NHL free agency opens Wednesday at noon ET — and the list of unrestricted free agents is growing.
A player can become an unrestricted free agent if he is over the age of 27 or has played in the league for seven years.
Anyone who doesn’t meet those criteria is considered a pending restricted free agent, where teams have more rights to keep a player if their contract expires. However, if a team does not extend a qualifying offer to their upcoming RFAs, they lose negotiating rights and the player becomes a UFA.
Eligible offer must be at least:
• 110 percent of the player’s base salary from the previous season if they make less than $650,000 • 105 percent if the player makes between $650,000 and $1 million • 100 percent if the player makes more than $1 million
On Monday, a number of players did not receive qualifying offers before the 5:00 PM ET deadline — big names like Dylan Strome, Ilya Samsonov and Sonny Milano among them.
Here is the list of names we know so far:
Anaheim Ducks
• Jack Badini • Roman Durney • Lucas Elvenes • Brendan Goulet • Jacob Larsson • Sonny Milano • Sam Steele
Arizona Coyotes
• Kyle Capobianco• Cole Hults
Boston Bruins
• Qualified all RFAs.
Buffalo Sabres
• Qualified all RFAs.
Calgary Flames
• Johannes Kinvall• Tyler Parsons
Carolina Hurricanes
• David Cotton• Jack LaFontaine• Beck Worm
Chicago Blackhawks
• Andrei Altibarmakian • Wyatt Kaliniuk • Dominic Kubalik • Cale Morris • Cameron Morrison • Dylan Strome
Colorado Avalanche
• Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Columbus Blue Jackets
• Gabriel Carlson• Kevin Stenlund
Dallas Stars
• Jordan Kawaguchi• Alexey Lipanov• Colton Point
Detroit Red Wings
• Mitchell Stevens • Ollie Juolevy • Caden Fulcher • Philip Larson
Edmonton Oilers
• Philip Berglund• Brendan Perlini• Ostap Safin
Florida Panthers
• Evan Fitzpatrick• Jonas Johansson• German Rubtsov
Los Angeles Kings
• Brendan Lemieux• Johan Sodergran• Vladimir Tkachev
Minnesota Wild
• Derek Baribeau• Fedor Gordeev
Montreal Canadiens
• Josh Brook• Kale Klaug• Rem Pitlick
Nashville Predators
• Not yet announced.
New Jersey Devils
• Qualified all RFAs.
New York Islanders
• Not yet announced.
New York Rangers
• Jacob Elmer• Justin Richards• Ty Ronning• Tyler Wall
The Ottawa Senators
• Adam Gaudet• Michael McNiven• Victor Mette
Philadelphia Flyers
• Matthew Strom• Maxim Sushko• Kiril 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 • Nicola Melosh • Antoine Moran • Brinson Pashinuk • Zach Savchenko
Seattle Kraken
• Dennis Cholowski • Ryan Donato • Haydn Fleury • Daniel Sprong
St. Louis Blues
• Tanner Kaspik
Tampa Bay Lightning
• Not yet announced.
Toronto Maple Leafs
• Ondrej Kase • Joseph Dushak • Christians Rubins • Chad Criss • Ian Scott
Vancouver Canucks:
• Justin Bailey• Matthew Highmore• Juho Lamiko
Vegas Golden Knights
• Brett Howden • Ben Jones
Washington Capitals
• Ilya Samsonov.
Winnipeg Jets
• Markus Phillips • Evgeny Svechnikov
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