NEWFIEHABSFAN wrote:

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 If you were the gm of the habs, who would you wash your hands of during the offseason and what would be a ideal signing/s  or who would you trade? remember your the GM OF THE HABS!!

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I wouldn't cry too much if we lost Streit, Downey, Murray, Dagenais (if he still counts), Bonk, or Sundstrom for nothing in return.

I would be OK with losing Ribeiro, Zednik, Perezhogin, Dendenault, and one of the goalies if we had something of value in return.

The rest of the guys, I'd like to see stay here!

barry33 wrote:

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Nil d wrote: NEWFIEHABSFAN wrote:  If you were the gm of the habs, who would you wash your hands of during the offseason and what would be a ideal signing/s  or who would you trade? remember your the GM OF THE HABS!! I wouldn't cry too much if we lost Streit, Downey, Murray, Dagenais (if he still counts), Bonk, or Sundstrom for nothing in return. I would be OK with losing Ribeiro, Zednik, Perezhogin, Dendenault, and one of the goalies if we had something of value in return. The rest of the guys, I'd like to see stay here! Ditto to all of yours Nilsey..throw in Kovalev if we can get something decent in return who would show up every night.

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Nil d wrote:

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NEWFIEHABSFAN wrote:  If you were the gm of the habs, who would you wash your hands of during the offseason and what would be a ideal signing/s  or who would you trade? remember your the GM OF THE HABS!! I wouldn't cry too much if we lost Streit, Downey, Murray, Dagenais (if he still counts), Bonk, or Sundstrom for nothing in return. I would be OK with losing Ribeiro, Zednik, Perezhogin, Dendenault, and one of the goalies if we had something of value in return. The rest of the guys, I'd like to see stay here!

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I'd hang onto Perezhogin - he's a rookie.  He's shown little flashes out there and he's got upside.  At least give him another year.

The others are pretty much dead weight, with the exception of Zeddy.  We need to pick up some size upfront and a stalwart d-man in the off-season.

If I had to list the guys I would let go (for nothing), it would be similar to everyone else's:

Sundstrum, Ribs, Streit, Bonk, Murray, Downey.  I am leaning towards Komisarek too because the patience is running out, but I'll give him one more year.

If we could upgrade all of these clowns, just think how much better we would be.  That is the difference between the Habs and most of the good teams.  The supporting cast just isn't there.  Probably missing a goal scorer as well , but Kovy needs to get his ass in gear (same for Ryder - dude can't pick a corner if his life depended on it, right now).  As a result of the Theo deal, we should have some cheddar to go out and get a couple decent guys.

Ok...here is a complete list of free agents and their status (ie Group II, III, IV, V, and VI) each group is explained at the bottom of the list. Some players have already signed and it is noted next to their names. Please don't shoot the messenger for a long post lol

2006 NHL FREE AGENTS
Compiled and updated by Cory Brolund
Last Update: March 9, 2006 3:30 pm

Well here it is, just in time for the new year, the 2006 Free Agent List. Players are broke down
into their respective categories, with players who have played 7 or more seasons, but not at
Group III age listed as UFAs. The new Group III age is 29. Also next to Group VI players are
number of NHL games required to become Group II this year. This was based on career games
before the 05-06 season. Also there are a number of players listed here that have retired, I
will be fixing that soon. Until then Enjoy!!!

* - Option held on Contract (Player/Team)
Player                             06-07 Team              Date
ANAHEIM
Jeff Friesen, (III)
Aaron Gavey, (III)
Jani Hurme, (III)
Jason Marshall, (III)
Ruslan Salei, (III)
Teemu Selanne, (III)
Tyler Wright, (III)

Kip Brennan, (VI)
Trevor Gillies, (VI)
Kent Huskins, (VI)
Zenon Konopka, (VI)
Geoff Peters, (VI)
Bruno St. Jacques, (VI)

Ilya Bryzgalov, (II)
George Davis, (II)
Joe DiPenta, (II)
Todd Fedoruk, (II)
Maxim Kondratiev, (II)
Chris Kunitz, (II)
Joffrey Lupul, (II)
Andy McDonald, (II)
Travis Moen, (II)
Shane O'Brien, (II)
Pierre Parenteau, (II)
Igor Pohanka, (II)
Vitali Vishnevsky, (II)

ATLANTA
Marc Savard, (UFA)

