Free Agent Types:
Group II
Players who have been tendered a qualifying contract by their respective NHL team and are
subject to draft choice compensation and their club has the right to match. Draft choice
compensation depends on the value of the contract that the player signs. May be up to 5
first round draft picks.
Group III
Players who have qualified for Group III Free Agency are age 31 or older with at least 4 years
of NHL experience. Their respective clubs do not have the right to match, the decision is in
the players hand, the players are Unrestricted.
Group IV
Elected Group V
Players who have completed 10 pro seasons or more (NHL or Minors, excluding Major Junior) and earned
less than the leauge average salary and recieved a timely qualifying offer. These players
have the right to elect to become Unrestricted Free Agents he shall remain subject to draft
choice compensation and right to match as applies to Group II free agents since his prior
club has tendered him a qualifying offer. The players have until July 15 to elect Group V
status.
NHL GROUP III, IV, and V Free Agents
Anaheim - Brent Severyn (III); Scott Young (V-II); Shawn Antoski (un); Richard Park (un); Kevin Todd-x (un)Boston - P-C Drouin (un); Dean Malkoc (un); Milt Mastad (un); Bill McCauley (un); Anders Myrvold (un); Kirk Nielsen (un); Charles Paquette (un); Jon Rohloff (un); Andre Roy (un); Andrei Yakhanov (un)
Buffalo - Kay Whitmore (III); Rob Ray (Elected V); Sergei Klimentiev (un); Shayne Wright (un)
Calgary - James Patrick (III); Mike Peluso (III); Ron Stern (III); Kevin Dahl (un); Valeri Karpov (un); Keith McCambridge (un); Burke Murphy (un); Dwayne Roloson (un)
Carolina - Kevin Brown (un); Jason McBain (un); Brian Secord (un); Tripp Tracy (un)
Colorado - Craig Billington (III); Jari Kurri (III); T. Fitzgerald (Elected V); Francois Leroux (un)
Dallas - Greg Adams (III); Guy Carbonneau (III); Peter Douris (III); Benoit Hogue (III); Craig Ludwig (III); Craig Muni (III); Mike Kennedy (un); Kevin Sawyer (un); Chris Tancill (un); Jordan Willis (un)
Detroit - Viacheslav Fetisov (III); Dmitri Mironov (III); Bob Rouse (III); Sylvain Cloutier (un); Per Eklund (un); Brandon Smith (un)
Edmonton - Bob Essensa (III); Curtis Joseph (III); Kevin Lowe (III); Frantisek Musil (III); Kevin Paden (un); Colin Schmidt (un)
Florida - John Vanbiesbrouck (III); A. Buckberger (un); Trevor Doyle (un); Dallas Eakins-x (un); Wes Swinson (un)
Los Angeles - Ruslan Batyrshin (un); Brad Guzda (un); Jeff Shevalier (un)
Montreal - Marc Bureau (III); Mick Vukota (III); Trent Cavicchi (un); Earl Cronan (un); Dion Darling (un); Zarley Zalapski (un)
Nashville - Al Iafrate (III); Uwe Krupp (III); Mike Richter (III)
New Jersey - Doug Gilmour (III); Peter Sidorkiewicz (III); Steve Thomas (III)
NY Islanders - Dan Plante (un); Dennis Vaske (un)
NY Rangers - Shane Churla (III); Bruce Driver (III); Doug Lidster (III); Tim Sweeney (III); Pierre Sevigny
Ottawa - Randy Cunneyworth (III); Derek Armstrong (un); Pat Falloon (un); Per Gustafsson (un); Dennis Vial (un); Sergei Zholtok (un)
Philadelphia - Sean Burke (III); Joel Otto (III); Kjell Samuelsson (III); Brett Bruininks (un); Brantt Myhres (un); Travis Van Tighem (un)
Phoenix - Murray Baron (III); Mike Gartner (III); Jim Johnson (III); Norm Maciver (III); Michel Petit (III); Darcy Wakaluk (III); Alexei Budayev (un); Mark Janssens-x (un); Darin Kimble-x (un); Scott Levins (un); Darrin Shannon (un); Jimmy Waite-x (un)
Pittsburgh - Ron Francis (III); Fredrik Olausson (III); Ed Olczyk (III); Rob Brown (V-II); Serge Aubin (un); Joe Dziedzic (un); Alex Hicks (un); Andreas Johansson (un); Alexei Krivchenkov (un); Domenic Pittis (un); Alek Stojanov (un); Garry Valk (un)
St. Louis - Geoff Courtnall (III); Steve Duchesne (III); Brett Hull (III); Alexander Godynyuk (un); Nicholas Naumenko (un); Robert Petrovicky (un); Konstantin Shafranov (un)
San Jose - Murray Craven (III); Kelly Hrudey (III); Dave Lowry (III); John MacLean (III); Marty McSorley (III); Bernie Nicholls (III); Niclas Andersson (un); Jason Widmer (un)
Tampa Bay - Ryan Brown (un); Jody Hull-x (un); Troy Mallette (un); David Matsos (un); Mathieu Raby (un); Yves Racine (un); Vladimir Vujtek (un)
