Not a lot has changed in the unrestricted free agent market since Joe took a look at who’s left earlier this week. With the possibility for offer sheets and salary arbitration muddling things a bit in restricted free agency, however, it seems like a good time to give a couple updates.
First, here is a fresh update of the players who are still staring at a possible salary arbitration hearing between July 20-August 4.
July 20: Lauri Korpikoski (Phoenix), Teddy Purcell (Tampa Bay)
July 21: Andrew Cogliano (Edmonton), Brad Richardson (Los Angeles), Brandon Dubinsky (New York Rangers)
July 25: Andrej Sekera (Buffalo), Brian Boyle (New York Rangers)
July 28: Josh Gorges (Montreal), Ryan Callahan (New York Rangers)
July 29: Jannik Hansen (Vancouver)
Aug. 2: Shea Weber (Nashville)
Aug. 3: Chris Campoli (Chicago), Blake Wheeler (Winnipeg), Zach Parise (New Jersey)
Aug. 4: Mark Fraser (New Jersey), Dan Sexton (Anaheim), Blake Comeau (New York Islanders)
Players such as Ryan Wilson (July 22), Kevin Porter (July 26) and Alec Martinez (July 27) removed their respective days from the arbitration calendar, making for an inconsistently busy schedule on certain days. August 2 and 3 will probably be the most important two day stretch with Weber and Parise’s cases scheduled (though their teams have a nice amount of time to come to a compromise with them on a deal, which Parise stated would be a goal of his).
Now that we covered the players who might be headed for arbitration, here’s a list of some of the remaining players who are restricted free agents but aren’t going in that direction. These are players who could conceivably receive offer sheets from other teams, too.
15 notable RFA forwards (with 2010-11 cap hits)
Steven Stamkos | TBL | 21 | $3,725,000 |
Kyle Turris | PHO | 21 | $2,695,833 |
Steve Bernier | FLA | 26 | $2,000,000 |
Mikkel Boedker | PHO | 21 | $1,725,000 |
Josh Bailey | NYI | 21 | $1,725,000 |
Michael Frolik | CHI | 23 | $1,275,000 |
Brandon Sutter | CAR | 22 | $1,225,000 |
Viktor Tikhonov | PHO | 23 | $1,175,000 |
Bobby Butler | OTT | 24 | $900,000 |
Oscar Moller | LAK | 22 | $875,000 |
T.J. Galiardi | COL | 23 | $875,000 |
Ryan White | MTL | 23 | $850,000 |
Vladimir Zharkov | NJD | 23 | $850,000 |
Brad Marchand | BOS | 23 | $821,667 |
Victor Oreskovich | VAN | 24 | $575,000 |
Some notable players who became unrestricted free agents after they didn’t receive qualifying offer: Patrick O’Sullivan and Robbie Schremp.
7 notable RFA defensemen
Drew Doughty | LAK | 21 | $3,475,000 |
Zach Bogosian | WIN | 20 | $3,375,000 |
Luke Schenn | TOR | 21 | $2,975,000 |
Karl Alzner | WAS | 22 | $1,675,000 |
Ty Wishart | NYI | 23 | $1,121,667 |
Kyle Cumiskey | COL | 24 | $600,000 |
Marc-Andre Gragnani | BUF | 24 | $500,000 |
Some notable defensemen who weren’t given qualifying offers: Matt Smaby, Anton Stralman and Jack Hillen.
4 notable RFA goalies (OK, so Enroth is far and away the most notable, but still ... )
Jhonas Enroth | BUF | 23 | $866,667 |
Chad Johnson | NYR | 25 | $850,000 |
Riku Helenius | TBL | 23 | $821,667 |
Tyler Plante | FLA | 24 | $687,500 |