Serge Aubin, (III)
Peter Bondra, (III)
Eric Boulton, (III)
Mike Dunham, (III)
Niclas Havelid, (III)
Shane Hnidy, (III)
Slava Kozlov, (III)
Brad Larsen, (III)
Scott Mellanby, (III)
Pasi Nurminen, (III)               Retired                 August 21, 05
Ronald Petrovicky, (III)
Steve Shields, (III)
Jean Pierre Vigier, (III)

Ramzi Abid, (VI)
Stephen Baby, (VI)
Scott Barney, (VI)
Kevin Doell, (VI)
Brian Maloney, (VI)
Travis Roche, (VI)
Tommi Santala, (VI)
Luke Sellars, (VI)

Anthony Aquino, (II)
Adam Berkhoel, (II)
Jeff Dwyer, (II)
Garnet Exelby, (II)
Michael Garnett, (II)
Tomas Kloucek, (II)
Kari Lehtonen, (II)
Francis Lessard, (II)
Derek Mackenzie, (II)
Steve McCarthy, (II)
Mark Popovic, (II)
Adam Smyth, (II)
Patrik Stefan, (II)
Joel Stepp, (II)
Karl Stewart, (II)
Colin Stuart, (II)

BOSTON
P.J. Axelsson, (UFA)

Mariusz Czerkawski, (III)
Tom Fitzgerald, (III)
Hal Gill, (III)
Eric Healey, (III)
Brad Isbister, (III)
Dan Lacouture, (III)
Brian Leetch, (III)
Jason MacDonald, (III)
Ian Moran, (III)
Eric Nickulas, (III)
Marty Reasoner, (III)
Jiri Slegr, (III)
Tim Thomas, (III)

Ben Guite, (VI)
Brian Eklund, (VI)
Milan Jurcina, (VI)
Patrick Leahy, (VI)
Jeremy Reich, (VI)
Garret Stroshein, (VI)

Andrew Alberts, (II)
Patrice Bergeron, (II)
Brad Boyes, (II)
Nick Boynton, (II)
Jonathan Girard, (II)              Retired                 Oct. 21, 05
Josh Langfeld, (II)
Brett Nowak, (II)                  Retired                 Feb. 26, 05
Andrew Raycroft, (II)
Nathan Robinson, (II)
Martin Samuelsson, (II)
Jordan Sigalet, (II)
David Tanabe, (II)
Hannu Toivonen, (II)

BUFFALO
Maxim Afinogenov, (III)
Martin Biron, (III)
Daniel Briere, (III)
Tim Connolly, (III)
Jean-Pierre Dumont, (III)
Rory Fitzpatrick, (III)
Mike Grier, (III)
Jochen Hecht, (III)
Jay McKee, (III)
Teppo Numminen, (III)
Chris Taylor, (III)

Doug Janik, (VI)
Andrew Peters, (VI) (36)
Michael Ryan, (VI)

Brian Campbell, (II)
Paul Gaustad, (II)
Jeff Jillson, (II)
Dmitri Kalinen, (II)
Ales Kotalik, (II)
Michael Leighton, (II)
Toni Lydman, (II)
Adam Mair, (II)
Sean McMorrow, (II)
Ryan Miller, (II)
Karel Mosovsky, (II)
Jiri Novotny, (II)
Nathan Paetsch, (II)
Jason Pominville, (II)
Taylor Pyatt, (II)
Derek Roy, (II)
Henrik Tallinder, (II)
Chris Thorburn, (II)

CALGARY
Brian Boucher, (III)
Shean Donovan, (III)
Cale Hulse, (III)
Mike LeClerc, (III)
Craig MacDonald, (III)
Bryan Marchment, (III)
Brantt Myhres, (III)
Chris Simon, (III)
Stephane Yelle, (III)

Zenith Komarniski, (VI)
Lynn Loyns, (VI)

Andrew Ference, (II)
Kristian Huselius, (II)
Chuck Kobasew, (II)
Brent Krahn, (II)
Matt Lombardi, (II)
Jamie Lundmark, (II)
Darren Lynch, (II)
Marcus Nilson, (II)
Tim Ramholt, (II)

CAROLINA
Craig Adams, (III)
Matt Cullen, (III)
Martin Gerber, (III)
Frantisek Kaberle, (III)
Mark Recchi, (III)*
Niclas Wallin, (III)
Aaron Ward, (III)
Glen Wesley, (III)
Doug Weight, (III)

