Fortune of Players in 05-06 Final= $452M

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Fortune Accumulated by Players in 2005-06 NHL Final= $452 Million
Published May 2006

Based on its extensive Salary History Database, HockeyZonePlus.com estimates that the aggregated accumulated fortunes of the Carolina Hurricanes and Edmonton Oilers players who participated in the NHL 2005-06 Stanley Cup Finals is close to half a billion dollars, take or leave a few dozen millions (but who's counting, at that point?)!

Based on the 2 goalies and 20 skaters on each team with the most playoff games this year, the Hurricanes' players have an accumulated fortune of $259 million while the Oilers' players only have $194 million, 25% less...

Chris Pronger leads the pack with almost $54 million, followed by Doug Weight, with $47 million. Each team has just 4 players, trying to make ends meet, under the $1 million mark.

The table below provides the overall details - clicking on a player's name will lead to his specific salary history. The HockeyZonePlus.com Database provides salary history information from 1989 to the present on over 2,600 past and current NHL players.

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Carolina Hurricanes		Edmonton Oilers
Doug Weight	47,354,775	Chris Pronger	53,700,500
Mark Recchi	43,663,000	Mike Peca	19,599,272
Rod Brind'Amour	35,192,000	Ryan Smyth	17,482,013
Glen Wesley	22,355,000	Sergei Samsonov	14,745,000
Oleg Tverdovsky	18,620,000	Jason Smith	11,536,000
Bret Hedican	17,750,500	Radek Dvorak	11,021,000
Ray Whitney	16,973,400	Todd Harvey	9,530,200
Cory Stillman	13,323,115	Ethan Moreau	8,927,000
Aaron Ward	8,439,500	Jaroslav Spacek	8,800,000
Matt Cullen	5,687,800	Steve Staios	6,658,000
Justin Williams	5,422,500	Dwayne Roloson	6,622,000
Frantisek Kaberle	5,042,000	Rem Murray	6,311,009
Kevyn Adams	4,715,300	Georges Laraque	5,254,440
Niclas Wallin	3,086,000	Ales Hemsky	3,161,740
Josef Vasicek	2,560,000	Shawn Horcoff	2,950,000
Martin Gerber	2,064,000	Jussi Markkanen	1,955,000
Craig Adams	1,855,000	Rafi Torres	1,900,000
Mike Commodore	1,465,000	Fernando Pisani	1,211,800
Andrew Ladd	984,200	Matt Greene	745,000
Eric Staal	942,000	Marc-Andre Bergeron	608,000
Cam Ward	684,000	Jarret Stoll	501,600
Chad Larose	450,000	Brad Winchester	450,000
TOTAL	258,629,090	TOTAL	193,669,573
GRAND TOTAL = $ 452,298,663 Average per player = $10,279,515

Salaries paid in Canadian currency by Canadian teams, in the early 90s, were converted to $US as per the January exchange rate of the given seasons.

Some players have two-way contracts and have received lower salaries than those listed when playing in farm clubs.

The listed salaries were gathered from different sources and while they closely reflect reality, they are not necessarily exact. Of course, that is from their NHL salaries only and it does not take into account any other revenue streams such as endorsements, summer jobs, business ventures, being a Mary Kay independent consultant to supplement revenues, etc.

Base salaries are usually shown as bonuses are generally not made public.

Totals do take into account the fact that players received only +/-58% of their salary during the 1994-95 season because of a strike (48 games played instead of 84). Some players possibly had contracts stipulating that they were paid despite a strike but we have no information in that regard.

During the 2004-05 lockout, some players joined various teams in North America and Europe and were paid to do so. It is not included in the Grand Total because we have no information about the salaries they made in those leagues.

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