Tampa Bay Lightning career earnings
$1,137,819,273 across 33 careers, led by Steven Stamkos on $116,675,000.
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 4.3% of the money in the NHL file.
Tampa Bay Lightning at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $1,137,819,273
- Careers
- 33
- Per career
- $34,479,372
- Paid through 2026-27
- $1,104,819,273
- Still to be paid
- $33,000,000
- Rank
- 1 of 32 franchises
The Tampa Bay Lightning 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 Tampa Bay Lightning careers
Total contract money, 2000 to 2029
Every Tampa Bay Lightning career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Steven Stamkos | Center | 16 | 2008 to 2023 | - | $116,675,000$116.7m |
| 02 | Marian Gaborik | Right Wing | 20 | 2000 to 2020 | - | $103,025,013$103.0m |
| 03 | Brayden Point Paid in 2026-27 | Center | 14 | 2016 to 2029 | $22.0m | $98,235,000$98.2m |
| 04 | Brent Seabrook | Defenseman | 19 | 2005 to 2023 | - | $97,327,200$97.3m |
| 05 | Corey Perry | Right Wing | 18 | 2005 to 2022 | - | $92,820,883$92.8m |
| 06 | Nikita Kucherov Paid in 2026-27 | Right Wing | 14 | 2013 to 2026 | - | $92,517,500$92.5m |
| 07 | Andrei Vasilevski Paid in 2026-27 | Goaltender | 14 | 2014 to 2027 | $6.0m | $88,845,323$88.8m |
| 08 | Victor Hedman | Defenseman | 16 | 2009 to 2024 | - | $85,700,000$85.7m |
| 09 | Ryan Callahan | Right Wing | 14 | 2006 to 2019 | - | $57,348,077$57.3m |
| 10 | Zach Bogosian | Defenseman | 16 | 2008 to 2023 | - | $47,421,965$47.4m |
| 11 | Ondrej Palat | Left Wing | 9 | 2013 to 2021 | - | $37,087,500$37.1m |
| 12 | Ian Cole | Defenseman | 13 | 2010 to 2022 | - | $28,949,694$28.9m |
| 13 | Nicholas Paul Paid in 2026-27 | Center | 14 | 2015 to 2028 | $5.0m | $27,188,379$27.2m |
| 14 | Brian Elliott | Goaltender | 14 | 2009 to 2022 | - | $23,495,122$23.5m |
| 15 | Vladislav Namestnikov | Center | 9 | 2014 to 2022 | - | $19,191,559$19.2m |
| 16 | Mikhail Sergachev | Defenseman | 7 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $18,007,500$18.0m |
| 17 | Patrick Maroon | Left Wing | 17 | 2007 to 2023 | - | $17,109,451$17.1m |
| 18 | Anthony Cirelli | Center | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $16,020,561$16.0m |
| 19 | Anders Nilsson | Goaltender | 6 | 2015 to 2020 | - | $12,200,699$12.2m |
| 20 | Pierre-Edouard Bellemare | Left Wing | 9 | 2014 to 2022 | - | $10,500,000$10.5m |
| 21 | Erik Cernak | Defenseman | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $10,056,775$10.1m |
| 22 | Curtis McElhinney | Goaltender | 11 | 2009 to 2020 | - | $8,940,476$8.9m |
| 23 | Haydn Fleury | Defenseman | 7 | 2017 to 2023 | - | $6,400,440$6.4m |
| 24 | Brandon Hagel | Left Wing | 6 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $5,795,952$5.8m |
| 25 | Fredrik Claesson | Defenseman | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $3,999,099$4.0m |
| 26 | Mathieu Joseph | Right Wing | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $2,452,381$2.5m |
| 27 | Cristoval Nieves | Center | 5 | 2016 to 2020 | - | $2,424,811$2.4m |
| 28 | Ross Colton | Center | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $2,375,000$2.4m |
| 29 | Cal Foote | Defenseman | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $2,366,660$2.4m |
| 30 | Alex Barre-Boulet | Center | 4 | 2020 to 2023 | - | $1,945,255$1.9m |
| 31 | Maxime Lagace | Goaltender | 5 | 2017 to 2021 | - | $1,189,964 |
| 32 | Ben Thomas | Defenseman | 1 | 2020 | - | $200,000 |
| 33 | Daniel Walcott | Left Wing | 1 | 2020 | - | $6,034 |
Tampa Bay Lightning money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2021-22 is the biggest year on this chart at $91,416,628. 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 Tampa Bay Lightning player?
Steven Stamkos. His contracts are worth $116,675,000 across 16 seasons from 2008 to 2023.
What have Tampa Bay Lightning players earned in total?
$1,137,819,273 across 33 careers, an average of $34,479,372 each. That is 4.3% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
Tampa Bay Lightning is 1 of 32 franchises by total career money and ahead of Montreal Canadiens on $1,104,693,791.
How many are still being paid?
4 of the 33 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $33,000,000 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the Tampa Bay Lightning 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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