Compiled and updated by Cory Brolund
Last Update: October 16, 2005 12:00 pm
This Update: Yannick Trembley, Germany from Atlanta Ilya Kovalchuk, resigned by Atlanta Curtis Leschyshyn, retired from Colorado Brad Norton, Finland from Washington Jeff Panzer, Switzerland from Columbus Ryan Jardine, Germany from Florida Scott Lachance, Switzerland from Columbus Nick Boynton, Resigned by Boston Jason Woolley, resigned by Detroit Bryan Marchment, Calgary from Toronto* - Option held on Contract (Player/Team)
Player 05-06 Team Date ANAHEIM Juha Allen, (UFA) Tampere, FIN July 2, 05 Sheldon Brookbank, (UFA) Nashville August 4, 05 Eddie Ferhi, (UFA) Anglet, FRA Sept. 17, 05 Kurtis Foster, (UFA) Minnesota August 4, 05 Ben Guite, (UFA) Boston August 15, 05 Tomas Malec, (UFA) Ottawa August 19, 05 Cory Pecker, (UFA) Phoenix, ECHL Sept. 20, 05 Petr Schastlivy, (UFA) Yaroslavl, RUS Sept. 14, 05 Martin Skoula, (UFA) Dallas August 3, 05 Alex Smirnov, (UFA) Avangard, RUS August 12, 05 Lance Ward, (UFA) Ottawa August 26, 05 Sandis Ozolinsh, (III) Anaheim July 29, 05 Ilya Bryzgalov, (VI) Anaheim July 29, 05 Garrett Burnett, (VI) Dallas August 15, 05 Kip Brennan, (II) Anaheim Sept. 21, 05 Stan Chistov, (II) Metallurg, RUS August 16, 05 Jonathan Hedstrom, (II) Anaheim August 18, 05 Chris Kunitz, (II) Anaheim August 12, 05 Mike Leclerc, (II) Anaheim, Traded to PHX August 11, 05 Travis Moen, (II) Anaheim August 12, 05 Rob Niedermayer, (II) Anaheim August 4, 05 Sami Pahlsson, (II) Anaheim August 23, 05 Mark Popovic, (II) Anaheim, Traded to ATL August 15, 05 Ruslan Salei, (II) Anaheim Sept. 7, 05 ATLANTA Zdenek Blatny, (UFA) Boston Sept. 30, 05 Frederic Cassivi, (UFA) Washington Sept. 10, 05 Paul Flache, (UFA) NY Islanders Sept. 10, 05 Eric Healey, (UFA) Boston August 15, 05 Ivan Majesky, (UFA) Washington August 10, 05 Randy Robitaille, (UFA) Nashville August 19, 05 Ben Simon, (UFA) Columbus August 11, 05 Daniel Tjarnqvist, (UFA) Minnesota August 15, 05 Yannick Tremblay, (UFA) Mannheim, GER October 1, 05 Libor Usternul, (UFA) Karlovy Vary, CZE August 16, 05 Byron Dafoe, (III) Bill Lindsay, (III) Columbus Sept. 14, 05 Shawn McEachern, (III) Boston August 2, 05 Chris Tamer, (III) Chicago, AHL Sept. 28, 05 Cory Larose, (VI) SCL Tigers, SWI July 2, 05 Kyle Rossiter, (VI) Kalpa, FIN Sept. 29, 05 Stephen Baby, (II) Atlanta August 12, 05 Kevin Doell, (II) Atlanta August 12, 05 Michael Garnett, (II) Atlanta August 12, 05 Shane Hnidy, (II) Atlanta August 9, 05 Tomas Kloucek, (II) Atlanta August 11, 05 Ilya Kovalchuk, (II) Atlanta October 10 05 Brad Larsen, (II) Atlanta August 11, 05 Francis Lessard, (II) Atlanta August 11, 05 Derek Mackenzie, (II) Atlanta August 16, 05 Brian Maloney, (II) Atlanta August 9, 05 Pasi Nurminen, (II) Atlanta (Retired) August 11, 05 Tommi Santala, (II) Atlanta October 1, 05 Andy Sutton, (II) Atlanta August 11, 05 Jean-Pierre Vigier, (II) Atlanta August 16, 05 BOSTON Andy Delmore, (UFA) Detroit August 16, 05 Michal Grosek, (UFA) Geneva, SWI August 30, 05 Peter Hamerlik, (UFA) Patrick Leahy, (UFA) Boston Sept. 7, 05 Robert Liscak, (UFA) Brannt Myhres, (UFA) Calgary August 11, 05 P.J. Stock, (UFA) Retired Sept. 17, 05 Kris Vernarsky, (UFA) Peoria, AHL Sept. 24, 05 Sergei Gonchar, (III) Pittsburgh August 3, 05 Travis Green, (III) Boston August 17, 05 Martin Lapointe, (III) Chicago August 4, 05 Dan McGillis, (III) New Jersey August 4, 05 Glen Murray, (III) Boston August 2, 05 Felix Potvin, (III) Jiri Slegr, (III) Boston August 12, 05 Rob Zamuner, (III) Basano, ITA October 16 05 P.J. Axelsson, (II) Boston August 10, 05 Brad Boyes, (II) Boston August 15, 05 Nick Boynton, (II) Boston October 14 05 Kevin Dallman, (II) Boston August 15, 05 Hal Gill, (II) Boston August 30, 05 Jonathan Girard, (II) Boston August 10, 05 Andy Hilbert, (II) Ivan Huml, (II) Kladno, CZE Sept. 29, 05 Zdenek Kutlak, (II) Colton Orr, (II) Boston Sept. 7, 05 Andrew Raycroft, (II) Boston Sept. 16, 05 Sergei Samsonov, (II) Boston August 10, 05 Martin Samuelsson, (II) Boston Sept. 14, 05 Joe Thornton, (II) Boston August 11, 05 Sergei Zinovjev, (II) Kazan, RUS Sept. 14, 05 BUFFALO Jason Botterill, (UFA) Retired June 28, 05 Eric Boulton, (UFA) Atlanta August 5, 05 Brad Brown, (UFA) Toronto Sept. 10, 05 Ryan Jorde, (UFA) Todd Rohloff, (UFA) Tampa Bay Sept. 7, 05 Miroslav Satan, (UFA) NY Islanders August 3, 05 James Patrick, (III) Frankfurt, GER October 1, 05 Alexei Zhitnik, (III) NY Islanders August 2, 05 Tom Askey, (VI) Helsinki, FIN Sept. 21, 05 Norm Milley, (VI) Tampa Bay August 18, 05 Brandon Smith, (VI) Rochester, AHL Sept. 21, 05 Maxim Afinogenov, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Milan Bartovic, (II) Buffalo August 8, 05 Martin Biron, (II) Buffalo August 12, 05 Daniel Briere, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Brian Campbell, (II) Buffalo August 11, 05 Tim Connolly, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Jean-Pierre