Market value
What the league pays, in 2026-27 contracts, for production like each player’s over the three seasons through 2025-26, against his cap hit.
A comparison with one season of contracts, not a verdict on a player and not a forecast of his next deal. How well it anticipates players’ next contracts is checked once, after the 2027 offseason.
“Plays like” is the typical cap hit for a player with his points, ice time, power-play time, games and age (for a goalie, his save percentage, starts and age), fitted separately for forwards, defence and goalies on this season’s contracts outside entry-level deals. The fair range is the middle half of how far that fit misses the contracts it was fitted on; a cap hit above it reads overpaid, below it underpaid.
Entry-level contracts are set by rule, so they get no reading. Retained salary is not accounted for. Players with fewer than 60 games (a goalie with fewer than 40 starts) over the three seasons are not on the board. Cap hit is this season’s charge; club control counts any extension already signed.
Ranked on largest cap hits first.
Showing the first 50 of 647 players on market contracts.