Detroit Red Wings career earnings
$843,980,075 across 36 careers, led by Brad Richards on $107,412,116.
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 3.2% of the money in the NHL file.
Detroit Red Wings at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $843,980,075
- Careers
- 36
- Per career
- $23,443,891
- Paid through 2026-27
- $843,980,075
- Still to be paid
- $0
- Rank
- 13 of 32 franchises
The Detroit Red Wings 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 Detroit Red Wings careers
Total contract money, 2000 to 2025
Every Detroit Red Wings career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Brad Richards | Center | 24 | 2000 to 2025 | - | $107,412,116$107.4m |
| 02 | Henrik Zetterberg | Left Wing | 18 | 2002 to 2020 | - | $82,936,585$82.9m |
| 03 | Bobby Ryan | Right Wing | 17 | 2007 to 2023 | - | $69,741,930$69.7m |
| 04 | Mike Green | Defenseman | 15 | 2005 to 2019 | - | $68,012,195$68.0m |
| 05 | Valtteri Filppula | Center | 16 | 2005 to 2020 | - | $49,498,780$49.5m |
| 06 | Johan Franzen | Left Wing | 15 | 2005 to 2019 | - | $44,748,171$44.7m |
| 07 | David Perron | Left Wing | 15 | 2007 to 2021 | - | $43,993,598$44.0m |
| 08 | Frans Nielsen | Center | 14 | 2008 to 2021 | - | $43,845,732$43.8m |
| 09 | Justin Abdelkader | Left Wing | 16 | 2007 to 2022 | - | $40,414,512$40.4m |
| 10 | Danny DeKeyser | Defenseman | 10 | 2012 to 2021 | - | $35,992,621$36.0m |
| 11 | Sam Gagner | Center | 15 | 2007 to 2021 | - | $35,248,171$35.2m |
| 12 | Dylan Larkin | Center | 8 | 2015 to 2022 | - | $33,275,000$33.3m |
| 13 | Jakub Vrana | Left Wing | 8 | 2016 to 2023 | - | $25,040,000$25.0m |
| 14 | Robby Fabbri | Center | 10 | 2015 to 2024 | - | $22,407,500$22.4m |
| 15 | Tyler Bertuzzi | Left Wing | 7 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $16,969,919$17.0m |
| 16 | Ville Husso | Goaltender | 7 | 2017 to 2024 | - | $16,077,508$16.1m |
| 17 | Filip Hronek | Defenseman | 6 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $15,260,077$15.3m |
| 18 | Oskar Sundqvist | Center | 8 | 2015 to 2022 | - | $13,835,000$13.8m |
| 19 | Adam Erne | Left Wing | 7 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $8,805,000$8.8m |
| 20 | Jordan Oesterle | Defenseman | 9 | 2014 to 2022 | - | $8,370,520$8.4m |
| 21 | Dominik Kubalik | Left Wing | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $8,325,000$8.3m |
| 22 | Alex Nedeljkovic | Goaltender | 6 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $7,609,284$7.6m |
| 23 | Pius Suter | Center | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $7,425,000$7.4m |
| 24 | Michael Rasmussen | Center | 5 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $5,814,567$5.8m |
| 25 | Carter Rowney | Center | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $5,450,000$5.5m |
| 26 | Steven Kampfer | Defenseman | 9 | 2013 to 2022 | - | $4,616,511$4.6m |
| 27 | Christian Djoos | Defenseman | 5 | 2016 to 2020 | - | $4,380,000$4.4m |
| 28 | Calvin Pickard | Goaltender | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $3,799,829$3.8m |
| 29 | Filip Zadina | Right Wing | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $2,868,996$2.9m |
| 30 | Gemel Smith | Center | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $2,770,214$2.8m |
| 31 | Gustav Lindstrom | Defenseman | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $2,263,901$2.3m |
| 32 | Givani Smith | Right Wing | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $1,789,949$1.8m |
| 33 | Matt Luff | Right Wing | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $1,605,025$1.6m |
| 34 | Taro Hirose | Left Wing | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $1,526,864$1.5m |
| 35 | Joe Veleno | Center | 1 | 2020 | - | $925,000 |
| 36 | Mathias Brome | Left Wing | 1 | 2020 | - | $925,000 |
Detroit Red Wings money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2019-20 is the biggest year on this chart at $66,506,384. 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 Detroit Red Wings player?
Brad Richards. His contracts are worth $107,412,116 across 24 seasons from 2000 to 2025.
What have Detroit Red Wings players earned in total?
$843,980,075 across 36 careers, an average of $23,443,891 each. That is 3.2% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
Detroit Red Wings is 13 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Dallas Stars on $885,145,906 and ahead of Pittsburgh Penguins on $843,138,145.
How many are still being paid?
0 of the 36 have a figure against the 2026-27 season.
Is this the Detroit Red Wings 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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