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NHL Free Agents
 

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:

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$994,443 or below - None

Over $994,433 to $1,506,716 - Third-round choice

Over $1,506,716 to $3,013,434 - Second-round choice

Over $3,013,434 to $4,520,150 - First- and third-round choices

Over $4,520,150 to $6,026,867 - First-, second- and third-round choices

Over $6,016,867 to $7,533,584 - Two first- , one second- and one third-round choices

Over $7,533,584 - Four first-round choices

ANAHEIM - Petri Kontiola, Brian Salcido, Petteri Wirtanen, James Wisniewski.

ATLANTA - Colby Armstrong, Jordan Lavallee, Scott Lehman, Kari Lehtonen, Grant Lewis, Jim Slater, Boris Valabik.

BOSTON - Byron Bitz, Matt Hunwick, Phil Kessel, Kevin Regan.

BUFFALO - Patrick Kaleta, Clarke MacArthur, Mark Mancari, Andrej Sekera, Drew Stafford, Marek Zagrapan.

CALGARY - Dustin Boyd, Kris Chucko.

CAROLINA - Mike Angelidis, Anton Babchuk, Casey Borer, Brett Carson, Justin Peters, Bryan Rodney, Tuomo Ruutu.

CHICAGO - Cam Barker, Bryan Bickell, Troy Brouwer, Corey Crawford, Ben Eager, Colin Fraser, Aaron Johnson, Kris Versteeg.

COLORADO - Kyle Cumiskey, Philippe Dupuis, David Jones.

COLUMBUS - Michael Blunden, Dan LaCosta, Marc Methot, Alexandre Picard, Jonathan Sigalet, Alexander Svitov.

DALLAS - Mark Fistric.

DETROIT - Jiri Hudler, Ville Leino, Evan McGrath, Ryan Oulahen.

EDMONTON - Gilbert Brule, Devan Dubnyk, Denis Grebeshkov, Colin McDonald, Ryan Potulny, Liam Reddox, Rob Schremp, Ladislav Smid, Ryan Stone.

FLORIDA - David Booth, David Brine.

LOS ANGELES - Drew Bagnall, Brady Murray, Scott Parse, Joe Piskula, Ted Purcell, Kevin Westgarth.

MINNESOTA - Kyle Brodziak, Robbie Earl, Josh Harding, Danny Irmen, Benoit Pouliot, Clayton Stoner.

MONTREAL - Shawn Belle, Kyle Chipchura, Matt D'Agostini, Guillaume Latendresse, Tomas Plekanec, Gregory Stewart.

NASHVILLE - Ryan Jones, Ryan Maki, Cal O'Reilly, Antti Pihlstrom, Kelsey Wilson.

NEW JERSEY - Patrick Davis, Mark Fraser, Petr Vrana, Travis Zajac.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS - Jeremy Colliton, Blake Comeau, Trevor Smith, Nate Thompson.

NEW YORK RANGERS - Brian Boyle, Dane Byers, Ryan Callahan, Brandon Dubinsky, Chris Higgins, Lauri Korpikoski, Corey Potter, Nikolai Zherdev.

OTTAWA - Brian Elliott, Mattias Karlsson, Derek Smith.

PHILADELPHIA - Ryan Dingle, Jared Ross, Danny Syvret.

PHOENIX - Nigel Dawes, Shaun Heshka, Sami Lepisto, Enver Lisin, Stefan Meyer, Alexander Nikulin, Dave Spina, Sean Sullivan, Josh Tordjman, Scottie Upshall, Daniel Winnik, Keith Yandle.

PITTSBURGH - John Curry, Ben Lovejoy, Tim Wallace.

ST. LOUIS - Brandon Crombeen, Jonathan Filewich, Chris Holt, Roman Polak, Steve Wagner.

SAN JOSE - Ryane Clowe, Thomas Greiss, Brad Staubitz.

TAMPA BAY - Blair Jones, Martins Karsums, Lukas Krajicek, Matt Lashoff, Mike Lundin, Karri Ramo, Matt Smaby, Radek Smolenak, Lauri Tukonen.

