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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

#NHLPeachy @NHL NHL Releases Free Agent List

The National Hockey League July 1st 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.



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

$1,544,424 or below: None

Over $1,544,424 to $2,340,037: Third-round choice

Over $2,340,037 to $4,680,076: Second-round choice

Over $4,680,076 to $7,020,113: First-round and third-round choice

Over $7,020,113 to $9,360,153: First-round, second-round and third-round choice

Over $9,360,153 to $11,700,192: Two first-round choices, one second- and one third-round choice

Over $11,700,192: Four first-round choices



ANAHEIM

Judd Caulfield, Calle Clang, Lukas Dostal, Drew Helleson, Mason McTavish, Jan Mysak.



BOSTON

John Farinacci.



BUFFALO

Bowen Byram, Tyson Kozak, Ryan McLeod, Conor Timmins.



CALGARY

Morgan Frost, Rory Kerins, Yan Kuznetsov, Sam Morton, Jeremie Poirier, Connor Zary.



CAROLINA

Skyler Brind'Amour, Domenick Fensore, Noel Gunler, Cayden Primeau, Ronan Seeley, Ryan Suzuki.



CHICAGO

Louis Crevier, Arvid Soderblom.



COLORADO

None.



COLUMBUS

Daemon Hunt, Mikael Pyyhtia, Dmitri Voronkov.



DALLAS

Antonio Stranges.



DETROIT

Elmer Soderblom, Eemil Viro.



EDMONTON

Evan Bouchard.



FLORIDA

Tobias Bjornfot, MacKenzie Entwistle, Oliver Okuliar, Wilmer Skoog.



LOS ANGELES

None.



MINNESOTA

Michael Milne, Marco Rossi.



MONTREAL

Jakub Dobes, Jayden Struble, William Trudeau.



NASHVILLE

Luke Evangelista.



NEW JERSEY

Cody Glass.



NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Adam Beckman, Marc Gatcomb, Emil Heineman, Simon Holmstrom, Travis Mitchell, Maxim Tsyplakov.



NEW YORK RANGERS

Brendan Brisson, Will Cuylle, Dylan Garand, K'Andre Miller.



OTTAWA

Xavier Bourgault, Maxence Guenette, Jan Jenik, Donovan Sebrango.



PHILADELPHIA

Cam York.



PITTSBURGH

Vasily Ponomarev.



SAN JOSE

Thomas Bordeleau, Danil Gushchin, Jack Thompson.



SEATTLE

Ryker Evans, Kaapo Kakko, Tye Kartye.



ST. LOUIS

Nikita Alexandrov, Hunter Skinner, Vadim Zherenko.



TAMPA BAY

None.



TORONTO

Dennis Hildeby, Roni Hirvonen, Matthew Knies, Topi Niemela, Nicholas Robertson, William Villeneuve.



UTAH

Jack McBain.



VANCOUVER

Nikita Tolopilo, Jett Woo.



VEGAS

Lukas Cormier, Alexander Holtz, Raphael Lavoie, Jonas Rondbjerg, Cole Schwindt.



WASHINGTON

Hendrix Lapierre



WINNIPEG

Morgan Barron, Tyrel Bauer, Parker Ford, Rasmus Kupari, Isaak Phillips, Dylan Samberg, Gabriel Vilardi.





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

Justin Bailey, Oscar Dansk, Robby Fabbri, Oliver Kylington, Brock McGinn, Carson Meyer.



BOSTON

Brandon Bussi, Cole Koepke, Vinni Lettieri, Tyler Pitlick, Riley Tufte, Parker Wotherspoon.



BUFFALO

Kale Clague, Mason Jobst, James Reimer, Arttu Ruotsalainen, Felix Sandstrom.



CALGARY

Tyson Barrie, Martin Frk, Carl-Johan Lerby, Anthony Mantha, Kevin Rooney, Jarred Tinordi, Eetu Tuulola, Dan Vladar.



CAROLINA

Brent Burns, Jesper Fast, Tyson Jost, Spencer Martin, Dmitry Orlov, Tarmo Reunanen, Jack Roslovic, Joakim Ryan, Jesper Sellgren, Riley Stillman, Dustin Tokarski.



CHICAGO

Andreas Athanasiou, Patrick Maroon, Alec Martinez, Zach Sanford, Brett Seney.



COLORADO

Jack Ahcan, Jonathan Drouin, Jere Innala, Erik Johnson, Joel Kiviranta, Ryan Lindgren, Matthew Phillips, Tucker Poolman, Calle Rosen, T.J. Tynan, Jimmy Vesey, Chris Wagner.