Dumont, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Rory Fitzpatrick, (II) Buffalo July 29, 05 Paul Gaustad, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Mike Grier, (II) Buffalo August 4, 05 Jochen Hecht, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Jeff Jillson, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Dmitri Kalinin, (II) Buffalo July 29, 05 Ales Kotalik, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Jay McKee, (II) Buffalo Sept. 9, 05 Sean McMorrow, (II) Buffalo Sept. 14, 05 Ryan Miller, (II) Buffalo August 12, 05 Jason Pominville (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Taylor Pyatt, (II) Buffalo August 4, 05 Michael Ryan, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 Henrik Tallinder, (II) Buffalo August 15, 05 CALGARY Sebastien Centomo, (UFA) Oklahoma City, CHL October 1, 05 Deryk Engelland, (UFA) Anders Eriksson, (UFA) NY Rangers Sept. 23, 05 Brennan Evans, (UFA) Ottawa Sept. 21, 05 Ville Nieminen, (UFA) NY Rangers August 4, 05 Davis Parley, (UFA) Roman Rozakov, (UFA) Dany Sabourin, (UFA) Pittsburgh August 10, 05 Martin Gelinas, (III) Florida August 2, 05 Dave Lowry, (III) Retired August 11, 05 Dean McAmmond, (III) St. Louis August 9, 05 Roman Turek, (III) Budejovice, CZE July 2, 05 Craig MacDonald, (VI) Calgary August 11, 05 Andrew Ference, (II) Calgary August 10, 05 Jarome Iginla, (II) Calgary August 3, 05 Mikka Kiprusoff, (II) Calgary August 12, 05 Chuck Kobasew, (II) Calgary August 15, 05 Daymond Langkow, (II) Calgary August 4, 05 Jordan Leopold, (II) Calgary August 3, 05 Matthew Lombardi, (II) Calgary August 15, 05 Lynn Loyns, (II) Calgary August 15, 05 Steven Reinprecht, (II) Calgary August 11, 05 Phil Sauve, (II) Calgary Sept. 17, 05 Rhett Warrener, (II) Calgary August 12, 05 CAROLINA Craig Adams, (UFA) Anaheim August 25, 05 Ryan Bayda, (UFA) Dan Boisclair, (UFA) Sean Curry, (UFA) Florida, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Brad Fast, (UFA) Los Angeles August 15, 05 Jim Henkel, (UFA) Ed Hill, (UFA) Phoenix, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Brett Lysak, (UFA) Marty Murray, (UFA) Hannover, GER August 3, 05 Jared Newman, (UFA) Damian Surma, (UFA) Manchester, AHL October 1, 05 Rob Zepp, (UFA) Lappeenranta, FIN August 30, 05 Glen Wesley, (III) Carolina August 16, 05 Brad DeFauw, (VI) EHC Visp, SWI August 22, 05 Allan Rourke, (VI) NY Islanders August 12, 05 Joey Tetarenko, (VI) Minnesota August 16, 05 Kevyn Adams, (II) Carolina August 9, 05 Jesse Boulerice, (II) Carolina August 12, 05 Pavel Brendl, (II) Carolina August 15, 05 Erik Cole, (II) Carolina August 12, 05 Matt Cullen, (II) Carolina August 8, 05 Gordie Dwyer, (II) Carolina August 12, 05 Colin Forbes, (II) Carolina August 12, 05 Bruno St. Jacques, (II) Carolina August 15, 05 Josef Vasicek, (II) Carolina August 18, 05 Radim Vrbata, (II) Carolina August 10, 05 Derrick Walser, (II) Berlin, GER August 30, 05 Justin Williams, (II) Carolina August 10, 05 Mike Zigomanis, (II) Carolina August 12, 05 CHICAGO Scott Balan, (UFA) Bakersfield, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Bryan Berard, (UFA) Columbus August 3, 05 Brandin Cote, (UFA) Nottingham, ENG Sept. 10, 05 Deron Quint, (UFA) Kloten, SWI June 12, 05 Eric Nickulas, (UFA) Boston August 23, 05 Igor Radulov, (UFA) Moscow Spartak, RUS Sept. 14, 05 Stephane Robidas, (UFA) Dallas August 5, 05 Matt Underhill, (UFA) Peoria, AHL Sept. 24, 05 Theo Fleury, (III) Belfast, ENG July 27, 05 Igor Korolev, (III) Steve Passmore, (III) Phoenix August 19, 05 Geoff Peters, (III) Anaheim August 30, 05 Steve Poapst, (III) Pittsburgh August 15, 05 Scott Nichol, (V) Nashville August 6, 05 Ajay Baines, (VI) Chicago August 11, 05 Shawn Thornton, (VI) Chicago August 11, 05 Marty Wilford, (VI) Los Angeles August 10, 05 Craig Andersson, (II) Chicago August 22, 05 Tyler Arnason, (II) Chicago August 11, 05 Mark Bell, (II) Chicago August 10, 05 Mikael Holmqvist, (II) Chicago August 22, 05 Quintin Laing, (II) Chicago August 22, 05 Michael Leighton, (II) Chicago August 22, 05 Mikhail Yakubov, (II) COLORADO Dennis Bonvie, (UFA) Wilkes/Barre, AHL August 12, 05 Chris Gratton, (UFA) Florida August 12, 05 Sergey Klyazmin, (UFA) Agris Saviels, (UFA) Peter Worrell, (UFA) Hartford, AHL October 1, 05 Jim Cummins, (III) Vincent Damphousse, (III) Retired Sept. 7, 05 Adam Foote, (III) Columbus August 1, 05 Peter Forsberg, (III) Philadelphia August 3, 05 Darby Hendrickson, (III) Salzburg, AUS Sept. 21, 05 Teemu Selanne, (III) Anaheim August 22, 05 Paul Kariya, (V) Nashville August 5, 05 Chris Bala, (VI) Hershey, AHL Sept. 24, 05 Travis Brigley, (VI) NY Islanders Sept. 2, 05 Mathieu Darche, (VI) Duisburg, GER July 2, 05 Andre Savage, (VI) MIF, SWE July 22, 05 D.J. Smith, (VI) Retired October 1, 05 Jeff Ulmer, (VI) Hamburg, GER Sept. 6, 05 David Aebischer, (II) Colorado August 16, 05 