NEW YORK -- The list of players who became free agents on July 1, as released by the National Hockey League:
Group II
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 -- Marc Chouinard, Matt Cullen, Jeff Friesen, Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Niclas
Havelid, Mike Leclerc, Gregg Naumenko, Alexei Tezikov
ATLANTA -- Bryan Adams, Lubos Bartecko, Brett Clark, Hnat Domenichelli, Shean Donovan,
Frantisek Kaberle, Norm Maracle, Jiri Slegr, Per Svartvadet
BOSTON -- Jason Allison, P-J Axelsson, Mikko Eloranta, Hal Gill, Bill Guerin, Jay
Henderson, Richard Jackman, Mike Knuble, Pavel Kolarik, Jarno Kultanen,
Kyle McLaren, Brian Rolston, Darren Van Impe
BUFFALO -- Eric Boulton, J-P Dumont, Denis Hamel, Francois Methot, Erik Rasmussen,
Miroslav Satan, Chris Taylor, Darren Van Oene, Rhett Warrener, Alexei
Zhitnik
CALGARY -- Steve Begin, Craig Conroy, Miika Elomo, Mike Martin, Dean McAmmond, Rob
Niedermayer, Ronald Petrovicky
CAROLINA -- Craig Adams, Bates Battaglia, Rod Brind'Amour, Chris Dingman, Greg Kuznik,
Craig MacDonald, Marek Malik, Jeremiah McCarthy, Jean-Marc Pelletier, Randy
Petruk, Byron Ritchie, Shane Willis
CHICAGO -- Jamie Allison, Eric Daze, Igor Korolev, Josef Marha, Jaroslav Spacek,
Jocelyn Thibault, Reto Von Arx, Marty Wilford
COLORADO -- David Aebischer, Yuri Babenko, Greg De Vries, Eric Messier, Bryan Muir,
Scott Parker, Brian Willsie
COLUMBUS -- Matt Davidson, Greg Gardner, Petteri Nummelin, Jamie Pushor, Deron Quint,
Geoff Sanderson, Andrei Sryubko, Mattias Timander, Tyler Wright
DALLAS -- Jamie Langenbrunner, Brad Lukowich, Cameron Mann, Jon Sim
DETROIT -- Mathieu Dandenault, Tomas Holmstrom, Jesse Wallin, Aaron Ward
EDMONTON -- Eric Brewer, Daniel Cleary, Josh Green, Chris Hajt, Janne Niinimaa, Tom
Poti, Brian Swanson, Doug Weight
FLORIDA -- Dan Boyle, Valeri Bure, John Jakopin, Olli Jokinen, Marcus Nilson, Joey
Tetarenko, Rocky Thompson, Lance Ward
LOS ANGELES -- Eric Belanger, Philippe Boucher, Marcel Cousineau, Andreas Lilja, Aaron
Miller, Nate Miller, Jaroslav Modry, Greg Phillips, Felix Potvin, Bryan
Smolinski, Jamie Storr, Lubomir Visnovsky
MINNESOTA -- Brad Bombardir, Manny Fernandez, Aaron Gavey, Darby Hendrickson, Matt
Johnson, Filip Kuba, Darryl Laplante, Willie Mitchell, Stacy Roest, Maxim
Suchinsky, Andy Sutton, Sergei Zholtok
MONTREAL -- Arron Asham, Francis Bouillon, Craig Darby, Xavier Delisle, Matthieu
Descoteaux, Mathieu Garon, Miloslav Guren, Chad Kilger, Saku Koivu, Gennady
Razin, Stephane Robidas, Brian Savage
NASHVILLE -- Andy Berenzweig, William Bowler, Mikhail Chernov, Marian Cisar, Mike
Dunham, David Gosselin, Cale Hulse, Yves Sarault, Robert Schnabel, Pavel
Skrbek, Petr Sykora, Scott Walker
NEW JERSEY -- Sergei Brylin, Pierre Dagenais, Bobby Holik, Henrik Rehnberg, Turner
Stevenson, Petr Sykora
NY ISLANDERS -- Adrian Aucoin, Mariusz Czerkawski, Brad Isbister, Kenny Jonsson, Alexander
Kharitonov, Evgeny Korolev, Jason Krog, Mark Parrish, Ray Schultz, Steve
Valiquette, Alexei Yashin