TORONTO - Darryl Boyce, Alex Foster, Mikhail Grabovski, Ryan Hamilton, Justin Pogge, Tim Stapleton.

VANCOUVER - Jannik Hansen, Nathan McIver, Shane O'Brien, Kyle Wellwood.

WASHINGTON - Chris Bourque, Eric Fehr, Boyd Gordon, Milan Jurcina, Shaone Morrisonn, Steven Pinizzotto, Jeff Schultz, Kyle Wilson.

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 - Francois Beauchemin, Eric Boguniecki, Josh Green, Bret Hedican, Jason King, Brad Larsen, Todd Marchant, Bjorn Melin, Rob Niedermayer, Scott Niedermayer.

ATLANTA - Mike Hoffman, Joe Motzko, Eric Perrin, Grant Stevenson

BOSTON - P.J. Axelsson, Manny Fernandez, Shane Hnidy, Steve Montador, Mark Recchi, Jeremy Reich, Nathan Robinson, Martin Samuelsson, Stephane Yelle.

BUFFALO - Maxim Afinogenov, Tyler Bouck, Mathieu Darche, Matt Ellis, Colton Fretter, Dominic Moore, Colin Murphy, Teppo Numminen, Andrew Peters, Jaroslav Spacek, Mikael Tellqvist.

CALGARY - Adrian Aucoin, Todd Bertuzzi, Mike Cammalleri, Anders Eriksson, Carsen Germyn, Jamie Lundmark, Marcus Nilson, Andre Roy, Rhett Warrener.

CAROLINA - Ryan Bayda, Erik Cole, Trevor Gillies, Dan LaCouture, Chad LaRose, Matt Murley, Michael Ryan, Dennis Seidenberg.

CHICAGO - Martin Havlat, Nikolai Khabibulin, Jonas Nordqvist, Samuel Pahlsson, Pavel Vorobiev, Matt Walker.

COLORADO - Tyler Arnason, Jesse Boulerice, Ben Guite, Ian Laperriere, Per Ledin, Aaron MacKenzie, Lawrence Nycholat, Andrew Raycroft, Joe Sakic, Nathan Smith, Daniel Tjarnqvist.

COLUMBUS - Christian Backman, Wade Dubielewicz, Chris Gratton, Steve Kelly, Craig MacDonald, Manny Malhotra, Michael Peca, Jason Williams, Mike York.

DALLAS - Steve Begin, Joel Lundqvist, Brendan Morrison, Mark Parrish, Darryl Sydor, Landon Wilson, Sergei Zubov.

DETROIT - Chris Chelios, Ty Conklin, Aaron Downey, Darren Haydar, Marian Hossa, Tomas Kopecky, Darren McCarty, Mikael Samuelsson.

EDMONTON - Carl Corazzini, Ales Kotalik, Dwayne Roloson, Dany Sabourin, Jason Strudwick.

FLORIDA - Craig Anderson, Nick Boynton, Jassen Cullimore, Radek Dvorak, Jordan Leopold, Vaclav Nedorost, Ville Peltonen, Karlis Skrastins, Janis Sprukts, Mikhail Yakubov, Richard Zednik.

LOS ANGELES - Derek Armstrong, Kyle Calder, Dan Cloutier, Denis Gauthier.

MINNESOTA - Marc-Andre Bergeron, Kurtis Foster, Marian Gaborik, Krys Kolanos, Bryan Lundbohm, Tomas Mojzis, Nolan Schaefer, Martin Skoula, Stephane Veilleux.

MONTREAL - Chad Anderson, Francis Bouillon, Patrice Brisebois, Mathieu Dandenault, Marc Denis, Ryan Flinn, Mike Glumac, T.J. Kemp, Saku Koivu, Mike Komisarek, Tom Kostopoulos, Alex Kovalev, Robert Lang, Yanick Lehoux, Mathieu Schneider, Alex Tanguay.

