Vancouver Canucks career earnings
$737,489,941 across 47 careers, led by Oliver Ekman-Larsson on $101,416,829.
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 2.8% of the money in the NHL file.
Vancouver Canucks at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $737,489,941
- Careers
- 47
- Per career
- $15,691,275
- Paid through 2026-27
- $737,489,941
- Still to be paid
- $0
- Rank
- 23 of 32 franchises
The Vancouver Canucks 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 Vancouver Canucks careers
Total contract money, 2008 to 2026
Every Vancouver Canucks career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Oliver Ekman-Larsson Paid in 2026-27 | Defenseman | 17 | 2010 to 2026 | - | $101,416,829$101.4m |
| 02 | Tyler Myers | Defenseman | 15 | 2009 to 2023 | - | $71,625,000$71.6m |
| 03 | Quinn Hughes Paid in 2026-27 | Defenseman | 9 | 2018 to 2026 | - | $49,164,048$49.2m |
| 04 | Nate Schmidt | Defenseman | 11 | 2013 to 2024 | - | $42,097,564$42.1m |
| 05 | Brock Boeser | Right Wing | 9 | 2016 to 2024 | - | $40,350,000$40.4m |
| 06 | Brandon Sutter | Center | 14 | 2008 to 2021 | - | $37,595,732$37.6m |
| 07 | Travis Hamonic | Defenseman | 13 | 2010 to 2022 | - | $36,599,695$36.6m |
| 08 | Bo Horvat | Center | 9 | 2014 to 2022 | - | $35,895,000$35.9m |
| 09 | J.T. Miller | Center | 11 | 2011 to 2022 | - | $34,649,498$34.6m |
| 10 | Thatcher Demko | Goaltender | 10 | 2016 to 2025 | - | $29,095,922$29.1m |
| 11 | Tanner Pearson | Left Wing | 11 | 2013 to 2023 | - | $29,055,000$29.1m |
| 12 | Conor Garland | Right Wing | 8 | 2018 to 2025 | - | $26,722,895$26.7m |
| 13 | Luke Schenn | Defenseman | 15 | 2008 to 2022 | - | $26,425,077$26.4m |
| 14 | Elias Pettersson | Center | 6 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $24,825,000$24.8m |
| 15 | Antoine Roussel | Left Wing | 10 | 2012 to 2021 | - | $21,026,220$21.0m |
| 16 | Micheal Ferland | Left Wing | 9 | 2014 to 2022 | - | $19,515,179$19.5m |
| 17 | Tucker Poolman | Defenseman | 8 | 2017 to 2024 | - | $12,655,920$12.7m |
| 18 | Alex Chiasson | Right Wing | 9 | 2013 to 2021 | - | $10,160,000$10.2m |
| 19 | Jake Virtanen | Left Wing | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $10,097,500$10.1m |
| 20 | Jimmy Vesey | Left Wing | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $8,092,285$8.1m |
| 21 | Ethan Bear | Defenseman | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $7,209,153$7.2m |
| 22 | Tyler Motte | Center | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $5,759,845$5.8m |
| 23 | Curtis Lazar | Center | 8 | 2014 to 2021 | - | $5,676,482$5.7m |
| 24 | Travis Dermott | Defenseman | 5 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $5,195,341$5.2m |
| 25 | Ilya Mikheyev | Left Wing | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $4,215,000$4.2m |
| 26 | Justin Dowling | Center | 6 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $3,571,751$3.6m |
| 27 | Phillip di Giuseppe | Left Wing | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $3,288,759$3.3m |
| 28 | Collin Delia | Goaltender | 5 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $3,133,619$3.1m |
| 29 | Justin Bailey | Right Wing | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $2,722,788$2.7m |
| 30 | Nils Hoglander | Left Wing | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $2,675,000$2.7m |
| 31 | Spencer Martin | Goaltender | 6 | 2016 to 2023 | - | $2,462,270$2.5m |
| 32 | Tyler Graovac | Center | 6 | 2014 to 2020 | - | $2,422,377$2.4m |
| 33 | Matthew Highmore | Center | 4 | 2017 to 2021 | - | $2,304,411$2.3m |
| 34 | Jayce Hawryluk | Center | 3 | 2018 to 2020 | - | $2,218,328$2.2m |
| 35 | Dakota Joshua | Center | 4 | 2020 to 2023 | - | $2,171,158$2.2m |
| 36 | Noah Juulsen | Defenseman | 4 | 2017 to 2021 | - | $2,087,462$2.1m |
| 37 | Jack Studnicka | Center | 5 | 2019 to 2023 | - | $2,032,858$2.0m |
| 38 | Juho Lammikko | Right Wing | 3 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $1,934,029$1.9m |
| 39 | Brady Keeper | Defenseman | 4 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $1,738,824$1.7m |
| 40 | Kyle Burroughs | Defenseman | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $1,548,272$1.5m |
| 41 | Sheldon Dries | Center | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $1,419,298$1.4m |
| 42 | Michael DiPietro | Goaltender | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $1,202,697 |
| 43 | Ashton Sautner | Defenseman | 5 | 2017 to 2021 | - | $1,144,161 |
| 44 | Guillaume Brisebois | Defenseman | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $1,068,219 |
| 45 | Marc Michaelis | Left Wing | 1 | 2020 | - | $700,000 |
| 46 | Jack Rathbone | Defenseman | 2 | 2020 to 2021 | - | $329,123 |
| 47 | Arturs Silovs | Goaltender | 2 | 2020 to 2021 | - | $194,352 |
Vancouver Canucks money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2021-22 is the biggest year on this chart at $96,211,238. 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 Vancouver Canucks player?
Oliver Ekman-Larsson. His contracts are worth $101,416,829 across 17 seasons from 2010 to 2026.
What have Vancouver Canucks players earned in total?
$737,489,941 across 47 careers, an average of $15,691,275 each. That is 2.8% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
Vancouver Canucks is 23 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Columbus Blue Jackets on $741,111,602 and ahead of Florida Panthers on $736,026,946.
How many are still being paid?
2 of the 47 have a figure against the 2026-27 season.
Is this the Vancouver Canucks 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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