Peter Budaj, (II) Colorado August 16, 05 Brett Clark, (II) Colorado August 16, 05 Jeff Finger, (II) Colorado August 11, 05 Riku Hahl, (II) Davos, SWI Sept. 5, 05 Milan Hejduk, (II) Colorado August 6, 05 Dan Hinote, (II) Colorado August 11, 05 Tom Lawson, (II) Colorado August 16, 05 John-Michael Liles, (II) Colorado August 18, 05 Kurt Sauer, (II) Colorado August 4, 05 Karlis Skrastins, (II) Colorado August 9, 05 Marek Svatos, (II) Colorado August 11, 05 Alex Tanguay, (II) Colorado August 4, 05 COLUMBUS Andrew Cassels, (UFA) Washington August 9, 05 Scott Heffernan, (UFA) Jamie Heward, (UFA) Washington August 10, 05 Ben Knopp, (UFA) Phoenix, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Scott Lachance, (UFA) Kloten, SWI October 16 05 Mike Pandolfo, (UFA) New Jersey Sept. 24, 05 Prestin Ryan, (UFA) Vancouver August 30, 05 Mattias Trattnig, (UFA) Salzburg, AUS June 12, 05 Brian Holzinger, (III) Arturs Irbe, (III) Jaroslav Spacek, (III) Chicago August 4, 05 Francois Beauchemin, (VI) Columbus August 1, 05 Karl Goehring, (VI) Jokerit, FIN Sept. 17, 05 Mark Hartigan, (VI) Columbus August 22, 05 Zenith Komarniski, (VI) Calgary August 11, 05 Andre Lakos, (VI) Salzburg, AUS July 2, 05 Donald MacLean, (VI) Detroit August 24, 05 Kent McDonnell, (VI) Detroit August 12, 05 Brad Moran, (VI) SCL Tigers, SWI June 12, 05 Joe Motzko, (VI) Columbus July 28, 05 Andrej Nedorost, (VI) Karlovy Vary, CZE July 2, 05 Jeff Panzer, (VI) Rapperswil, SWI October 12 05 Martin Paroulek, (VI) Trinec, CZE Sept. 28, 05 Jeremy Reich, (VI) Boston Sept. 7, 05 Darrell Scoville, (VI) Heraklith, AUS July 2, 05 Tim Jackman, (II) Columbus August 15, 05 Rostislav Klesla, (II) Columbus August 8, 05 Rick Nash, (II) Columbus August 6, 05 Pascal Leclaire, (II) Columbus August 15, 05 Radoslav Suchy, (II) Columbus July 28, 05 Brandon Sugdon, (II) Columbus August 15, 05 Alex Svitov, (II) Avangard, RUS July 2, 05 Duvie Westcott, (II) Columbus July 28, 05 DALLAS Valeri Bure, (UFA) Los Angeles August 12, 05 Aaron Downey, (UFA) St. Louis August 1, 05 Blake Sloan, (UFA) Pierre Turgeon, (UFA) Colorado August 3, 05 Mark Wotton, (UFA) Washington August 17, 05 Rob DiMaio, (III) Tampa Bay August 9, 05 Mike Modano, (III) Dallas August 3, 05 Teppo Numminen, (III) Buffalo August 4, 05 David Oliver, (III) Dallas August 12, 05 Don Sweeney, (III) Retired Sept. 17, 05 Chris Therien, (III) Philadelphia August 2, 05 Patrick Traverse, (III) Dallas August 3, 05 Ron Tugnutt, (III) Retired Sept. 10, 05 Scott Young, (III) St. Louis Sept. 13, 05 Sergei Zubov, (III) Dallas July 31, 05 Andy Berenzweig, (VI) Mike Sgrori, (VI) New Jersey Sept. 10, 05 Mike Siklenka, (VI) Dallas (Released) August 15, 05 Jason Arnott, (II) Dallas August 15, 05 Dan Ellis, (II) Dallas August 19, 05 John Erskine, (II) Dallas August 19, 05 Dan Jancevski, (II) Dallas August 24, 05 Niko Kapanen, (II) Dallas August 11, 05 Junior Lessard, (II) Dallas August 5, 05 Antti Miettinen, (II) Dallas August 15, 05 Brendan Morrow, (II) Dallas August 19, 05 Steve Ott, (II) Dallas August 11, 05 Mike Smith, (II) Dallas August 12, 05 Jaroslav Svoboda, (II) Dallas July 27, 05 DETROIT Paul Ballantyne, (UFA) Phoenix, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Danny Groux, (UFA) Kassel, GER August 25, 05 Derian Hatcher, (UFA) Philadelphia August 2, 05 Darren McCarty, (UFA) Calgary August 2, 05 Nathan Robinson, (UFA) Boston August 16, 05 Ray Whitney, (UFA) Carolina August 6, 05 Chris Chelios, (III) Detroit August 4, 05 Curtis Joseph, (III) Phoenix August 16, 05 Stacy Roest, (III) Rapperswil, SWI August 29, 05 Mathieu Schneider, (III) Detroit August 3, 05 Brendan Shanahan, (III) Detroit July 28, 05 Steve Thomas, (III) Jason Woolley, (III) Detroit October 9, 05 Steve Yzerman, (III) Detroit August 2, 05 Mathieu Dandenault, (V) Montreal August 3, 05 Peter Vandermeer, (VI) Montreal August 2, 05 Darryl Bootland, (II) Detroit August 16, 05 Pavel Datsyuk, (II) Detroit Sept. 20, 05 Matt Ellis, (II) Detroit August 24, 05 Tomas Kopecky, (II) Detroit August 10, 05 Niklas Kronwall, (II) Detroit August 26, 05 Joey MacDonald, (II) Jason Williams, (II) Detroit August 16, 05 Henrik Zetterberg, (II) Detroit Sept. 7, 05 EDMONTON Mike Bishai (UFA) Phoenix Sept. 19, 05 Joe Cullen, (UFA) Ottawa Sept. 17, 05 Scott Ferguson, (UFA) Minnesota August 4, 05 Jamie Wright, (UFA) Lukko, FIN August 3, 05 Igor Ulanov, (III) Edmonton August 5, 05 Kristian Antilla, (VI) Retired Sept. 29, 05 Sean McAslan, (VI) Long Beach, ECHL Sept. 17, 05 Tyler Moss, (VI) Moscow, RUS July 30, 05 Rick Mrozik, (VI) Dan Smith, (VI) Edmonton August 9, 05 Rocky Thompson, (VI) St. Louis Sept. 21, 05 Ales Hemsky, (II) Edmonton August 15, 05 Shawn Horcoff, (II) Edmonton August 19, 05 Jussi Markkanen, (II) Edmonton August 5, 05 Michael Morrison, (II) Edmonton Sept. 9, 05 Chris Pronger, (II) Edmonton August 2, 05 Marty Reasoner, (II) Edmonton August 9, 05 Jani