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NHL Releases Free Agent List

07/01/2016 at 11:48am EDT

NEW YORK (July 1, 2016) -- The National Hockey League today released a list of players who are restricted free agents under Group 2, unrestricted free agents under Group 3 and Group 6 and unrestricted free agents by virtue of not receiving a qualifying offer.

Some of these players may recently have signed with their respective Clubs; however, their contracts had not yet been filed with the League.

FREE AGENTS SUBJECT TO COMPENSATION AND RIGHT TO MATCH - GROUP 2

The players listed below have been tendered a qualifying offer by their respective Clubs and are subject to draft-choice compensation and right to match. The draft choice compensation scale is based on compensation offered by the new Club:

OFFER COMPENSATION

$1,239,226 or below None
Over $1,239,226 to $1,877,615 Third-round choice
Over $1,877,615 to $3,755,233 Second-round choice
Over $3,755,233 to $5,632,847 First-round and third-round choice
Over $5,632,847 to $7,510,464 First-round, second-round and third-round choice
Over $7,510,464 to $9,388,080 Two first-round choices, one second- and one third-round choice
Over $9,388,080 Four first-round choices

ANAHEIM

Hampus Lindholm, Rickard Rakell.

ARIZONA

Stefan Fournier, Connor Murphy, Tobias Rieder, Michael Stone.

BOSTON

Chris Casto, Brian Ferlin, Alexander Khokhlachev, Colin Miller, Joe Morrow.

BUFFALO

Daniel Catenacci, Marcus Foligno, Zemgus Girgensons, Rasmus Ristolainen.

CALGARY

Freddie Hamilton, Sean Monahan, Tyler Wotherspoon.

CAROLINA

Keegan Lowe, Ryan Murphy, Victor Rask, Dennis Robertson, Brody Sutter, Brendan Woods.

CHICAGO

Mark McNeill.

COLORADO

Tyson Barrie, Mikhail Grigorenko, Nathan MacKinnon, Calvin Pickard, Duncan Siemens.

COLUMBUS

Alex Broadhurst, Scott Harrington, T.J. Tynan.

DALLAS

Jamie Oleksiak, Matej Stransky.

DETROIT

Louis-Marc Aubry, Mitch Callahan, Colin Campbell, Jared Coreau, Danny DeKeyser, Alexei Marchenko, Petr Mrazek, Teemu Pulkkinen, Ryan Sproul.

EDMONTON

David Musil.

FLORIDA

Jonathan Racine, Logan Shaw, Vincent Trocheck.

LOS ANGELES

Jack Campbell, Andrew Crescenzi, Nic Dowd, Derek Forbort.

MINNESOTA

Matt Dumba, Darcy Kuemper, Zach Palmquist, Jordan Schroeder.

MONTREAL

Daniel Carr, Phillip Danault.

NASHVILLE

Taylor Aronson, Stefan Elliott, Petter Granberg, Calle Jarnkrok.

NEW JERSEY

Reid Boucher, Jacob Josefson, Sergey Kalinin, Kyle Palmieri, Reece Scarlett.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Jean-Francois Berube, Christopher Gibson, Scott Mayfield, Kirill Petrov, Shane Prince, Alan Quine, Ryan Strome.

NEW YORK RANGERS

Mat Bodie, Kevin Hayes, Marek Hrivik, Tommy Hughes, Nicklas Jensen, Chris Kreider, Dylan McIlrath, J.T. Miller.

OTTAWA

Cody Ceci, Fredrik Claesson, Ryan Dzingel, Mike Hoffman, Max McCormick, Matt Puempel.

PHILADELPHIA

Nick Cousins, Brandon Manning, Brayden Schenn, Petr Straka, Jordan Weal.

PITTSBURGH

Dominik Uher.

SAN JOSE

Ryan Carpenter, Dylan DeMelo, Matt Nieto.

ST. LOUIS

Jordan Binnington, Pheonix Copley, Anders Nilsson, Magnus Paajarvi, Ty Rattie, Jaden Schwartz.

TAMPA BAY

Yanni Gourde, Kristers Gudlevskis, Alex Killorn, Nikita Kucherov, Vladislav Namestnikov, Nikita Nesterov.