COLUMBUS

Justin Danforth, Christian Fischer, Dylan Gambrell, Jack Johnson, Luke Kunin, Sean Kuraly, Kevin Labanc, Joseph LaBate, Ivan Provorov, Owen Sillinger, James van Riemsdyk.



DALLAS

Colin Blackwell, Cody Ceci, Evgenii Dadonov, Mikael Granlund, Magnus Hellberg, Adam Mascherin, Brendan Smith.



DETROIT

Jack Campbell, Tim Gettinger, Alex Lyon, Tyler Motte, Jeff Petry, Brogan Rafferty, Craig Smith, Joe Snively.



EDMONTON

Connor Brown, Drake Caggiula, Connor Carrick, Collin Delia, Travis Dermott, John Klingberg, Lane Pederson, Corey Perry, Derek Ryan, Jeff Skinner.



FLORIDA

Rasmus Asplund, Evan Cormier, Zac Dalpe, Kaapo Kahkonen, Matt Kiersted, William Lockwood, Brad Marchand, Jaycob Megna, Tomas Nosek, Jesse Puljujarvi, Nate Schmidt, Nico Sturm, Vitek Vanecek.



LOS ANGELES

Joseph Cecconi, Vladislav Gavrikov, Tanner Jeannot, Caleb Jones, Trevor Lewis, David Rittich, Taylor Ward.



MINNESOTA

Travis Boyd, Justin Brazeau, Marc-Andre Fleury, Troy Grosenick, Jon Merrill, Gustav Nyquist, Chase Priskie, Devin Shore.



MONTREAL

Joel Armia, Alex Barre-Boulet, Christian Dvorak, Brandon Gignac, Connor Hughes, Michael Pezzetta, David Savard.



NASHVILLE

Kieffer Bellows, Mark Friedman, Jakub Vrana.



NEW JERSEY

Jake Allen, Nathan Bastian, Dennis Cholowski, Tory Dello, Justin Dowling, Brian Dumoulin, Samuel Laberge, Curtis Lazar, Daniel Sprong, Tomas Tatar, Max Willman.



NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Tony DeAngelo, Hudson Fasching, Grant Hutton, Fredrik Karlstrom, Matt Martin, Mike Reilly.



NEW YORK RANGERS

Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Alex Belzile, Calvin de Haan, Louis Domingue, Ben Harpur, Riley Nash, Chad Ruhwedel.



OTTAWA

Vitaly Abramov, Nick Cousins, Jeremy Davies, Anton Forsberg, Adam Gaudette, Dennis Gilbert, Travis Hamonic, Matthew Highmore, Hayden Hodgson.



PHILADELPHIA

Louie Belpedio, Rhett Gardner, Ben Gleason, Cal Petersen, Givani Smith.



PITTSBURGH

Kasper Bjorkqvist, Nathan Clurman, Matt Grzelcyk, Marc Johnstone, Matt Nieto, Colton Poolman.



SAN JOSE

Walker Duehr, Alexandar Georgiev, Jan Rutta, Scott Sabourin, Jimmy Schuldt, Colin White.



SEATTLE

Brandon Biro, Nikolas Brouillard, Michael Eyssimont, Maxime Lajoie, Gustav Olofsson, Ales Stezka.



ST. LOUIS

Radek Faksa, Mackenzie MacEachern, Ryan Suter.



TAMPA BAY

Anthony Angello, Cam Atkinson, Logan Brown, Luke Glendening, Tobie Paquette-Bisson, Nick Perbix, Derrick Pouliot, Simon Ryfors, Matt Tomkins.



TORONTO

Jani Hakanpaa, Steven Lorentz, Nicolas Mattinen, Dakota Mermis, Matt Murray, Alex Nylander, Max Pacioretty.



UTAH

Nick Bjugstad, Robert Bortuzzo, Michael Carcone, Cameron Hebig, Patrik Koch, Josef Korenar



VANCOUVER

Brock Boeser, Phillip Di Giuseppe, Noah Juulsen, Pius Suter, Christian Wolanin.



VEGAS

Callahan Burke, Mason Geertsen, Robert Hagg, Dysin Mayo, Mason Morelli, Victor Olofsson, Tanner Pearson, Gage Quinney, Brandon Saad, Ilya Samsonov, Reilly Smith.



WASHINGTON

Nicklas Backstrom, Ethan Bear, Anthony Beauvillier, Henrik Borgstrom, Lars Eller, Alex Limoges, Andrew Mangiapane, T.J. Oshie, Luke Philp, Taylor Raddysh, Michael Sgarbossa, Hunter Shepard.



WINNIPEG

Mason Appleton, Dylan Coghlan, Chris Driedger, Nikolaj Ehlers, Axel Jonsson-Fjallby, Brandon Tanev, Dominic Toninato.





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.



BOSTON

None.



