List of Available Free Agents

See also: Free agent signings | Offseason trades

NEW YORK (July 1, 2006) - The National Hockey League today released the names of the players, who, effective today, became free agents.

NOTE: Some players whose names appear on this list may recently have signed with their respective Clubs; however, their contracts had not yet been filed with the League. Other players who were bought out of their contracts just ahead of the deadline also may not appear here.

As player signings are officially reported by the teams, names will be removed from this list and placed on our list of free agent signings.

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 $660,000 or below Over $660,000 to $1 million Over $1.0 million to $2.0 million Over $2.0 million to $3.0 million Over $3.0 million to $4.0 million Over $4.0 million to $5.0 million Over $5 million	COMPENSATION None Third-round choice Second-round choice First and third-round choice First, second-round and third-round choice Two first-round choices, one second-round and one third-round choice Four first-round choices

ANAHEIM
Trevor Gillies, Maxim Kondratiev, Zenon Konopka.

ATLANTA
Kevin Doell, Brian Sipotz, Karl Stewart.

BOSTON
Andrew Alberts, Nathan Robinson, Martin Samuelsson, Jordan Sigalet.

BUFFALO
Jeff Jillson, Nathan Paetsch, Derek Roy.

CALGARY
Carsen Germyn.

CAROLINA
None.

CHICAGO
Matt Keith, Pavel Vorobiev.

COLORADO
Vitaliy Kolesnik, Kurt Sauer.

COLUMBUS
Jaroslav Balastik, Aaron Johnson, Brandon Sugden.

DALLAS
Dan Ellis.

DETROIT
Darryl Bootland, Jiri Hudler.

EDMONTON
Toby Petersen, Mathieu Roy, Jarret Stoll.

FLORIDA
Jay Bouwmeester, Nathan Horton, Alexei Semenov, Mikhail Yakubov.

LOS ANGELES
Dustin Brown, Tim Gleason, Tim Jackman, Mike Weaver.

MONTREAL
Jonathan Ferland, Mark Streit.

NASHVILLE
Greg Classen, Libor Pivko, Denis Platonov, Brandon Segal.

NEW JERSEY
Brian Gionta, Scott Gomez, David Hale, Paul Martin, Thomas Pihlman, Ilkka Pikkarainen, Aaron Voros.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Sean Bergenheim, Ryan Caldwell, Denis Grebeshkov, Trent Hunter.

NEW YORK RANGERS
Colton Orr.

OTTAWA
Martin Havlat, Tomas Malec.

PHILADELPHIA
David Printz, Tony Voce.

PHOENIX
Pavel Brendl, Josh Gratton, Sheldon Keefe, Zbynek Michalek, Jeff Taffe.

PITTSBURGH
Ryan Malone, Niklas Nordgren, Jani Rita.

ST. LOUIS
Jason Bacashihua, Eric Brewer, Jon DiSalvatore, Doug Lynch, Aaron MacKenzie, Jay McClement, Tomas Mojzis, Peter Sejna, Timofei Shishkanov, Jeff Woywitka.

SAN JOSE
Rob Davison, Scott Parker, Dimitri Patzold, Nolan Schaefer.

TAMPA BAY
Evgeny Artyukhin, Timo Helbling.

TORONTO
Nik Antropov, Roman Kukumberg.

VANCOUVER
Juha Alen, Jozef Balej, Josh Green, Jason King, Mika Noronen, Taylor Pyatt, Prestin Ryan, Jesse Schultz.

WASHINGTON
Jakub Cutta.

 

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UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS - GROUP 3
The following players have qualified for Group 3 Free Agency (age 29 or older or with at least eight Accrued Seasons) and are Unrestricted Free Agents.

ANAHEIM
Aaron Gavey, Jani Hurme, Jorgen Jonsson, Jason Marshall, Timo Parssinen, Nikolai Tsulygin.

ATLANTA
Serge Aubin, Peter Bondra, Mike Dunham, Pasi Nurminen, Steve Shields, J.P. Vigier.

BOSTON
Mariusz Czerkawski, Jarno Kultanen, Dimitri Kvartalnov, Dan Lacouture, Brian Leetch, Jason MacDonald, Eric Nickulas, Peter Nordstrom, Jiri Slegr.

