A complete list of free agents
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Here is the official free agents list as released by the NHL after the free agency period began at noon ET on Monday.
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OFFER</TD><TD width='style="background-color:#999999;"'>
COMPENSATION</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" vAlign=top><TD>$660,000 or below </TD><TD>None </TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec" vAlign=top><TD>Over $660,000-$1 million </TD><TD>3rd-round choice </TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec" vAlign=top><TD>Over $1M-$2M </TD><TD>2nd-round choice </TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" vAlign=top><TD>Over $2M-$3M </TD><TD>1st-round choice and 3rd-round choice </TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec" vAlign=top><TD>Over $3M-$4M </TD><TD>1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-round choices </TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" vAlign=top><TD>Over $4M-$5M </TD><TD>Two 1st-round choices, one 2nd- and one 3rd-round choice </TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec" vAlign=top><TD>Over $5 million </TD><TD>Four 1st-round choices </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!---------------------INLINE TABLE (END)--------------------->
Group II Free Agents
The most restrictive of all groups. Should a Group II free agent sign an offer sheet from another team, the team that owns his rights has the option of matching the offer or receiving compensation in the form of draft picks from the new team. Draft choice compensation is based on the amount offered by the new club. Original clubs must tender a qualifying offer, a minimum amount based on the player's previous salary, to qualify for matching rights and compensation.
Qualifying age/experience: Group II free agents are players 30 and younger as of June 30 who have been tendered qualifying offers by their teams.
ANAHEIM
Stanislav Chistov, Chris Kunitz, Travis Moen, Rob Niedermayer, Samuel Pahlsson, Mark Popovic, Ruslan Salei
ATLANTA
Stephen Baby, Kip Brennan, Kevin Doell, Michael Garnett, Shane Hnidy, Tomas Kloucek, Brad Larsen, Francis Lessard, Derek MacKenzie, Brian Maloney, Pasi Nurminen, Tommi Santala, Andy Sutton, J.P. Vigier
BOSTON
P.J. Axelsson, Brad Boyes, Nick Boynton, Kevin Dallman, Hal Gill, Jonathan Girard, Andy Hilbert, Ivan Huml, Sergei Samsonov, Martin Samuelsson, Joe Thornton, Sergei Zinovjev
BUFFALO
Maxim Afinogenov, Milan Bartovic, Martin Biron, Daniel Briere, Brian Campbell, Tim Connolly, J.P. Dumont, Paul Gaustad, Mike Grier, Jochen Hecht, Jeff Jillson, Ales Kotalik, Jay McKee, Sean McMorrow, Ryan Miller, Jason Pominville, Taylor Pyatt, Michael Ryan, Henrik Tallinder
CALGARY
Chris Clark, Andrew Ference, Miikka Kiprusoff, Chuck Kobasew, Daymond Langkow, Jordan Leopold, Matthew Lombardi, Lynn Loyns, Steven Reinprecht, Rhett Warrener
CAROLINA
Kevyn Adams, Jesse Boulerice, Pavel Brendl, Erik Cole, Matt Cullen, Gordie Dwyer, Colin Forbes, Bruno St. Jacques, Radim Vrbata, Justin Williams, Mike Zigomanis
CHICAGO
Craig Anderson, Tyler Arnason, Mark Bell, Michael Holmqvist, Quintin Laing, Michael Leighton, Jocelyn Thibault, Mikhail Yakubov
COLORADO
David Aebischer, Peter Budaj, Brett Clark, Jeff Finger, Riku Hahl, Milan Hejduk, Dan Hinote, Tom Lawson, John-Michael Liles, Kurt Sauer, Philippe Sauve, Karlis Skrastins, Marek Svatos, Alex Tanguay
COLUMBUS
Tim Jackman, Rostislav Klesla, Pascal Leclaire, Rick Nash, Brandon Sugden, Alexander Svitov
DALLAS
Jason Arnott, Dan Ellis, John Erskine, Dan Jancevski, Niko Kapanen, Junior Lessard, Antti Miettinen, Brenden Morrow, Steve Ott, Mike Smith
DETROIT
