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Montreal Canadiens career earnings

$1,104,693,791 across 37 careers, led by Shea Weber on $132,831,000.

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 4.2% of the money in the NHL file.

CAREER MONEY $1.10bn
PER CAREER $29.9m
CAREERS 37
SHARE OF LEAGUE 4.2%
RANK 2 of 32

Montreal Canadiens at a glance

What the roster has been paid

2003 to 2029

Career money
$1,104,693,791
Careers
37
Per career
$29,856,589
Paid through 2026-27
$1,086,693,791
Still to be paid
$18,000,000
Rank
2 of 32 franchises

The Montreal Canadiens 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 Montreal Canadiens careers

Total contract money, 2003 to 2029

37 careers

Shea Weber $133m Carey Price $131m Eric Staal $87m Jeff Petry $66m Nick Suzuki $66m Brendan Gallagher $64m Alexander Semin $57m Josh Anderson $45m Mike Hoffman $42m Tyler Toffoli $39m Karl Alzner $39m David Savard $37m Jonathan Drouin $36m Michael Frolik $35m Mathieu Perreault $31m

Every Montreal Canadiens career

Ranked by total contract money

37 careers

# Player Position Seasons Span Still owed Career earnings
01 Shea Weber Defenseman 21 2005 to 2025 - $132,831,000$132.8m
02 Carey Price Goaltender 19 2007 to 2025 - $131,050,000$131.0m
03 Eric Staal Center 17 2003 to 2020 - $86,908,010$86.9m
04 Jeff Petry Defenseman 15 2010 to 2024 - $65,580,121$65.6m
05 Nick Suzuki Paid in 2026-27 Center 11 2019 to 2029 $18.0m $65,568,501$65.6m
06 Brendan Gallagher Paid in 2026-27 Right Wing 16 2011 to 2026 - $64,003,902$64.0m
07 Alexander Semin Right Wing 15 2006 to 2020 - $56,597,559$56.6m
08 Josh Anderson Paid in 2026-27 Right Wing 12 2015 to 2026 - $44,833,697$44.8m
09 Mike Hoffman Left Wing 11 2013 to 2023 - $41,602,361$41.6m
10 Tyler Toffoli Right Wing 13 2011 to 2023 - $39,404,146$39.4m
11 Karl Alzner Defenseman 13 2009 to 2021 - $38,993,415$39.0m
12 David Savard Defenseman 11 2013 to 2024 - $37,259,275$37.3m
13 Jonathan Drouin Left Wing 9 2014 to 2022 - $35,682,500$35.7m
14 Michael Frolik Right Wing 13 2008 to 2020 - $34,829,268$34.8m
15 Mathieu Perreault Center 14 2008 to 2021 - $30,660,366$30.7m
16 Christian Dvorak Center 9 2016 to 2024 - $29,217,500$29.2m
17 Jake Allen Goaltender 12 2008 to 2022 - $28,948,205$28.9m
18 Evgenii Dadonov Left Wing 6 2017 to 2022 - $27,000,000$27.0m
19 Joel Armia Right Wing 11 2014 to 2024 - $23,337,349$23.3m
20 Paul Byron Center 11 2012 to 2022 - $19,571,305$19.6m
21 Joel Edmundson Defenseman 9 2015 to 2023 - $18,067,500$18.1m
22 Cedric Paquette Center 8 2014 to 2021 - $8,350,000$8.4m
23 Jordan Weal Center 6 2015 to 2020 - $7,582,500$7.6m
24 Jake Evans Center 6 2019 to 2024 - $7,343,924$7.3m
25 Andrew Hammond Goaltender 8 2013 to 2021 - $5,323,709$5.3m
26 Xavier Ouellet Defenseman 7 2013 to 2020 - $4,426,269$4.4m
27 Madison Bowey Defenseman 5 2017 to 2021 - $2,727,274$2.7m
28 Sami Niku Defenseman 5 2017 to 2021 - $2,613,780$2.6m
29 Cayden Primeau Goaltender 3 2019 to 2021 - $1,975,071$2.0m
30 Cole Caufield Right Wing 3 2020 to 2022 - $1,940,074$1.9m
31 Mitchell Stephens Center 3 2019 to 2021 - $1,936,028$1.9m
32 Otto Leskinen Defenseman 2 2019 to 2020 - $1,850,000$1.8m
33 Alexander Romanov Defenseman 2 2020 to 2021 - $1,828,501$1.8m
34 Joel Teasdale Center 2 2019 to 2020 - $1,530,000$1.5m
35 Samuel Montembeault Goaltender 5 2017 to 2021 - $1,398,390$1.4m
36 Rem Pitlick Center 3 2018 to 2021 - $1,160,223
37 Alex Belzile Right Wing 2 2020 to 2021 - $762,068

Montreal Canadiens money by season

What these careers were paid, year by year

20 seasons

2019-20 is the biggest year on this chart at $101,306,655. 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 Montreal Canadiens player?

Shea Weber. His contracts are worth $132,831,000 across 21 seasons from 2005 to 2025.

What have Montreal Canadiens players earned in total?

$1,104,693,791 across 37 careers, an average of $29,856,589 each. That is 4.2% of every dollar in the NHL file.

How does that rank?

Montreal Canadiens is 2 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Tampa Bay Lightning on $1,137,819,273 and ahead of Anaheim Ducks on $1,095,316,379.

How many are still being paid?

3 of the 37 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $18,000,000 is written into deals that run past it.

Is this the Montreal Canadiens 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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