Official NHL Free Agent List and Explanations (Press Release)

As the free agent clock started ticking this morning, the NHL released their official free agent list by category with the breakdown of compensation for group 2 free agents (RFA) and explanations of what each category actually means.

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NHL RELEASES FREE AGENT LIST

NEW YORK (July 1, 2011) -- The National Hockey League today released the names of the players, who, effective today, 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.

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:

OFFER                                           COMPENSATION

$1,034,249 or below                        None
Over $1,034,249 to $1,567,043       Third-round choice
Over $1,567,043 to $3,134,088       Second-round choice
Over $3,134,088 to $4,701,131       First-round and third-round choice
Over $4,701,131 to $6,268,175       First-round, second-round and third-round choice
Over $6,268,175 to $7,835,219       Two first-round choices, one second- and one third-round choice
Over $7,835,219                              Four first-round choices

ANAHEIM
Patrick Maroon, Dan Sexton.

BOSTON
Andrew Bodnarchuk, Stefan Chaput, Brad Marchand.

BUFFALO
Jhonas Enroth, Marc-Andre Gragnani, Dennis McCauley, Dennis Persson, Andrej Sekera, Travis Turnbull, Mike Weber.

CALGARY
Chris Butler, Leland Irving, Brendan Mikkelson.

CAROLINA
Derek Joslin, Oskar Osala, Bobby Sanguinetti, Brandon Sutter, Brett Sutter.

CHICAGO
Chris Campoli, Brian Connelly, Michael Frolik, Rob Klinkhammer, Alec Richards, Viktor Stalberg, Ivan Vishnevskiy.

COLORADO
Kyle Cumiskey, T.J. Galiardi, Kevin Porter, Ryan Wilson.

COLUMBUS
Marc Methot.

DALLAS
None.

DETROIT
Dick Axelsson, Francis Pare, Jordan Pearce, Logan Pyett.

EDMONTON
Taylor Chorney, Andrew Cogliano, Ryan O'Marra, Theo Peckham, Liam Reddox.

FLORIDA
Michael Caruso, Mike Duco, Shawn Matthias, Kenndal McArdle, Tyler Plante, Mike Santorelli.

LOS ANGELES
Andrew Campbell, Marc-Andre Cliché, Richard Clune, Drew Doughty, Corey Elkins, Johan Fransson, Bud Holloway, Trevor Lewis, Alec Martinez, David Meckler, Oscar Moller, Patrick Mullen, Brad Richardson, Jeff Zatkoff.

MINNESOTA
Justin Falk, Colton Gillies, Jarod Palmer, Jeff Penner, Darroll Powe, James Sheppard, Casey Wellman.

MONTREAL
Mathieu Carle, Josh Gorges, Kyle Klubertanz, Ryan Russell, Frederic St. Denis, Ryan White.

NASHVILLE
Matt Halischuk, Sergei Kostitsyn, Linus Klasen, Chris Mueller, Cal O'Reilly, Nick Spaling, Andreas Thuresson.

NEW JERSEY
Matthew Corrente, Mark Fraser, Jeff Frazee, Maxim Noreau, Nathan Perkovich, Matt Taormina, Alexander Vasyunov, Steven Zalewski, Vladimir Zharkov.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Josh Bailey, Blake Comeau, Micheal Haley, Jesse Joensuu, Dylan Reese, Ty Wishart.

NEW YORK RANGERS
Artem Anisimov, Stu Bickel, Brian Boyle, Ryan Callahan, Brandon Dubinsky, Brodie Dupont, Chad Johnson, Michael Sauer.

OTTAWA
Erik Condra, Kaspars Daugavins, Geoff Kinrade, Roman Wick.

PHILADELPHIA
Jon Kalinski, Wayne Simmonds, Jakub Voracek.

PHOENIX
Jonas Ahnelov, Mikkel Boedker, Lauri Korpikoski, Brett MacLean, Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Viktor Tikhonov, Kyle Turris, Matt Watkins, Keith Yandle.

