NHL Releases Free Agent List

NEW YORK– 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.

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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:

ANAHEIM

Simon Benoit, Olle Eriksson Ek, Isac Lundestrom, Urho Vaakanainen.

ARIZONA

Lawson Crouse, Barrett Hayton, Josef Korenar.

BOSTON

Jack Ahcan, Matt Filipe, Jack Studnicka.

BUFFALO

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Brett Murray, Victor Olofsson, Arttu Ruotsalainen.

CALGARY

Oliver Kylington, Andrew Mangiapane, Matthew Phillips, Colton Poolman, Martin Pospisil, Adam Ruzicka, Matthew Tkachuk, Eetu Tuulola.

CAROLINA

Joey Keane, Maxime Lajoie, Steven Lorentz, Stelio Mattheos, Martin Necas, Tarmo Reunanen, Jesper Sellgren.

CHICAGO

Caleb Jones, Philipp Kurashev.

COLORADO

Shane Bowers, Callahan Burke, Artturi Lehkonen, Mikhail Maltsev, Keaton Middleton.

COLUMBUS

Emil Bemstrom, Trey Fix-Wolansky, Patrik Laine.

DALLAS

Ben Gleason, Jake Oettinger, Jason Robertson.

DETROIT

Chase Pearson, Jake Walman, Filip Zadina.

EDMONTON

Tyler Benson, Ryan McLeod, Jesse Puljujarvi, Kailer Yamamoto.

FLORIDA

Henry Bowlby.

LOS ANGELES

Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Mikey Anderson, Sean Durzi, Gabriel Vilardi.

MINNESOTA

Mitchell Chaffee, Nick Swaney.

MONTREAL

Kirby Dach, Sam Montembeault, Cayden Primeau, Nate Schnarr.

NASHVILLE

John Leonard, Thomas Novak, Cole Smith, Yakov Trenin.

NEW JERSEY

Jesper Boqvist, Jesper Bratt, Tyce Thompson, Vitek Vanecek, Pavel Zacha, Fabian Zetterlund.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Kieffer Bellows, Noah Dobson, Arnaud Durandeau, Parker Wotherspoon.

NEW YORK RANGERS

Tim Gettinger, Kaapo Kakko, Austin Rueschhoff.

OTTAWA

Erik Brannstrom, Alex Formenton, Mathieu Joseph, Josh Norris.

PHILADELPHIA

Wade Allison, Linus Hogberg, Tanner Laczynski, Zack MacEwen, Isaac Ratcliffe, Owen Tippett.

PITTSBURGH

Kasper Bjorkqvist, Kasperi Kapanen.

SAN JOSE

Sasha Chmelevski, Mario Ferraro, Jonah Gadjovich, Noah Gregor, Kaapo Kahkonen, Luke Kunin.

SEATTLE

Cale Fleury, Morgan Geekie, Kole Lind, Carsen Twarynski.

1. LOUIS

William Bitten, Klim Kostin, Niko Mikkola, Scott Perunovich, Nathan Todd.

TAMPA BAY

None.

TORONTO

Pierre Engvall, Rasmus Sandin.

VANCOUVER

Michael Dipietro.

VEGAS

Nicolas Hague, Keegan Kolesar, Jake Leschyshyn, Brayden Pachal, Nicolas Roy.

WASHINGTON

Tobias Geisser, Damien Riat.

WINNIPEG

Mason Appleton, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Leon Gawanke, David Gustafsson, Jansen Harkins, Johnathan Kovacevic, Jeff Malott, Kristian Vesalainen.

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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

Zach Aston-Reese, Trevor Carrick, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Kesler, Vinni Lettieri, Gerry Mayhew, Greg Pateryn, Brogan Rafferty, Buddy Robinson, Dominik Simon, Nick Sorensen, Andrej Sustr.

ARIZONA

Jay Beagle, Loui Eriksson, Alex Galchenyuk, Dmitrij Jaskin, Phil Kessel, Marek Langhamer, Antoine Roussel, Harri Sateri, Anton Stralman.

BOSTON

Linus Arnesson, Patrice Bergeron, Anton Blidh, Josh Brown, Kodie Curran, Steven Fogarty, Jesper Froden, Troy Grosenick, Curtis Lazar, Tyler Lewington.

BUFFALO

Johnny Boychuk, Will Butcher, Drake Caggiula, Brandon Davidson, Aaron Dell, Cody Eakin, John Hayden, Michael Houser, Mark Jankowski, Colin Miller, Andrew Oglevie, Ethan Prow, Mark Pysyk, Jimmy Schuldt, Dustin Tokarski.

CALGARY

Ryan Carpenter, Nick DeSimone, Byron Froese, Johnny Gaudreau, Kevin Gravel, Erik Gudbranson, Calle Jarnkrok, Trevor Lewis, Brett Ritchie, Michael Stone, Andy Welinski, Nikita Zadorov.