TORONTO

Connor Carrick, Frank Corrado, Peter Holland, Josh Leivo, Martin Marincin, Garret Sparks.

VANCOUVER

Alexandre Grenier, Andrey Pedan, Michael Zalewski.

WASHINGTON

Marcus Johansson, Dmitry Orlov.

WINNIPEG

Joel Armia, Brenden Kichton, J.C. Lipon, Adam Lowry, Julian Melchiori, Mark Scheifele, Jacob Trouba.



UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS - GROUP 3

The following players have qualified for Group 3 Free Agency (age 27 or older or with at least seven Accrued Seasons) and are Unrestricted Free Agents.

ANAHEIM

Korbinian Holzer, Shawn Horcoff, Anton Khudobin, Jamie McGinn, Brian McGrattan, Chris Mueller, Shane O'Brien, David Perron, Joe Piskula, Mike Santorelli, Chris Stewart, Harry Zolnierczyk.

ARIZONA

Kyle Chipchura, Shane Doan, Steve Downie, Maxim Goncharov, Boyd Gordon, Alex Grant, Nicklas Grossmann, Anders Lindback, Brett MacLean, Dylan Reese, Eric Selleck, Derek Smith, Alex Tanguay, Viktor Tikhonov.

BOSTON

Chris Breen, Brandon DeFazio, Loui Eriksson, Jonas Gustafsson, Matt Irwin, Chris Kelly, Joonas Kemppainen, John-Michael Liles, Jeremy Smith, Lee Stempniak, Max Talbot.

BUFFALO

Carlo Colaiacovo, Chad Johnson, David Legwand, Bobby Sanguinetti.

CALGARY

Niklas Backstrom, Chad Billins, Jonas Hiller, Jakub Nakladal, Karri Ramo.

CAROLINA

Evgeni Dadonov, Nathan Gerbe, T.J. Hensick, Brad Malone, Riley Nash, Chris Terry.

CHICAGO

Kyle Cumiskey, Christian Ehrhoff, Tomas Fleischmann, Jay Harrison, Tim Jackman, Andrew Ladd, Michael Leighton, Mike Liambas, Drew MacIntyre, Brandon Mashinter, Michal Rozsival, Dale Weise.

COLORADO

Andrew Bodnarchuk, Mikkel Boedker, Patrick Bordeleau, Nate Guenin, Shawn Matthias, Maxim Noreau, Zach Redmond, Jack Skille, Ben Street, Jesse Winchester.

COLUMBUS

Rene Bourque, Justin Falk, Maksim Mayorov, Ilari Melart.

DALLAS

Jason Demers, Patrick Eaves, Vernon Fiddler, Travis Moen, Kris Russell, Colton Sceviour.

DETROIT

Joakim Andersson, Daniel Cleary, Darren Helm, Andy Miele, Kyle Quincey, Brad Richards.

EDMONTON

Adam Cracknell, Eric Gryba, Ryan Hamilton, Brad Hunt, Rob Klinkhammer, Andrew Miller, Nikita Nikitin, Adam Pardy, Antti Tyrvainen.

FLORIDA

Brian Campbell, Jiri Hudler, Willie Mitchell, Al Montoya, Brett Olson, Teddy Purcell, Michal Repik.

LOS ANGELES

Jhonas Enroth, Milan Lucic, Jamie McBain, Oscar Moller, Luke Schenn, Jeff Schultz, Brett Sutter, Kris Versteeg.

MINNESOTA

Jonathon Blum, Ryan Carter, Ruslan Fedotenko, Justin Fontaine, David Jones, Chris Porter, Jarret Stoll, Tyson Strachan.

MONTREAL

Victor Bartley, Mike Brown, Tom Gilbert, Bud Holloway, John Scott, Ben Scrivens.

NASHVILLE

Paul Gaustad, Carter Hutton, Joonas Jarvinen, Simon Moser, Patrick Mullen, Corey Potter.