NY RANGERS -- Derek Armstrong, Jason Dawe, Dave Duerden, Nisse Ekman, Christian Gosselin,
Jan Hlavac, Kim Johnsson, Manny Malhotra, Sandy McCarthy, Petr Nedved, Brad
Smyth, Jeff Toms, Vitali Yeremeyev
OTTAWA -- Daniel Alfredsson, Magnus Arvedson, Zdeno Chara, Ivan Ciernik, Jason Doig,
Konstantin Gorovikov, John Gruden, Marian Hossa, Joel Kwiatkowski, Patrick
Lalime, Chris Phillips, Wade Redden
PHILADELPHIA -- Jesse Boulerice, Daymond Langkow, Kirby Law, Dan McGillis, John Slaney
PHOENIX -- Joel Bouchard, Daniel Briere, David Cullen, Shane Doan, Robert Esche, Dan
Focht, Mike Johnson, Trevor Letowski, Todd Simpson, Wyatt Smith, Jean-Guy
Trudel
PITTSBURGH -- Jean-Sebastien Aubin, Johan Hedberg, Jan Hrdina, Hans Jonsson, Darius
Kasparaitis, Alexei Kovalev, Dan Lacouture, Robert Lang, Eric Meloche, Ian
Moran, Alexei Morozov, Wayne Primeau, Michal Rozsival, Martin Sonnenberg,
Martin Straka, William Tibbetts, Darcy Verot
ST. LOUIS -- Eric Boguniecki, Sebastien Bordeleau, Daniel Corso, Pavol Demitra, Jochen
Hecht, Marty Reasoner, Cory Stillman, Keith Tkachuk, Sergei Varlamov
SAN JOSE -- Matt Bradley, Todd Harvey, Robert Jindrich, Miikka Kiprusoff, Ryan Kraft,
Andy Lundbohm, Patrick Marleau, Mike Rathje, Mark Smith
TAMPA BAY -- Kaspars Astashenko, Gordie Dwyer, Brian Holzinger, Ryan Johnson, Mike
Jones, Mikko Kuparinen, Vincent Lecavalier, Stan Neckar, Marek Posmyk,
Nolan Pratt, Cory Sarich, Kevin Weekes, Andrei Zyuzin
TORONTO -- Wade Belak, Aki Berg, Cory Cross, Maxim Galanov, Mikael Hakansson, Tomas
Kaberle, Don MacLean, Bryan McCabe, Alyn McCauley, Craig Mills, Mats
Sundin, Dmitriy Yakushin
VANCOUVER -- Drake Berehowsky, Todd Bertuzzi, Dan Cloutier, Matt Cooke, Johan Davidsson,
Bryan Helmer, Josh Holden, Zenith Komarniski, Alfie Michaud, Denis
Pederson, Peter Schaefer, Vadim Sharifijanov, Brent Sopel
WASHINGTON -- Sebastien Charpentier, Jeff Halpern, Corey Hirsch, Glen Metropolit, Mark
Murphy, Andrei Nikolishin, Trent Whitfield
Group III
The players listed below have qualified for Group III free agency -- age 31 or older with at least four years of NHL experience -- and are therefore unrestricted.
ANAHEIM -- Tony Hrkac
ATLANTA -- Chris Joseph, Gord Murphy, Jeff Odgers
BOSTON -- Andrei Kovalenko, Peter Popovic, Dixon Ward, Eric Weinrich, Kay Whitmore
BUFFALO -- Dave Andreychuk, Donald Audette, Doug Gilmour, Steve Heinze, Doug Houda, James Patrick, Rob Ray, Vladimir Tsyplakov
CALGARY -- Tommy Albelin, Marc Bureau, Steve Smith, Ron Sutter
CAROLINA -- Jeff Daniels, Rob DiMaio, Kevin Hatcher, Scott Pellerin
CHICAGO -- Mark Janssens, Bob Probert
COLORADO -- Rob Blake, Ray Bourque, Jon Klemm, Dave Reid, Joe Sakic
COLUMBUS -- Kevin Dahl, Kevin Dineen
DALLAS -- Ted Donato, Brett Hull, Mike Keane, Grant Ledyard, John MacLean, Kirk Muller
DETROIT -- Doug Brown, Todd Gill, Larry Murphy, Pat Verbeek, Ken Wregget
EDMONTON -- Frantisek Musil, Dominic Roussel, Igor Ulanov
FLORIDA -- Greg Adams
LOS ANGELES -- Stu Grimson, Luc Robitaille, Mathieu Schneider
MINNESOTA -- None.
