The free NHL agency opens Wednesday at noon ET, and the list of unrestricted free agents is growing.
A player can become a free agent without restrictions if he is over 27 years old or has played in the league for seven years.
Anyone who does not meet these criteria is considered a pending restricted free agent, where teams have more rights to retain a player if their contract expires. However, if a team does not extend a qualifying offer to their pending FRGs, they will lose bargaining rights and the player will become a UFA.
A qualified offer must be at least:
• 110 percent of the previous season’s player base salary if he earns less than $ 650,000 • 105 percent if the player earns between $ 650,000 and $ 1 million • 100 percent if the player earns more than $ 1 million
On Monday, several players did not receive qualifying offers before the 5 pm ET deadline, including big names like Dylan Strome, Ilya Samsonov and Sonny Milano.
Here is the list of names we know so far:
Anaheim ducks
• Jack Badini • Roman Durny • Lucas Elvenes • Brendan Guhle • Jacob Larsson • Sonny Milano • Sam Steel
Arizona Coyotes
• Kyle Capobianco • Cole Hults
Boston Bruins
• Qualify all FRGs.
Buffalo sabers
• Qualify all FRGs.
Calgary Flames
• Johannes Kinnvall • Tyler Parsons
Carolina Hurricanes
• David Cotton • Jack LaFontaine • Beck Warm
Chicago Blackhawks
• Andrei Altybarmakyan • Wyatt Kalynuk • Dominik Kubalik • Cale Morris • Cameron Morrison • Dylan Strome
Colorado Devessall
• Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Colom’s blue jackets
• Gabriel Carlsson • Kevin Stenlund
Dallas Stars
• Jordan Kawaguchi • Alexey Lipanov • Colton Point
Detroit Red Wings
• Mitchell Stephens • Olli Juolevi • Kaden Fulcher • Filip Larsson
Edmonton Oilers
• Filip Berglund • Brendan Perlini • Ostap Safin
Florida Panthers
• Evan Fitzpatrick • Jonas Johansson • German Rubtsov
Los Angeles Kings
• Brendan Lemieux • Johan Sodergran • Vladimir Tkachev
Minnesota Wild
• Dereck Baribeau • Fedor Gordeev
Montreal Canadiens
• Josh Brook • Kale Clague • Rem Pitlick
Nashville Predators
• Not yet announced.
New Jersey Devils
• Qualify all FRGs.
New York Islanders
• Not yet announced.
New York Rangers
• Jacob Elmer • Justin Richards • Ty Ronning • Tyler Wall
Ottawa Senators
• Adam Gaudette • Michael McNiven • Victor Mete
Philadelphia Flyers
• Matthew Strome • Maksim Sushko • Kirill Ustimenko
Pittsburgh Penguins
• Niclas Almari • Justin Almeida • Jordy Bellerive • Alex D’Orio. • Jan Drozg • Danton Heinen • Cam Lee • Will Reilly
San Jose Sharks
• Joachim Blichfeld • Jonathan Dahlen • Zach Gallant • Jake McGrew • Nicolas Meloche • Antoine Morand • Brinson Paschinuk • Zach Sawchenko
Seattle Kraken
• Dennis Cholowski • Ryan Donato • Haydn Fleury • Daniel Sprong
St. Louis Blues
• Tanner Kaspick
Lightning from Tampa Bay
• Not yet announced.
Toronto Maple Leafs
• Ondrej Kase • Joseph Duszak • Kristians Rubins • Chad Krys • Ian Scott
Vancouver Canucks:
• Justin Bailey • Matthew Highmore • Juho Lammikko
Vegas Golden Knights
• Brett Howden • Ben Jones
Capitals of Washington
• Ilya Samsonov.
Winnipeg Jets
• Markus Phillips • Evgeny Svechnikov