I couldn't quite put my finger on what was wrong with TSN.ca's list of unrestricted free agents until today, when the likes of Andy Hilbert (and friends) started signing deals.
Hilbert wasn't on the list, and neither was Darren Haydar. Just who else was missing?
Take the Washington Capitals, for instance. TSN has the Capitals with just two UFAs, Jeff Halpern and Ivan Majevsky, but the team actually has 16 UFAs in total. In fact, the full UFA list is, stunningly, upwards of 400 players.
So, think of TSN's list as a 'notables' runthrough. If you want to know everyone up for grabs this year, see my master list below. There are some good players here who'll be playing in the NHL next year (Erik Westrum, for instance, isn't on the TSN list even though he led the AHL in scoring last year):
Unrestricted free agents
ANAHEIM
Jeff Friesen, Aaron Gavey, Jani Hurme, Jorgen Jonsson, Jason Marshall, Timo Parssinen, Nikolai Tsulygin, Kent Huskins, Kip Brennan, Igor Pohanka
ATLANTA
Serge Aubin, Peter Bondra, Mike Dunham, Pasi Nurminen, Ronald Petrovicky, Steve Shields, J.P. Vigier, Ramzi Abid, Scott Barney, Derek MacKenzie, Travis Roche, Adam Berkhoel, Jeff Dwyer, Tomas Kloucek, Francis Lessard, Brian Maloney, Joel Stepp
BOSTON
Mariusz Czerkawski, Tom Fitzgerald, Eric Healey, Brad Isbister, Jarno Kultanen, Dimitri Kvartalnov, Dan Lacouture, Brian Leetch, Jason MacDonald, Ian Moran, Eric Nickulas, Peter Nordstrom, Jiri Slegr, Brian Eklund, Ben Guite, Jeremy Reich, Ivan Huml, Josh Langfeld, Patrick Leahy, Garret Stroshein
BUFFALO
David Cullen, Rory Fitzpatrick, Chris Taylor, Doug Janik, Michael Leighton, Sean McMorrow
CALGARY
Brian Boucher, Cale Hulse, Mike Leclerc, Craig MacDonald, Bryan Marchment, Brantt Myhres, Chris Simon, Zenith Komarniski, Lynn Loyns, Darren Lynch
CAROLINA
Mark Recchi, Glen Wesley, Chris Hajt, Gordie Dwyer, Erkki Rajamaki
CHICAGO
Eric Daze, Jason Morgan, Ajay Baines, Milan Bartovic, Mike Brown, Mark Cullen, Shawn Thornton, Vladimir Gusev, Nick Kuiper, Quintin Laing
COLORADO
Bob Boughner, Jim Dowd, Petr Franek, Paul Healey, Tom Lawson, Frantisek Skladany, Tomas Slovak, Mikko Viitanen
COLUMBUS
Alexander Guskov, Jan Hrdina, Hannes Hyvonen, Trevor Letowski, Martin Prusek, Jamie Pushor, Radoslav Suchy, Darcy Verot, Jeff MacMillan, Peter Sarno, Cam Severson, Tyler Kolarik, Greg Mauldin, Andrew Penner, Michael Rupp, Ben Simon
DALLAS
Garrett Burnett, David Oliver, Nathan Perrott, Jeremy Stevenson, Patrick Traverse, Dan Jancevski, Mike Siklenka, David Bararuk, Jaroslav Svoboda
DETROIT
Dmitri Bykov, Cory Cross, Bryan Helmer, Manny Legace, Don MacLean, Eric Manlow, Mark Mowers, Brendan Shanahan, Jason Woolley, Kent McDonell, Michael Hackert, Todd Jackson
EDMONTON
