2021 NHL Free Agent List Released
The National Hockey League has 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
$1,356,540 or below – None
Over $1,356,540 to $2,055,364 – Third-round choice
Over $2,055,364 to $4,110,732 – Second-round choice
Over $4,110,732 to $6,166,096 – First-round and third-round choice
Over $6,166,096 to $8,221,463 – First-round, second-round and third-round choice
Over $8,221,463 to $10,276,829 – Two first-round choices, one second- and one third-round choice
Over $10,276,829 – Four first-round choices
ANAHEIM
Max Comtois, Max Jones, Isac Lundestrom, Josh Mahura, Sam Steel.
ARIZONA
Cam Dineen, Bokondji Imama, Dysin Mayo, Lane Pederson, Blake Speers.
BOSTON
Callum Booth, Zach Senyshyn.
BUFFALO
Rasmus Asplund, Rasmus Dahlin, Casey Fitzgerald, Henri Jokiharju, Casey Mittelstadt.
CALGARY
Dillon Dube, Glenn Gawdin, Justin Kirkland, Oliver Kylington, Carl-Johan Lerby, Connor Mackey, Tyler Parsons, Matthew Phillips, Luke Philp, Colton Poolman, Alexander Yelesin.
CAROLINA
Warren Foegele, Egor Korshkov, Maxime Lajoie, Andrei Svechnikov, Dylan Wells.
CHICAGO
Nikita Zadorov.
COLORADO
Dennis Gilbert, Tyson Jost.
COLUMBUS
Jake Bean, Patrik Laine, Alexandre Texier, Calvin Thurkauf.
DALLAS
Nick Caamano, Joseph Cecconi, Ben Gleason, Joel Kiviranta, Adam Mascherin, Colton Point, Jerad Rosburg.
DETROIT
Tyler Bertuzzi, Adam Erne, Filip Hronek, Gustav Lindstrom, Chase Pearson, Givani Smith, Jakub Vrana.
EDMONTON
Tyler Benson, Cooper Marody, Stuart Skinner, Kailer Yamamoto.
FLORIDA
Juho Lammikko, Sam Montembeault, Chase Priskie, Sam Reinhart.
LOS ANGELES
Lias Andersson, Andreas Athanasiou, Brayden Burke, Kale Clague, Jacob Moverare, Austin Strand.
MINNESOTA
William Bitten, Brandon Duhaime, Kevin Fiala, Mason Shaw.
MONTREAL
Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Artturi Lehkonen, Otto Leskinen, Michael McNiven, Michael Pezzetta.
NASHVILLE
Dante Fabbro, Tanner Jeannot, Mathieu Olivier, Rem Pitlick, Anthony Richard, Juuse Saros, Eeli Tolvanen.
NEW JERSEY
A.J. Greer, Janne Kuokkanen, Gilles Senn, Yegor Sharangovich, Marian Studenic.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Anthony Beauvillier, Kieffer Bellows, Otto Koivula, Adam Pelech, Ilya Sorokin.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Filip Chytil, Tim Gettinger, Libor Hajek, Adam Huska, Ty Ronning, Igor Shesterkin.
OTTAWA
Vitaly Abramov, Olle Alsing, Drake Batherson, Logan Brown, Filip Gustavsson, Brady Tkachuk.
PHILADELPHIA
Connor Bunnaman, Carter Hart, David Kase, Travis Sanheim.
PITTSBURGH
Zach Aston-Reese, Radim Zohorna.
SAN JOSE
Adin Hill.
SEATTLE
Will Borgen, Dennis Cholowski, Vince Dunn, Cale Fleury, Kole Lind, Alexander True, Carsen Twarynski.
ST. LOUIS
Ivan Barbashev, Pavel Buchnevich, Dakota Joshua, Jordan Kyrou, Zach Sanford, Robert Thomas.
TAMPA BAY
Alex Barre-Boulet, Ross Colton, Sean Day, Cal Foote, Boris Katchouk, Taylor Raddysh.
TORONTO
Joseph Duszak, Denis Malgin.
VANCOUVER
Guillaume Brisebois, Jason Dickinson, Lukas Jasek, Olli Juolevi, Elias Pettersson.
VEGAS
Dylan Coghlan, Nolan Patrick.
WASHINGTON
Lucas Johansen, Ilya Samsonov.
WINNIPEG
Andrew Copp, Johnathan Kovacevic, Neal Pionk, Logan Stanley.
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
Andrew Agozzino, David Backes, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Miller, Andrew Poturalski, Carter Rowney, Andy Welinski.
ARIZONA
Derick Brassard, Michael Chaput, Jason Demers, Alex Goligoski, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Marian Hossa, Aaron Ness, Jordan Oesterle, Emil Pettersson, Antti Raanta.
BOSTON
Paul Carey, Jaroslav Halak, Steven Kampfer, Alex Khokhlachev, David Krejci, Sean Kuraly, Greg McKegg, Kevan Miller, Tuukka Rask, Mike Reilly, Jarred Tinordi.