BUFFALO
David Cullen, Chris Taylor.

CALGARY
Brian Boucher, Cale Hulse, Mike Leclerc, Bryan Marchment, Brantt Myhres.

CHICAGO
Jason Morgan.

COLORADO
Bob Boughner, Jim Dowd, Petr Franek, Paul Healey.

COLUMBUS
Alexander Guskov, Jan Hrdina, Hannes Hyvonen, Martin Prusek, Radoslav Suchy, Darcy Verot.

DALLAS
Garrett Burnett, David Oliver, Nathan Perrott, Jeremy Stevenson.

DETROIT
Dmitri Bykov, Cory Cross, Eric Manlow, Jason Woolley.

EDMONTON
Adam Bennett, Kari Haakana, Todd Harvey, Ralph Intranuovo, Fredrik Lindquist, Mikko Luoma, Igor Ulanov, Sergei Yerkovich, Alexander Zhurik.

FLORIDA
Jamie Allison, Alexander Karpovtsev.

LOS ANGELES
Valeri Bure, Steve Kelly, Jan Nemecek, Brad Smyth, Marty Wilford.

MINNESOTA
Alexandre Daigle, Kirby Law, Andrei Nazarov, Maxim Sushinsky.

MONTREAL
Miloslav Guren, Todd Simpson, Niklas Sundstrom, Vadim Tarasov.

NASHVILLE
Jukka Hentunen, Yanic Perreault.

NEW JERSEY
Tommy Albelin, Alex Brooks, Darren Langdon, Krzysztof Oliwa, Erik Rasmussen.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Keith Aldridge, Travis Brigley, Martin Chabada, Kenny Jonsson, Dimitri Nabokov, Tomi Pettinen, Dusan Salficky.

NEW YORK RANGERS
Christian Dube, Ales Pisa, Dale Purinton, Jason Strudwick, Ronnie Sundin.

OTTAWA
Steve Martins, Joe Murphy, Brad Norton, Christer Olsson, Andy Schneider, Antti Tormanen, Vaclav Varada.

PHILADELPHIA
Mark Murphy, Brian Savage, Jamie Storr, Chris Therien, Mattias Timander.

PHOENIX
Boyd Devereaux, Oleg Kvasha, Chris McAllister, Steve Passmore, Ray Schultz, Dwayne Zinger.

PITTSBURGH
Stefan Bergqvist, Chris Kelleher, Aleksey Morozov, Alain Nasreddine, Lyle Odelein, Lasse Pirjeta, Martin Strbak, Ryan Vandenbussche.

ST. LOUIS
Reinhard Divis, Reed Low, Steve Poapst, Andy Roach, Stephane Roy, Scott Young.

SAN JOSE
None remaining.

TAMPA BAY
Jim Campbell, Chris Dingman, Steve McLaren, Todd Rohloff, Shane Willis.

TORONTO
Jason Allison, Aki Berg, Lonny Bohonos, Maxim Galanov, Mikael Hakanson, Alexander Khavanov, Luke Richardson, Clarke Wilm.

VANCOUVER
Sean Brown, Sven Butenschon, Craig Darby, Johan Davidsson, Jason Doig, Wade Flaherty, Justin Kurtz, Richard Park, Leif Rohlin, Vadim Sharifijanov, Lubomir Vaic, Eric Weinrich.

WASHINGTON
Andrew Cassels, Doug Doull, Colin Forbes, Ivan Majesky, Andreas Salomonsson, Mark Wotton.

 

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UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS - GROUP 6
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 (i) in the case of a player other than a goaltender, have played less than 80 NHL games (regular-season and playoff), or (ii) in the case of a goaltender, have played less than 28 NHL games (regular-season and playoff).

 

ANAHEIM
Kent Huskins.

ATLANTA
Scott Barney, Derek MacKenzie, Travis Roche.

BOSTON
Brian Eklund, Jeremy Reich.

CALGARY
Zenith Komarniski, Lynn Loyns.

CAROLINA
Chris Hajt.

CHICAGO
Ajay Baines, Milan Bartovic, Mike Brown.

COLORADO
None.

COLUMBUS
Jeff MacMillan, Peter Sarno, Cam Severson.

DALLAS
Dan Jancevski, Mike Siklenka.

