NHL players soak in new record salaries

Sep 23, 2026, 5:03 PM ET|Comments (0)

from The Globe and Mail — Hockey,

“I was surprised,” he said at the NHL/NHLPA player media tour in Las Vegas earlier this month. “A weird feeling, [but it’s] where the league is heading.”

The Philadelphia Flyers were proposing an eye-popping five-year, US$90-million offer sheet in restricted free agency carrying a record-breaking – for a few weeks, at least – average annual value of US$18-million to pry Carlsson out of California.

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