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Forbes·2026-02-10 00:23

While the Winter Olympics won’t have the NBA, golf and tennis stars whose outsize paychecks loom over the Summer Games—and frequently place them on the annual Forbes list of the world’s highest-paid athletes—the men’s hockey tournament in Milan includes 146 players from the NHL. The league, which hadn’t allowed its players to take the Olympic ice since 2014, has a minimum salary of $775,000 this season, and nine of the ten members of the Forbes ranking of the NHL’s highest-paid players—which also accounts f ...