NEW JERSEY

Yann Danis, Patrik Elias, Bobby Farnham, Stephen Gionta, Marc-Andre Gragnani, Dan Kelly, Tyler Kennedy, Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond, Jim O'Brien, Brian O'Neill, Harri Pesonen, Tuomo Ruutu, David Schlemko, Mike Sislo, Jiri Tlusty, Jordin Tootoo.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Steve Bernier, Eric Boulton, Marc-Andre Cliche, Justin DiBenedetto, Mark Katic, Mikko Koskinen, Matt Martin, Frans Nielsen, Kyle Okposo, Brian Strait, David Ullstrom, Joe Whitney, Marek Zidlicky.

NEW YORK RANGERS

Dan Boyle, Cedric Desjardins, Raphael Diaz, Brian Gibbons, Dominic Moore, Daniel Paille, Eric Staal, Viktor Stalberg, Nick Tarnasky.

OTTAWA

Mark Fraser, Matt Frattin, Scott Gomez, Michael Kostka, Chris Phillips.

PHILADELPHIA

Tim Brent, Davis Drewiske, Ray Emery, Sam Gagner, Erik Gustafsson, Jason LaBarbera, Evgeny Medvedev, Ryan White.

PITTSBURGH

Niclas Andersen, Matt Cullen, Riley Holzapfel, Dustin Jeffrey, Ben Lovejoy, Kael Mouillierat, Will O'Neill, Steve Oleksy, Tom Sestito, Jeff Zatkoff.

SAN JOSE

Aaron Dell, Micheal Haley, Bryan Lerg, John McCarthy, Frazer McLaren, Roman Polak, James Reimer, Nick Spaling, Karl Stollery, Dainius Zubrus.

ST. LOUIS

David Backes, Andre Benoit, Troy Brouwer, Chris Butler, Patrick Cannone, Peter Harrold, Steve Ott, Jeremy Welsh.

TAMPA BAY

Mike Angelidis, Mike Blunden, Dmitry Korobov, Mattias Ohlund, Jeff Tambellini.

TORONTO

Mark Arcobello, Brad Boyes, T.J Brennan, Rich Clune, Michael Grabner, Juraj Mikus, Marcel Mueller, Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Ben Smith, Alex Stalock, Raffi Torres.

VANCOUVER

Matt Bartkowski, Taylor Fedun, Dan Hamhuis, Blair Jones, Brandon Prust, Radim Vrbata, Yannick Weber.

WASHINGTON

Carter Camper, Jason Chimera, Sean Collins, Dan Ellis, Mike Moore, Justin Peters, Mike Richards, Mike Weber.

WINNIPEG

Grant Clitsome, Matt Halischuk, Arturs Kulda, Thomas Raffl.



UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS - GROUP 6

The following players qualify for unrestricted free agency, having met the requirements for Group 6 free agency. This group is defined as players whose contracts have expired, are age 25 or older, have completed three or more professional seasons, and (i) in the case of a player other than a goaltender, have played fewer than 80 NHL games (regular-season and playoff), or (ii) in the case of a goaltender, have played fewer than 28 NHL games (regular-season and playoff). Please note that these amounts are subject to pro-rating due to the 48-game season in 2012-13.

ANAHEIM

None.

ARIZONA

Brendan Shinnimin, Jordan Szwarz.

BOSTON

Tommy Cross, Tyler Randell, Zach Trotman.

BUFFALO

Jerry D'Amigo, Matt Donovan, Eric O'Dell, Chad Ruhwedel, Tim Schaller, Michael Sdao.

CALGARY

Derek Grant.

CAROLINA

None.

CHICAGO

None.

COLORADO

Andrew Agozzino.

COLUMBUS

None.

DALLAS

None.

DETROIT

Tom McCollum.

EDMONTON

None.

FLORIDA

Sena Acolatse, Rob Flick, Cameron Gaunce, Corban Knight, Garrett Wilson.

LOS ANGELES

None.

MINNESOTA

Conor Allen.

MONTREAL

Gabriel Dumont.

NASHVILLE

Jamie Devane.

NEW JERSEY

Brandon Burlon, David Warsofsky.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Kevin Czuczman, Justin Florek, Mike Halmo.

NEW YORK RANGERS

Matt Lindblad, Jayson Megna.

OTTAWA

Jason Akeson, Dave Dziurzynski, Phil Varone.

