Full Listing of 2006 Free Agents
A complete listing of the 2006 Free Agents. See who is going to be unrestricted this July.
2006 NHL FREE AGENTS
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Player 06-07 Team Date
ANAHEIM
Keith Carney, (III)
Aaron Gavey, (III)
Jason Marshall, (III)
Andy McDonald, (III)
Geoff Peters, (III)
Ruslan Salei, (III)
Teemu Selanne, (III)
Petr Sykora, (III)
Tyler Wright, (III)
Kip Brennan, (VI) (34)
Joe DiPenta, (VI) (26)
Trevor Gillies, (VI)
Kent Huskins, (VI)
Zenon Konopka, (VI)
Chris Kunitz, (VI) (59)
Bruno St. Jacques, (VI) (14)
Ilya Bryzgalov, (II)
George Davis, (II)
Todd Fedoruk, (II)
Joffrey Lupol, (II)
Travis Moen, (II)
Pierre Parenteau, (II)
Igor Pohanka, (II)
Joel Stepp, (II)
Vitali Vishnevsky, (II)
ATLANTA
Marc Savard, (UFA)
Serge Aubin, (III)
Peter Bondra, (III)
Eric Boulton, (III)
Mike Dunham, (III)
Niclas Havelid, (III)
Shane Hnidy, (III)
Jani Hurme, (III)
Slava Kozlov, (III)
Brad Larsen, (III)
Scott Mellanby, (III)
Pasi Nurminen, (III)
Ronald Petrovicky, (III)
Travis Roche, (III)
Steve Shields, (III)
Andy Sutton, (III)
JP Vigier, (III)
Ramzi Abid, (VI) (31)
Stephen Baby, (VI)
Scott Barney, (VI)
Kevin Doell, (VI)
Brian Maloney, (VI)
Tommi Santala, (VI)
Luke Sellars, (VI)
Anthony Aquino, (II)
Adam Berkhoel, (II)
Jeff Dwyer, (II)
Garnet Exelby, (II)
Michael Garnett, (II)
Tomas Kloucek, (II)
Kari Lehtonen, (II)
Francis Lessard, (II)
Derek Mackenzie, (II)
Mark Popovic, (II)
Adam Smyth, (II)
Patrik Stefan, (II)
Karl Stewart, (II)
Colin Stuart, (II)
BOSTON
P.J. Axelsson, (UFA)
Sergei Samsonov, (UFA)
Tom Fitzgerald, (III)
Hal Gill, (III)
Eric Healey, (III)
Brad Isbister, (III)
Dan Lacouture, (III)
Brian Leetch, (III)
Jason MacDonald, (III)
Ian Moran, (III)
Eric Nickulas, (III)
Jiri Slegr, (III)
Tim Thomas, (III)
Ben Guite, (VI)
Milan Jurcina, (VI)
Patrick Leahy, (VI)
Jeremy Reich, (VI)
Garret Stroshein, (VI)
Andrew Alberts, (II)
Patrice Bergeron, (II)
Brad Boyes, (II)
Nick Boynton, (II)
Jonathan Girard, (II)
Brett Nowak, (II)
Andrew Raycroft, (II)
Nathan Robinson, (II)
Martin Samuelsson, (II)
Jordan Sigalet, (II)
David Tanabe, (II)
Hannu Toivonen, (II)
BUFFALO
Rory Fitzpatrick, (UFA)
Maxim Afinogenov, (III)
Martin Biron, (III)
Daniel Briere, (III)
Tim Connolly, (III)
Jean-Pierre Dumont, (III)
Mike Grier, (III)
Jochen Hecht, (III)
Toni Lydman, (III)
Jay McKee, (III)
Teppo Numminen, (III)
Chris Taylor, (III)
Doug Janik, (VI)
Andrew Peters, (VI) (36)
Michael Ryan, (VI)
Brian Campbell, (II)
Paul Gaustad, (II)
Jeff Jillson, (II)
Dmitri Kalinen, (II)
Ales Kotalik, (II)
Michael Leighton, (II)
Adam Mair, (II)
Sean McMorrow, (II)
Ryan Miller, (II)
Karel Mosovsky, (II)
Mika Noronen, (II)
Jiri Novotny, (II)
Nathan Paetsch, (II)