Rita, (II) Edmonton August 10, 05 Tony Salmelainen, (II) Helsinki, FIN July 2, 05 Ryan Smyth, (II) Edmonton Sept. 14, 05 Jarrett Stoll, (II) Edmonton August 10, 05 Raffi Torres, (II) Edmonton August 16, 05 Brad Winchester, (II) Edmonton August 10, 05 FLORIDA Mathieu Biron, (UFA) Washington August 10, 05 Eric Beaudoin, (UFA) Jokerit, FIN Sept. 5, 05 Paul Healey, (UFA) Colorado August 16, 05 Scott Kelman, (UFA) Eric Messier, (UFA) Retired Sept. 13, 05 Josh Olson, (UFA) Houston, AHL Sept. 21, 05 Mikael Samuelsson, (UFA) Detroit Sept. 17, 05 Pavel Trnka, (UFA) Donald Audette, (III) Lyle Odelein, (III) Pittsburgh Sept. 2, 05 Steve Shields, (III) Patrick Desrochers, (VI) Burke Henry, (VI) Salzberg, AUS Sept. 10, 05 Kent Huskins, (VI) Anaheim August 30, 05 Ryan Jardine, (VI) Hamburg, GER Oct. 12, 05 Ty Jones, (VI) Serge Payer, (VI) Florida August 22, 05 Kamil Piros, (VI) Nefthekhimik, RUS Sept. 14, 05 Travis Scott, (VI) Metallurg, RUS July 2, 05 Christian Berglund, (II) Rapperswil, SWI August 26, 05 Jay Bouwmeester, (II) Florida Sept. 12, 05 Niklas Hagman, (II) Florida August 12, 05 Kristian Huselius, (II) Florida August 11, 05 Olli Jokinen, (II) Florida Sept. 12, 05 Juraj Kolnik, (II) Florida August 15, 05 Joel Kwiatkowski, (II) Florida August 2, 05 Roberto Luongo, (II) Florida August 25, 05 Vaclav Nedorost, (II) Florida Sept. 12, 05 Filip Novak, (II) Florida August 15, 05 Denis Shvidki, (II) Mike Van Ryn, (II) Florida Sept. 12, 05 Stephen Weiss, (II) Florida August 11, 05 LOS ANGELES Jason Allison, (UFA) Toronto August 5, 05 Scott Barney, (UFA) Atlanta August 8, 05 Ken Belanger, (UFA) Los Angeles Sept. 30, 05 Anson Carter, (UFA) Vancouver August 16, 05 Brad Chartrand, (UFA) Adam Deadmarsh, (UFA) Retired Sept. 23, 05 Jason Holland, (UFA) Ingolstadt, GER July 9, 05 Esa Pirnes, (UFA) Espoo, FIN Sept. 14, 05 Roman Cechmanek, (III) Karlovy Vary, CZE August 16,05 Stephane Quintal, (III) Retired August 22, 05 Zigmund Palffy, (III) Pittsburgh August 6, 05 Luc Robitaille, (III) Los Angeles July 25, 05 Martin Straka, (III) NY Rangers August 2, 05 Jozef Stumpel, (III) Florida August 17, 05 Ryan Flinn, (VI) Los Angeles July 29, 05 Joe Rullier, (VI) NY Rangers August 11, 05 Chris Schmidt, (VI) Dusseldorf, GER August 4, 05 Mike Weaver, (VI) Los Angeles July 28, 05 Thomas Zizka, (VI) Slavia Prata, CZE Sept. 14, 05 Eric Belanger, (II) Los Angeles August 8, 05 Mike Cammalleri, (II) Los Angeles August 10, 05 Noah Clarke, (II) Los Angeles August 11, 05 Joe Corvo, (II) Los Angeles August 12, 05 Alexander Frolov, (II) Los Angeles August 12, 05 Mathieu Garon, (II) Los Angeles August 13, 05 Adam Hauser, (II) Los Angeles August 10, 05 Steve Kelly, (II) Mannheim, GER July 5, 05 Yanick Lehoux, (II) Moscow Dynamo, RUS August 16, 05 George Parros, (II) Los Angeles August 12, 05 MINNESOTA Eric Chouinard, (UFA) Philadelphia August 22, 05 Jason Beckett, (UFA) Christoph Brandner, (UFA) Sodertalje, SWE July 2, 05 Marc Cavosie, (UFA) Philadelphia Sept. 12, 05 Mark Cullen, (UFA) Chicago Sept. 24, 05 Matt Johnson, (UFA) Kyle Kettles, (UFA) Jordan Krestanovich, (UFA) Mora, SWE Sept. 14, 05 Bill Muckalt, (UFA) Richard Park, (UFA) Vancouver August 8, 05 Andrew Brunette, (III) Colorado August 6, 05 Dan Cavanaugh, (VI) NY Rangers Sept. 18, 05 Ray Giroux, (VI) Kazan, RUS Sept. 28, 05 Pierre-Marc Bouchard, (II) Minnesota August 9, 05 Alexander Daigle, (II) Minnesota July 29, 05 Manny Fernandez, (II) Minnesota August 3, 05 Willie Mitchell, (II) Minnesota August 9, 05 Eric Reitz, (II) Minnesota Sept. 28, 05 Stephen Veilleux, (II) Minnesota Sept. 9, 05 Rickard Wallin, (II) Minnesota August 17, 05 Kyle Wanvig, (II) Minnesota August 16, 05 Todd White, (II) Minnesota August 9, 05 Andrei Zyuzin, (II) Minnesota August 10, 05 MONTREAL Benoit Dusablon, (UFA) Retired July 5, 05 Christian Larrivee, (UFA) Matt Shasby, (UFA) Alaska, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Jason Ward, (UFA) NY Rangers August 4, 05 Patrice Brisbois, (III) Colorado August 3, 05 Jim Dowd, (III) Chicago August 5, 05 Karl Dykhuis, (III) Mannheim, GER August 25, 05 Alexei Kovalev, (III) Montreal August 3, 05 Yannic Perreault, (III) Nashville Sept. 14, 05 Gavin Morgan, (VI) Basel, SWI August 29, 05 Francis Bouillon, (II) Montreal August 2, 05 Jan Bulis, (II) Montreal August 12, 05 Pierre Dagenais, (II) Montreal August 8, 05 Marcel Hossa, (II) Montreal August 15, 05 Saku Koivu, (II) Montreal August 15, 05 Mike Komisarek, (II) Montreal August 11, 05 Andrei Markov, (II) Montreal August 25, 05 Olivier Michaud, (II) Montreal October 1, 05 Tomas Plekanec, (II) Montreal August 16, 05 Mike Ribeiro, (II) Montreal August 11, 05 Michael Ryder, (II) Montreal Sept. 12, 05 Jose Theodore, (II) Montreal Sept. 2, 05 Marc-Andre Thinel, (II) Rouen, FRA June 21, 05 Rene Vydareny, (II) Budejovice, CZE July 2, 05 NASHVILLE Greg Classen, (UFA) Nashville August 31, 05 Mark