10 Highest Paid NHL Players

10 Highest Paid NHL Players

The NHL will have seven players making $10 million or more next season, and four of these players will be making this amount of money for the first time this year. There are seven forwards, three defensemen and no goaltenders among the 10 highest-paid players for next year. Are these players worth the insane salaries their teams are paying them? Let's look at the NHL's 10 highest-paid players and determine if they are worth the money.

1) Shea Weber, Nashville Predators
Age: 27
NHL Salary for 2012-13 Season: $14 million
Position: Defenseman

2) Brad Richards, New York Rangers
Age: 32
Salary for 2012-13 Season: $12 million
Position: Forward

3) Tyler Myers, Buffalo Sabres
Age: 22
NHL Salary for 2012-13 Season: $12 million
Position: Defenseman

4) Zach Parise, Minnesota Wild
Age: 28
Salary for 2012-13 Season: $12 million
Position: Forward

5) Ryan Suter, Minnesota Wild
Age: 27
NHL Salary for 2012-13 Season: $12 million
Position: Defenseman

6) Ilya Kovalchuk, New Jersey Devils
Age: 29
Salary for 2012-13 Season: $11 million
Position: Forward

7) Vincent Lecavalier, Tampa Bay Lightning
Age: 32
NHL Salary for 2012-13 Season: $10 million
Position: Forward

8) Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh Penguins
Age: 26
Salary for 2012-13 Season: $9 million
Position: Forward

9) Alexander Ovechkin, Washington Capitals
Age: 26
NHL Salary for 2012-13 Season: $9 million
Position: Forward

10) Eric Staal, Carolina Hurricanes
Age: 27
Salary for 2012-13 Season: $8.5 million
Position: Forward

 

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Pacquiao: Age Makes Him Vulnerable

Former WBA World lightweight champion Brandon Rios’ trainer Robert Garcia sees Manny Pacquiao as being ripe for the picking for his fighter 26-year-old Rios to beat next year, and Garcia sees Pacquiao having problems with Rios’ fighting style/youth.
Garcia said to RingTV “I think Brandon’s style combined with Pacquiao’s age and all of that, we might be able to pull off a surprise.”

Garcia sees Rios as a younger version of Antonio Margarito, who gave Pacquiao a lot of problems with his body punching at the tail end of Margarito’s career. Garcia said “The only difference is Rios is 10 years younger than Margarito, which could be the difference in a fight with Pacquiao.”

The Pacquiao-Rios fight will definitely get made next year if Pacquiao can get past Juan Manuel Marquez on December 8th. Their promoter Bob Arum wants the Pacquiao vs. Rios fight, because it’s an easy in house fight for him to make, and one that would increase Rios’s value as a fighter. It’s the smart thing for Arum to do, because it’s pretty clear that Rios is little more than a limited slugger. He was beaten so easily by Richard Abril earlier this year in a fight where Rios’ limitations as a fighter were brought to light. Arum needs to put Rios in a big fight before he’s exposed by someone else.
Rios might not be all that good, but he’s got enough youth to defeat what’s left of the depleted Pacquiao if Arum makes the mistake of matching Rios up against him next year.

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