Jason Pominville, (II)
Taylor Pyatt, (II)
Derek Roy, (II)
Henrik Tallinder, (II)
Chris Thorburn, (II)
CALGARY
Zenith Komarniski, (UFA)
Shean Donovan, (III)
Craig MacDonald, (III)
Bryan Marchment, (III)
Brantt Myhres, (III)
Marcus Nilson, (III)
Steve Reinprecht, (III)
Cam Severson, (III)
Chris Simon, (III)
Jason Wiemer, (III)
Stephane Yelle, (III)
Lynn Loyns, (VI)
Andrew Ference, (II)
Kristian Huselius, (II)
Chuck Kobasew, (II)
Brent Krahn, (II)
Matt Lombardi, (II)
Darren Lynch, (II)
Tim Ramholt, (II)
Phil Sauve, (II)
CAROLINA
Chris Hajt, (UFA)
Craig Adams, (III)
Matt Cullen, (III)
Gordie Dwyer, (III)
Martin Gerber, (III)
David Gove, (III)
Frantisek Kaberle, (III)
Niclas Wallin, (III)
Aaron Ward, (III)
Glen Wesley, (III)
Keith Aucoin, (VI)
Andrew Hutchinson, (VI) (62)
Jesse Boulerice, (II)
Erik Cole, (II)
Mike Commodore, (II)
Krystoffer Kolanos, (II)
Craig Kowalski, (II)
Chad Larose, (II)
Niklas Nordgren, (II)
Stephen Peat, (II)
Eric Stall, (II)
Justin Williams, (II)
Mike Zigomanis, (II)
CHICAGO
Kyle Calder, (UFA)
Ajay Baines, (III)
Eric Daze, (III)
Jim Dowd, (III)
Eric Meloche, (III)
Jason Morgan, (III)
Todd Simpson, (III)
Milan Bartovic, (VI)
Mike Brown, (VI)
Mark Cullen, (VI)
Andy Hilbert, (VI) (42)
Mikael Holmqvist, (VI) (59)
Shawn Thornton, (VI)
Craig Andersson, (II)
Tyler Arnason, (II)
Anton Babchuk, (II)
Michal Barinka, (II)
Nathan Barrett, (II)
Mark Bell, (II)
Rene Bourque, (II)
Vladimir Gusev, (II)
Duncan Keith, (II)
Matt Keith, (II)
Alexander Kojevnikov, (II)
Nick Kuiper, (II)
Lasse Kukkonen, (II)
Quintin Laing, (II)
Adam Munro, (II)
Tuomo Ruutu, (II)
Patrick Sharp, (II)
Jim Vandermeer, (II)
Pavel Vorobiev, (II)
Radim Vrbata, (II)
James Wisniewski, (II)
Mikhail Yakubov, (II)
COLORADO
David Aebischer, (III)
Rob Blake, (III)
Bob Boughner, (III)
Brett Clark, (III)
Paul Healey, (III)
Dan Hinote, (III)
Antti Laaksonen, (III)
Brett McLean, (III)
Joe Sakic, (III)
Karlis Skrastins, (III)
Jeff Finger, (VI)
Tom Lawson, (VI) (28)
Peter Budaj, (II)
Vitaly Kolesnik, (II)
John-Michael Liles, (II)
Cody McCormick, (II)
Kurt Sauer, (II)
Tomas Slovak, (II)
Marek Svatos, (II)
Alex Tanguay, (II)
Ossi Vaananen, (II)
Mikko Viitanen, (II)
COLUMBUS
Manny Malhotra, (UFA)
Andy Delmore, (III)
Marc Denis, (III)
Jan Hrdina, (III)
Cale Hulse, (III)
Trevor Letowski, (III)
Martin Prusek, (III)
Jamie Pushor, (III)
Luke Richardson, (III)
Jody Shelley, (III)
Radoslav Suchy, (III)
Brandon Sugden, (III)
Darcey Verot, (III)
David Vyborny, (III)
Ron Hainsey, (VI) (48)
Jeff MacMillan, (VI)
Peter Sarno, (VI)
Ben Simon, (VI) (12)
Jaroslav Balastik, (II)
Shane Bendera, (II)
Jason Chimera, (II)
Dan Fritsche, (II)
Steven Goertzen, (II)
Aaron Johnson, (II)
Rostislav Klesla, (II)