Keith Aucoin, (VI)
Gordie Dwyer, (VI)
David Gove, (VI)
Chris Hajt, (VI)
Andrew Hutchinson, (VI)

Anton Babchuk, (II)
Erik Cole, (II)
Mike Commodore, (II)
Craig Kowalski, (II)
Chad Larose, (II)
Stephen Peat, (II)
Eric Stall, (II)
Justin Williams, (II)

CHICAGO
Eric Daze, (III)*
Eric Meloche, (III)
Jason Morgan, (III)
 
Ajay Baines, (VI)
Milan Bartovic, (VI)
Mike Brown, (VI)
Mark Cullen, (VI)
Shawn Thornton, (VI)

Craig Andersson, (II)
Michal Barinka, (II)
Nathan Barrett, (II)
Mark Bell, (II)
Rene Bourque, (II)
Kyle Calder, (II)
Vladimir Gusev, (II)
Mikael Holmqvist, (II)
Duncan Keith, (II)
Matt Keith, (II)
Alexander Kojevnikov, (II)
Nick Kuiper, (II)
Lasse Kukkonen, (II)
Quintin Laing, (II)
Adam Munro, (II)
Tuomo Ruutu, (II)
Patrick Sharp, (II)
Jim Vandermeer, (II)
Pavel Vorobiev, (II)
Radim Vrbata, (II)

COLORADO
Rob Blake, (III)
Bob Boughner, (III)
Brett Clark, (III)
Jim Dowd, (III)
Paul Healey, (III)
Dan Hinote, (III)
Antti Laaksonen, (III)
Joe Sakic, (III)
Karlis Skrastins, (III)

Jeff Finger, (VI)
Tom Lawson, (VI)

Peter Budaj, (II)
Vitaly Kolesnik, (II)
John-Michael Liles, (II)
Cody McCormick, (II)
Brett McLean, (II)
Kurt Sauer, (II)
Tomas Slovak, (II)
Marek Svatos, (II)
Alex Tanguay, (II)
Ossi Vaananen, (II)
Mikko Viitanen, (II)

COLUMBUS
Andy Delmore, (III)
Jan Hrdina, (III)
Trevor Letowski, (III)
Martin Prusek, (III)
Jamie Pushor, (III)
Jody Shelley, (III)
Radoslav Suchy, (III)
Darcey Verot, (III)
David Vyborny, (III)

Ron Hainsey, (VI) (48)
Jeff MacMillan, (VI)
Peter Sarno, (VI)
Cam Severson, (VI)
Ben Simon, (VI) (12)
Brandon Sugden, (VI)

Jaroslav Balastik, (II)
Shane Bendera, (II)
Jason Chimera, (II)
Marc Denis, (II)
Dan Fritsche, (II)
Steven Goertzen, (II)
Aaron Johnson, (II)
Rostislav Klesla, (II)
Pascal LeClaire, (II)
Manny Malhotra, (II)
Andrew Penner, (II)
Mike Rupp, (II)
Nikolai Zherdev, (II)

DALLAS
Jason Arnott, (III)
Phillipe Boucher, (III)            Dallas                  March 3, 05
Garrett Burnett, (III)
Johan Hedberg, (III)
Jon Klemm, (III)*
Willie Mitchell, (III)
David Oliver, (III)
Nathan Perrott, (III)
Jeremy Stevenson, (III)
Patrick Traverse, (III)
Marty Turco, (III)                 Dallas                  Dec. 15, 05

Dan Ellis, (VI)
Dan Jancevski, (VI)
Mattias Tjarnqvist, (VI)

David Bararuk, (II)
Trevor Daley, (II)
Niklas Hagman, (II)
Niko Kapanen, (II)
Junior Lessard, (II)
Steve Ott, (II)
Mike Smith, (II)
Jaroslav Svoboda, (II)

DETROIT
Chris Chelios, (III)
Cory Cross, (III)
Bryan Helmer, (III)
Manny Legace, (III)
Niklas Lidstrom, (III)
Andreas Lilja, (III)
Donald MacLean, (III)
Eric Manlow, (III)
Mark Mowers, (III)
Chris Osgood, (III)
Mikael Samuelsson, (III)
Brendan Shanahan, (III)
Jason Woolley, (III)
Steve Yzerman, (III)