Eaton, (UFA) Nashville August 4, 05 Andreas Lilja, (UFA) Detroit August 24, 05 Curtis Murphy, (UFA) Minnesota Sept. 10, 05 Vladimir Orszagh, (UFA) Wyatt Smith, (UFA) NY Islanders August 10, 05 Brad Bombardir, (III) Tony Hrkac, (III) Andreas Johansson, (III) Geneva, SWI Sept. 10, 05 Greg Johnson, (III) Nashville July 28, 05 Jim McKenzie, (III) Rem Murray, (III) Houston, AHL October 16 05 Jason York, (III) Lugano, SWI Sept. 19, 05 Miloslav Durek, (VI) Jan Lasak, (VI) Pardubice, CZE Sept. 14, 05 Konstantin Panov, (VI) Jerred Smithson, (VI) Nashville July 28, 05 Cam Severson, (VI) Calgary August 11, 05 Jamie Allison, (II) Nashville July 31, 05 Martin Erat, (II) Nashville August 29, 05 Vernon Fiddler, (II) Nashville July 28, 05 Brian Finley, (II) Nashville July 31, 05 Simon Gamache, (II) Nashville August 15, 05 Adam Hall, (II) Nashville Sept. 9, 05 Dan Hamhuis, (II) Nashville August 16, 05 Scott Hartnell, (II) Nashville August 10, 05 Darren Haydar, (II) Nashville August 15, 05 Darcy Hordichuk, (II) Nashville August 15, 05 David Legwand, (II) Nashville August 15, 05 Chris Mason, (II) Nashville July 28, 05 Andrei Mukhachev, (II) Libor Pivko, (II) Nashville July 28, 05 Kiril Safranov, (II) Steve Sullivan, (II) Nashville August 16, 05 Jeremy Yablonski, (II) Nashville August 10, 05 Greg Zanon, (II) Nashville August 15, 05 NEW JERSEY Jiri Bicek, (UFA) Leksands, SWE July 2, 05 Brett Clouthier, (UFA) Ottawa August 19, 05 Phil Cole, (UFA) Augusta, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Jan Hrdina, (UFA) Columbus August 10, 05 Eric Johansson, (UFA) Mora, SWE July 2, 05 Oleg Tverdovsky, (UFA) Carolina August 4, 05 Matus Kostur, (UFA) Scott Niedermayer, (III) Anaheim August 4, 05 Brian Rafalski, (III) New Jersey August 4, 05 Corey Schwab, (III) Retired August 12, 05 Scott Stevens, (III) Retired Sept. 6, 05 Bobby Allen, (VI) New Jersey Sept. 12, 05 Alex Brooks, (VI) New Jersey Sept. 28, 05 Ryan Murphy, (VI) New Jersey Sept. 28, 05 Ray Schultz, (VI) New Jersey Sept. 24, 05 Rob Skrlac, (VI) Retired Sept. 21, 05 Ari Ahonen, (II) New Jersey August 21, 05 Sean Brown, (II) New Jersey August 12, 05 Matt DeMarchi, (II) New Jersey Sept. 28, 05 Patrik Elias, (II) New Jersey August 23, 05 Jeff Friesen, (II) New Jersey Sept. 21, 05 Brian Gionta, (II) New Jersey Sept. 21, 05 Scott Gomez, (II) New Jersey August 23, 05 David Hale, (II) New Jersey Sept. 29, 05 Viktor Kozlov, (II) New Jersey Sept. 21, 05 Jamie Langenbrunner, (II) New Jersey Sept. 21, 05 Paul Martin, (II) New Jersey Sept. 21, 05 Ilya Pikkareainen, (II) New Jersey Sept. 29, 05 Krisjanis Redlihs, (II) New Jersey Sept. 24, 05 Colin White, (II) New Jersey Sept. 21, 05 NY ISLANDERS Graham Belak, (UFA) Coventry, ENG July 2, 05 Sven Butenschon, (UFA) Vancouver August 18, 05 Blaine Down, (UFA) Renon, ITA July 12, 05 Steve Webb, (UFA) Keith Aldridge, (III) Hannover, GER July 22, 05 Adrian Aucoin, (III) Chicago August 2, 05 Jim Campbell, (III) Tampa Bay August 18, 05 Mariusz Czerkawski, (III) Toronto Sept. 9, 05 Roman Hamrlik, (III) Calgary August 14, 05 Cliff Ronning, (III) Garth Snow, (III) NY Islanders July 29, 05 Dave Scatchard, (V) Boston August 2, 05 Martin Chabada, (VI) Derek Bekar, (VI) Chur, SWI July 2, 05 Kevin Colley, (VI) NY Islanders Sept. 1, 05 Barrett Heisten, (VI) Dieter Kochan, (VI) Novosibirsk, RUS July 2, 05 Ryan Kraft, (VI) Kassel, GER August 11, 05 Richard Seeley, (VI) Los Angeles Sept. 21, 05 Aaron Asham, (II) NY Islanders August 15, 05 Shawn Bates, (II) NY Islanders August 22, 05 Rob Collins, (II) NY Islanders Sept. 1, 05 Rick DiPietro, (II) NY Islanders Sept. 7, 05 Eric Godard, (II) NY Islanders Sept. 29, 05 Trent Hunter, (II) NY Islanders August 13, 05 Kenny Jonsson, (II) Rogle, SWE April 17, 05 Oleg Kvasha, (II) NY Islanders August 15, 05 Justin Mapletoft, (II) Jokerit, FIN Sept. 6, 05 Radek Martinek, (II) NY Islanders August 8, 05 Justin Papineau, (II) NY Islanders August 24, 05 Mark Parrish, (II) NY Islanders Sept. 13, 05 Tomi Pettinen, (II) NY Islanders August 21, 05 Brent Sopel, (II) NY Islanders August 16, 05 Mattias Weinhandl, (II) NY Islanders Sept. 21, 05 Mike York, (II) NY Islanders August 13, 05 NY RANGERS Dan Blackburn, (UFA) Retired Sept. 27, 05 Joel Bouchard, (UFA) NY Islanders August 19, 05 Josh Green, (UFA) Vancouver August 23, 05 Bobby Holik, (UFA) Atlanta August 2, 05 Dan Lacouture, (UFA) Lucas Lawson, (UFA) Jyvaskyla, FIN August 31, 05 Chris McAllister, (UFA) Phoenix August 10, 05 Phil Osaer, (UFA) Florida August 31, 05 Layne Ulmer, (UFA) San Antonio, AHL Sept. 21, 05 Pavel Bure, (III) Mike Dunham, (III) Atlanta Sept. 2, 05 Ken Gernander, (III) Retired July 18, 05 Eric Lindros, (III) Toronto August 11, 05 Jason Marshall, (III) Anaheim August 8, 05 Sandy McCarthy, (III) Mark Messier, (III) Retired Sept. 12, 05 Boris Mironov, (III) Kevin Weekes, (V) NY Rangers August 2, 05 Blair Betts, (VI) NY Rangers August 11, 05 Mike