Pascal LeClaire, (II)
Andrew Penner, (II)
Mike Rupp, (II)
Nikolai Zherdev, (II)
DALLAS
Jason Arnott, (III)
Phillipe Boucher, (III)
Garrett Burnett, (III)
Johan Hedberg, (III)
Jon Klemm, (III)*
David Oliver, (III)
Nathan Perrott, (III)
Patrick Traverse, (III)
Marty Turco, (III)
Dan Ellis, (VI) (27)
Dan Jancevski, (VI)
Mattias Tjarnqvist, (VI)
David Bararuk, (II)
Trevor Daley, (II)
John Erskine, (II)
Niklas Hagman, (II)
Niko Kapanen, (II)
Junior Lessard, (II)
Steve Ott, (II)
Mike Smith, (II)
Jaroslav Svoboda, (II)
DETROIT
Dan Cleary, (UFA)
Chris Chelios, (III)
Bryan Helmer, (III)
Manny Legace, (III)
Niklas Lidstrom, (III)
Andreas Lilja, (III)
Donald MacLean, (III)
Eric Manlow, (III)
Mark Mowers, (III)
Chris Osgood, (III)
Jamie Rivers, (III)
Mikael Samuelsson, (III)
Brendan Shanahan, (III)
Jason Woolley, (III)
Steve Yzerman, (III)
Joey MacDonald, (VI)
Kent McDonell, (VI)
Darryl Bootland, (II)
Johan Franzen, (II)
Michael Hackert, (II)
Eric Himelfarb, (II)
Jiri Hudler, (II)
Tomas Kopecky, (II)
Brett Lebda, (II)
Jason Williams, (II)
EDMONTON
Cory Cross, (III)
Radek Dvorak, (III)
Todd Harvey, (III)
Georges Laraque, (III)
Mike Peca, (III)
Fernando Pisani, (III)
Marty Reasoner, (III)
Dan Smith, (III)
Igor Ulanov, (III)
Nate DiCasmirro, (VI)
Blake Evans, (VI)
JJ Hunter, (VI)
Mike Morrison, (VI) (28)
Jason Platt, (VI)
Dan Baum, (II)
Kyle Brodziak, (II)*
Ed Caron, (II)
Ales Hemsky, (II)
Shawn Horcoff, (II)
Toby Peterson, (II)
Mathieu Roy, (II)
Kenny Smith, (II)
Jarrett Stoll, (II)
FLORIDA
Olli Jokinen, (UFA)
Dan Focht, (III)
Chris Gratton, (III)
Sean Hill, (III)*
Alexander Karpotsev, (III)
Jamie McLennan, (III)*
Jean-Marc Pellietier, (III)
Phil Osaer, (VI) (28)
Jay Bouwmeester, (II)
Greg Campbell, (II)
Nathan Horton, (II)
Juraj Kolnik, (II)
Lukas Krajicek, (II)
Roberto Luongo, (II)
Grant McNeill, (II)
Branislav Mezei, (II)
Steve Montador, (II)
Vaclav Nedorost, (II)
Serge Payer, (II)
Alexei Semenov, (II)*
Petr Taticek, (II)
Victor Uchevatov, (II)
Mike Van Ryn, (II)
Stephen Weiss, (II)
LOS ANGELES
Derek Armstrong, (III)
Eric Belanger, (III)
Ken Belanger, (III)
Valeri Bure, (III)
Joe Corvo, (III)
Jeff Cowan, (III)
Nathan Dempsey, (III)
Mathieu Garon, (III)
Trent Klatt, (III)
Luc Robitaille, (III)
Jeremy Roenick, (III)
Brad Smyth, (III)
Mike Weaver, (III)
Brad Fast, (VI)
Ryan Flinn, (VI)
Adam Hauser, (VI) (28)
Richard Seeley, (VI)
Sean Avery, (II)
Dustin Brown, (II)
Mike Cammalleri, (II)
Tim Gleason, (II)
Denis Grebeshkov, (II)
Greg Hogeboom, (II)
Petr Kanko, (II)
Yannick Lehoux, (II)
MINNESOTA
Marc Chouinard, (III)
Alexander Daigle, (III)
Scott Ferguson, (III)
Manny Fernandez, (III)
Ray Giroux, (III)
Filip Kuba, (III)
Kirby Law, (III)
Willie Mitchell, (III)