PITTSBURGH
Dustin Jeffrey, Brad Thiessen.

ST. LOUIS
Ben Bishop, Ryan Reaves.

SAN JOSE
Benn Ferriero, John McCarthy.

TAMPA BAY
Johan Harju, Riku Helenius, Scott Jackson, Teddy Purcell, Steven Stamkos.

TORONTO
Tyler Bozak, Matt Lashoff, Clarke MacArthur, Luke Schenn.

VANCOUVER
Jannik Hansen, Sergei Shirokov.

WASHINGTON
Karl Alzner, Francois Bouchard, Troy Brouwer, Mathieu Perreault, Semyon Varlamov.

WINNIPEG
Zach Bogosian, Brett Festerling, Riley Holzapfel, Arturs Kulda, Andrew Ladd, Spencer Machacek, Ben Maxwell, Blake Wheeler.

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
Ray Emery, Josh Green, Jason Jaffray, Andreas Lilja, Todd Marchant, Brian McGrattan, Joel Perrault, Jarkko Ruutu, Teemu Selanne, Brad Winchester.

BOSTON
Shane Hnidy, Tomas Kaberle, Kirk MacDonald, Mark Recchi, Jeremy Reich, Michael Ryder, Nolan Schaefer, Trent Whitfield.

BUFFALO
Tim Conboy, Tim Connolly, Matt Ellis, Mike Grier, Patrick Lalime, Cody McCormick, Rob Niedermayer, Mark Parrish, Colin Stuart.

CALGARY
Anton Babchuk, Staffan Kronvall, Tomi Maki, Fredrik Modin, Brendan Morrison, Adam Pardy, Steve Staios.

CAROLINA
Erik Cole, Brandon Nolan, Bryan Rodney, Cory Stillman.

CHICAGO
Jassen Cullimore, Garnet Exelby, Jordan Hendry, Ryan Johnson, Steve Montador, Fernando Pisani, Jeff Taffe, Hannu Toivonen, Marty Turco.

COLORADO
Jason Bacashihua, Peter Budaj, Tomas Fleischmann, Adam Foote, John Grahame, David Koci, Ben Walter.

COLUMBUS
Chris Clark, Trevor Frischmon, Mathieu Garon, Ben Guite, Jan Hejda, David LeNeveu, Greg Moore, Ethan Moreau, Andrew Murray, Craig Rivet, Scottie Upshall, James Wisniewski.

DALLAS
Brent Krahn, Jamie Langenbrunner, Brad Richards, Brandon Segal, Karlis Skrastins, Brian Sutherby, Jason Williams, Jeff Woywitka.

DETROIT
Kris Draper, Patrick Eaves, Jonathan Ericsson, Ilari Filppula, Joey MacDonald, Derek Meech, Drew Miller, Mike Modano, Chris Osgood, Ruslan Salei, Ole-Kristian Tollefsen.

EDMONTON
Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers, Martin Gerber, Alexandre Giroux, Steve MacIntyre, Brad Moran, Ben Ondrus, Richard Petiot, Jason Strudwick, Jim Vandermeer.

FLORIDA
Joe Callahan, Ryan Carter, Triston Grant, Darcy Hordichuk, Hugh Jessiman, Marty Reasoner, Patrick Rissmiller, Sergei Samsonov, Alexander Sulzer, Bill Thomas, Tomas Vokoun, Clay Wilson.

LOS ANGELES
Michal Handzus, Peter Harrold, Alexei Ponikarovsky, John Zeiler.

MINNESOTA
Andrew Brunette, Jean-Michel Daoust, Josh Harding, Chuck Kobasew, John Madden, Antti Miettinen, Jed Ortmeyer, Jose Theodore.

MONTREAL
Alex Auld, Marvin Degon, Jeff Halpern, Roman Hamrlik, Drew MacIntyre, Paul Mara, Alexander Perezhogin, Curtis Sanford, Brent Sopel.