Green, (VI) Matt Kinch, (VI) Freiburg, GER August 18, 05 Jason Labarbera, (VI) Los Angeles August 2, 05 Jeff MacMillan, (VI) Columbus August 12, 05 Lawrence Nycholat, (VI) Washington August 9, 05 Richard Scott, (VI) Jeff State, (VI) Stephen Valiquette, (VI) Yaroslavl, RUS May 14, 05 Josef Balej, (II) NY Rangers August 16, 05 Fedor Fedorov, (II) NY Rangers October 7, 05 Alexander Giroux, (II) NY Rangers August 25, 05 Martin Grenier, (II) NY Rangers August 25, 05 Bryce Lampman, (II) NY Rangers August 30, 05 Jamie Lundmark, (II) NY Rangers August 18, 05 Dominic Moore, (II) NY Rangers August 30, 05 Garth Murray, (II) NY Rangers August 18, 05 Jed Ortmeyer, (II) NY Rangers Sept. 6, 05 Tom Poti, (II) NY Rangers August 15, 05 Karel Rachunek, (II) Yaroslavl, RUS May 14, 05 Craig Weller, (II) NY Rangers Sept. 6, 05 Chad Wiseman, (II) NY Rangers August 18, 05 OTTAWA Denis Hamel, (UFA) Ottawa August 2, 05 Josh Langfeld, (UFA) San Jose Sept. 12, 05 Martin Prusek, (UFA) Columbus August 4, 05 Charlie Stephens, (UFA) Ottawa Sept. 17, 05 Peter Bondra, (III) Atlanta Sept. 13, 05 Dominik Hasek, (III) Ottawa July 27, 05 Curtis Leschyshin, (III) Colorado (Retired) August 17, 05 Rob Ray, (III) Todd Simpson, (III) Chicago August 22, 05 Shaun Van Allen, (III) Jesse Fibger, (VI) Wolfsberg, GER July 22, 05 Pat Kavanaugh, (VI) Philadelphia August 22, 05 Grant Potulny, (VI) Julian Vauclair, (VI) Ray Emery, (II) Ottawa August 11, 05 Mike Fisher, (II) Ottawa August 10, 05 Martin Havlat, (II) Ottawa August 10, 05 Dany Heatley, (II) Ottawa August 23, 05 Andy Hedlund, (II) Krefeld, GER August 11, 05 Marian Hossa, (II) Ottawa, Traded to ATL August 23, 05 Chris Kelly, (II) Ottawa August 15, 05 Brian McGrattan, (II) Ottawa August 15, 05 Chris Neil, (II) Ottawa August 12, 05 Christoph Schubert, (II) Ottawa August 12, 05 Jason Spezza, (II) Ottawa August 12, 05 Antoinne Vermette, (II) Ottawa August 12, 05 Anton Volchenkov, (II) Ottawa August 12, 05 PHILADELPHIA Tony Amonte, (UFA) Calgary August 2, 05 Nick Deschenes, (UFA) Philadelphia Sept. 12, 05 Joey Hope, (UFA) Philadelphia Sept. 12, 05 John LeClair, (UFA) Pittsburgh August 15, 05 Jeff Smith, (UFA) Manitoba, AHL August 23, 05 Radovan Somik, (UFA) Malmo, SWE July 25, 05 Peter White, (UFA) Helsinki, FIN October 1, 05 Mattias Timander, (UFA) Modo, SWE July 22, 05 Sean Burke, (III) Tampa Bay August 9, 05 Claude LaPointe, (III) Vladimir Malakhov, (III) New Jersey August 4, 05 Marcus Ragnarsson, (III) Almtuna, SWE April 17, 05 John Slaney, (III) Philadelphia Sept. 12, 05 Alexei Zhamnov, (III) Boston August 4, 05 Boyd Kane, (VI) Washington August 12, 05 Neil Little, (VI) Espoo, FIN July 19, 05 Ryan Ready, (VI) Philadelphia August 22, 05 Robert Esche, (II) Philadelphia August 10, 05 Simon Gagne, (II) Philadelphia August 8, 05 Kim Johnsson, (II) Philadelphia August 9, 05 Randy Jones, (II) Philadelphia October 1, 05 Freddy Meyer, (II) Philadelphia October 1, 05 David Prinz, (II) Philadelphia October 1, 05 Brankko Radivojevic, (II) Philadelphia August 9, 05 Dennis Seidenberg, (II) Philadelphia August 10, 05 Patrick Sharp, (II) Philadelphia August 9, 05 Wade Skolney, (II) Philadelphia October 1, 05 PHOENIX Rick Berry, (UFA) Phoenix Sept. 19, 05 Brian Boucher, (UFA) Phoenix August 2, 05 Dan Cleary, (UFA) Detroit Sept. 14, 05 Brad Ference, (UFA) Phoenix August 5, 05 Brent Johnson, (UFA) Vancouver Sept. 1, 05 Ivan Novoseltsev, (UFA) Brian Savage, (UFA) Philadelphia Sept. 15, 05 Jon Sim, (UFA) Philadelphia August 2, 05 Mike Stutzel, (UFA) Idaho, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Andrei Nazarov, (III) Minnesota August 1, 05 Zac Bierk, (VI) Jean-Marc Pelletier, (VI) Florida August 19, 05 Nikos Tselios, (VI) Hartford, AHL October 1, 05 Boyd Deveraux, (II) Phoenix July 28, 05 Sheldon Keefe, (II) Phoenix Sept. 19, 05 Krystoffer Kolanos, (II) Phoenix July 28, 05 Paul Mara, (II) Phoenix August 22, 05 Derek Morris, (II) Phoenix August 11, 05 Mike Rupp, (II) Phoenix July 28, 05 Jeff Taffe, (II) Phoenix August 15, 05 PITTSBURGH Jean-Sebastien Aubin, (UFA) Toronto August 18, 05 Matt Bradley, (UFA) Washington August 18, 05 Steven Crampton, (UFA) Dan Focht, (UFA) Florida August 26, 05 Steve McKenna, (UFA) Adelaide, AUS May 14, 05 Darcy Robinson, (UFA) Asiago, ITA August 7, 05 Michael Rozsival, (UFA) NY Rangers August 29, 05 Landon Wilson, (UFA) Davos, SWI August 30, 05 Mike Eastwood, (III) Mario Lemieux, (III) Pittsburgh Sept. 9, 05 Reid Simpson, (III) Chekhov, RUS Sept. 28, 05 Ramzi Abid, (VI) Atlanta August 6, 05 Chris Kelleher, (VI) Pittsburgh Sept. 12, 05 Alain Nasreddine, (VI) Pittsburgh Sept. 12, 05 Robert Scuderi, (VI) Pittsburgh August 9, 05 Colby Armstrong, (II) Pittsburgh August 12, 05 Kris Beech, (II) PIT, Traded to NSH August 10, 05 Shane Endicott, (II) Pittsburgh August 11, 05 Matt Hussey, (II) Pittsburgh August 15, 05 David Koci, (II) Pittsburgh August 17, 05 Konstantin