PHILADELPHIA

Aaron Palushaj.

PITTSBURGH

None.

SAN JOSE

Mark Cundari, Matt Tennyson.

ST. LOUIS

Danny Kristo.

TAMPA BAY

Jonathan Marchessault, Philippe Paradis.

TORONTO

None.

VANCOUVER

Joe Cannata, Alex Friesen, Ronalds Kenins.

WASHINGTON

Ryan Bourque.

WINNIPEG

Patrice Cormier, Andrew MacWilliam.



UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS

The following players were not tendered a qualifying offer and are therefore Unrestricted Free Agents not subject to a right to match or draft choice compensation.

ANAHEIM

Matt Bailey, Kevin Gagne, Martin Gernat, Brandon Pirri, Charlie Sarault.

ARIZONA

Kevin Connauton, Klas Dahlbeck, Sergei Plotnikov, Philip Samuelsson, Jiri Sekac, Christian Thomas, Jarred Tinordi, Niklas Treutle.

BOSTON

Brett Connolly, Landon Ferraro, Ben Sexton.

BUFFALO

Alexander Guptill, Colin Jacobs, Nathan Lieuwen, Andrey Makarov, Jack Nevins.

CALGARY

Kenny Agostino, Bill Arnold, Joe Colborne, Turner Elson, Josh Jooris, Joni Ortio, Kevin Poulin, Drew Shore, Bryce Van Brabant.

CAROLINA

Danny Biega, Zach Boychuk, Anthony Camara, Dane Fox, Michal Jordan, Rasmus Rissanen, Carter Sandlak, Justin Shugg, Rasmus Tirronen.

CHICAGO

Mathieu Brisebois, Matt Fraser, Ryan Haggerty, Garret Ross.

COLORADO

Sami Aittokallio, Gabriel Beaupre, Taylor Beck, Trevor Cheek, Dennis Everberg, Brandon Gormley, Joey Hishon, Garrett Meurs, Borna Rendulic, Roman Will.

COLUMBUS

Michael Chaput, Michael Paliotta.

DALLAS

Emil Molin, Taylor Peters, Troy Vance.

DETROIT

None.

EDMONTON

Adam Clendening, Luke Gazdic, Kale Kessy, Niklas Lundstrom.

FLORIDA

Quinton Howden, John McFarland, Dylan Olsen.

LOS ANGELES

Patrik Bartosak, Maxim Kitsyn, Alex Roach.

MINNESOTA

Brett Bulmer, Raphael Bussieres, Brody Hoffman, Jared Knight, Scott Sabourin.

MONTREAL

Mac Bennett, Michael Bournival, Darren Dietz, Morgan Ellis, Lucas Lessio.

NASHVILLE

Johan Alm, Gabriel Bourque, Cody Hodgson, Kristian Nakyva, Garrett Noonan, Max Reinhart.

NEW JERSEY

Beau Bennett, Raman Hrabarenka, Jon Merrill, Devante Smith-Pelly.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Justin Vaive, James Wright.

NEW YORK RANGERS

Luke Adam, Michael Kantor, Chris McCarthy, Josh Nicholls, Samuel Noreau, Michael St. Croix.

OTTAWA

Travis Ewanyk, Jerome Gauthier-Leduc, Michael Keranen, Troy Rutkowski, Patrick Wiercioch.

PHILADELPHIA

Brandon Alderson, Maxim Lamarche, Derek Mathers.

PITTSBURGH

Tyler Biggs, James Melindy, Daniel O'Donoghue, Matthias Plachta, Harrison Ruopp, Justin Schultz, Anton Zlobin.

SAN JOSE

Chris Crane, Petter Emanuelsson, Jeremy Langlois, Jeremy Morin, Joel Rumpel.

ST. LOUIS

Cody Beach, Richard Nedomlel, Zack Phillips, Ryan Tesink, Yannick Veilleux.

TAMPA BAY

David Broll.

TORONTO

Sam Carrick, Stuart Percy, Colin Smith.

VANCOUVER

Ludwig Blomstrand, Linden Vey.

WASHINGTON

Caleb Herbert, Michael Latta, Ryan Stanton.

WINNIPEG

Austen Brassard.

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