Darryl Bootland, Matt Ellis, Tomas Kopecky, Niklas Kronvall, Joey MacDonald, Jason Williams, Henrik Zetterberg
EDMONTON
Eric Brewer, Ales Hemsky, Shawn Horcoff, Jussi Markkanen, Michael Morrison, Marty Reasoner, Jani Rita, Tony Salmelainen, Ryan Smyth, Jarret Stoll, Raffi Torres, Brad Winchester, Mike York
FLORIDA
Christian Berglund, Jay Bouwmeester, Niklas Hagman, Kristian Huselius, Juraj Kolnik, Joel Kwiatkowski, Roberto Luongo, Vaclav Nedorost, Mike Van Ryn, Stephen Weiss
LOS ANGELES
Eric Belanger, Mike Cammalleri, Noah Clarke, Joe Corvo, Alexander Frolov, Adam Hauser, Yanick Lehoux, George Parros
MINNESOTA
Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Manny Fernandez, Willie Mitchell, Erik Reitz, Rickard Wallin, Kyle Wanvig, Todd White, Andrei Zyuzin
MONTREAL
Francis Bouillon, Jan Bulis, Pierre Dagenais, Marcel Hossa, Saku Koivu, Michael Komisarek, Andrei Markov, Tomas Plekanec, Mike Ribeiro, Jose Theodore, Marc-Andre Thinel
NASHVILLE
Brian Finley, Simon Gamache, Dan Hamhuis, Scott Hartnell, Darren Haydar, Darcy Hordichuk, David Legwand, Andrei Mukhachev, Libor Pivko, Steve Sullivan, Greg Zanon
NEW JERSEY
Ari Ahonen, Sean Brown, Matt Demarchi, Patrik Elias, Jeff Friesen, Brian Gionta, Scott Gomez, David Hale, Viktor Kozlov, Jamie Langenbrunner, Paul Martin, Ilkka Pikkarainen, Krisjanis Redlihs, Colin White
N.Y. ISLANDERS
Arron Asham, Shawn Bates, Rob Collins, Eric Godard, Trent Hunter, Kenny Jonsson, Oleg Kvasha, Justin Mapletoft, Radek Martinek, Justin Papineau, Mark Parrish, Tomi Pettinen, Mattias Weinhandl
N.Y. RANGERS
Jozef Balej, Alexandre Giroux, Martin Grenier, Bryce Lampman, Jamie Lundmark, Dominic Moore, Garth Murray, Jed Ortmeyer, Tom Poti, Karel Rachunek, Craig Weller, Chad Wiseman
OTTAWA
Ray Emery, Mike Fisher, Martin Havlat, Andrew Hedlund, Marian Hossa, Chris Kelly, Brian McGratton, Chris Neil, Christoph Schubert, Jason Spezza, Antoine Vermette, Anton Volchenkov
PHILADELPHIA
Robert Esche, Simon Gagne, Kim Johnsson, Randy Jones, Freddy Meyer, David Printz, Branko Radivojevic, Dennis Seidenberg, Patrick Sharp, Wade Skolney
PHOENIX
Sheldon Keefe, Krystofer Kolanos, Paul Mara, Derek Morris, Jeff Taffe
PITTSBURGH
Colby Armstrong, Kris Beech, Shane Endicott, Matt Hussey, David Koci, Konstantin Koltsov, Guillaume Lefebvre, Ross Lupaschuk, Ryan Malone, Josef Melichar, Matt Murley, Michel Ouellet, Martin Strbak, Dick Tarnstrom
ST. LOUIS
Eric Boguniecki, Trevor Byrne, Mike Glumac, Colin Hemingway, Ryan Johnson, Jamal Mayers, Chris Pronger, Mark Rycroft, Bryce Salvador, Brett Scheffelmaier, Peter Sejna, Mike Stuart
SAN JOSE
Matt Carkner, Rob Davison, Niko Dimitrakos, Nisse Ekman, Jim Fahey, Alexander Korolyuk, Patrick Marleau, Doug Murray, Scott Parker, Tom Preissing, Nolan Schaefer, Garrett Stafford, Brad Stuart, Marco Sturm
TAMPA BAY
Dimitri Afanasenkov, Nikita Alexeev, Dan Boyle, Brian Eklund, Ruslan Fedotenko, Andreas Holmqvist, Jason Jaspers, Vincent Lecavalier, Eric Perrin, Shane Willis
TORONTO
Nik Antropov, Wade Belak, Aki Berg, Pierre Hedin, Nathan Perrott, Karel Pilar, Clarke Wilm
VANCOUVER
Bryan Allen, Tyler Bouck, Artem Chubarov, Dan Cloutier, Matt Cooke, Jason King, Brendan Morrison, Mattias Ohlund, Jarkko Ruutu, Sami Salo, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Nathan Smith, Brent Sopel
WASHINGTON
Jared Aulin, Josef Boumedienne, Jakub Cutta, Steve Eminger, Jeff Halpern, Graham Mink, Shaone Morrisonn, Maxime Ouellet, Stephen Peat, Matt Pettinger, Brian Sutherby, Brian Willsie, Brendan Witt, Nolan Yonkman
Group 3 -- Unrestricted Free Agents
The most liberal of all groups. A Group III free agent is unrestricted and may sign with any team.
Qualifying age/experience: Players at least 31 years old as of June 30 with at least four years of NHL experience.