Adam Bennett, Ty Conklin, Radek Dvorak, Kari Haakana, Todd Harvey, Ralph Intranuovo, Georges Laraque, Fredrik Lindquist, Mikko Luoma, Rem Murray, Michael Peca, Sergei Samsonov, Dan Smith, Jaroslav Spacek, Dick Tarnstrom, Igor Ulanov, Sergei Yerkovich, Alexander Zhurik, Nate Dicasmirro, Blake Evans, Joshua Hunter, Dan Baum, Jason Platt, Kenny Smith
FLORIDA
Jamie Allison, Alexander Karpovtsev, Jamie McLennan, Dan Focht, Grant McNeill, Phil Osaer, Serge Payer, Jon Sim, Victor Uchevatov
LOS ANGELES
Valeri Bure, Nathan Dempsey, Steve Kelly, Jan Nemecek, Brad Smyth, Marty Wilford, Ryan Flinn, Brad Fast, Adam Hauser, Connor James
MINNESOTA
Marc Chouinard, Alexandre Daigle, Scott Ferguson, Kirby Law, Andrei Nazarov, Randy Robitaille, Maxim Sushinsky, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Joey Tetarenko, Rickard Wallin, Kyle Wanvig, Erik Westrum, Chris Heid, Alex Henry, Dustin Wood
MONTREAL
Jan Bulis, Miloslav Guren, Todd Simpson, Niklas Sundstrom, Vadim Tarasov, Pete Vandermeer, Jeff Paul, Johnathan Aitken, Pierre Dagenais, Raitis Ivanans, Olivier Michaud
NASHVILLE
Jukka Hentunen, Greg Johnson, Danny Markov, Yanic Perreault, Simon Gamache, Denis Arkhipov, Rick Berry, Brian Finley, Jeremy Yablonski
NEW JERSEY
Tommy Albelin, Alex Brooks, Ken Klee, Viktor Kozlov, Darren Langdon, Krzysztof Oliwa, Erik Rasmussen, Ari Ahonen, Bobby Allen, Scott Clemmensen, Ryan Murphy, Krisjanis Redlihs, Matt Demarchi, Brad Ference, Teemu Kesa, Ahren Nittel
NY ISLANDERS
Keith Aldridge, Joel Bouchard, Travis Brigley, Martin Chabada, Kenny Jonsson, Dimitri Nabokov, Tomi Pettinen, Dusan Salficky, Wyatt Smith, Frederic Cloutier, Jeff Hamilton, Allan Rourke, Kevin Colley, Rob Collins, John Erskine, Paul Flache, Eric Godard, Cole Jarrett, Vince Macri, Chris Madden, Justin Papineau, Jody Robinson
NY RANGERS
Christian Dube, Ales Pisa, Tom Poti, Dale Purinton, Martin Rucinsky, Jason Strudwick, Ronnie Sundin, Petr Sykora, Fedor Fedorov, Alexandre Giroux, Martin Grenier, Joe Rullier, Martin Sonnenberg, Chad Wiseman, Rory Rawlyk
OTTAWA
Dominik Hasek, Steve Martins, Joe Murphy, Brad Norton, Christer Olsson, Andy Schneider, Antti Tormanen, Vaclav Varada, Brett Clouthier, Jeff Heerema, Charlie Stephens, Joe Cullen, Brennan Evans, Filip Novak, Jan Platil, Billy Thompson, Lance Ward, Greg Watson
PHILADELPHIA
Donald Brashear, Eric Desjardins, Mark Murphy, Brian Savage, Jamie Storr, Chris Therien, Mattias Timander, Pat Kavanagh, Ryan Ready, Wade Skolney, Mathieu Brunelle, Joey Hope, Kiel McLeod, Branko Radivojevic, Brent Robinson, Stephen Wood
PHOENIX
Boyd Devereaux, Oleg Kvasha, Chris McAllister, Steve Passmore, Jamie Rivers, Geoff Sanderson, Ray Schultz, Dwayne Zinger, Mike Bishai, Steve Gainey, Landon Bathe, Eric Chouinard, Ladislav Kouba, Frantisek Lukes, Darren McLachlan, Martin Podlesak, Steven Spencer
PITTSBURGH
Stefan Bergqvist, Eric Boguniecki, Chris Kelleher, Aleksey Morozov, Alain Nasreddine, Lyle Odelein, Lasse Pirjeta, Martin Strbak, Ryan Vandenbussche, Matt Hussey, David Koci, Guillaume Lefebvre, Matt Murley, Andy Chiodo, Ben Eaves, Drew Fata, Krystofer Kolanos, Konstantin Koltsov, Cam Paddock, Alexandre Rouleau, Andy Schneider, Tomas Surovy, Petr Taticek
