Forbes: Auston Matthews is the highest earning hockey player (on and off ice earnings)

[Romang67]

For the youngsters in the room, the backstory behind this was completely ridiculous and worth looking up some time.

Might as well have put $1M for every game played in Michigan. What a wonderful poison pill.

 

[Kshahdoo]

So much money, and he couldn't buy even a goal vs Montreal...

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

$1,892,857 USD is what Matthews takes home every month for on ice only and regular season only.

 

[Crow]

If Jonathan Toews (inflation adjusted) broke this threshold, Conor Bedard is going to destroy it.

 

[12ozPapa]

Does anyone truly care? Good for him? Ok

 

[ViD]

Does anyone truly care? Good for him? Ok

Yes, because these numbers indicate the popularity of hockey against other major sports

 

[Matty Sundin]

He’s probably the most marketable player in the league so not surprised.

 

[hockey20000]

and it did nothing at all last night 0 goals 0 points and shut out lol

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

How much did he get paid last night?

Good for AM34 get that bag young man

 

[BB79]

Austin 3.16...I'll give him $3.16 to come join my team

 

[End of Line]

He'll always have a way toupee for anything he needs.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Fix the cap. Toronto should be penalized for marketing opportunities for players.

 

[RogerRogerr]

Yes, because these numbers indicate the popularity of hockey against other major sports

And why should fans care about that?

 

[TheDoldrums]

always interesting when an article is posted and it's clear that very few actually read it or understand it. He's tied for 3rd in endorsement dollars but that's all anyone is mentioning. This year is his biggest bonus so of course he leads the league in total earnings. In two years his bonus will be more than $5 million less and he'll fall on this list quite a bit, it will have nothing to do with being American or having a personality or whatever.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Austin's tremendous hairline is why he's wanted in commercials.

 

[Jared Dunn]

Bieber's husband.

He is going to murse his way up to 60 goals again. Can't to wait to see him in a proper leadership role. To me he's up there in top 3 of hockey players with God given talent that don't want to play hockey.

This is some top tier brain vomit

 

[Sasha Orlov]

and it did nothing at all last night 0 goals 0 points and shut out lol

He must have thought it was a playoff game

 

[StreetHawk]

always interesting when an article is posted and it's clear that very few actually read it or understand it. He's tied for 3rd in endorsement dollars but that's all anyone is mentioning. This year is his biggest bonus so of course he leads the league in total earnings. In two years his bonus will be more than $5 million less and he'll fall on this list quite a bit, it will have nothing to do with being American or having a personality or whatever.

NHL contracts are locked in for upwards of 8 years. So, while the money year to year may go up and down, that player over the life of the deal will still get their AAV per year. So, a high year will be offset by a low year.
NFL contracts are only really good for the guaranteed money portion, then it's up in the air. Devante Adams average was $28 mill over 5 years but through 3 years, his average is like $22.5 mil.

The most recognizable NHL games make $5/6 mill max off-ice. Take away the shoe deals for the top NBA guys and they still beat the NHLers fairly easily.

Only get so much reach using NHL players.