CAROLINA

Ian Cole, Max Domi, Josh Leivo, Alex Lyon, Nino Niederreiter, Andrew Poturalski, Brendan Smith, C.J. Smith, Derek Stepan, Vincent Trocheck.

CHICAGO

Calvin de Haan, Collin Delia, Victor Ejdsell, Kurtis Gabriel, Erik Gustafsson, Kevin Lankinen, Andrew Shaw.

COLORADO

Andre Burakovsky, Jordan Gross, Darren Helm, Jack Johnson, Nazem Kadri, Darcy Kuemper, Josh Manson, Stefan Matteau, Ryan Murray, Kiefer Sherwood, Dylan Sikura, Nico Sturm.

COLUMBUS

J-F Berube, Nathan Gerbe, Scott Harrington, Cameron Johnson, Dean Kukan, Zac Rinaldo, Tyler Sikura.

DALLAS

Blake Comeau, Niklas Hansson, Braden Holtby, John Klingberg, Vladislav Namestnikov, Alexander Radulov, Michael Raffl, Andrej Sekera.

DETROIT

Riley Barber, Danny DeKeyser, Turner Elson, Sam Gagner, Thomas Greiss, Magnus Hellberg, Brian Lashoff, Ryan Murphy, Calvin Pickard, Dan Renouf, Carter Rowney, Marc Staal.

EDMONTON

Josh Archibald, Derick Brassard, Evander Kane, Mikko Koskinen, Brett Kulak, Kris Russell, Colton Sceviour, Kyle Turris, Bogdan Yakimov.

FLORIDA

Noel Acciari, Ben Chiarot, Christopher Gibson, Claude Giroux, Robert Hagg, Petteri Lindbohm, Maxim Mamin, Mason Marchment, Markus Nutivaara, Joe Thornton.

LOS ANGELES

Andreas Athanasiou, Dustin Brown, Martin Frk, Olli Maatta, Garret Sparks, Troy Stecher, Christian Wolanin.

MINNESOTA

Brandon Baddock, Jordie Benn, Nick Bjugstad, Kevin Czuczman, Nicolas Deslauriers, Jon Lizotte, Kyle Rau.

MONTREAL

Alex Belzile, Laurent Dauphin, Jean-Sebastien Dea, Xavier Ouellet, Cedric Paquette, Mathieu Perreault, Tyler Pitlick.

NASHVILLE

Matt Benning, Alex Biega, Nick Cousins, Rocco Grimaldi, Ben Harpur, David Rittich.

NEW JERSEY

Corey Crawford, Brian Flynn, Frederik Gauthier, Mason Geertsen, Jon Gillies, Andrew Hammond, P.K. Subban, Jimmy Vesey.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Zdeno Chara, Austin Czarnik, Andy Greene, Thomas Hickey, Paul LaDue, Cory Schneider.

NEW YORK RANGERS

Justin Braun, Andrew Copp, Anthony Greco, Keith Kinkaid, Greg McKegg, Tyler Motte, Kevin Rooney, Ryan Strome, Frank Vatrano.

OTTAWA

Andrew Agozzino, Tyler Ennis, Zachary Leslie, Scott Sabourin, Logan Shaw, Chris Tierney.

PHILADELPHIA

Adam Clendening, Kevin Connauton, Ryan Fitzgerald, Martin Jones, Nate Thompson, Keith Yandle.

PITTSBURGH

Nathan Beaulieu, Brian Boyle, Michael Chaput, Louis Domingue, Evgeni Malkin, Juuso Riikola, Evan Rodrigues.

SAN JOSE

Anthony Bitetto, Ryan Dzingel, Alex Stalock.

SEATTLE

Antoine Bibeau, Connor Carrick, Derrick Pouliot, Victor Rask, Riley Sheahan.

1. LOUIS

Sam Anas, Tyler Bozak, Tommy Cross, Nick Leddy, Charlie Lindgren, Mackenzie MacEachern, James Neal, David Perron.

TAMPA BAY

Fredrik Claesson, Gabriel Dumont, Remi Elie, Charles Hudon, Riley Nash, Ondrej Palat, Jan Rutta.

TORONTO

Colin Blackwell, Jack Campbell, Michael Hutchinson, Carter Hutton, Teemu Kivihalme, Ilya Lyubushkin, Ilya Mikheyev, Jason Spezza.

VANCOUVER

Madison Bowey, Alex Chiasson, Phillip Di Giuseppe, Jaroslav Halak, Brad Hunt, Nic Petan, Brad Richardson, Ashton Sautner, Brandon Sutter, Nikita Tryamkin.

VEGAS

Sven Baertschi, Jake Bischoff, Mattias Janmark, Reilly Smith.

WASHINGTON

Pheonix Copley, Matt Irwin, Marcus Johansson, Michal Kempny, Johan Larsson, Brian Pinho, Justin Schultz.

WINNIPEG

Luke Johnson, Zach Sanford, Paul Stastny, C.J. Suess.