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Top ten veteran players earning little (by NHL standards), producing big numbers by any measure. Updated 1/24/12

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Player

Team

Salary

Stats

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C

Kyle Wellwood

Winnipeg Jets

$700K

49GP: 9-21-30; 2PPG; 63 SOG

Jets’ top scorer has a big supporter in Don Cherry; too bad he didn’t have more fans in Toronto.  Leafs’ loss is former Thrashers’ gain for Winnipeg 2.0.  Could shoot more, but solid.

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RW

Petr Sykora

New Jersey Devils

$600K

47GP: 12-14-26PTS; 114SOG.

Never scored fewer than 20 goals in any NHL season in which he appeared in more than half his team’s games.  3 Stanley Cups: NJD, PIT, ANA.  Called the game-winning OT goal in Game 6 of the ’09 SCF. 

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D

Marc-Andre Bergeron

Tampa Bay Lightning

$1M

42GP: 4-20-24PTS

INJURED

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G

Brian Elliott

St. Louis Blues

$600K

22GP: 15-5-1 1.68GAA / .937SV% 5SO

Headed to All-Star Game

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D

Kent Huskins

St. Louis Blues

$1M

9GP: 2-2-4PTS; 33%SOG%; +6

Too bad for injury (IR); was contributing mightily.

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G

Curtis Sanford

Columbus Blue Jackets

$600K

24GP: 8-10-4 2.51GAA /  .914SV%

Hanging in, providing solid play for awful club.

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RW

Jamal Mayers

Chicago Blackhawks

$550K

49GP: 3-6-9; 1GWG; 48SOGs

Cooled off a bit in January, but still a key guy during stretch.  Shot-per-game at 1 per makes for a good 4th liner.

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G

J-S Giguere

Colorado Avalanche

$1.25M

22GP: 12-7-1 2.11GAA /  .922SV% 1SO

Taken over in Colorado for Varlamov, who now studies from the master. Beat his former Ducks in first return to Anaheim.

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C

Eric Nystrom

Dallas Stars

$1.347M

30GP: 14-3-17; 19.4 SOG%

14 goals for a depth guy.  Look at that shooting percentage!

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C

Boyd Gordon

Phoenix Coyotes

$1.325

42GP; 5-11-16; 1GWG

Returned from injury recently.

 

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