The Salaries of the Top 6 $$$ Hockey Teams in Olympics

[Mess]

Just for interest ..

The Salaries of the top 6 Hockey nations .. (based on NHL contracts)

1) Canada .... 108 million Team salary combined.

2) USA ..........65 million

3) Russia .......54 million

4) Czechs ......45 million

5) Sweden .... 42 million

6) Finalnd ......27 million

Interesting to see when the tourney is done how this plays out ..

Totals provided via Am640 radio Olympic dicussion about a Olympic Salary Cap ..

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[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Just for interest ..

The Salaries of the top 6 Hockey nations .. (based on NHL contracts)

1) Canada .... 108 million Team salary combined.

2) USA ..........65 million

3) Russia .......54 million

4) Czechs ......45 million

5) Sweden .... 42 million

6) Finalnd ......27 million

Interesting to see when the tourney is done how this plays out ..

Totals provided via Am640 radio Olympic dicussion about a Olympic Salary Cap ..

Finland automatically wins, the rest of the teams are DQ'ed for surpassing the Salary Limit.

I didn't expect such a huge drop off for Finland though, would've thought they'd be around the 30-40 range along with most other nations.

 

[QYC]

Salary cap won't work because players don't get paid to play in the Olympics and player salaries from their teams depend on where(what country) they play in.

 

[Oilerfan120582]

Wow, team Finland would be pretty damn good in the NHL and they'd still have $12M left to spend!

I'm surprised Canada is so much higher than everyone else, but when your two backup goalies make $10M I guess it adds up pretty quickly.

 

[BigE]

Salary cap won't work because players don't get paid to play in the Olympics and player salaries from their teams depend on where(what country) they play in.

It was a joke.

 

[The Kingslayer]

It was a joke.

sarcasm doesnt exist in china

 

[ScottyBowman]

I'm guessing Switzerland is 125k

 

[THE SOVIET*]

I'm guessing Switzerland is 125k

The min. salary in the swiss league (which most are from) is 400,000

 

[VanIslander]

Slovakia is 3-0 in the tourney.... so what's their salary level? Bigger deal than Finland it seems.

 

[RuuhkaTukka]

Slovakia is 3-0 in the tourney.... so what's their salary level? Bigger deal than Finland it seems.

NHL players:
BONDRA Peter 505000
BUDAJ Peter 450000
CHARA Zdeno 3724000
DEMITRA Pavol 4500000
GABORIK Marian 2679000
HOSSA Marcel 585200
HOSSA Marian 5000000
JURCINA Milan 513000
MAJESKY Ivan 800000
MESZAROS Andrej 984200
PETROVICKY Ronald 589000
SATAN Miroslav 4015000
SUCHY Radoslav 1140000
SUROVY Tomas 450000
SVATOS Marek 450000
VISNOVSKY Lubomir 1520000
ZEDNIK Richard 1824000
sum. 29 728 400

Non NHL players
BARTECKO Lubos
KAPUS Richard
KRIZAN Karol
LASAK Jan
STRBAK Martin
5*450000=2 250 000

Slovak team would cost you 31 978 400. Not bad! Source http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/home/index.html and http://www.nhlpa.com/.

 

[shawn_kemp*]

How much does Malkin make? Sushinsky? etc

 

[thenextone]

Most of the Finns in the NHL are underpaid so its not surprising

A lot of the big name Canadians are paid hefty contracts so Im not surprised at that astronomical figure.

Im actually really surprised that the min. salary in the Swiss league is so good. No wonder a lot of NHLers went there to play

 

[stv11]

The min. salary in the swiss league (which most are from) is 400,000

400'000 is the highest salary in the swiss league, the average for national team players is probably around 200'000

 

[yvresgyros]

And all of them together don't even amount to the Yankees...

 

[millions]

Good point on the Yankers comparison. Best thing I've seen from baseball lately is catching babies falling from burning buildings. Anytime you can measure contracts in a sizable fraction of a billion dollars, you know something has jumped the shark. I was at the game whan Gretzky signed his big deal with 'Peter Puck' in '79. That was a big deal at an exiting time in the game. Now it seems to be an expectation...

 

[VanIslander]

The Slovaks have a higher salary base than the Finns?

They both are at the bottom of the Top-7 though. Real bargains, given their 4-0 records.

 

[QYC]

sarcasm doesnt exist in china

Nope