Curtis Murphy, (III)
Andrei Nazarov, (III)
Randy Robitaille, (III)
Dwayne Roloson, (III)
Joey Tetarenko, (III)
Andrei Zyuzin, (III)
Rikard Wallin, (VI)
Kyle Wanvig, (VI) (67)
Eric Westrum, (VI)
Dustin Wood, (VI)
Derek Boogard, (II)
Pierre-Marc Bouchard, (II)
Brent Burns, (II)
Pascal Dupuis, (II)
Kurtis Foster, (II)
Matt Foy, (II)
Marian Gaborik, (II)
Josh Harding, (II)
Chris Heid, (II)
Alex Henry, (II)
Mikko Koivu, (II)
Eric Reitz, (II)
Nick Schultz, (II)
Ryan Stokes, (II)
Daniel Tjarnqvist, (II)
MONTREAL
Steve Begin, (UFA)*
Jonathan Aitken, (III)
Francis Bouillon, (III)
Jan Bulis, (III)
Benjamin Carpenter, (III)
Pierre Dagenais, (III)
Cristobal Huet, (III)
Saku Koivu, (III)
Jeff Paul, (III)
Mark Streit, (III)
Niklas Sundstrom, (III)
Peter Vandermeer, (III)
Yann Danis, (VI) (28)
Aaron Archer, (II)
Jean-Phillipe Cote, (II)
Jonathan Ferland, (II)
Chris Higgins, (II)
Raitis Ivanis, (II)
Mike Komisarek, (II)
Olivier Michaud, (II)
Duncan Milroy, (II)
Garth Murray, (II)
Alexander Perezhogan, (II)
Mike Ribeiro, (II)
Michael Ryder, (II)
NASHVILLE
Rick Berry, (UFA)
David Legwand, (UFA)
Jamie Allison, (III)
Greg Classen, (III)
Mark Eaton, (III)
Danny Markov, (III)
Chris Mason, (III)
Scott Nichol, (III)
Yannic Perreault, (III)
Jeremy Stevenson, (III)
Marek Zidlicky, (III)
Sheldon Brookbank, (VI)
Vernon Fiddler, (VI) (44)
Darren Haydar, (VI)
Libor Pivko, (VI)
Jerred Smithson, (VI) (50)
Jeremy Yablonski, (VI)
Denis Arkhipov, (II)
Kris Beech, (II)
Martin Erat, (II)
Brian Finley, (II)
Adam Hall, (II)
Dan Hamhuis, (II)
Scott Hartnell, (II)
Denis Platonov, (II)
Brandon Segal, (II)
Timofei Shishkanov, (II)
Jordin Tootoo, (II)
Scottie Upshall, (II)
NEW JERSEY
Tommy Albelin, (III)
Sean Brown, (III)
Scott Clemmenson, (III)
Patrik Elias, (III)
Viktor Kozlov, (III)
Darren Langdon, (III)
Jamie Langenbrunner, (III)
Krysztof Oliwa, (III)
Jay Pandolfo, (III)
Erik Rasmussen, (III)
Colin White, (III)
Ari Ahonen, (VI) (28)
Bobby Allen, (VI)
Matt DeMarchi, (VI)
Ahren Nittel, (VI)
Krisjanis Redlihs, (VI)
Mike Sgrori, (VI)
Brad Ference, (II)
Adrian Foster, (II)
Brian Gionta, (II)
Scott Gomez, (II)
David Hale, (II)
Paul Martin, (II)
Tuomas Pihlman, (II)
Ilya Pikkareainen, (II)
Alexander Suglobov, (II)
Petr Vrana, (II)
NY ISLANDERS
Oleg Kvasha, (UFA)
Aaron Asham, (III)
Shawn Bates, (III)
Joel Bouchard, (III)
Travis Brigley, (III)
Rob Collins, (III)
Jeff Hamilton, (III)
Radek Martinek, (III)
Mark Parrish, (III)
Tomi Pettinen, (III)
Wyatt Smith, (III)
Mike York, (III)
Kevin Colley, (VI)
Wade Dubielwicz, (VI) (26)
Paul Flache, (VI)
Matt Koalska, (VI)
Vince Macri, (VI)
Jody Robinson, (VI)
Allan Rourke, (VI)
Sean Bergenheim, (II)
Chris Campoli, (II)
Rick DiPietro, (II)
Eric Godard, (II)