Joey MacDonald, (VI)
Kent McDonell, (VI)

Darryl Bootland, (II)
Dan Cleary, (II)
Johan Franzen, (II)
Michael Hackert, (II)
Eric Himelfarb, (II)
Jiri Hudler, (II)
Tomas Kopecky, (II)
Brett Lebda, (II)
Drew MacIntyre, (II)
Jason Williams, (II)

EDMONTON
Sergei Samsonov, (UFA)

Radek Dvorak, (III)
Todd Harvey, (III)
Georges Laraque, (III)
Rem Murray, (III)
Mike Peca, (III)
Fernando Pisani, (III)
Dwayne Roloson, (III)
Dan Smith, (III)
Dick Tarnstrom, (III)
Igor Ulanov, (III)

Nate DiCasmirro, (VI)
Blake Evans, (VI)
JJ Hunter, (VI)
Jason Platt, (VI)

Dan Baum, (II)
Kyle Brodziak, (II)*
Ed Caron, (II)                     Retired                 August 21, 05
Ales Hemsky, (II)
Shawn Horcoff, (II)
Toby Peterson, (II)
Mathieu Roy, (II)
Kenny Smith, (II)
Jarrett Stoll, (II)

FLORIDA
Olli Jokinen, (UFA)                Florida                 March 9, 05

Jamie Allison, (III)
Chris Gratton, (III)               Florida                 March 9, 05
Sean Hill, (III)*
Alexander Karpotsev, (III)
Jamie McLennan, (III)*

Phil Osaer, (VI)
Jean-Marc Pellietier, (VI)

Jay Bouwmeester, (II)
Greg Campbell, (II)
Dan Focht, (II)
Nathan Horton, (II)
Ric Jackman, (II)
Juraj Kolnik, (II)
Lukas Krajicek, (II)
Roberto Luongo, (II)
Grant McNeill, (II)
Branislav Mezei, (II)
Steve Montador, (II)
Vaclav Nedorost, (II)
Serge Payer, (II)
Alexei Semenov, (II)*
Jon Sim, (II)
Victor Uchevatov, (II)
Mike Van Ryn, (II)
Stephen Weiss, (II)
Mikhail Yakubov, (II)

LOS ANGELES
Derek Armstrong, (III)
Ken Belanger, (III)                Retired                 Dec. 5, 05
Valeri Bure, (III)
Joe Corvo, (III)
Jeff Cowan, (III)
Nathan Dempsey, (III)
Trent Klatt, (III)                 Retired                 July 25, 05
Mark Parrish, (III)
Luc Robitaille, (III)
Jeremy Roenick, (III)
Brad Smyth, (III)

Brad Fast, (VI)
Ryan Flinn, (VI)
Adam Hauser, (VI)
Richard Seeley, (VI)

Sean Avery, (II)
Eric Belanger, (II)
Dustin Brown, (II)
Mike Cammalleri, (II)
Mathieu Garon, (II)
Tim Gleason, (II)
Greg Hogeboom, (II)
Tim Jackman, (II)
Connor James, (II)
Petr Kanko, (II)
Mike Weaver, (II)

MINNESOTA
Marc Chouinard, (III)
Alexander Daigle, (III)
Scott Ferguson, (III)
Manny Fernandez, (III)             Minnesota               March 3, 05
Ray Giroux, (III)
Filip Kuba, (III)
Kirby Law, (III)
Curtis Murphy, (III)
Andrei Nazarov, (III)
Randy Robitaille, (III)
Andrei Zyuzin, (III)

Joey Tetarenko, (VI)
Rikard Wallin, (VI)
Kyle Wanvig, (VI)
Eric Westrum, (VI)
Dustin Wood, (VI)

Derek Boogard, (II)
Pierre-Marc Bouchard, (II)
Brent Burns, (II)
Pascal Dupuis, (II)
Kurtis Foster, (II)
Matt Foy, (II)
Marian Gaborik, (II)
Josh Harding, (II)
Chris Heid, (II)
Alex Henry, (II)
Mikko Koivu, (II)
Eric Reitz, (II)
Nick Schultz, (II)
Ryan Stokes, (II)
Daniel Tjarnqvist, (II)

MONTREAL
Jan Bulis, (UFA)

