2007 Free Agent List
The National Hockey League released the names of the players, who, effective July 1, became free agents.
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.
2007 free agent signingsFREE AGENTS SUBJECT TO COMPENSATION AND RIGHT TO MATCH - GROUP 2The 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$773,442 or below None
Over $773,442 to $1,171,882 Third-round choice
Over $1,171,882 to $2,343,765 Second-round choice
Over $2,343,765 to $3,515,647 First-round and third-round choice
Over $3,515,647 to $4,687,530 First-round, second-round and third-round choice
Over $4,687,530 to $5,859,412 Two first-round choices, one second- and one
third-round choice.
Over $5,859,412 Four first-round choices
ANAHEIMBjorn Melin
ATLANTAColin Stuart, Chris Thorburn.
BUFFALODaniel Paille.
CALGARYMark Giordano, Eric Godard, Tomi Maki, Curtis McElhinney, Eric Nystrom.
CAROLINAAnton Babchuk, Ryan Bayda, Tim Conboy.
CHICAGOJonas Nordqvist, Pierre Parenteau, Bruno St. Jacques, Martin St. Pierre.
COLUMBUS
Raffaele Sannitz.
DALLAS
Marius Holtet, Junior Lessard.
DETROIT
Eric Himelfarb, Logan Koopmans, Stefan Liv, Derek Meech.
EDMONTON
Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers, Alexei Mikhnov, Brock Radunske.
FLORIDA
Janis Sprukts, Noah Welch.
LOS ANGELES
Petr Kanko, Richard Petiot, Matt Ryan, John Zeiler.
MONTREAL
Andrew Archer, Andre Benoit, Jean-Philippe Cote, Yann Danis, Corey Locke, Duncan Milroy, Alexander Perezhogin, Cory Urquhart.
NASHVILLE
Matt Ellison, Alex Henry, Ville Koistinen.
NEW JERSEY
Frank Doyle, Justin Papineau, Thomas Pihlman, Jason Ryznar.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Drew Fata, Steve Regier.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Jarkko Immonen, Bryce Lampman, David Liffiton.
OTTAWA
Michal Barinka, Danny Bois, Oleg Saprykin.
PHILADELPHIA
Scott Munroe, Darren Reid.
PHOENIX
Brendan Bell.
PITTSBURGH
Ryan Lannon.
SAN JOSE
Tomas Plihal, Craig Valette.
TAMPA BAY
Mike Egener, Mitch Fritz, Karl Stewart.
VANCOUVER
Drew MacIntyre
WASHINGTON
Tomas Fleischmann, Jakub Klepis.
UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS - GROUP 3
The following players have qualified for Group 3 Free Agency (age 28 or older or with at least seven Accrued Seasons) and are Unrestricted Free Agents.
ANAHEIM
Trevor Gillies, Mark Hartigan, Ric Jackman, Antti Jussi Niemi, Teemu Selanne.
ATLANTA
Yuri Butsayev, Andy Delmore, Cory Larose, Scott Mellanby, J.P. Vigier.
BOSTON
Nathan Dempsey, Jeff Hoggan, Petr Tenkrat, Jason York.
BUFFALO
Mikko Lehtonen.
CALGARY
Tony Amonte, Brad Ference, Jeff Friesen, Darren McCarty, Jamie McLennan.
CAROLINA
Jesse Boulerice, Anson Carter, David Tanabe.
CHICAGO
Denis Arkhipov, Peter Bondra, Carl Corazzini, Michael Holmqvist, Reed Low, Craig MacDonald.
COLORADO
Steve Konowalchuk, Antti Laaksonen, Pierre Turgeon, Ossi Vaananen.
COLUMBUS
Bryan Berard, Brian Boucher, Paul Manning, Jamie Pushor, Martin Spanhel.
DALLAS
Matthew Barnaby, Alexei Komarov, Eric Lindros, Patrik Stefan.
DETROIT
Brendan Brooks, Jiri Fischer, Danny Markov.
EDMONTON
Jussi Markkanen, Petr Nedved, Daniel Tjarnqvist.
FLORIDA
Ed Belfour, Jean-Marc Pelletier, Dmitri Tolkunov, Ari Vallin.
LOS ANGELES
Sean Burke, Mathieu Garon, Jamie Heward, Marty Murray
MINNESOTA
Mika Hannula, Jason Morgan, Peter Ratchuk.
MONTREAL
Aaron Downey, Mike Johnson, Janne Niinimaa.
NASHVILLE
Marian Cisar, Peter Forsberg, Karl Goehring, Patrick Leahy, Scott Nichol, Pavel Skrbek, Kim Staal.
NEW JERSEY
Jim Dowd, Dan McGillis, Alexander Mogilny, Erik Rasmussen, Jason Wiemer.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Rick Berry, Eric Boguniecki, Joel Bouchard, Mike Dunham, Peter Ferraro, Evgeny Korolev, Deron Quint, Randy Robitaille, Todd Simpson, Dimitri Upper.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Sandis Ozolinsh, Martin Richter, Jason Strudwick.
OTTAWA
Jamie Allison, Konstantin Gorovikov, Brian Maloney.