BUFFALO
Brandon Davidson, Jean-Sebastien Dea, Steven Fogarty, Michael Houser, Carter Hutton, Matt Irwin, Jake McCabe, Casey Nelson, Tobias Rieder, Riley Sheahan, Linus Ullmark.
CALGARY
Louis Domingue, Spencer Foo, Josh Leivo, Nikita Nesterov, Joakim Nordstrom, Alexander Petrovic, Zac Rinaldo, Buddy Robinson, Derek Ryan, Michael Stone.
CAROLINA
Jonathan Bernier, Antoine Bibeau, Dave Gust, Jani Hakanpaa, Dougie Hamilton, Saku Maenalanen, Jordan Martinook, Max McCormick, Brock McGinn, Petr Mrazek, Cedric Paquette, James Reimer, Joakim Ryan, Drew Shore, David Warsofsky.
CHICAGO
Vinnie Hinostroza, Brandon Pirri, Zack Smith, Matt Tomkins.
COLORADO
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Matt Calvert, Sheldon Dries, Devan Dubnyk, Philipp Grubauer, Patrik Nemeth, Dan Renouf, Brandon Saad, Miikka Salomaki, Carl Soderberg, T.J. Tynan, Mike Vecchione.
COLUMBUS
Adam Clendening, Zac Dalpe, Michael Del Zotto, Brandon Dubinsky, Mikhail Grigorenko, Mikko Lehtonen, Stefan Matteau, Daniel Zaar.
DALLAS
Andrew Cogliano, Justin Dowling, Taylor Fedun, Stephen Johns, Mark Pysyk, Matej Stransky, Sami Vatanen.
DETROIT
Alex Biega, Kevin Boyle, Turner Elson, Valtteri Filppula, Sam Gagner, Luke Glendening, Darren Helm, Dylan McIlrath, Calvin Pickard, Bobby Ryan, Patrik Rybar, Henrik Zetterberg.
EDMONTON
Tyson Barrie, Alex Chiasson, Adam Cracknell, Tyler Ennis, Joseph Gambardella, Gaeten Haas, Slater Koekkoek, Dmitry Kulikov, Joakim Nygard, Alan Quine, Patrick Russell, Anton Slepyshev.
FLORIDA
Tommy Cross, Emil Djuse, Nikita Gusev, Brandon Montour, Ethan Prow, Alex Wennberg, Scott Wilson.
LOS ANGELES
Mark Alt, Troy Grosenick.
MINNESOTA
Matt Bartkowski, Nick Bonino, Ian Cole, Gabriel Dumont, Brad Hunt, Marcus Johansson, Gerald Mayhew, Kyle Rau.
MONTREAL
Joel Armia, Phillip Danault, Vasili Demchenko, Michael Frolik, Erik Gustafsson, Charles Hudon, Charlie Lindgren, Jon Merrill, Corey Perry, Eric Staal, Tomas Tatar, Jordan Weal.
NASHVILLE
Mikael Granlund, Erik Gudbranson, Erik Haula, Kasimir Kaskisuo, Brad Richardson, Pekka Rinne, Luca Sbisa.
NEW JERSEY
Christoph Bertschy, Connor Carrick, Aaron Dell, Mason Jobst, Ryan Murray, Ben Street, Matt Tennyson.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Cole Bardreau, Casey Cizikas, Braydon Coburn, Tanner Fritz, Kyle Palmieri, Cory Schneider, Travis Zajac.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Phillip Di Giuseppe, Jack Johnson, Brendan Smith.
OTTAWA
Artem Anisimov, Ryan Dzingel, Cody Goloubef, Micheal Haley, Matthew Peca, Derek Stepan, Mikael Wikstrand.
PHILADELPHIA
Andy Andreoff, Brian Elliott, Alex Lyon, Matt Niskanen, Derrick Pouliot, Nate Prosser, Tyler Wotherspoon.
PITTSBURGH
Pontus Aberg, Lukas Bengtsson, Cody Ceci, Josh Currie, Kevin Czuczman, Frederick Gaudreau, Maxime Lagace, Andrey Pedan, Evan Rodrigues, Colton Sceviour, Zach Trotman, Yannick Weber.
SAN JOSE
Kurtis Gabriel, Fredrik Handemark, Patrick Marleau, Greg Pateryn, Marcus Sorensen.
SEATTLE
Gavin Bayreuther.
ST. LOUIS
Tyler Bozak, Jon Gillies, Carl Gunnarsson, Mike Hoffman, Petteri Lindbohm, Curtis McKenzie, Jaden Schwartz, Alex Steen.
TAMPA BAY
Blake Coleman, Marian Gaborik, Christopher Gibson, Brian Lashoff, Curtis McElhinney, Boo Nieves, Anders Nilsson, David Savard, Luke Schenn, Luke Witkowski.
TORONTO
Kenny Agostino, Frederik Andersen, Zach Bogosian, Nick Foligno, Alex Galchenyuk, Ben Hutton, Zach Hyman, Kalle Kossila, Martin Marincin, Riley Nash, Stefan Noesen, David Rittich, Calle Rosen, Scott Sabourin, Antti Suomela, Joe Thornton.