Francis Bouillon, (III)
Aaron Downey, (III)
Cristobal Huet, (III)
Saku Koivu, (III)                  Montreal                Feb. 11, 05
Todd Simpson, (III)
Niklas Sundstrom, (III)
Peter Vandermeer, (III)

Jonathan Aitken, (VI)
Benjamin Carpenter, (VI)
Yann Danis, (VI)
Jeff Paul, (VI)

David Aebischer, (II)
Aaron Archer, (II)
Steve Begin, (II)*
Jean-Phillipe Cote, (II)
Pierre Dagenais, (II)
Jonathan Ferland, (II)
Chris Higgins, (II)
Raitis Ivanis, (II)
Mike Komisarek, (II)
Olivier Michaud, (II)
Duncan Milroy, (II)
Garth Murray, (II)
Alexander Perezhogan, (II)
Mike Ribeiro, (II)
Michael Ryder, (II)
Mark Streit, (II)

NASHVILLE
David Legwand, (UFA)

Mark Eaton, (III)
Danny Markov, (III)
Chris Mason, (III)
Scott Nichol, (III)
Yannic Perreault, (III)
Mike Sillinger, (III)
Brendan Witt, (III)
Marek Zidlicky, (III)

Sheldon Brookbank, (VI)
Greg Classen, (VI)
Simon Gamache, (VI)
Darren Haydar, (VI)
Libor Pivko, (VI)
Jeremy Yablonski, (VI)

Denis Arkhipov, (II)
Rick Berry, (II)
Martin Erat, (II)
Vernon Fiddler, (II)
Brian Finley, (II)
Adam Hall, (II)
Dan Hamhuis, (II)
Scott Hartnell, (II)
Denis Platonov, (II)
Brandon Segal, (II)
Jerred Smithson, (II)
Jordin Tootoo, (II)
Scottie Upshall, (II)

NEW JERSEY
Tommy Albelin, (III)
Patrik Elias, (III)
Ken Klee, (III)
Viktor Kozlov, (III)
Darren Langdon, (III)
Jamie Langenbrunner, (III)
Krysztof Oliwa, (III)
Jay Pandolfo, (III)
Erik Rasmussen, (III)
Jason Wiemer, (III)

Ari Ahonen, (VI)
Bobby Allen, (VI)
Scott Clemmenson, (VI)
Matt DeMarchi, (VI)
Ahren Nittel, (VI)
Krisjanis Redlihs, (VI)
Mike Sgrori, (VI)

Brad Ference, (II)
Adrian Foster, (II)
Brian Gionta, (II)
Scott Gomez, (II)
David Hale, (II)
Paul Martin, (II)
Tuomas Pihlman, (II)
Ilya Pikkareainen, (II)
Petr Vrana, (II)
Colin White, (II)

NY ISLANDERS
Shawn Bates, (III)                 NY Islanders            March 5, 05
Joel Bouchard, (III)
Travis Brigley, (III)
Kenny Jonsson, (III)
Radek Martinek, (III)              NY Islanders            March 6, 05
Tomi Pettinen, (III)
Wyatt Smith, (III)

Ryan Caldwell, (VI)
Frederic Cloutier, (VI)
Kevin Colley, (VI)                 Retired                 Feb. 26, 05
Rob Collins, (VI)
Wade Dubielwicz, (VI)
Paul Flache, (VI)
Jeff Hamilton, (VI)
Matt Koalska, (VI)
Vince Macri, (VI)
Jody Robinson, (VI)
Allan Rourke, (VI)

Aaron Asham, (II)
Sean Bergenheim, (II)
Chris Campoli, (II)
Rick DiPietro, (II)
John Erskine, (II)
Eric Godard, (II)
Denis Grebeshkov, (II)
Trent Hunter, (II)
Justin Papineau, (II)
Steven Regier, (II)
Mike York, (II)

NY RANGERS
Tom Poti, (III)
Dale Purinton, (III)
Steve Rucchin, (III)
Martin Rucinsky, (III)
Martin Straka, (III)
Jason Strudwick, (III)
Petr Sykora, (III)

Dan Cavanaugh, (VI)
Brandon Cullen, (VI)
Fedor Fedorov, (VI)
Alexander Giroux, (VI)
Martin Grenier, (VI)
Steven MacIntyre, (VI)
Joe Rullier, (VI)
Martin Sonnenberg, (VI)
Craig Weller, (VI)
Chad Wiseman, (VI)