PHILADELPHIA
Mark Cullen, Niko Dimitrakos, Robert Esche, Denis Hamel, Eric Meloche, Brad Tapper.
PHOENIX
Curtis Joseph, Pascal Rheaume, Mike Ricci.
PITTSBURGH
Wade Brookbank, Eric Cairns, Nils Ekman, Joel Kwiatkowski, Richard Lintner, Josef Melichar, Niklas Nordgren, Ronald Petrovicky.
ST. LOUIS
Glen Metropolit, Ville Nieminen, Vladimir Orszagh, Michel Riesen, Daniel Tkaczuk, Andrei Troschinsky.
SAN JOSE
Mathieu Darche, Scott Ferguson, Vladimir Malakhov, Mark Smith, Patrick Traverse.
TAMPA BAY
Daniel Corso, Rob DiMaio, Sascha Goc, Marek Posmyk, Nolan Pratt, Eero Somervuori.
TORONTO
J.S. Aubin, Bates Battaglia, Brad Brown, Travis Green, Pierre Hedin, Marc Moro, Tyson Nash, Jeff O'Neill.
VANCOUVER
Jan Bulis, Rory Fitzpatrick, Lee Goren, Josh Green, Mika Noronen, Tommi Santala, Brent Sopel, Yannick Tremblay.
WASHINGTON
Andy Hedlund, Quintin Laing, Bryan Muir, Pete Vandermeer.
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).
BOSTON
Brian Finley, Jay Leach.
BUFFALO
Timo Helbling.
CAROLINA
Scott Kelman.
COLORADO
Matt Murley.
DALLAS
Shane Endicott, Mike Green.
DETROIT
Darryl Bootland.
LOS ANGELES
Tim Jackman.
MONTREAL
Dan Jancevski.
NEW JERSEY
Adrian Foster.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Tomas Malec.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Craig Weller.
OTTAWA
Jeff Heerema, Cory Pecker.
PHOENIX
Mike Morrison.
PITTSBURGH
Matt Carkner, Micki Dupont, Libor Pivko, Nolan Schaefer, Wade Skolney.
ST. LOUIS
Tomas Mojzis, Peter Sejna, Mike Stuart.
SAN JOSE
Garrett Stafford, Grant Stevenson.
TAMPA BAY
Stephen Baby, Joe Rullier.
TORONTO
Brad Leeb, Jean-Francois Racine, Aleksander Suglobov.
VANCOUVER
Brandon Reid, Nathan Smith.
WASHINGTON
Chad Wiseman.
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
Sebastien Caron, Nathan Marsters, David McKee, Doug O'Brien.
ATLANTA
David Caruso, Andre Deveaux, Michael Garnett, Lane Manson, Brad Schell, Adam Smyth.
BOSTON
Dennis Packard, Philippe Sauve.
BUFFALO
Adam Berkhoel.
CALGARY
Richie Regehr, Justin Taylor.
CAROLINA
Vince Bellissimo, Kevin Estrada, Craig Kowalski, Stephen Peat.
CHICAGO
Nikita Alexeev, Alexander Kojevnikov.
COLORADO
Ryan Steeves, David Svagrovsky.
COLUMBUS
Jaroslav Balastik, Ryan Caldwell, Janne Hauhtonen, Tomas Kloucek, Tim Konsorada.
DALLAS
Yared Hagos.
DETROIT
Krystofer Kolanos.
FLORIDA
Greg Jacina, Dustin Johner, Juraj Kolnik, Jeremy Swanson.
LOS ANGELES
Barry Brust, Yutaka Fukufuji, Greg Hogeboom, Jamie Lundmark, Joey Mormina, Shay Stephenson.
MINNESOTA
Adam Hall, Mike Madill, Mark Rooneem, Ryan Stokes, Mattias Weinhandl.
MONTREAL
Michael Lambert.
NASHVILLE
Ramzi Abid, Paul Brown, Chris Durno, Daniel Widing.
NEW JERSEY
Tomas Harant, Bryan Miller, John Oduya.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Brandon Cullen, Johan Halvardsson, Andy Hilbert, Billy Thompson.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Lee Falardeau, Dwight Helminen, Jake Taylor.
OTTAWA
Kelly Guard, Matt Koalska, Neil Komadoski, Grant Potulny, Bobby Robins, Ryan Vesce.
PHILADELPHIA
Dimitri Afanasenkov, David Printz, Rosario Ruggeri.
PHOENIX
Randall Gelech, Jakub Koreis, Lance Monych.
PITTSBURGH
Andrew Penner.
ST. LOUIS
Chris Beckford-Tseu, Jon DiSalvatore, Magnus Kahnberg, Doug Lynch, Aaron MacKenzie, Ryan Ramsay, Patrick Wellar.
SAN JOSE
Michal Macho, Glenn Olson.
TAMPA BAY
Morgan Cey, Brady Greco, Adam Henrich, John Toffey.
TORONTO
Dominic D'Amour, Todd Ford, Tyson Marsh, Chris St. Jacques.
VANCOUVER
Tyler Bouck.
WASHINGTON
Maxime Daigneault, Jonas Johansson, Jiri Novotny, Louis Robitaille, Matt Stefanishion, Joey Tenute.
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