Toronto - Wendel Clark (III); Nick Kypreos (III); Shawn Carter (un); Matt Martin (un); Zdenek Nedved (un)
Vancouver - Arturs Irbe (III); Jyrki Lumme (III); Brian Noonan (III); Tyson Nash (un)
Washington - ; Brian Bellows (III); Jeff Brown (III); Dale Hunter (III); Todd Krygier (III); Esa Tikkanen (III); Stephane Beauregard (V-II); Jan Benda (un); Kevin Kaminski (un); Pat Peake (un)
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NHL GROUP II FREE AGENTS
Anaheim - Drew Bannister ; Espen Knutsen ; Peter Leboutillier ; Eric Lecompte ; Jim McKenzie ; Steve Rucchin ; Dan Trebil ; Nikolai Tsulygin
Boston - Jason Allison ; Anson Carter ; Ted Donato ; Aaron Downey ; Steve Heinze ; Dmitri Khristich ; Kyle McLaren ; Robbie Tallas ; Tim Taylor ; Landon Wilson
Buffalo - Donald Audette ; Brian Holzinger ; Paul Kruse ; Rumun Ndur ; Scott Nichol ; Geoff Sanderson ; Miroslav Satan ; Mike Wilson ; Alexei Zhitnik
Calgary - Jamie Allison ; Andrew Cassels ; Eric Charron ; Patrik Haltia ; Ladislav Kohn ; Jesper Mattsson ; Marty McInnis ; Marty Murray ; Michael Nylander ; Chris O'Sullivan ; Dave Roche ; Todd Simpson ; Cory Stillman
Carolina - Steven Halko ; Nolan Pratt
Chicago - Eric Daze ; Brian Felsner ; Chad Kilger ; Andrei Kozyrev ; Marc Lamothe ; David Ling ; Ethan Moreau ; Alain Nasreddine ; Cam Russell ; Jeff Shantz ; Andrei Trefilov ; Petri Varis
Colorado - Rene Corbet ; Shean Donovan ; Christian Matte ; Eric Messier ; Sandis Ozolinsh ; Pascal Trepanier ; Stephane Yelle
Dallas - Sergey Gusev ; J. Langenbrunner ; Jeffrey Mitchell ; Darryl Sydor ; Roman Turek
Detroit - Ryan Bach ; Mathieu Dandenault ; Tomas Holmstrom
Edmonton - Ladislav Benysek ; Dennis Bonvie ; Eric Fichaud ; Joe Hulbig ; Todd Marchant ; Dean McAmmond ; Barrie Moore ; Ryan Smyth ; Doug Weight ; Valeri Zelepukin ; Alexander Zhurik
Florida - Chad Cabana ; Radek Dvorak ; Viktor Kozlov ; Todd MacDonald ; Steve Washburn ; Kevin Weekes ; Chris Wells ; Ray Whitney
Los Angeles - Aki Berg ; Rob Blake ; Philippe Boucher ; Craig Johnson ; Matt Johnson ; Nathan Lafayette ; Steve McKenna ; Jaroslav Modry ; Sean O'Donnell ; Vitali Yachmenev
Montreal - Patrice Brisebois ; Brad Brown ; Vincent Damphousse ; Martin Gendron ; Saku Koivu ; Vladimir Malakhov ; Martin Rucinsky ; Brian Savage ; Turner Stevenson ; Scott Thornton
Nashville - Sebastien Bordeleau ; Andrew Brunette ; Patrick Cote ; S. Krivokrasov ; Dominic Roussel ; Jeffrey Staples
New Jersey - Jason Arnott ; Eric Bertrand ; Steve Brule ; Bobby Holik ; Sasha Lakovic ; John Madden ; Bryan Muir ; Scott Niedermayer ; Denis Pederson ; Vadim Sharifijanov ; Petr Sykora ; Dody Wood
NY Islanders - Ken Belanger ; Jason Dawe ; Kenny Jonsson ; Trevor Linden ; Kip Miller ; Zigmund Palffy ; Joe Sacco
NY Rangers - Eric Cairns ; Maxim Galanov ; Todd Harvey ; Johan Lindbom ; Peter Popovic ; Lee Sorochan ; Robb Stauber ; Ronnie Sundin ; Vladimir Vorobiev ; Harry York
Ottawa - Radim Bicanek ; Frederic Cassivi ; Phil Crowe ; Andreas Dackell ; Justin Hocking ; Shawn McEachern ; Chris Murray ; Stan Neckar ; Mike Prokopec ; Vaclav Prospal
Philadelphia - Rod Brind'Amour ; Paul Healey ; Trent Klatt ; Daniel Lacroix ; Jeff Lank ; Dave MacIsaac ; Mike Maneluk
Phoenix - Keith Carney ; Bob Corkum ; Louie Debrusk ; Shane Doan ; Dallas Drake ; Sean Gagnon ; Scott Langkow ; Deron Quint
Pittsburgh - Stu Barnes ; Stefan Bergqvist ; Brian Bonin ; Robert Lang ; Sean Pronger ; Brad Werenka ; Tyler Wright
St. Louis - Jim Campbell ; Rory Fitzpatrick ; Bob Lachance ; Rich Parent ; Scott Pellerin ; Jamie Rivers ; Shayne Toporowski ; Pierre Turgeon ; Libor Zabransky
San Jose - Jeff Friesen ; Steve Guolla ; Shawn Heins ; Bryan Marchment ; Owen Nolan ; Fredrik Oduya ; M. Ragnarsson ; Mike Rathje ; Mike Ricci ; Steve Shields ; Alexei Yegorov
Tampa Bay - Mark Fitzpatrick ; Corey Schwab
Toronto - David Cooper ; Darby Hendrickson ; Mike Johnson ; Igor Korolev ; Scott Pearson ; Martin Prochazka ; Mathieu Schneider ; Steve Sullivan ; Todd Warriner
Vancouver - Adrian Aucoin ; Larry Courville ; Corey Hirsch ; Brad May ; Chris McAllister ; Bryan McCabe ; Markus Naslund ; Garth Snow ; Steve Staios ; Jason Strudwick ; Mark Wotton
Washington - Patrick Boileau ; Sergei Gonchar ; Joe Juneau ; Stewart Malgunas ; Brian Mulhern ; Andrei Nikolishin ; Jeff Toms