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No team with a player earning more than US$10 million has ever won the Stanley Cup. Article content Article content

The Florida Panthers won their second straight Stanley Cup last season with two players having a US$10 million salary-cap hit: captain Aleksander Barkov and goalie Sergei Bobrovsky.

There are 16 players in the NHL this season with a salary-cap hit of more than US$10.5 million, including three with the Edmonton Oilers , two with the Toronto Maple Leafs and two with the New York Rangers.

The highest-paid players in order (all figures in U.S. dollars) are: Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl ($14 million), Toronto’s Auston

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