VANCOUVER
Sven Baertschi, Travis Boyd, Alexander Edler, Tyler Graovac, Travis Hamonic, Ashton Sautner, Brandon Sutter, Jimmy Vesey.
VEGAS
Patrick Brown, Oscar Dansk, Tyrell Goulbourne, Mattias Janmark, Tomas Jurco, Alec Martinez, Tomas Nosek, Danny O’Regan.
WASHINGTON
Craig Anderson, Daniel Carr, Zdeno Chara, Paul LaDue, Henrik Lundqvist, Phillippe Maillet, Michael Raffl, Cameron Schilling.
WINNIPEG
Jordie Benn, Laurent Brossoit, Derek Forbort, Trevor Lewis, Mathieu Perreault, Tucker Poolman, Nate Thompson.
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
Chase De Leo.
ARIZONA
Michael Bunting, Hudson Fasching, Jordan Gross.
BOSTON
None.
BUFFALO
C.J. Smith.
CALGARY
None.
CAROLINA
Roland McKeown, Sheldon Rempal.
CHICAGO
Anton Lindholm.
COLORADO
Kyle Burroughs, Liam O’Brien.
COLUMBUS
Ryan MacInnis.
DALLAS
Landon Bow.
DETROIT
Joe Hicketts, Dominic Turgeon.
EDMONTON
None.
FLORIDA
Philippe Desrosiers, Brady Keeper.
LOS ANGELES
Daniel Brickley.
MINNESOTA
Louie Belpedio, Luke Johnson, Ian McCoshen.
MONTREAL
Gustav Olofsson.
NASHVILLE
Michael Carcone, Josh Healey, Tyler Lewington, Sean Malone, Michael McCarron.
NEW JERSEY
Josh Jacobs, Brett Seney.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Joshua Ho-Sang.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Nick DeSimone, Darren Raddysh.
OTTAWA
None.
PHILADELPHIA
Chris Bigras.
PITTSBURGH
None.
SAN JOSE
Maxim Letunov.
SEATTLE
John Quenneville.
ST. LOUIS
Austin Poganski, Mitch Reinke.
TAMPA BAY
Andreas Borgman, Ben Thomas.
TORONTO
None.
VANCOUVER
Justin Bailey, Jalen Chatfield, Brogan Rafferty, Josh Teves.
VEGAS
Carl Dahlstrom, Reid Duke, Gage Quinney, Jimmy Schuldt, Dylan Sikura.
WASHINGTON
None.
WINNIPEG
Eric Comrie.
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
Danton Heinen.
ARIZONA
Frederik Gauthier, John Hayden, Dryden Hunt, Nathan Sucese.
BOSTON
Ondrej Kase, Robert Lantosi, Nick Ritchie.
BUFFALO
Dawson Dipietro, Stefanos Lekkas.
CALGARY
Dominik Simon, Artyom Zagidulin.
CAROLINA
Jeremy Helvig.
CHICAGO
Josh Dickinson, Adam Gaudette, David Kampf, Pius Suter.
COLORADO
Travis Barron, Peyton Jones, Ty Lewis, Adam Werner.
COLUMBUS
Cliff Pu, Kole Sherwood.
DALLAS
Julius Honka.
DETROIT
Mathias Brome, Christian Djoos, Evgeny Svechnikov, Hayden Verbeek.
EDMONTON
Dominik Kahun, Jujhar Khaira, Theodor Lennstrom.
FLORIDA
Patrick Bajkov, Ryan Bednard, Jake Massie, Brad Morrison, Alec Rauhauser, Lucas Wallmark.
LOS ANGELES
Michael Eyssimont, Matt Luff, Drake Rymsha, Tyler Steenbergen.
MINNESOTA
Dmitry Sokolov.
MONTREAL
Joseph Blandisi, Jake Lucchini.
NASHVILLE
Lukas Craggs, Josh Wilkins.
NEW JERSEY
Evan Cormier, Brandon Gignac, David Quenneville, Colby Sissons.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Robert Carpenter, Michael Dal Colle, Dmytro Timashov.
NEW YORK RANGERS
Brandon Crawley, Gabriel Fontaine, Patrick Newell, Yegor Rykov.
OTTAWA
Michael Amadio, J.C. Beaudin, Jonathan Davidsson, Brandon Fortunato, Marcus Hogberg, Jack Kopacka, Zachary Magwood.
PHILADELPHIA
Pascal Laberge.
PITTSBURGH
Mark Jankowski, Emil Larmi, Jesper Lindgren, Sam Miletic.
SAN JOSE
Ryan Donato, Nick Merkley.
SEATTLE
None.
ST. LOUIS
Jacob de la Rose, Evan Fitzpatrick, Erik Foley, Evan Polei.
TAMPA BAY
Ryan Lohin.
TORONTO
Nic Petan, Veini Vehvilainen.
VANCOUVER
Mitch Eliot, Jayce Hawryluk, Jake Kielly, Marc Michaelis, Petrus Palmu.
VEGAS
None.
WASHINGTON
None.
WINNIPEG
Marko Dano, Luke Green, Cole Kehler, Skyler McKenzie.