DETROIT
Kent McDonell.

EDMONTON
Nate Dicasmirro, Blake Evans, Joshua Hunter.

FLORIDA
None.

LOS ANGELES
Ryan Flinn.

MINNESOTA
Joey Tetarenko, Rickard Wallin, Kyle Wanvig.

MONTREAL
Jeff Paul.

NASHVILLE
Simon Gamache.

NEW JERSEY
Ari Ahonen, Bobby Allen, Scott Clemmensen, Ryan Murphy, Krisjanis Redlihs.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Frederic Cloutier, Jeff Hamilton, Allan Rourke.

NEW YORK RANGERS
Fedor Fedorov, Alexandre Giroux, Joe Rullier, Martin Sonnenberg, Chad Wiseman.

OTTAWA
Brett Clouthier, Charlie Stephens.

PHILADELPHIA
Pat Kavanagh, Ryan Ready, Wade Skolney.

PHOENIX
Mike Bishai, Steve Gainey.

PITTSBURGH
Guillaume Lefebvre.

SAN JOSE
None remaining.

TAMPA BAY
Zdenek Blatny, Jason Jaspers.

TORONTO
Brad Leeb, Marc Moro.

VANCOUVER
Maxime Ouellet.

WASHINGTON
Jean-Francois Fortin, Petr Sykora, Miroslav Zalesak.

 

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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
Kip Brennan, Igor Pohanka.

ATLANTA
Adam Berkhoel, Jeff Dwyer, Francis Lessard, Brian Maloney, Joel Stepp.

BOSTON
Ivan Huml, Josh Langfeld, Patrick Leahy, Garret Stroshein.

BUFFALO
Sean McMorrow.

CALGARY
Darren Lynch.

CAROLINA
Gordie Dwyer, Erkki Rajamaki.

CHICAGO
Vladimir Gusev, Nick Kuiper, Quintin Laing.

COLORADO
Tom Lawson, Frantisek Skladany, Tomas Slovak, Mikko Viitanen.

COLUMBUS
Tyler Kolarik, Greg Mauldin, Ben Simon.

DALLAS
David Bararuk, Jaroslav Svoboda.

DETROIT
Michael Hackert, Todd Jackson.

EDMONTON
Dan Baum, Jason Platt, Kenny Smith.

FLORIDA
Dan Focht, Grant McNeill, Phil Osaer, Victor Uchevatov.

LOS ANGELES
Brad Fast, Adam Hauser, Connor James.

MINNESOTA
Chris Heid, Dustin Wood.

MONTREAL
Johnathan Aitken, Pierre Dagenais, Olivier Michaud.

NASHVILLE
Brian Finley, Jeremy Yablonski.

NEW JERSEY
Matt Demarchi, Teemu Kesa, Ahren Nittel.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Kevin Colley, Rob Collins, John Erskine, Paul Flache, Cole Jarrett, Vince Macri, Chris Madden, Justin Papineau, Jody Robinson.

NEW YORK RANGERS
Rory Rawlyk.

OTTAWA
Joe Cullen, Brennan Evans, Jan Platil, Billy Thompson, Lance Ward, Greg Watson.

PHILADELPHIA
Mathieu Brunelle, Joey Hope, Kiel McLeod, Brent Robinson, Stephen Wood.

PHOENIX
Landon Bathe, Eric Chouinard, Ladislav Kouba, Frantisek Lukes, Darren McLachlan, Martin Podlesak, Steven Spencer.

PITTSBURGH
Andy Chiodo, Ben Eaves, Drew Fata, Krystofer Kolanos, Konstantin Koltsov, Cam Paddock, Alexandre Rouleau, Andy Schneider, Tomas Surovy, Petr Taticek.

ST. LOUIS
Trevor Byrne, Colin Hemingway, Troy Riddle.

SAN JOSE
Shane Joseph, Josh Prudden.

TAMPA BAY
Martin Cibak, Gerard Dicaire, Dennis Packard, Jean-Francois Soucy.

TORONTO
Mike Hoffman, David Turon.

VANCOUVER
Rob McVicar, Brandon Nolan, Marc-Andre Roy, Nathan Smith.

WASHINGTON
Jared Aulin, Owen Fussey.