Trent Hunter, (II)
Justin Papineau, (II)
Steven Regier, (II)
Mattias Weinhandl, (II)
NY RANGERS
Jason Ward, (UFA)
Ville Nieminen, (III)
Tom Poti, (III)
Dale Purinton, (III)
Steve Rucchin, (III)
Martin Rucinsky, (III)
Martin Straka, (III)
Jason Strudwick, (III)
Dan Cavanaugh, (VI)
Brandon Cullen, (VI)
Fedor Fedorov, (VI)
Alexander Giroux, (VI)
Martin Grenier, (VI)
Steven MacIntyre, (VI)
Dominic Moore, (VI) (75)
Joe Rullier, (VI)
Craig Weller, (VI)
Chad Wiseman, (VI)
Blair Betts, (II)
Lee Falardeau, (II)
Dwight Helminen, (II)
Marcel Hossa, (II)
Maxim Kondratiev, (II)
Bryce Lampman, (II)
Colton Orr, (II)
Jed Ortmayer, (II)
Michal Rozsival, (II)
Juris Stals, (II)
Jeff Taffe, (II)
Fedor Tyutin, (II)
OTTAWA
Brian McGratton, (UFA)
Zdeno Chara, (III)
Dominik Hasek, (III)
Steve Martins, (III)
Brian Pothier, (III)
Wade Redden, (III)
Peter Schaeffer, (III)
Vaclav Varada, (III)
Lance Ward, (III)
Brett Clouthier, (VI)
Joe Cullen, (VI)
Jeff Heerema, (VI)
Chris Kelly, (VI) (76)
Charlie Stephens, (VI)
Ray Emery, (II)
Brennan Evans, (II)
Martin Havlat, (II)
Neil Komadosky, (II)
Tomas Malec, (II)
Chris Neil, (II)
Filip Novak, (II)
Jan Platil, (II)
Christoph Schubert, (II)
Jason Spezza, (II)
Antoinne Vermette, (II)
Greg Watson, (II)
PHILADELPHIA
Donald Brashear, (III)
Eric Desjardins, (III)
Kim Johnsson, (III)
Mark Murphy, (III)
Brian Savage, (III)
Jon Sim, (III)
John Slaney, (III)
Jamie Storr, (III)
Chris Therien, (III)
Nick Deschenes, (VI)
Pat Kavanaugh, (VI)
Freddy Meyer, (VI)
Ryan Ready, (VI)
Wade Skolney, (VI)
Tony Voce, (VI)
Mathieu Brunelle, (II)
Marc Cavosie, (II)
Matt Ellison, (II)
Simon Gagne, (II)
Josh Gratton, (II)
Joey Hope, (II)
Randy Jones, (II)
Kiel McLeod, (II)
Antero Nittymaki, (II)
Joni Pitkanen, (II)
David Prinz, (II)
Brankko Radivojevic, (II)
Stephan Ruzicka, (II)
Dennis Seidenberg, (II)
RJ Umberger, (II)
Stephen Wood, (II)
PHOENIX
Paul Mara, (UFA)
Derek Morris, (UFA)
Brian Boucher, (III)
Boyd Deveraux, (III)
Doug Doull, (III)
Denis Gauthier, (III)
Brett Hull, (III)
Curtis Joseph, (III)
Mike LeClerc, (III)
Chris McAllister, (III)
Steve Passmore, (III)
Pascal Rheaume, (III)
Mike Ricci, (III)*
Geoff Sanderson, (III)
Ray Schultz, (III)
Martin Sonnenberg, (III)
Mike Bishai, (VI)
Pavel Brendl, (VI) (4)
Steve Gainey, (VI)
Ryan Bathe, (II)
Eric Chouinard, (II)
Mike Comrie, (II)
Tim Jackman, (II)
Jakub Kores, (II)
Ladislav Kouba, (II)
David LeNeveu, (II)
Frantisek Lukes, (II)
Jamie Lundmark, (II)
Darren McLachlan, (II)
Zbynek Michalek, (II)
Lance Monych, (II)
Ladislav Nagy, (II)
Jeff Pietrasiak, (II)
Martin Podlesak, (II)
Oleg Saprykin, (II)
Fredrik Sjostrom, (II)
Marcus Smith, (II)
Russell Spence, (II)
Matt Spiller, (II)
John Zeiler, (II)
PITTSBURGH
Rico Fata, (UFA)
