Benn signed an 8-year, $76 million contract with the Dallas Stars that came with a $56 million signing bonus.
Jamie Randolph Benn born on 18 July 1989 in Victoria, Canada is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger and captain of the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. Benn played his junior hockey career with the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League (WHL) prior to turning professional. He represented Canada at the 2009 World Junior Championships, where he helped capture a gold medal. With Team Canada, he won a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
He is the younger brother of defenseman Jordie Benn, who plays for the Minnesota Wild, and Jamie’s former teammate. In the 2014–15 season, Benn was awarded the Art Ross Trophy as the league’s leading scorer with 87 points. The Stars went to the Stanley Cup Final in 2020 under his leadership. Benn was overlooked for much of his early hockey career. He was ignored by major junior teams as a 16- and 17-year-old growing up in Victoria.
Benn was overlooked for much of his early hockey career. He was ignored by major junior teams as a 16- and 17-year-old growing up in Victoria, British Columbia, then had to wait until the fifth round (No. 129) before the Dallas Stars selected him in the 2007 NHL Draft. He also was left off the list of invitees to Canada’s orientation camp for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Canada eventually corrected the oversight, adding Benn just before the start of the Games.
Benn scored the game’s only goal in the semifinal victory against the United States that sent Canada to the gold-medal game, where it defeated Sweden 3-0. Benn established himself among the NHL’s elite. He was named to the First All-Star Team in 2013-14, won the Art Ross Trophy as the League’s top scorer (87 points) and was named to the Second All-Star Team in 2014-15, then scored 41 goals and 89 points in 2015-16, when he was named to the NHL First All-Star Team for the second time.
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Benn had to wait until the fifth round (No. 129) before the Dallas Stars selected him in the 2007 NHL Draft. Benn established himself among the NHL’s elite. He was named to the First All-Star Team in 2013-14, won the Art Ross Trophy as the League’s top scorer (87 points) and was named to the Second All-Star Team in 2014-15, then scored 41 goals and 89 points in 2015-16, when he was named to the NHL First All-Star Team for the second time.
Benn is a Canadian professional hockey player who has a net worth of $30 million. In 2016 he signed an 8-year, $76 million contract with the Dallas Stars that came with a $56 million signing bonus. The entire contract is fully guaranteed and pays an average annual salary of $9.5 million. In 2020-1, a base salary of $1,000,000 and a signing bonus of $8,000,000, while carrying a cap hit of $9,500,000. He currently serves as captain of the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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