MONTREAL -- None.
NASHVILLE -- Jayson More
NEW JERSEY -- Bob Corkum, Alexander Mogilny, Ken Sutton, John Vanbiesbrouck, Ed Ward
NY ISLANDERS -- Craig Berube, Garry Galley, Chris Terreri
NY RANGERS -- Kirk McLean
OTTAWA -- Derek King, Curtis Leschyshyn, Jason York, Rob Zamuner
PHILADELPHIA -- Jody Hull, Michel Picard, Ulf Samuelsson
PHOENIX -- Francois Leroux, Jeremy Roenick, Mike Sullivan
PITTSBURGH -- Josef Beranek, Marc Bergevin, Bobby Dollas, Mario Lemieux, Kip Miller, Garth Snow
ST. LOUIS -- Alexei Gusarov, Scott Mellanby, Dwayne Roloson, Reid Simpson, Pierre
Turgeon
SAN JOSE -- Tony Granato, Paul Kruse, Jeff Norton, Rich Pilon
TAMPA BAY -- Wade Flaherty
TORONTO -- Steve Thomas, Jimmy Waite
VANCOUVER -- Murray Baron, Bob Essensa, Greg Hawgood
WASHINGTON -- James Black, Ulf Dahlen, Jamie Huscroft, Terry Yake
Group V
The following players: (i) have completed 10 pro seasons or more (NHL or minors), and (ii) in the 2000-2001 season earned less than the league average of $1,434,884 and (iii) received a timely qualifying offer. These players have the right to elect once in their careers to become unrestricted free agents. Should one of these players not elect to become an unrestricted free agent, since his prior club has tendered him a qualifying offer he shall remain subject to draft choice compensation and right to match as applies to Group II Free Agents. The players listed below have until July 15, 2001 to elect Group V status.
CAROLINA -- Dave Karpa (Group II)
DETROIT -- Martin Lapointe (Group II)
NEW JERSEY -- Sean O'Donnell (Group II)
OTTAWA -- Mike Sillinger (Group II)
TORONTO -- Yanic Perreault (Group II)
Group VI
The following players qualify for unrestricted free agency, having met the requirements for Group VI 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 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).
ATLANTA -- Rumun Ndur, Andrei Skopintsev, Herbert Vasiljevs
BOSTON -- Joe Hulbig, Marquis Mathieu, Keith McCambridge, Eric Nickulas, Andre
Savage, Brandon Smith
BUFFALO -- Jason Holland
CALGARY -- Jason Botterill, Martin Brochu, Marty Murray, Darrel Scoville
CAROLINA -- None.
CHICAGO -- Nolan Baumgartner, Casey Hankinson, Chris Herperger, Steve Poapst
COLORADO -- Kelly Fairchild, Joel Prpic, Brian White
COLUMBUS -- Michael Gaul, Reggie Savage, Jeff Williams
DALLAS -- Mike Bales, Alan Letang, David Ling, Warren Luhning, Jamie Wright
DETROIT -- Marc Rodgers, Toivo Suursoo
EDMONTON -- Sven Butenschon, Rory Fitzpatrick, Joaquin Gage, Brett Hauer, Paul Healey,
Alain Nasreddine, Brad Norton, Terran Sandwith
FLORIDA -- Ryan Bach, Paul Brousseau, Sean Gauthier, Yan Golubovsky, Rich Shulmistra
LOS ANGELES -- Rich Brennan, Peter Leboutillier
MINNESOTA -- Chris Armstrong, Brian Bonin, Ian Herbers, Christian Matte, Nick Naumenko
MONTREAL -- Andrei Bashkirov, Eric Bertrand, Johan Witehall
NASHVILLE -- Sean Haggerty, John Namestnikov
NEW JERSEY -- None.
NY ISLANDERS -- Anders Myrvold
NY RANGERS -- Tony Tuzzolino
OTTAWA -- Mike Fountain
PHILADELPHIA -- Matt Herr, Neil Little, Steve McLaren
PHOENIX -- Tavis Hansen, Justin Hocking
PITTSBURGH -- Dennis Bonvie, Trent Cull, Chris Kelleher, Jason MacDonald
ST. LOUIS -- Mike Peluso
SAN JOSE -- Greg Andrusak, Larry Courville, Jarrett Deuling, Doug Friedman, Shawn
Heins, Dave MacIsaac
TAMPA BAY -- John Emmons, Jason Podollan
TORONTO -- David Cooper
VANCOUVER -- None.
