From $350,000 to $12,000,000 per season. Sidney Crosby is the highest paid player at present in the NHL in the 2010-2011 season.
The last CBA, (collective bargaining agreement) starts the minimum salary for rookies at $900,000 per year in their first year up to a million by the third. Anyone making less (i.e 350,000$) was before the CBA was put into place.
20.4 million
The average NHL player makes $2.4 million annually. However, some players make as much as $14 million.
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The NHL made helmets mandatory for players starting in the 1979-1980 season.
1 of 5,000 players will make it more than 5 years at the NHL level.
Roughly 4-7% go straight to the NHL
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All of the teams in the NHL have American players.
There are 37 Russian Born Players in NHL
This question is difficult to answer as the AHL is the main development league for the NHL. While some gifted players come right out of junior, college or Europe and step right into the NHL, the vast majority of NHL players have played in the AHL at some point for varying amounts of time until they have developed their skills. There is, obviously, no rule about how many players can come from the minor league. NHL teams recall their players as they see a need.
Most players in the NHL have been drafted because they had a good showing in the sport in college. Each NHL team sends out scouts to attend college games and observe players that they feel would make the team.
pretty much the whole season