Eric Boguniecki, (III)
Dennis Bonvie, (III)
Ric Jackman, (III)
Chris Kelleher, (III)
John Leclair, (III)
Mario Lemieux, (III)
Alain Nasreddine, (III)
Lyle Odelein, (III)
Lasse Pirjeta, (III)
Mark Recchi, (III)*
Dick Tarnstrom, (III)
Ryan Vandenbussche, (III)
Matt Hussey, (VI)
David Koci, (VI)
Guillaume Lefebvre, (VI)
Matt Murley, (VI) (62)
Dany Sabourin, (VI) (24)
Robert Scuderi, (VI)
Andy Chiodo, (II)
Drew Fata, (II)
Marc-Andre Fleury, (II)
Konstantin Koltsov, (II)
Milan Kraft, (II)
Ryan Malone, (II)
Brooks Orpik, (II)
Alexander Rouleau, (II)
Tomas Surovy, (II)
ST LOUIS
Eric Brewer, (UFA)
Petr Cajanek, (III)
Reinhard Divis, (III)
Aaron Downey, (III)
Dallas Drake, (III)
Ryan Johnson, (III)
Patrick Lalime, (III)
Reed Low, (III)
Jamal Mayers, (III)
Dean McAmmond, (III)
Mike Mottau, (III)
Steve Poapst, (III)
Andy Roach, (III)
Bryce Salvador, (III)
Mike Sillinger, (III)
Rocky Thompson, (III)
Doug Weight, (III)
Eric Weinrich, (III)
Trent Whitfield, (III)
Scott Young, (III)
Trevor Byrne, (VI)
Kevin Dallman, (VI)
Simon Gamache, (VI) (69)
Mike Glumac, (VI)
Colin Hemingway, (VI)
Jeff Hoggan, (VI)
Aaron MacKenzie, (VI)
Curtis Sanford, (VI) (20)
Brett Scheffelmaier, (VI)
Mike Stuart, (VI)
Jason Bacashihua, (II)
Christian Backman, (II)
Greg Black, (II)
Doug Lynch, (II)
Jay McClemment, (II)
Mark Rycroft, (II)
Peter Sejna, (II)
Matt Walker, (II)
Jeff Woywitka, (II)
SAN JOSE
Josh Langfeld, (III)
Alyn McCauley, (III)
Evgeni Nabokov, (III)
Scott Parker, (III)
Mark Smith, (III)
Scott Thornton, (III)
Vesa Toskala, (III)
Matt Carkner, (VI)
Doug Murray, (VI)
Josh Prudden, (VI)
Pat Rissmiller, (VI)
Nolan Schaffer, (VI) (28)
Garrett Stafford, (VI)
Jonathan Cheechoo, (II)
Tim Conboy, (II)
Rob Davison, (II)
Nikos Dimitrakos, (II)
Christian Ehrhoff, (II)
Jim Fahey, (II)
Marcel Goc, (II)
Shane Joseph, (II)
Milan Michalek, (II)
Glenn Olson, (II)
Dmitri Patzold, (II)
Tomas Plihal, (II)
Grant Stevenson, (II)
Craig Valette, (II)
TAMPA BAY
Cory Sarich, (UFA)
Jim Campbell, (III)
Chris Dingman, (III)
John Grahame, (III)
Pavel Kubina, (III)
Steve McLaren, (III)
Todd Rohloff, (III)
Jarrod Skalde, (III)
Brian Eklund, (VI) (28)
Mitch Fritz, (VI)
Jason Jaspers, (VI)
Norm Milley, (VI)
Dimitri Afanasenkov, (II)
Martin Cibak, (II)
Ryan Craig, (II)
Gerard Dicaire, (II)
Ruslan Fedotenko, (II)
Timo Helbling, (II)
Brad Richards, (II)
Jean-Francois Soucey, (II)
TORONTO
Brad Brown, (UFA)
Jason Allison, (III)
Jean-Sebastien Aubin, (III)
Ed Belfour, (III)*
Aki Berg, (III)
Mariusz Czerkawski, (III)
Tomas Kaberle, (III)
Alexander Khavanov, (III)
Chad Kilger, (III)
Ken Klee, (III)
Eric Lindros, (III)
Bryan McCabe, (III)
Marc Moro, (III)
Karel Pilar, (III)
Clarke Wilm, (III)
Mike Hoffman, (VI)