ST. LOUIS
Petr Cajanek, Reinhard Divis, Reed Low, Dean McAmmond, Steve Poapst, Andy Roach, Stephane Roy, Scott Young, Kevin Dallman, Jeff Hoggan, Mike Zigomanis, Jesse Boulerice, Trevor Byrne, Colin Hemingway, Troy Riddle, Mark Rycroft
SAN JOSE
Matt Carkner, Tim Conboy, Shane Joseph, Josh Prudden
TAMPA BAY
Jim Campbell, Chris Dingman, Steve McLaren, Todd Rohloff, Shane Willis, Zdenek Blatny, Jason Jaspers, Martin Cibak, Gerard Dicaire, Dennis Packard, Jean-Francois Soucy
TORONTO
Jason Allison, Ed Belfour, Aki Berg, Lonny Bohonos, Maxim Galanov, Mikael Hakanson, Alexander Khavanov, Eric Lindros, Luke Richardson, Clarke Wilm, Brad Leeb, Marc Moro, Mike Hoffman, David Turon
VANCOUVER
Sean Brown, Sven Butenschon, Anson Carter, Craig Darby, Johan Davidsson, Jason Doig, Wade Flaherty, Justin Kurtz, Trevor Linden, Richard Park, Leif Rohlin, Vadim Sharifijanov, Lubomir Vaic, Eric Weinrich, Lee Goren, Maxime Ouellet, Wade Brookbank, Rob McVicar, Brandon Nolan, Marc-Andre Roy, Nathan Smith
WASHINGTON
Andrew Cassels, Frederic Cassivi, Doug Doull, Colin Forbes, Jeff Halpern, Ivan Majesky, Andreas Salomonsson, Mark Wotton, Jean-Francois Fortin, Boyd Kane, Graham Mink, Petr Sykora, Miroslav Zalesak, Jared Aulin, Mathieu Biron, Owen Fussey
I'll try to update this as players disappear, but that may prove impossible given the volume here.
Hilbert wasn't on the list, and neither was Darren Haydar. Just who else was missing?
Take the Washington Capitals, for instance. TSN has the Capitals with just two UFAs, Jeff Halpern and Ivan Majevsky, but the team actually has 16 UFAs in total. In fact, the full UFA list is, stunningly, upwards of 400 players.
So, think of TSN's list as a 'notables' runthrough. If you want to know everyone up for grabs this year, see my master list below. There are some good players here who'll be playing in the NHL next year (Erik Westrum, for instance, isn't on the TSN list even though he led the AHL in scoring last year):
Unrestricted free agents
ANAHEIM
Jeff Friesen, Aaron Gavey, Jani Hurme, Jorgen Jonsson, Jason Marshall, Timo Parssinen, Nikolai Tsulygin, Kent Huskins, Kip Brennan, Igor Pohanka
ATLANTA
Serge Aubin, Peter Bondra, Mike Dunham, Pasi Nurminen, Ronald Petrovicky, Steve Shields, J.P. Vigier, Ramzi Abid, Scott Barney, Derek MacKenzie, Travis Roche, Adam Berkhoel, Jeff Dwyer, Tomas Kloucek, Francis Lessard, Brian Maloney, Joel Stepp
BOSTON
Mariusz Czerkawski, Tom Fitzgerald, Eric Healey, Brad Isbister, Jarno Kultanen, Dimitri Kvartalnov, Dan Lacouture, Brian Leetch, Jason MacDonald, Ian Moran, Eric Nickulas, Peter Nordstrom, Jiri Slegr, Brian Eklund, Ben Guite, Jeremy Reich, Ivan Huml, Josh Langfeld, Patrick Leahy, Garret Stroshein
BUFFALO