BUFFALO

Brett Murray, Lukas Rousek.



CALGARY

Jonathan Aspirot.



CAROLINA

None.



CHICAGO

Cole Guttman.



COLORADO

Adam Scheel.



COLUMBUS

Trey Fix-Wolansky.



DALLAS

Matej Blumel, Mathias Emilio Pettersen.



DETROIT

None.



EDMONTON

Ronnie Attard, Philip Kemp.



FLORIDA

None.



LOS ANGELES

Samuel Fagemo, Reilly Walsh.



MINNESOTA

Cameron Crotty, Dylan Ferguson, Tyler Madden.



MONTREAL

None.



NASHVILLE

Marc Del Gaizo, Grigori Denisenko, Jake Livingstone.



NEW JERSEY

None.



NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Jakub Skarek, Tyce Thompson.



NEW YORK RANGERS

Bo Groulx.



OTTAWA

Wyatt Bongiovanni, Angus Crookshank, Cole Reinhardt, Filip Roos.



PHILADELPHIA

Olle Lycksell, Eetu Makiniemi.



PITTSBURGH

Mac Hollowell, Jimmy Huntington, Filip Kral, Mathias Laferriere.



SAN JOSE

Pavol Regenda.



SEATTLE

Luke Henman.



ST. LOUIS

Corey Andonovski.



TAMPA BAY

Gabriel Fortier.



TORONTO

Nick Abruzzese, Alex Steeves.



UTAH

Travis Barron, Egor Sokolov, Sammy Walker.



VANCOUVER

Akito Hirose, Nate Smith.



VEGAS

None.



WASHINGTON

Riley Sutter.



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

Brett Leason, Josh Lopina, Isac Lundestrom.



BOSTON

Drew Bavaro, Trevor Kuntar, Jakub Lauko, Daniil Misyul, Ian Mitchell, Jaxon Nelson, Oliver Wahlstrom.



BUFFALO

Jacob Bernard-Docker, Erik Brannstrom, Aleksandr Kisakov, Bennett MacArthur, Tyler Tullio.



CALGARY

Waltteri Ignatjew, Connor Murphy.



CAROLINA

Anttoni Honka, Yaniv Perets, Ty Smith.



CHICAGO

Philipp Kurashev, Jalen Luypen, Aku Raty, Antti Saarela.



COLORADO

William Dufour, Jean-Luc Foudy, John Ludvig, Kevin Mandolese.



COLUMBUS

Ole Julian Bjorgvik-Holm, Cole Clayton, Jordan Harris, Samuel Knazko.



DALLAS

None.



DETROIT

Gage Alexander, Cross Hanas.



EDMONTON

Jacob Perreault, Olivier Rodrigue, Cameron Wright.



FLORIDA

Nathan Staios, Daniil Tarasov, Zachary Uens.



LOS ANGELES

Cole Krygier, Jack Studnicka.



MINNESOTA

Graeme Clarke, Ryan O'Rourke, Adam Raska, Luke Toporowski.



MONTREAL

Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Noel Hoefenmayer, Gustav Lindstrom, Xavier Simoneau.



NASHVILLE

Jordan Frasca, Ondrej Pavel, Luke Prokop, Jesse Ylonen.



NEW JERSEY

Nolan Foote, Santeri Hatakka, Isaac Poulter.



NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Samuel Bolduc, Aidan Fulp, Scott Perunovich.



NEW YORK RANGERS

Lucas Edmonds, Zac Jones, Arthur Kaliyev, Jake Leschyshyn.



OTTAWA

Philippe Daoust, Jamieson Rees, Tristen Robins.



PHILADELPHIA

Elliot Desnoyers, Jakob Pelletier, Zayde Wisdom.



PITTSBURGH

Raivis Ansons, Emil Bemstrom, Connor Dewar, Taylor Gauthier, P.O Joseph, Philip Tomasino.



SAN JOSE

Carl Berglund, Nolan Burke, Brandon Coe, Noah Gregor, Klim Kostin, Nikolai Kovalenko, Georgi Romanov, Mitchell Russell.



SEATTLE

None.



ST. LOUIS

Tanner Dickinson, Anton Malmstrom.



TAMPA BAY

Jaydon Dureau, Gage Goncalves, Ryder Korczak.



TORONTO

Pontus Holmberg, Reese Johnson, Mikko Kokkonen, Cedric Pare.



UTAH

Kailer Yamamoto.



VANCOUVER

Christian Felton, Ty Glover, Cole McWard, Tristen Nielsen.



VEGAS

Isaiah Saville.



WASHINGTON

Alexander Alexeyev, Pierrick Dube, Mitchell Gibson.



WINNIPEG

Simon Lundmark, Mason Shaw.