Koltsov, (II) Pittsburgh August 16, 05 Milan Kraft, (II) Avangard, RUS August 26, 05 Guillaume Lefebvre, (II) Pittsburgh August 15, 05 Ross Lupaschuk, (II) Mora, SWE July 12, 05 Aleksey Morozov, (II) Kazan, RUS Sept. 28, 05 Ryan Malone, (II) Pittsburgh Sept. 1, 05 Josef Melichar, (II) Pittsburgh August 15, 05 Matt Murley, (II) Pittsburgh August 15, 05 Brooks Orpik, (II) Pittsburgh Sept. 13, 05 Michel Ouellet, (II) Pittsburgh August 18, 05 Michal Sivek, (II) Prague, CZE Sept. 28, 05 Martin Strbak, (II) CSKA Moscow, RUS July 12, 05 Dick Tarnstrom, (II) Pittsburgh August 29, 05 Jocelyn Thibault, (II) Pittsburgh August 12, 05 ST LOUIS Pavol Demitra, (UFA) Los Angeles August 2, 05 Jeff Hoggan, (UFA) St. Louis August 2, 05 Christian Laflamme, (UFA) Nurnberg, GER July 2, 05 Murray Baron, (III) Aris Brimanis, (III) Kloten, SWI August 29, 05 Jeff Finley, (III) Hannover, GER August 18, 05 Alexander Khavanov, (III) Toronto August 10, 05 Al MacInnis, (III) Retired Sept. 9, 05 Steve Martins, (III) Ottawa August 19, 05 Chris Osgood, (III) Detroit August 8, 05 Scott Pellerin, (III) Andy Roach, (III) St. Louis July 28, 05 Jon Coleman, (VI) Malmo, SWE August 12, 05 Mike Mottau, (VI) St. Louis Sept. 10, 05 Jame Pollock, (VI) Nurnberg, GER July 2, 05 Eric Boguniecki, (II) St. Louis August 9, 05 Eric Brewer (II) St. Louis August 15, 05 Trevor Byrne, (II) St. Louis August 12, 05 Mike Glumac, (II) St. Louis August 12, 05 Colin Hemingway, (II) St. Louis August 9, 05 Ryan Johnson, (II) St. Louis August 12, 05 Patrick Lalime, (II) St. Louis July 28, 05 Jamal Mayers, (II) St. Louis August 15, 05 Mark Rycroft, (II) St. Louis August 12, 05 Bryce Salvador, (II) St. Louis August 9, 05 Brett Scheffelmaier, (II) St. Louis August 15, 05 Peter Sejna, (II) St. Louis August 15, 05 Mike Stuart, (II) St. Louis August 12, 05 Matt Walker, (II) St. Louis July 28, 05 SAN JOSE David Cloutier, (UFA) Scott Ford, (UFA) Providence, AHL October 9, 05 Aaron Gill, (UFA) Trenton, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Mike Rathje, (III) Philadelphia August 2, 05 Wayne Primeau, (V) San Jose August 10, 05 Pat Rissmiller, (VI) San Jose Sept. 6, 05 Miroslav Zalesak, (VI) Washington August 8, 05 Matt Carkner, (II) San Jose August 15, 05 Ryane Clowe, (II) San Jose Sept. 6, 05 Rob Davison, (II) San Jose August 8, 05 Niko Dimatrakos, (II) San Jose August 10, 05 Nils Ekman, (II) San Jose August 10, 05 Jim Fahey, (II) San Jose August 8, 05 Alex Korolyuk, (II) Chekhov, RUS August 25, 05 Patrick Marleau, (II) San Jose August 15, 05 Doug Murray, (II) San Jose August 15, 05 Scott Parker, (II) San Jose August 15, 05 Tom Preissing, (II) San Jose August 10, 05 Nolan Schaefer, (II) San Jose August 15, 05 Garrett Stafford, (II) San Jose August 15, 05 Brad Stuart, (II) San Jose August 15, 05 Marco Sturm, (II) San Jose August 15, 05 TAMPA BAY Ben Clymer, (UFA) Washington August 8, 05 Brad Lukowich, (UFA) NY Islanders August 11, 05 Stanislav Neckar, (UFA) Sodertalje, SWE Sept. 28, 05 Cory Stillman, (UFA) Carolina August 2, 05 Jamie Storr, (UFA) Philadelphia August 22, 05 Dave Andreychuk, (III) Tampa Bay August 25, 05 Nikolai Khabibulin, (III) Chicago August 5, 05 Darren Rumble, (III) Retired May 14, 05 Tim Taylor, (III) Tampa Bay July 28, 05 Terry Virtue, (III) Wheeling, ECHL August 19, 05 Nolan Pratt, (V) Tampa Bay August 5, 05 Andre Roy, (V) Pittsburgh August 4, 05 Jimmie Olvestad, (VI) Djurgardens, SWE Sept. 10, 05 Dimitri Afanasenkov, (II) Tampa Bay August 9, 05 Nikita Alexeev, (II) Avangard, RUS Sept. 28, 05 Dan Boyle, (II) Tampa Bay August 9, 05 Martin Cibak, (II) Tampa Bay July 28, 05 Brian Eklund, (II) Tampa Bay August 18, 05 Ruslan Fedotenko, (II) Tampa Bay July 30, 05 Timo Helbling, (II) Tampa Bay August 5, 05 Andreas Holmqvist, (II) Linkopings, SWE July 2, 05 Jason Jaspers, (II) Tampa Bay August 18, 05 Vincent Lecavalier, (II) Tampa Bay August 16, 05 Eric Perrin, (II) Bern, SWI August 22, 05 Martin St. Louis, (II) Tampa Bay August 24, 05 Eero Somervuori, (II) Ambri-Piotta, SWI Sept. 29, 05 Shane Willis, (II) Davos, SWI August 23, 05 TORONTO Nathan Barrett, (UFA) Chicago Sept. 19, 05 Harold Druken, (UFA) Basel, SWI August 23, 05 Aaron Gavey, (UFA) Anaheim Sept. 10, 05 Regan Kelly, (UFA) Sheffield, ENG Sept. 23, 05 Cam Keith, (UFA) Peoria, AHL Sept. 24, 05 David Ling, (UFA) Moscow Spartak, RUS August 16, 05 Owen Nolan, (UFA) Drake Berehowsky, (III) Jeff Daw, (III) Tie Domi, (III) Toronto August 4, 05 Ron Francis, (III) Retired Sept. 14, 05 Trevor Kidd, (III) Hannover, GER June 12, 05 Brian Leetch, (III) Boston August 3, 05 Jason MacDonald, (III) Boston August 15, 05 Bryan Marchment, (III) Calgary October 12 05 Alexander Mogilny, (III) New Jersey August 16, 05 Joe Nieuwendyk, (III) Florida August 1, 05 Gary Roberts, (III) Florida August 1, 05 Ryan Bonni,(VI) Nashville Sept. 23, 05 Brad Leeb, (VI) Toronto Sept. 28, 05 Marc Moro, (VI) Toronto