ANAHEIM
None
ATLANTA
Shawn McEachern
BOSTON
Sergei Gonchar, Martin Lapointe
BUFFALO
None
CALGARY
Martin Gelinas, Andrei Trefilov
CAROLINA
Glen Wesley
CHICAGO
Steve Poapst
COLORADO
Vincent Damphousse, Adam Foote, Peter Forsberg, Darby Hendrickson
COLUMBUS
Arturs Irbe, Jaroslav Spacek
DALLAS
Rob DiMaio, Mike Modano, Don Sweeney, Patrick Traverse, Sergei Zubov
DETROIT
Curtis Joseph, Stacy Roest, Jason Woolley, Steve Yzerman
EDMONTON
Igor Ulano
FLORIDA
None
LOS ANGELES
Roman Cechmanek, Stephane Quintal, Luc Robitaille, Martin Straka
MINNESOTA
Andrew Brunette
MONTREAL
Patrice Brisebois, Karl Dykhuis
NASHVILLE
Tony Hrkac, Greg Johnson, Jim McKenzie
NEW JERSEY
Scott Niedermayer, Brian Rafalski, Scott Stevens
N.Y. ISLANDERS
Adrian Aucoin, Jim Campbell, Roman Hamrlik
N.Y. RANGERS
Mike Dunham, Jason Marshall
OTTAWA
None
PHILADELPHIA
Sean Burke, Claude Lapointe, Marcus Ragnarsson, John Slaney
PHOENIX
Andrei Nazarov
PITTSBURGH
Mike Eastwood
ST. LOUIS
Alexander Khavanov
SAN JOSE
Mike Rathje
TAMPA BAY
Dave Andreychuk, Nikolai Khabibulin
TORONTO
Tie Domi, Brian Leetch, Alexander Mogilny, Joe Nieuwendyk, Gary Roberts
VANCOUVER
Brad May, Markus Naslund
WASHINGTON
Stephane Beauregard
Potential Group 5 Free Agents
The most rare of all the groups. A Group V free agent is, in essence, a player with the option of electing Group II status or unrestricted free agency. Historically, players have opted for unrestricted free agency. If a team makes a qualifying offer, the player has until Aug. 5 to elect unrestricted free agency. If the player chooses not to become an unrestricted free agent, the team which owns his rights will have the option of matching an offer from a new team or draft-pick compensation as it applies to Group II free agents. If a team does not make a qualifying offer, the player is moved to the unrestricted list.
Qualifying age/experience: Group V players have completed 10 pro seasons or more (NHL or minors, excluding junior hockey), earned less than the league average of $1,390,896 in 2004-05 and received a timely qualifying offer. These players have the right to elect once in their careers to become unrestricted free agents. If they elect unrestricted status, then fall under the qualifications of a Group V again, they will automatically be restricted.
CHICAGO
Scott Nichol (Group 2)
DETROIT
Mathieu Dandenault (Group 2)
N.Y. ISLANDERS
Dave Scatchard (elected Group 5)
N.Y. RANGERS
Kevin Weekes (Group 2)
SAN JOSE
Wayne Primeau (Group 2)
TAMPA BAY
Nolan Pratt (Group 2), Andre Roy (Group 2)
VANCOUVER
Marek Malik (Group 2)
Group VI Unrestricted Free Agents
As liberal as Group III with different qualifications. A Group VI free agent is unrestricted and may sign with any team.
Qualifying age/experience: A Group VI player is 25 or older, has completed three or more professional seasons, and in the case of forward or defenseman, has played fewer than 80 regular-season and playoff games in the NHL, or in the case of a goaltender has played fewer than 28 regular-season and playoff games in the NHL.