David Cullen, Rory Fitzpatrick, Chris Taylor, Doug Janik, Michael Leighton, Sean McMorrow
CALGARY
Brian Boucher, Cale Hulse, Mike Leclerc, Craig MacDonald, Bryan Marchment, Brantt Myhres, Chris Simon, Zenith Komarniski, Lynn Loyns, Darren Lynch
CAROLINA
Mark Recchi, Glen Wesley, Chris Hajt, Gordie Dwyer, Erkki Rajamaki
CHICAGO
Eric Daze, Jason Morgan, Ajay Baines, Milan Bartovic, Mike Brown, Mark Cullen, Shawn Thornton, Vladimir Gusev, Nick Kuiper, Quintin Laing
COLORADO
Bob Boughner, Jim Dowd, Petr Franek, Paul Healey, Tom Lawson, Frantisek Skladany, Tomas Slovak, Mikko Viitanen
COLUMBUS
Alexander Guskov, Jan Hrdina, Hannes Hyvonen, Trevor Letowski, Martin Prusek, Jamie Pushor, Radoslav Suchy, Darcy Verot, Jeff MacMillan, Peter Sarno, Cam Severson, Tyler Kolarik, Greg Mauldin, Andrew Penner, Michael Rupp, Ben Simon
DALLAS
Garrett Burnett, David Oliver, Nathan Perrott, Jeremy Stevenson, Patrick Traverse, Dan Jancevski, Mike Siklenka, David Bararuk, Jaroslav Svoboda
DETROIT
Dmitri Bykov, Cory Cross, Bryan Helmer, Manny Legace, Don MacLean, Eric Manlow, Mark Mowers, Brendan Shanahan, Jason Woolley, Kent McDonell, Michael Hackert, Todd Jackson
EDMONTON
Adam Bennett, Ty Conklin, Radek Dvorak, Kari Haakana, Todd Harvey, Ralph Intranuovo, Georges Laraque, Fredrik Lindquist, Mikko Luoma, Rem Murray, Michael Peca, Sergei Samsonov, Dan Smith, Jaroslav Spacek, Dick Tarnstrom, Igor Ulanov, Sergei Yerkovich, Alexander Zhurik, Nate Dicasmirro, Blake Evans, Joshua Hunter, Dan Baum, Jason Platt, Kenny Smith
FLORIDA
Jamie Allison, Alexander Karpovtsev, Jamie McLennan, Dan Focht, Grant McNeill, Phil Osaer, Serge Payer, Jon Sim, Victor Uchevatov
LOS ANGELES
Valeri Bure, Nathan Dempsey, Steve Kelly, Jan Nemecek, Brad Smyth, Marty Wilford, Ryan Flinn, Brad Fast, Adam Hauser, Connor James
MINNESOTA
Marc Chouinard, Alexandre Daigle, Scott Ferguson, Kirby Law, Andrei Nazarov, Randy Robitaille, Maxim Sushinsky, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Joey Tetarenko, Rickard Wallin, Kyle Wanvig, Erik Westrum, Chris Heid, Alex Henry, Dustin Wood
MONTREAL
Jan Bulis, Miloslav Guren, Todd Simpson, Niklas Sundstrom, Vadim Tarasov, Pete Vandermeer, Jeff Paul, Johnathan Aitken, Pierre Dagenais, Raitis Ivanans, Olivier Michaud
NASHVILLE
Jukka Hentunen, Greg Johnson, Danny Markov, Yanic Perreault, Simon Gamache, Denis Arkhipov, Rick Berry, Brian Finley, Jeremy Yablonski
NEW JERSEY
Tommy Albelin, Alex Brooks, Ken Klee, Viktor Kozlov, Darren Langdon, Krzysztof Oliwa, Erik Rasmussen, Ari Ahonen, Bobby Allen, Scott Clemmensen, Ryan Murphy, Krisjanis Redlihs, Matt Demarchi, Brad Ference, Teemu Kesa, Ahren Nittel
NY ISLANDERS
Keith Aldridge, Joel Bouchard, Travis Brigley, Martin Chabada, Kenny Jonsson, Dimitri Nabokov, Tomi Pettinen, Dusan Salficky, Wyatt Smith, Frederic Cloutier, Jeff Hamilton, Allan Rourke, Kevin Colley, Rob Collins, John Erskine, Paul Flache, Eric Godard, Cole Jarrett, Vince Macri, Chris Madden, Justin Papineau, Jody Robinson