NASHVILLE
Steve Begin, Wade Belak, Matt Ellison, Marcel Goc, Aaron Johnson, Shane O'Brien, Brett Palin, Steve Sullivan, Joel Ward.

NEW JERSEY
Rob Davison, Andy Greene, Johan Hedberg, Adam Mair, Mike McKenna, Bradley Mills, Chad Wiseman.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Andy Hilbert, Zenon Konopka, Nathan Lawson, Joel Martin, Radek Martinek, Doug Weight, Jeremy Yablonski.

NEW YORK RANGERS
Steve Eminger, Ruslan Fedotenko, Alexander Frolov, Bryan McCabe, Vaclav Prospal, Todd White, Jeremy Williams.

OTTAWA
Michal Barinka, Andre Benoit, Mike Brodeur, David Hale, Ryan Keller, Pascal Leclaire, Francis Lessard, Curtis McElhinney, Ryan Shannon, Marek Svatos.

PHILADELPHIA
Brian Boucher, Nick Boynton, Ville Leino, Sean O'Donnell, Michael Ryan, Patrick Thoresen, Nikolay Zherdev.

PHOENIX
Eric Belanger, Matt Climie, Andrew Ebbett, Vernon Fiddler, Ryan Hollweg, Ed Jovanovski, Bracken Kearns, Petr Prucha, Radim Vrbata, Nolan Yonkman.

PITTSBURGH
Arron Asham, Mike Comrie, Chris Conner, John Curry, Daniel Fernholm, Eric Godard, Andrew Hutchinson, Alex Kovalev, Corey Potter, Michael Rupp, Brett Sterling, Maxime Talbot, Steve Wagner.

ST. LOUIS
Dean Arsene, Ty Conklin, Cam Janssen, Graham Mink, Nathan Oystrick, Dave Scatchard, Dave Spina.

SAN JOSE
Ben Eager, Kent Huskins, Jamal Mayers, Scott Nichol, T.J. Trevelyan, Niclas Wallin, Kyle Wellwood, Ian White.

TAMPA BAY
Sean Bergenheim, Chris Durno, Mitchell Fritz, Simon Gagne, Randy Jones, Mathieu Roy, Mike Smith.

TORONTO
Tim Brent, Joey Crabb, Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Fredrik Sjostrom, Aaron Voros, Mike Zigomanis.

VANCOUVER
Nolan Baumgartner, Colby Genoway, Tanner Glass, Chris Higgins, Nathan Paetsch, Rick Rypien, Sami Salo, Jeff Tambellini, Raffi Torres, Tyler Weiman.

WASHINGTON
Jason Arnott, Matt Bradley, Brian Fahey, Todd Ford, Boyd Gordon, Scott Hannan, Jakub Klepis, Michael Nylander, Steven Pinizzotto, Marco Sturm, Brian Willsie.

WINNIPEG
Eric Boulton, Radek Dvorak, Jason Krog, Freddy Meyer, Jared Ross, Jaime Sifers, Noah Welch.

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).

ANAHEIM
None.

BOSTON
Anton Khudobin, David Laliberte.

BUFFALO
Mark Mancari, Derek Whitmore.

CALGARY
Kris Chucko, Cam Cunning, Matt Keetley, Ryan Stone.

CAROLINA
Casey Borer, Nick Dodge, Zack Fitzgerald, Justin Pogge.

CHICAGO
None.

COLORADO
Shawn Belle, Julian Talbot.

COLUMBUS
Jonathan Sigalet, Trevor Smith, Kyle Wilson.

DALLAS
Aaron Gagnon, Trevor Ludwig, Ray Sawada.

DETROIT
Sergei Kolosov, Jamie Tardif.

EDMONTON
Gregory Stewart.

FLORIDA
None.

LOS ANGELES
None.

MINNESOTA
Robbie Earl, Jamie Fraser.