Blair Betts, (II)
Lee Falardeau, (II)
Dwight Helminen, (II)
Marcel Hossa, (II)
Bryce Lampman, (II)
Dominic Moore, (II)
Colton Orr, (II)
Jed Ortmayer, (II)
Thomas Pock, (II)
Rory Rawlyk, (II)
Michal Rozsival, (II)
Juris Stals, (II)
Fedor Tyutin, (II)
Jason Ward, (II)

OTTAWA
Zdeno Chara, (III)
Dominik Hasek, (III)
Steve Martins, (III)
Brad Norton, (III)
Brian Pothier, (III)
Wade Redden, (III)
Vaclav Varada, (III)

Brett Clouthier, (VI)
Joe Cullen, (VI)
Jeff Heerema, (VI)
Charlie Stephens, (VI)

Tyler Arnason, (II)
Ray Emery, (II)
Brennan Evans, (II)
Martin Havlat, (II)
Chris Kelly, (II)
Neil Komadosky, (II)
Tomas Malec, (II)
Brian McGratton, (II)
Mike Morrison, (II)
Chris Neil, (II)
Filip Novak, (II)
Jan Platil, (II)
Peter Schaeffer, (II)
Christoph Schubert, (II)
Jason Spezza, (II)
Antoinne Vermette, (II)
Lance Ward, (II)
Greg Watson, (II)

PHILADELPHIA
Donald Brashear, (III)
Eric Desjardins, (III)
Denis Gauthier, (III)
Kim Johnsson, (III)
Mark Murphy, (III)
Brian Savage, (III)
John Slaney, (III)
Jamie Storr, (III)
Chris Therien, (III)

Nick Deschenes, (VI)
Pat Kavanaugh, (VI)
Freddy Meyer, (VI)                 Philadelphia            Feb. 6, 05
Ryan Ready, (VI)
Wade Skolney, (VI)
Tony Voce, (VI)

Mathieu Brunelle, (II)
Marc Cavosie, (II)
Matt Ellison, (II)
Simon Gagne, (II)
Joey Hope, (II)
Randy Jones, (II)                  Philadelphia            Feb. 7, 05
Kiel McLeod, (II)
Antero Nittymaki, (II)
Joni Pitkanen, (II)
David Prinz, (II)
Brankko Radivojevic, (II)
Stephan Ruzicka, (II)
RJ Umberger, (II)
Stephen Wood, (II)

PHOENIX
Derek Morris, (UFA)                Phoenix                 March 8, 05

Boyd Deveraux, (III)
Brett Hull, (III)                  Retired                 Nov. 7, 05
Curtis Joseph, (III)
Chris McAllister, (III)
Steve Passmore, (III)
Steve Reinprecht, (III)            Phoenix                 March 8, 05
Pascal Rheaume, (III)
Mike Ricci, (III)*
Jamie Rivers, (III)
Geoff Sanderson, (III)
Jarrod Skalde, (III)
Ray Schultz, (III)
Dwayne Zinger, (III)

Mike Bishai, (VI)
Pavel Brendl, (VI) (4)
Steve Gainey, (VI)

Ryan Bathe, (II)
Eric Chouinard, (II)
Mike Comrie, (II)
Josh Gratton, (II)
Jakub Kores, (II)
Ladislav Kouba, (II)
Oleg Kvasha, (II)
Yannick Lehoux, (II)
David LeNeveu, (II)
Frantisek Lukes, (II)
Darren McLachlan, (II)
Paul Mara, (II)
Zbynek Michalek, (II)
Lance Monych, (II)
Ladislav Nagy, (II)
Joel Perrault, (II)
Jeff Pietrasiak, (II)
Martin Podlesak, (II)
Oleg Saprykin, (II)
Phil Sauve, (II)
Dennis Seidenberg, (II)
Fredrik Sjostrom, (II)
Marcus Smith, (II)
Russell Spence, (II)
Matt Spiller, (II)
Jeff Taffe, (II)
John Zeiler, (II)

PITTSBURGH
Eric Boguniecki, (III)
Dennis Bonvie, (III)
Chris Kelleher, (III)
John LeClair, (III)
Mario Lemieux, (III)
Alain Nasreddine, (III)
Lyle Odelein, (III)
Lasse Pirjeta, (III)
Ryan Vandenbussche, (III)