NY RANGERS
Christian Dube, Ales Pisa, Tom Poti, Dale Purinton, Martin Rucinsky, Jason Strudwick, Ronnie Sundin, Petr Sykora, Fedor Fedorov, Alexandre Giroux, Martin Grenier, Joe Rullier, Martin Sonnenberg, Chad Wiseman, Rory Rawlyk
OTTAWA
Dominik Hasek, Steve Martins, Joe Murphy, Brad Norton, Christer Olsson, Andy Schneider, Antti Tormanen, Vaclav Varada, Brett Clouthier, Jeff Heerema, Charlie Stephens, Joe Cullen, Brennan Evans, Filip Novak, Jan Platil, Billy Thompson, Lance Ward, Greg Watson
PHILADELPHIA
Donald Brashear, Eric Desjardins, Mark Murphy, Brian Savage, Jamie Storr, Chris Therien, Mattias Timander, Pat Kavanagh, Ryan Ready, Wade Skolney, Mathieu Brunelle, Joey Hope, Kiel McLeod, Branko Radivojevic, Brent Robinson, Stephen Wood
PHOENIX
Boyd Devereaux, Oleg Kvasha, Chris McAllister, Steve Passmore, Jamie Rivers, Geoff Sanderson, Ray Schultz, Dwayne Zinger, Mike Bishai, Steve Gainey, Landon Bathe, Eric Chouinard, Ladislav Kouba, Frantisek Lukes, Darren McLachlan, Martin Podlesak, Steven Spencer
PITTSBURGH
Stefan Bergqvist, Eric Boguniecki, Chris Kelleher, Aleksey Morozov, Alain Nasreddine, Lyle Odelein, Lasse Pirjeta, Martin Strbak, Ryan Vandenbussche, Matt Hussey, David Koci, Guillaume Lefebvre, Matt Murley, Andy Chiodo, Ben Eaves, Drew Fata, Krystofer Kolanos, Konstantin Koltsov, Cam Paddock, Alexandre Rouleau, Andy Schneider, Tomas Surovy, Petr Taticek
ST. LOUIS
Petr Cajanek, Reinhard Divis, Reed Low, Dean McAmmond, Steve Poapst, Andy Roach, Stephane Roy, Scott Young, Kevin Dallman, Jeff Hoggan, Mike Zigomanis, Jesse Boulerice, Trevor Byrne, Colin Hemingway, Troy Riddle, Mark Rycroft
SAN JOSE
Matt Carkner, Tim Conboy, Shane Joseph, Josh Prudden
TAMPA BAY
Jim Campbell, Chris Dingman, Steve McLaren, Todd Rohloff, Shane Willis, Zdenek Blatny, Jason Jaspers, Martin Cibak, Gerard Dicaire, Dennis Packard, Jean-Francois Soucy
TORONTO
Jason Allison, Ed Belfour, Aki Berg, Lonny Bohonos, Maxim Galanov, Mikael Hakanson, Alexander Khavanov, Eric Lindros, Luke Richardson, Clarke Wilm, Brad Leeb, Marc Moro, Mike Hoffman, David Turon
VANCOUVER
Sean Brown, Sven Butenschon, Anson Carter, Craig Darby, Johan Davidsson, Jason Doig, Wade Flaherty, Justin Kurtz, Trevor Linden, Richard Park, Leif Rohlin, Vadim Sharifijanov, Lubomir Vaic, Eric Weinrich, Lee Goren, Maxime Ouellet, Wade Brookbank, Rob McVicar, Brandon Nolan, Marc-Andre Roy, Nathan Smith
WASHINGTON
Andrew Cassels, Frederic Cassivi, Doug Doull, Colin Forbes, Jeff Halpern, Ivan Majesky, Andreas Salomonsson, Mark Wotton, Jean-Francois Fortin, Boyd Kane, Graham Mink, Petr Sykora, Miroslav Zalesak, Jared Aulin, Mathieu Biron, Owen Fussey
I'll try to update this as players disappear, but that may prove impossible given the volume here.


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