Nashville Predators career earnings
$787,616,910 across 30 careers, led by Filip Forsberg on $106,893,910.
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.
Nashville Predators at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $787,616,910
- Careers
- 30
- Per career
- $26,253,897
- Paid through 2026-27
- $760,116,910
- Still to be paid
- $27,500,000
- Rank
- 18 of 32 franchises
The Nashville Predators 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 Nashville Predators careers
Total contract money, 2005 to 2029
Every Nashville Predators career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Filip Forsberg Paid in 2026-27 | Center | 18 | 2012 to 2029 | $20.5m | $106,893,910$106.9m |
| 02 | Roman Josi Paid in 2026-27 | Defenseman | 18 | 2010 to 2027 | $7.0m | $102,821,695$102.8m |
| 03 | Matt Duchene | Center | 17 | 2009 to 2025 | - | $94,352,439$94.4m |
| 04 | Ryan McDonagh | Defenseman | 16 | 2010 to 2025 | - | $77,799,695$77.8m |
| 05 | Ryan Johansen | Center | 13 | 2010 to 2024 | - | $75,448,387$75.4m |
| 06 | Pekka Rinne | Goaltender | 15 | 2005 to 2020 | - | $65,176,961$65.2m |
| 07 | Mattias Ekholm | Defenseman | 13 | 2013 to 2025 | - | $50,497,500$50.5m |
| 08 | Mikael Granlund | Center | 12 | 2013 to 2024 | - | $49,225,000$49.2m |
| 09 | Juuse Saros | Goaltender | 10 | 2015 to 2024 | - | $25,893,618$25.9m |
| 10 | Luca Sbisa | Defenseman | 13 | 2008 to 2020 | - | $24,345,732$24.3m |
| 11 | Colton Sissons | Center | 11 | 2015 to 2025 | - | $22,126,628$22.1m |
| 12 | Cody Hodgson | Center | 15 | 2008 to 2022 | - | $16,367,374$16.4m |
| 13 | Mark Borowiecki | Defenseman | 10 | 2013 to 2022 | - | $11,085,513$11.1m |
| 14 | Jeremy Lauzon | Defenseman | 8 | 2018 to 2025 | - | $10,179,205$10.2m |
| 15 | David Rittich | Goaltender | 7 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $9,854,454$9.9m |
| 16 | Matthew Benning | Defenseman | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $7,650,000$7.7m |
| 17 | Rocco Grimaldi | Right Wing | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $6,863,236$6.9m |
| 18 | Dante Fabbro | Defenseman | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $6,791,736$6.8m |
| 19 | Eeli Tolvanen | Right Wing | 5 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $5,100,855$5.1m |
| 20 | Matt Tennyson | Defenseman | 9 | 2012 to 2021 | - | $3,598,142$3.6m |
| 21 | Ben Harpur | Defenseman | 6 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $3,357,656$3.4m |
| 22 | Alex Carrier | Defenseman | 4 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $2,508,074$2.5m |
| 23 | Cody Glass | Center | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $1,992,215$2.0m |
| 24 | Michael McCarron | Right Wing | 5 | 2015 to 2022 | - | $1,887,524$1.9m |
| 25 | Yakov Trenin | Center | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $1,808,848$1.8m |
| 26 | Tanner Jeannot | Left Wing | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $1,768,782$1.8m |
| 27 | Kole Sherwood | Left Wing | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $1,755,459$1.8m |
| 28 | David Farrance | Defenseman | 1 | 2020 | - | $286,279 |
| 29 | Kasimir Kaskisuo | Goaltender | 3 | 2018 to 2020 | - | $167,925 |
| 30 | Frederic Allard | Defenseman | 1 | 2020 | - | $12,068 |
Nashville Predators money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2021-22 is the biggest year on this chart at $77,544,167. 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 Nashville Predators player?
Filip Forsberg. His contracts are worth $106,893,910 across 18 seasons from 2012 to 2029.
What have Nashville Predators players earned in total?
$787,616,910 across 30 careers, an average of $26,253,897 each. That is 3.0% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
Nashville Predators is 18 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Los Angeles Kings on $788,123,956 and ahead of Chicago Blackhawks on $783,490,568.
How many are still being paid?
2 of the 30 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $27,500,000 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the Nashville Predators 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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