2.4m
30 Kirby Dach Center 3 2019 to 2021 - $2,421,444$2.4m
31 Buddy Robinson Right Wing 7 2015 to 2022 - $2,310,168$2.3m
32 Kevin Lankinen Goaltender 4 2018 to 2021 - $1,823,222$1.8m
33 Ian Mitchell Defenseman 3 2020 to 2022 - $1,812,780$1.8m
34 Dylan Sikura Center 5 2017 to 2021 - $1,249,771
35 Nicolas Beaudin Defenseman 3 2019 to 2021 - $1,244,232
36 Alec Regula Defenseman 3 2020 to 2022 - $1,188,626
37 Wyatt Kalynuk Defenseman 2 2020 to 2021 - $1,096,447
38 Josh Dickinson Center 1 2020 - $925,000
39 Dylan Wells Goaltender 2 2020 to 2022 - $655,186
40 Mike Hardman Left Wing 2 2020 to 2021 - $624,092

Chicago Blackhawks money by season

What these careers were paid, year by year

20 seasons

2019-20 is the biggest year on this chart at $72,610,014. 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 Chicago Blackhawks player?

Patrick Kane. His contracts are worth $115,637,195 across 16 seasons from 2007 to 2022.

What have Chicago Blackhawks players earned in total?

$783,490,568 across 40 careers, an average of $19,587,264 each. That is 3.0% of every dollar in the NHL file.

How does that rank?

Chicago Blackhawks is 19 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Nashville Predators on $787,616,910 and ahead of Philadelphia Flyers on $775,036,479.

How many are still being paid?

2 of the 40 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $23,357,143 is written into deals that run past it.

Is this the Chicago Blackhawks 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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