WASHINGTON -- Derek Bekar, David Emma, Stefan Ustorf
Unrestricted
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.
* - Players eligible to elect Group V Free Agency who did not receive a qualifying offer.
ANAHEIM -- Antti Aalto, Dean Malkoc*, Tony Mohagen, Pascal Trepanier
ATLANTA -- Hugo Boisvert, Andrew Brunette, Steve Guolla, Ladislav Kohn, Wesley Mason,
Sean Ritchlin, Steve Staios, Dean Sylvester, Brian Wesenberg
BOSTON -- Elias Abrahamsson, Shawn Bates, Ken Belanger, Shane Belter, Peter Ferraro,
Peter Skudra, Joel Trottier
BUFFALO -- None.
CALGARY -- Niklas Andersson*, Dallas Eakins*, Dave Roche
CAROLINA -- Marc Magliarditi, Mark McMahon, Jon Rohloff
CHICAGO -- Blair Atcheynum*, Steve Dubinsky, Michel Larocque, Jean-Yves Leroux, Jeff
Maund, Chris McAlpine, Jeff Paul, Geoff Peters, Arne Ramholt, Erasmo
Saltarelli, Robbie Tallas
COLORADO -- Nick Bootland, Mike Craig, Stewart Malgunas*, Rob Shearer, Dan Smith, Ben
Storey, Brent Thompson*
COLUMBUS -- Frederic Chabot, Bruce Gardiner, Scott Hollis, Steve Maltais*, Mike
Maneluk, Alexander Selivanov, Sean Selmser, Blake Sloan
DALLAS -- Chad Alban, Ryan Christie, Eric Houde, Greg Leeb, Jimmy Roy, Jeff Tory,
Evgeny Tsybouk, Chris Wells
DETROIT -- Aren Miller
EDMONTON -- Patrick Cote, Eric Heffler, Brian Urick
FLORIDA -- Chris Allen, Len Barrie*, Anders Eriksson, Andrei Podkonicky, Peter
Ratchuk, Remi Royer, Mike Wilson
LOS ANGELES -- David Hymovitz, Marko Tuomainen
MINNESOTA -- Zac Bierk, David Brumby, Eric Charron*, Sergei Krivokrasov, Jeff Nielsen,
Kai Nurminen, Pavel Patera, Brendan Walsh
MONTREAL -- Jim Campbell, Josh Dewolf, Eric Fichaud, Matt Higgins, Juha Lind, Mike
McBain, Barry Richter
NASHVILLE -- Jayme Filipowicz, Ville Peltonen, Daniel Riva, Randy Robitaille, Rob
Valicevic
NEW JERSEY -- Bryan Duce, Doug Stienstra
NY ISLANDERS -- Jesse Belanger*, Aris Brimanis, Mark Lawrence, Steve Martins, Robert
Petrovicky
NY RANGERS -- Drew Bannister, Brad Brown, Benjamin Carpentier, Stefan Cherneski, Ryan
Tobler, David Wilkie
OTTAWA -- Viacheslav Butsayev, Eric Lacroix, Craig Millar, David Oliver, Bob Prier,
Chris Szysky
PHILADELPHIA -- Derek Plante, Brian Regan, P.J. Stock, Steve Washburn, Peter White
PHOENIX -- Mika Alatalo, Philippe Audet, Louie Debrusk*, Eric Healey, Dave MacIntyre,
Mike Martone
PITTSBURGH -- Bob Boughner*, Rene Corbet, Greg Crozier, Craig Hillier, Steve McKenna,
Rich Parent, Boris Protsenko
ST. LOUIS -- Chris Murray, Jaroslav Obsut, Todd Reirden, Pascal Rheaume, Darren Rumble*, Dan Trebil
SAN JOSE -- Terry Friesen, Bill Lindsay*, Jim Montgomery, Rejean Stringer
TAMPA BAY -- Stan Drulia*, Konstantin Kalmikov, Dan Kesa, Mario Larocque, Dale Rominski
TORONTO -- Bryan Berard, Jason Sessa
VANCOUVER -- Clint Cabana, Corey Schwab*, Larry Shapley, Jonas Soling, Sean Tallaire,
Dody Wood
WASHINGTON -- Jason Marshall*, Brantt Myhres, Steve Shirreffs
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