ANAHEIM
Garrett Burnett
ATLANTA
Cory Larose, Kyle Rossiter
BOSTON
None
BUFFALO
Tom Askey, Norm Milley, Brandon Smith
CALGARY
None
CAROLINA
Allan Rourke
CHICAGO
Ajay Baines, Shawn Thornton, Marty Wilford
COLORADO
Chris Bala, Mathieu Darche, Andre Savage, D.J. Smith, Jeff Ulmer
COLUMBUS
Francois Beauchemin, Karl Goehring, Mark Hartigan, Zenith Komarniski, Andre Lakos, Kent McDonell, Brad Moran, Jeff Panzer, Jeremy Reich, Darrel Scoville
DALLAS
None
DETROIT
Pete Vandermeer
EDMONTON
Sean McAslan, Tyler Moss, Dan Smith, Rocky Thompson
FLORIDA
Patrick Desrochers, Burke Henry, Ryan Jardine, Ty Jones, Serge Payer, Kamil Piros, Travis Scott
LOS ANGELES
Ryan Flinn, Joe Rullier, Chris Schmidt
MINNESOTA
Dan Cavanaugh, Ray Giroux
MONTREAL
Gavin Morgan
NASHVILLE
Jerred Smithson
NEW JERSEY
Rob Skrlac
N.Y. ISLANDERS
Barrett Heisten, Dieter Kochan, Ryan Kraft, Richard Seeley
N.Y. RANGERS
Blair Betts, Jason Labarbera, Jeff MacMillan, Lawrence Nycholat, Richard Scott, Stephen Valiquette
OTTAWA
Jesse Fibiger, Pat Kavanagh
PHILADELPHIA
Boyd Kane, Neil Little, Ryan Ready
PHOENIX
Jean-Marc Pelletier, Nik Tselios
PITTSBURGH
Ramzi Abid, Rob Scuderi
ST. LOUIS
Jame Pollock
SAN JOSE
Miroslav Zalesak
TAMPA BAY
None
TORONTO
None
VANCOUVER
Joe DiPenta, Jeff Heerema, Justin Morrison, Peter Sarno
WASHINGTON
Jeff Paul, Darcy Verot, Dwayne Zinger
Unrestricted Free Agents
• As liberal as Group III. The following players were not given a qualifying offer and are therefore unrestricted free agents not subject to a right to match or draft-choice compensation.
ANAHEIM
Sheldon Brookbank, Eddy Ferhi, Kurtis Foster, Tomas Malec, Cory Pecker, Martin Skoula, Alexei Smirnov, Lance Ward.
ATLANTA
Paul Flache, Ivan Majesky, Ben Simon, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Libor Ustrnul.
BOSTON
Peter Hamerlik, Robert Liscak, P.J. Stock, Kris Vernarsky.
BUFFALO
Jason Botterill, Eric Boulton, Brad Brown, Ryan Jorde, Todd Rohloff, Miroslav Satan.
CALGARY
Sebastien Centomo, Deryk Engelland, Anders Eriksson, Brennan Evans, Ville Nieminen, Davis Parley, Roman Rozakov.
CAROLINA
Ryan Bayda, Daniel Boisclair, Sean Curry, Brad Fast, Jim Henkel, Ed Hill, Marty Murray, Jared Newman, Rob Zepp.
CHICAGO
Scott Balan, Bryan Berard, Brandin Cote, Eric Nickulas, Igor Radulov, Stephane Robidas.
COLORADO
Dennis Bonvie, Sergey Klyazmin, Agris Saviels, Peter Worrell.
COLUMBUS
Scott Heffernan, Ben Knopp, Joe Motzko, Mike Pandolfo, Prestin Ryan, Matthias Trattnig, Duvie Westcott.
DALLAS
Aaron Downey.
DETROIT
Paul Ballantyne, Danny Groulx, Nathan Robinson.
EDMONTON
Mike Bishai, Joe Cullen, Jamie Wright.
FLORIDA
Eric Beaudoin, Paul Healey, Scott Kelman, Josh Olson.
LOS ANGELES
Scott Barney, Jason Holland, Esa Pirnes.
MINNESOTA
Jason Beckett, Christoph Brandner, Marc Cavosie, Mark Cullen, Kyle Kettles, Jordan Krestanovich, Richard Park.
MONTREAL
Benoit Dusablon, Christian Larrivee, Matt Shasby, Jason Ward.
NASHVILLE
Jamie Allison, Mark Eaton, Andreas Lilja, Vladimir Orszagh, Wyatt Smith.
NEW JERSEY
Jiri Bicek, Brett Clouthier, Phil Cole, Jan Hrdina, Eric Johansson, Matus Kostur.
N.Y. ISLANDERS
Graham Belak, Sven Butenschon, Blaine Down.
N.Y. RANGERS
Dan Blackburn, Lucas Lawson, Layne Ulmer.
OTTAWA
Denis Hamel, Josh Langfeld, Martin Prusek, Charlie Stephens.
PHILADELPHIA
Nick Deschenes, Jeff Smith, Radovan Somik, Peter White.
PHOENIX
Brian Boucher, Daniel Cleary, Brad Ference, Brent Johnson, Mike Stutzel.
PITTSBURGH
Matt Bradley, Steven Crampton, Darcy Robinson, Michal Rozsival.
ST. LOUIS
None.
SAN JOSE
David Cloutier, Scott Ford, Aaron Gill.
TAMPA BAY
Brad Lukowich, Jamie Storr.
TORONTO
Nathan Barrett, Harold Druken, Regan Kelly.
VANCOUVER
Johnathan Aitken, Tim Smith.
WASHINGTON
Jason Doig, Justin Eddy, Garret Stroshein, Trent Whitfield.
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