NEW YORK (July 13, 2022) – 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.
ST. 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.
ST. 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.
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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. This group is defined as 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 fewer than 80 NHL games (regular-season and playoff), or (ii) in the case of a goaltender, have played fewer than 28 NHL games (regular-season and playoff).
ANAHEIM
None.
ARIZONA
Hudson Fasching, Bokondji Imama, Blake Speers.
BOSTON
Callum Booth, Cameron Hughes.
BUFFALO
Ryan MacInnis.
CALGARY
Glenn Gawdin, Justin Kirkland, Luke Philp, Adam Werner.
CAROLINA
Josh Jacobs, Sam Miletic, Spencer Smallman.
CHICAGO
None.
COLORADO
Dennis Gilbert, Roland McKeown, Hunter Miska.
COLUMBUS
None.
DALLAS
Joel L’Esperance.
DETROIT
None.
EDMONTON
Cooper Marody.
FLORIDA
Chase Priskie.
LOS ANGELES
Nelson Nogier, Austin Strand.
MINNESOTA
Nolan Stevens, Dominic Turgeon.
MONTREAL
Louie Belpedio, William Lagesson, Sami Niku, Lukas Vejdemo.
NASHVILLE
Brayden Burke, Jeremy Davies, Kole Sherwood.
NEW JERSEY
Chase DeLeo, A.J. Greer, Colton White.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Mitchell Vande Sompel.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Adam Huska, Maxim Letunov, Nick Merkley.
OTTAWA
Clark Bishop, Zach Senyshyn.
PHILADELPHIA
Brennan Menell, Samuel Morin.
PITTSBURGH
Anthony Angello.
SAN JOSE
Jayden Halbgewachs.
SEATTLE
None.
ST. LOUIS
Dakota Joshua.
TAMPA BAY
Anthony Richard.
TORONTO
Brett Seney.
VANCOUVER
Sheldon Rempal, Devante Stephens.
VEGAS
Gage Quinney.
WASHINGTON
Shane Gersich.
WINNIPEG
Adam Brooks, Eric Comrie, Philippe Desrosiers, Austin Poganski.
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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
Jack Badini, Roman Durny, Lucas Elvenes, Brendan Guhle, Jacob Larsson, Sonny Milano, Sam Steel.
ARIZONA
Kyle Capobianco, Cole Hults.
BOSTON
None.
BUFFALO
None.
CALGARY
Johannes Kinnvall, Tyler Parsons.
CAROLINA
David Cotton, Jack LaFontaine, Beck Warm.
CHICAGO
Andrei Altybarmakian, Wyatt Kalynuk, Dominik Kubalik, Cale Morris, Cam Morrison, Dylan Strome.
COLORADO
Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Nick Henry, Andreas Wingerli.
COLUMBUS
Gabriel Carlsson, Kevin Stenlund.
DALLAS
Jordan Kawaguchi, Alexey Lipanov, Colton Point.
DETROIT
Kaden Fulcher, Olli Juolevi, Filip Larsson, Mitchell Stephens.
EDMONTON
Filip Berglund, Brendan Perlini, Ostap Safin.
FLORIDA
Evan Fitzpatrick, Jonas Johansson, German Rubtsov.
LOS ANGELES
Brendan Lemieux, Johan Sodergran, Vladimir Tkachev.
MINNESOTA
Dereck Baribeau, Fedor Gordeev.
MONTREAL
Josh Brook, Kale Clague, Rem Pitlick.
NASHVILLE
David Farrance, Matt Luff.
NEW JERSEY
None.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Michael Dal Colle.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Jake Elmer, Justin Richards, Ty Ronning, Tyler Wall.
OTTAWA
Adam Gaudette, Michael McNiven, Victor Mete.
PHILADELPHIA
Matthew Strome, Maksim Sushko, Kirill Ustimenko.
PITTSBURGH
Niclas Almari, Justin Almeida, Jordy Bellerive, Alex D’Orio, Jan Drozg, Danton Heinen, Cam Lee, William Reilly.
SAN JOSE
Joachim Blichfeld, Jonathan Dahlen, Zach Gallant, Jacob McGrew, Nicolas Meloche, Antoine Morand, Brinson Pasichnuk, Zach Sawchenko.
SEATTLE
Dennis Cholowski, Ryan Donato, Haydn Fleury, Daniel Sprong.
ST. LOUIS
Tanner Kaspick.
TAMPA BAY
Tye Felhaber, Alexander Green, Alexei Melnichuk, Otto Somppi, Odeen Tufto.
TORONTO
Joseph Duszak, Ondrej Kase, Chad Krys, Kristians Rubins, Ian Scott.
VANCOUVER
Justin Bailey, Matthew Highmore, Juho Lammikko.
VEGAS
Jack Dugan, Dylan Ferguson, Brett Howden, Ben Jones.
WASHINGTON
Ilya Samsonov.
WINNIPEG
Markus Phillips, Evgeny Svechnikov.
COURTESY NHLmedia.com
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