List below are the Top 30 Salary Cap Numbers for centers heading into the 2011-12 NHL season. Due to front-loading contracts (back-loaded in some cases), and teams having to deal with the salary cap, a players cap number takes precedence over their actual salary.
Rk. | Player | Team | 2011-12 Cap Number | 2011-12 Salary |
1 | Henrik Lundqvist | NYR | $6,875,000 | $6,875,000 |
2 | Cam Ward | CAR | $6,300,000 | $6,300,000 |
3 | Ryan Miller | BUF | $6,250,000 | $6,250,000 |
4 | Niklas Backstrom | MIN | $6,000,000 | $6,000,000 |
5 | Miikka Kiprusoff | CGY | $5,833,000 | $6,000,000 |
6 | Ilya Bryzgalov | PHI | $5,667,000 | $10,000,000 |
7 | Roberto Luongo | VAN | $5,333,000 | $6,716,000 |
8 | Martin Brodeur | NJD | $5,200,000 | $5,200,000 |
9 | Tim Thomas | BOS | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 |
10 | Marc-Andre Fleury | PIT | $5,000,000 | $5,500,000 |
11 | Jonas Hiller | ANA | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 |
12 | Rick DiPietro | NYI | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 |
13 | Antti Niemi | SJS | $3,800,000 | $3,200,000 |
14 | Nikolai Khabibulin | EDM | $3,750,000 | $3,750,000 |
15 | Jaroslav Halak | STL | $3,750,000 | $3,500,000 |
16 | Kari Lehtonen | DAL | $3,550,000 | $3,700,000 |
17 | Pekka Rinne | NAS | $3,400,000 | $4,000,000 |
18 | Craig Anderson | OTT | $3,188,000 | $2,750,000 |
19 | Dwayne Roloson | TBL | $3,000,000 | $3,000,000 |
20 | Steve Mason | CLB | $2,900,000 | $2,600,000 |
21 | Semyon Varlamov | COL | $2,833,000 | $2,500,000 |
22 | Carey Price | MTL | $2,750,000 | $3,000,000 |
23 | Corey Crawford | CHI | $2,667,000 | $3,250,000 |
24 | Jimmy Howard | DET | $2,250,000 | $2,250,000 |
25 | Antero Niittymaki | SJS | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 |
26 | Mike Smith | PHX | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 |
27 | Chris Mason | WPG | $1,850,000 | $2,100,000 |
28 | Jonathan Quick | LAK | $1,800,000 | $1,800,000 |
29 | James Reimer | TOR | $1,800,000 | $2,200,000 |
30 | Sergei Bobrovsky | PHI | $1,750,000 | $900,000 |