Brad Leeb, (VI)
John Pohl, (VI)
Nik Antropov, (II)
Brendan Bell, (II)
Carlo Colaiacovo, (II)
Jay Harrison, (II)
Roman Kukumberg, (II)
Matt Stajan, (II)
Mikael Tellqvist, (II)
Kyle Wellwood, (II)
Ian White, (II)
VANCOUVER
Nolan Baumgartner, (III)
Wade Brookbank, (III)
Sven Butenschon, (III)
Anson Carter, (III)
Craig Darby, (III)
Jason Doig, (III)
Wade Flaherty, (III)
Lee Goren, (III)
Josh Green, (III)
Ed Jovanovski, (III)
Trevor Linden, (III)
Richard Park, (III)
Jarkko Ruttu, (III)
Tyler Bouck, (VI) (7)
Maxime Ouellet, (VI) (20)
Bryan Allen, (II)
Alex Auld, (II)
Josef Balej, (II)
Ryan Kesler, (II)
Jason King, (II)
Kirill Koltsov, (II)
Steve McCarthy, (II)
Rob McVicar, (II)
Tomas Mojzis, (II)
Brandon Nolan, (II)
Prestin Ryan, (II)
Jesse Schultz, (II)
Daniel Sedin, (II)
Henrik Sedin, (II)
Nathan Smith, (II)
WASHINGTON
Matt Bradley, (III)
Andrew Cassels, (III)
Frederic Cassivi, (III)
Chris Clark, (III)
Ben Clymer, (III)
Colin Forbes, (III)
Jeff Friesen, (III)
Jeff Halpern, (III)
Jamie Heward, (III)
Brent Johnson, (III)
Boyd Kane, (III)
Olaf Kolzig, (III)
Ivan Majesky, (III)
Bryan Muir, (III)
Brian Willsie, (III)
Brendan Witt, (III)
Mark Wotton, (III)
Dwayne Zinger, (III)
Jean-Francois Fortin, (VI) (9)
Graham Mink, (VI)
Lawrence Nycholat, (VI)
Petr Sykora, (VI)
Nolan Yonkman, (VI)
Miroslav Zalesak, (VI)
Jared Aulin, (II)
Mathieu Biron, (II)
Jakub Cutta, (II)
Steve Eminger, (II)
Owen Fussey, (II)
Boyd Gordon, (II)
Brooks Laich, (II)
Shaone Morrison, (II)
Matt Pettinger, (II)
Louis Robitaille, (II)
Alexander Semin, (II)
Brian Sutherby, (II)
This list falls into the following categories:
– Group II (restricted; original team has right to
match or accept draft-pick compensation);
– Group III (unrestricted; original team has no
right to match)
– Group IV (restricted; players who have never
signed a contract and are considered defected players)
– Group V (unrestricted; a player who has played in
11 professional games in each of the last 10 years, and makes less than the average salary
of $1.312 million can declare for unrestricted free agency once in his career)
– Group VI (unrestricted; a player who is 25 years
or older, has completed three or more professional seasons and in the case of a player
other than a goaltender has played fewer than 80 NHL games, or in the case of a goaltender
has played fewer than 28 NHL games).
– UFA (Unrestricted; a player who has played in at
elast 7 professional seasons, or a player who has been released from their current
contract by a buyout, a 2/3 of remaining salary option all teams carry with all contracts,
or Group II restricted free agents not offered a contract by their teams become Group III
unrestricted free agents.)
Agents