Andy Hilbert, (VI) (42)
Matt Hussey, (VI)
David Koci, (VI)
Guillaume Lefebvre, (VI)
Matt Murley, (VI)
Dany Sabourin, (VI)
Robert Scuderi, (VI)

Andy Chiodo, (II)
Drew Fata, (II)
Marc-Andre Fleury, (II)
Krystoffer Kolanos, (II)
Konstantin Koltsov, (II)
Milan Kraft, (II)
Ryan Malone, (II)
Niklas Nordgren, (II)
Brooks Orpik, (II)
Alexander Rouleau, (II)
Tomas Surovy, (II)
Petr Taticek, (II)

ST LOUIS
Petr Cajanek, (III)
Reinhard Divis, (III)
Dallas Drake, (III)
Ryan Johnson, (III)
Patrick Lalime, (III)
Reed Low, (III)
Jamal Mayers, (III)
Dean McAmmond, (III)
Vladimir Orzagh, (III)
Steve Poapst, (III)
Andy Roach, (III)
Bryce Salvador, (III)
Trent Whitfield, (III)
Scott Young, (III)

Trevor Byrne, (VI)
Kevin Dallman, (VI)
Jon DiSalvatore, (VI)
Mike Glumac, (VI)
Colin Hemingway, (VI)
Jeff Hoggan, (VI)
Aaron MacKenzie, (VI)
Mike Mottau, (VI)
Brett Scheffelmaier, (VI)          Retired                 Oct. 25, 05
Mike Stuart, (VI)
Rocky Thompson, (VI)

Jason Bacashihua, (II)
Christian Backman, (II)
Greg Black, (II)
Jesse Boulerice, (II)
Eric Brewer, (II)
Doug Lynch, (II)
Jay McClemment, (II)
Tomas Mojzis, (II)
Mark Rycroft, (II)
Curtis Sanford, (II)
Peter Sejna, (II)
Timofei Shishkanov, (II)
Matt Walker, (II)
Jeff Woywitka, (II)
Mike Zigomanis, (II)

SAN JOSE
Alyn McCauley, (III)
Evgeni Nabokov, (III)              San Jose               Feb. 9, 05
Ville Nieminen, (III)
Scott Thornton, (III)
Vesa Toskala, (III)                San Jose               Feb. 27, 05

Matt Carkner, (VI)
Doug Murray, (VI)
Josh Prudden, (VI)
Patrick Rissmiller, (VI)
Nolan Schaefer, (VI)
Garrett Stafford, (VI)

Riley Armstrong, (II)
Jonathan Cheechoo, (II)            San Jose                Feb. 9, 05
Tim Conboy, (II)
Rob Davison, (II)
Rob DiLauro, (II)
Christian Ehrhoff, (II)
Jim Fahey, (II)
Marcel Goc, (II)
Josh Gorges, (II)
Shane Joseph, (II)
Milan Michalek, (II)
Glenn Olson, (II)
Scott Parker, (II)
Dimitri Patzold, (II)
Tomas Plihal, (II)
Mark Smith, (II)
Grant Stevenson, (II)
Craig Valette, (II)

TAMPA BAY
Cory Sarich, (UFA)

Jim Campbell, (III)
Chris Dingman, (III)
John Grahame, (III)
Pavel Kubina, (III)
Steve McLaren, (III)
Todd Rohloff, (III)

Zdenek Blatny, (VI)
Mitch Fritz, (VI)
Jason Jaspers, (VI)
Norm Milley, (VI)

Dimitri Afanasenkov, (II)
Evgeni Artukhin, (II)
Martin Cibak, (II)
Ryan Craig, (II)
Gerard Dicaire, (II)
Ruslan Fedotenko, (II)
Timo Helbling, (II)
Brad Richards, (II)
Jean-Francois Soucey, (II)

TORONTO
Brad Brown, (UFA)

Jason Allison, (III)
Ed Belfour, (III)*
Aki Berg, (III)
Tomas Kaberle, (III)               Toronto                 Feb. 11, 05
Alexander Khavanov, (III)
Chad Kilger, (III)
Eric Lindros, (III)
Bryan McCabe, (III)
Luke Richardson, (III)
Clarke Wilm, (III)