NASHVILLE - Radek Bonk, Greg De Vries, Vernon Fiddler, Ville Koistinen, Scott Nichol, Jed Ortmeyer, Denis Platonov, Steve Sullivan, Joel Ward, Nolan Yonkman, Greg Zanon.

NEW JERSEY - Scott Clemmensen, Jon DiSalvatore, Brian Gionta, Niclas Havelid, Bobby Holik, John Madden, Olli Malmivaara, Ryan Murphy, Michael Rupp, Brendan Shanahan, Kevin Weekes, Chad Wiseman.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS - Yann Danis, Mitch Fritz, Andy Hilbert, Chris Lee, Junior Lessard, Joey MacDonald, Dean McAmmond, Kurtis McLean, Thomas Pock, Mike Sillinger.

NEW YORK RANGERS - Nik Antropov, Mark Bell, Blair Betts, Jarkko Immonen, Doug Janik, Paul Mara, Derek Morris, Colton Orr.

OTTAWA - Mike Comrie, Brad Isbister, Greg Mauldin, Chris Neil.

PHILADELPHIA - Andrew Alberts, J.S. Aubin, Martin Biron, Derian Hatcher, Boyd Kane, Mike Knuble, Lasse Kukkonen, Scott Munroe, Antero Niittymaki.

PHOENIX - Jeff Hoggan, Dmitri Kalinin, Ken Klee, Brian McGrattan, Derek Nesbitt, Wyatt Smith.

PITTSBURGH - Philippe Boucher, Ruslan Fedotenko, Mathieu Garon, Hal Gill, David Gove, Chris Minard, Joey Mormina, Janne Pesonen, Jani Rita, Miroslav Satan, Rob Scuderi, Petr Sykora, Jeff Taffe, Andy Wozniewski, Mike Zigomanis.

ST. LOUIS - Dan Hinote, Manny Legace, Charles Linglet, Trent Whitfield.

SAN JOSE - Rob Blake, Brian Boucher, Brendan Buckley, Tom Cavanagh, Mike Grier, Kent Huskins, Cory Larose, Claude Lemieux, Kyle McLaren, Travis Moen, Jeremy Roenick, Alexei Semenov, Ryan Vesce, Brett Westgarth.

TAMPA BAY - Wade Brookbank, Andreas Holmqvist, David Koci, Marek Malik, Josef Melichar, Cory Murphy, Janne Niskala, Matt Pettinger, Jason Ward.

TORONTO - Bates Battaglia, Josef Boumedienne, Luca Cereda, Boyd Devereaux, Martin Gerber, Jeff Hamilton, Chris Harrington, Jamie Heward, Curtis Joseph, Olaf Kolzig, Brad May, Kris Newbury, Ben Ondrus.

VANCOUVER - Juha Alen, Nolan Baumgartner, Jeff Cowan, Mark Cullen, Rob Davison, Jason Jaffray, Jason Krog, Jason LaBarbera, Mattias Ohlund, Michel Ouellet, Taylor Pyatt, Curtis Sanford, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Mats Sundin, Ossi Vaananen.

WASHINGTON - Donald Brashear, Jakub Cutta, Sergei Fedorov, Alexandre Giroux, Bryan Helmer, Brent Johnson, Viktor Kozlov, Graham Mink.

The following players qualify for unrestricted free agency, having met the requirements for Group 6 free agency. These players, whose contracts have expired, are age 25 or older, have completed three or more professional seasons, and (a) in the case of a player other than a goaltender, have played less than 80 NHL games (regular-season and playoff), or (b) in the case of a goaltender, have played less than 28 NHL games (regular-season and playoff):

ANAHEIM - David LeNeveu.

ATLANTA - Joey Crabb, Nathan Oystrick, Brett Skinner, Clay Wilson.

BOSTON - Johnny Boychuk, Martin St. Pierre, Ryan Stokes.

BUFFALO - None.

CALGARY - Adam Pardy, Warren Peters.

CAROLINA - Dwight Helminen, Joe Jensen, Daniel Manzato.

CHICAGO - Tim Brent, Pascal Pelletier.