MONTREAL
James Wyman.

NASHVILLE
Mark Dekanich, Grant Lewis, Kelsey Wilson.

NEW JERSEY
Tyler Eckford, Olivier Magnan-Grenier, Tim Sestito.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Jeremy Colliton.

NEW YORK RANGERS
None.

OTTAWA
Derek Smith.

PHILADELPHIA
Danny Syvret.

PHOENIX
Dane Byers, Matt Clackson, Alexandre Picard.

PITTSBURGH
Tim Wallace.

ST. LOUIS
Adam Cracknell, Tyson Strachan.

SAN JOSE
Thomas Greiss.

TAMPA BAY
Cedrick Desjardins.

TORONTO
Darryl Boyce, Alex Foster, Christian Hanson, Danny Richmond.

VANCOUVER
Alex Bolduc, Guillaume Desbiens.

WASHINGTON
Andrew Gordon, Andrew Joudrey.

WINNIPEG
None.

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
Kyle Chipchura, John Degray, Ryan Hillier, Jean-Philippe Levasseur, Eric Regan, Nigel Williams.

BOSTON
Matt Dalton, Boris Valabik, Cody Wild.

BUFFALO
None.

CALGARY
John Armstrong, Gord Baldwin, Hugo Carpentier, Josh Meyers, Matt Pelech.

CAROLINA
Troy Bodie, Jiri Tlusty.

CHICAGO
Evan Brophey, Jake Dowell, Mathis Olimb.

COLORADO
Philippe Dupuis, Brian Elliott, Tom Fritsche, Ray Macias, Harrison Reed.

COLUMBUS
Petr Kalus, Tomas Kana, Sami Lepisto, Michael Ratchuk, Anton Stralman, Gustaf Wesslau.

DALLAS
Sean Backman, Guillaume Monast.

DETROIT
Jordan Owens.

EDMONTON
Jordan Bendfeld, Jean-Francois Jacques, Matt Marquardt, Kevin Montgomery, Bryan Pitton, Zack Stortini.

FLORIDA
Niclas Bergfors, Steve Bernier, Byron Bitz, Brady Calla, James Delory, T.J. Fast, Jordan Knackstedt, Jeff Lovecchio.

LOS ANGELES
Rob Bordson.

MINNESOTA
Patrick O'Sullivan.

MONTREAL
Dustin Boyd, Nigel Dawes, Alexandre Picard, Benoit Pouliot, Tom Pyatt.

NASHVILLE
Dan Gendur, Mark Santorelli.

NEW JERSEY
Anssi Salmela.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Robin Figren, Jack Hillen, Rob Hisey, Dustin Kohn.

NEW YORK RANGERS
Devin Didiomete, Tysen Dowzak, Matt Gilroy, Matt McCue, Justin Soryal.

OTTAWA
Jason Bailey, Cody Bass, Ryan Potulny.

PHILADELPHIA
Dan Carcillo, Garrett Klotz, Brian Stewart.

PHOENIX
Joel Gistedt, Josh Lunden, Jeff May.

PITTSBURGH
Joey Haddad, Tyler Kennedy.

ST. LOUIS
Matt D'Agostini, Nicholas Drazenovic.

SAN JOSE
Patrick Davis, Kevin Henderson, Carter Hutton, Joe Loprieno, Nick Schaus, Michael Swift.

TAMPA BAY
Alex Berry, Stefano Giliati, Mike Lundin, Vladimir Mihalik, Levi Nelson, Kevin Quick, Matt Smaby, Paul Szczechura.

TORONTO
Fabian Brunnstrom, Brayden Irwin.

VANCOUVER
Mario Bliznak, MacGregor Sharp, Lee Sweatt.

WASHINGTON
Trevor Bruess, Joe Finley, Josh Godfrey.

WINNIPEG
Andrew Kozek, Ian McKenzie, Rob Schremp, Anthony Stewart.

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