Mike Hoffman, (VI)
Brad Leeb, (VI)
Marc Moro, (VI)
John Pohl, (VI)

Nik Antropov, (II)
Jean-Sebastien Aubin, (II)
Brendan Bell, (II)
Carlo Colaiacovo, (II)
Jay Harrison, (II)
Roman Kukumberg, (II)
Karel Pilar, (II)
Jean-Francois Racine, (II)
Matt Stajan, (II)
Alexander Suglobov, (II)
Mikael Tellqvist, (II)
David Turon, (II)
Kyle Wellwood, (II)
Ian White, (II)

VANCOUVER
Nolan Baumgartner, (III)
Sean Brown, (III)
Sven Butenschon, (III)
Keith Carney, (III)
Anson Carter, (III)
Craig Darby, (III)
Jason Doig, (III)
Wade Flaherty, (III)
Ed Jovanovski, (III)
Trevor Linden, (III)
Richard Park, (III)
Jarkko Ruttu, (III)
Eric Weinrich, (III)

Maxime Ouellet, (VI)

Bryan Allen, (II)
Alex Auld, (II)
Josef Balej, (II)
Tyler Bouck, (II)
Wade Brookbank, (II)
Lee Goren, (II)
Josh Green, (II)
Ryan Kesler, (II)
Jason King, (II)
Kirill Koltsov, (II)
Rob McVicar, (II)
Brandon Nolan, (II)
Mika Noronen, (II)
Prestin Ryan, (II)
Jesse Schultz, (II)
Daniel Sedin, (II)
Henrik Sedin, (II)
Nathan Smith, (II)

WASHINGTON
Andrew Cassels, (III)
Frederic Cassivi, (III)
Chris Clark, (III)
Doug Doull, (III)
Colin Forbes, (III)
Jeff Halpern, (III)
Jamie Heward, (III)                Washington              Feb. 22, 05
Brent Johnson, (III)
Olaf Kolzig, (III)                 Washington              Feb. 11, 05
Ivan Majesky, (III)
Bryan Muir, (III)                  Washington              Feb. 22, 05
Brian Willsie, (III)
Mark Wotton, (III)

Jean-Francois Fortin, (VI) (9)
Boyd Kane, (VI)
Graham Mink, (VI)
Lawrence Nycholat, (VI)
Petr Sykora, (VI)
Nolan Yonkman, (VI)
Miroslav Zalesak, (VI)

Jared Aulin, (II)
Kris Beech, (II)
Mathieu Biron, (II)
Matt Bradley, (II)
Ben Clymer, (II)
Jakub Cutta, (II)
Steve Eminger, (II)
Rico Fata, (II)
Owen Fussey, (II)
Boyd Gordon, (II)
Brooks Laich, (II)
Shaone Morrison, (II)
Matt Pettinger, (II)
Louis Robitaille, (II)
Alexander Semin, (II)
Brian Sutherby, (II)

This list falls into the following categories:

- Group II (restricted; original team has right to match or accept draft-pick compensation);

- Group III (unrestricted; original team has no right to match)

- Group IV (restricted; players who have never signed a contract and are considered defected players)

- Group V (unrestricted; a player who has played in 11 professional games in each of the
   last 10 years, and makes less than the average salary of $1.312 million can declare for
   unrestricted free agency once in his career)

- Group VI (unrestricted; a player who is 25 years or older, has completed three or more
   professional seasons and in the case of a player other than a goaltender has played fewer
   than 80 NHL games, or in the case of a goaltender has played fewer than 28 NHL games).

- UFA (Unrestricted; a player who has played in at least 8 professional seasons, or a player
  who has been released from their current contract by a buyout, a 2/3 of remaining salary
  option all teams carry with all contracts, or Group II restricted free agents not offered a
  contract by their teams become Group III unrestricted free agents.)

Special Thanks to all of you who send in the always valuable infomationthat I sometimes miss or that I have not come across. Thanks a bunch!!

Eventhough he's a Group II free agent, I make a run at getting Patrice Bergeron.

Congratulations, Peart, on the longest post in GoHabs.com history!  (The next fifty-six longest belong to Barry33).

I hope you'll forgive me for not reading it all..............

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Congratulations, Peart, on the longest post in GoHabs.com history!  (The next fifty-six longest belong to Barry33). I hope you'll forgive me for not reading it all..............

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