COLORADO - Darcy Campbell.

COLUMBUS - Aaron Rome.

DALLAS - Chris Conner, Tobias Stephan.

DETROIT - Randall Gelech.

EDMONTON - Mathieu Roy.

FLORIDA - None.

LOS ANGELES - Matt Moulson.

MINNESOTA - Corey Locke, Jesse Schultz.

MONTREAL - None.

NASHVILLE - Drew MacIntyre.

NEW JERSEY - Barry Tallackson.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS - Joe Callahan, Mike Iggulden.

NEW YORK RANGERS - Greg Moore, Pierre Parenteau.

OTTAWA - Danny Bois, Drew Fata.

PHILADELPHIA - Nate Guenin.

PHOENIX - Steven Goertzen, Ryan Lannon.

PITTSBURGH - Adam Henrich, Connor James, Bill Thomas.

ST. LOUIS - Matt Foy.

SAN JOSE - None.

TAMPA BAY - Richard Petiot, Brandon Segal, Noah Welch.

TORONTO - Andre Deveaux, Jay Harrison, Erik Reitz, Jaime Sifers, Jeremy Williams.

VANCOUVER - None.

WASHINGTON - Staffan Kronvall.

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 - Michal Birner, Chad Painchaud.

ATLANTA - Chris Thorburn, Dan Turple.

BOSTON - Ned Lukacevic, Wacey Rabbit.

BUFFALO - Jimmy Bonneau, Mike Card, Adam Dennis, Michael Funk, Dylan Hunter.

CALGARY - Adam Cracknell, Aki Seitsonen.

CAROLINA - Noah Babin, Mark Flood, Jakub Petruzalek.

CHICAGO - Adam Berti, Tim Hambly, Adam Pineault, James Sharrow, Logan Stephenson.

COLORADO - Jason Bacashihua, Cody McCormick, Michael Vernace.

COLUMBUS - Trevor Hendrikx, Jon Landry, Jiri Novotny, Petr Pohl, Ole-Kristian Tollefsen, John Vigilante, Kyle Wharton.

DALLAS - John Lammers, Alexander Naurov.

DETROIT - None.

EDMONTON - Sebastien Bisaillon, Stephane Goulet, David Rohlfs, Tyler Spurgeon, Bryan Young.

FLORIDA - Steve Eminger, Tanner Glass, Drew Larman, Franklin MacDonald, David Shantz, Anthony Stewart.

LOS ANGELES - Vladimir Dravecky, Daniel Taylor.

MINNESOTA - Paul Albers, Riley Emmerson, Dan Fritsche, Peter Olvecky.

MONTREAL - Mathieu Aubin, Loic Lacasse, Olivier Latendresse.

NASHVILLE - Tim Ramholt.

NEW JERSEY - Stephen Gionta, Andy Greene, Matthew Spiller.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS - Jamie Fraser, Peter Mannino, Sergei Ogordonikov, Jason Pitton.

NEW YORK RANGERS - Joe Barnes, Vladimir Denisov, Fredrik Sjostrom.

OTTAWA - Brendan Bell, Jeff Glass, Jim McKenzie, Geoff Waugh.

PHILADELPHIA - Josh Gratton, Nate Raduns.

PHOENIX - Alex Bourret, Joakim Lindstrom, Garth Murray.

PITTSBURGH - David Brown.

ST. LOUIS - Steve Regier, Marek Schwarz, Jeff Woywitka.

SAN JOSE - Riley Armstrong, Jonathan Boutin, Taylor Dakers, T.J. Fox, Marcel Goc, Lukas Kaspar, Mike Morris, Tomas Plihal, Ashton Rome.

TAMPA BAY - Justin Keller, Mike McKenna.

TORONTO - Brent Aubin, Ryan Hollweg, Andy Rogers.

VANCOUVER - Patrick Coulombe, Julien Ellis, Zach Fitzgerald.

WASHINGTON - Andrew Joudrey, Daren Machesney, Travis Morin, Sasha Pokulok.

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