Sept. 28, 05 Nik Antropov, (II) Toronto August 12, 05 Wade Belak, (II) Toronto August 10, 05 Aki Berg, (II) Toronto August 10, 05 Luca Cereda, (II) Piotta, SWI Sept. 28, 05 Pierre Hedin, (II) Mannheim, GER August 25, 05 Chad Kilger, (II) Toronto August 12, 05 Nathan Perrott, (II) Toronto Sept. 21, 05 Karel Pilar, (II) Alexander Ponikarovsky, (II) Toronto Sept. 7, 05 Jeff O'Neill, (II) Toronto July 30, 05 Clarke Wilm, (II) Toronto August 12, 05 VANCOUVER Johnathan Aitken, (UFA) Montreal August 16, 05 Tim Smith, (UFA) Freiburg, GER August 2, 05 Marc Bergevin, (III) Retired August 12, 05 Wade Flaherty, (III) Vancouver July 28, 05 Johan Hedberg, (III) Dallas August 5, 05 Mike Keane, (III) Manitoba, AHL October 6, 05 Brad May, (III) Colorado August 5, 05 Markus Naslund, (III) Vancouver August 3, 05 Martin Rucinsky, (III) NY Rangers August 3, 05 Lukas Mensator, (IV) Marek Malik, (V) NY Rangers August 2, 05 Nolan Baumgartner, (VI) Vancouver August 12, 05 Wade Brookbank, (VI) Vancouver July 28, 05 Joe DiPenta, (VI) Anaheim August 11, 05 Lee Goren, (VI) Vancouver July 28, 05 Mikko Jokela, (VI) HPK, FIN July 5, 05 Jeff Heerema, (VI) Ottawa August 26, 05 Justin Morrison, (VI) Peter Sarno, (VI) Columbus August 22, 05 Bryan Allen, (II) Vancouver August 15, 05 Tyler Bouck, (II) Vancouver August 11, 05 Artem Chubarov, (II) Avangard, RUS August 22, 05 Dan Cloutier, (II) Vancouver August 10, 05 Matt Cooke, (II) Vancouver Sept. 21, 05 Jason King, (II) Vancouver August 15, 05 Brendan Morrison, (II) Vancouver August 5, 05 Mattias Ohlund, (II) Vancouver August 24, 05 Brandon Reid, (II) Rapperswil, SWI August 25, 05 Jarkku Ruttu, (II) Vancouver Sept. 1, 05 Sami Salo, (II) Vancouver August 11, 05 Daniel Sedin, (II) Vancouver August 10, 05 Henrik Sedin, (II) Vancouver August 10, 05 Nathan Smith, (II) Vancouver Sept. 28, 05 WASHINGTON Bates Battaglia, (UFA) Toronto, AHL October 5, 05 Jason Doig, (UFA) Manitoba, AHL October 8, 05 Justin Eddy, (UFA) Jean-Francois Fortin, (UFA) Washington August 18, 05 Jean-Luc Grande-Pierre, (UFA) Duisburg, GER Sept. 2, 05 John Gruden, (UFA) Frankfurt, GER August 18, 05 Chris Hajt, (UFA) Carolina August 16, 05 Brad Norton, (UFA) Jokerit, FIN Oct. 12,05 Louis Robitaille, (UFA) Washington August 12, 05 Garrett Stroshein, (UFA) Boston August 23, 05 Trent Whitfield, (UFA) St. Louis August 2, 05 Matt Yeats, (UFA) Idaho, ECHL Sept. 21, 05 Craig Johnson, (III) Dusseldorf, GER June 12, 05 Kip Miller, (III) Sebastien Charpentier, (VI) Tver, RUS July 13, 05 Matt Libby, (VI) Brad Parsons, (VI) Jeff Paul, (VI) Montreal Sept. 7, 05 Mike Pudlick, (VI) Krefeld, GER Sept. 5, 05 Jason Ulmer, (VI) Kassel, GER Sept. 2, 05 Darcy Verot, (VI) Dwayne Zinger, (VI) Washington August 17, 05 Jared Aulin, (II) Washington August 11, 05 Josef Boumedienne, (II) ZSC, SWI Sept. 7, 05 Chris Clark, (II) Washington August 24, 05 Jakub Cutta, (II) Washington August 11, 05 Steve Eminger, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Jeff Halpern, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Graham Mink, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Shaone Morrisonn, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Maxime Ouellet, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Stephen Peat, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Matt Pettinger, (II) Washington August 12, 05 Rastislav Stana, (II) Sodertalje, SWE Sept. 10, 05 Brian Sutherby, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Brian Willsie, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Brendan Witt, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Nolan Yonkman, (II) Washington August 15, 05 Danius Zubrus, (II) Washington August 18, 05Compiled and updated by Cory Brolund
EX NHLers Returning from Europe Player Team From NHL Experience Date Oleg Tverdovsky CAR RUS ANA, WPG/PHX, NJ August 4, 05 Brannt Myhres CGY AHL TB, PHI, SJ, NSH, WAS, BOS August 11, 05 Jamie Heward WAS SWI TOR, NYI, CBJ August 10, 05 Mark Wotton WAS RUS VAN, DAL August 17, 05 Ken Belanger LA TOR, NYI, BOS, LA Sept. 10, 05 Tim Thomas BOS FIN BOS Sept. 27, 05Compiled and updated by Cory Brolund
RETIRED Player Reason NHL Experience Date Darren Rumble, (III) Age OTT, STL, TB May 14, 05 Jason Botterill, (II) Injury CGY, BUF June 28, 05 Benoit Dusablon, (VI) Injury NYR July 5, 05 Ken Gernander, (III) Age NYR July 18, 05 Dave Lowry, (III) Age VAN, STL, FLA, SJ, CGY August 11, 05 Marc Bergevin, (III) Age CHI,NYI,HRT,TB,DET,STL,PIT,VAN August 12, 05 Corey Schwab, (III) Injury NJ, TB, VAN, TOR August 12, 05 Stephane Quintal, (III) Age BOS,STL,WPG,MTL,NYR,CHI,LA August 22, 05 Scott Stevens, (III) Age WAS, STL, NJ Sept. 7, 05 Vincent Damphousse, (III)Age EDM, TOR, MTL, SJ, COL Sept. 8, 05 Al MacInnis, (III) Age CGY, STL Sept. 9, 05 Ron Tugnutt, (III) Age QUE,EDM,ANA,MTL,OTT,PIT,CBJ,DAL Sept. 10, 05 Trent Klatt Age MIN/DAL,PHI,VAN,LA Sept. 12, 05 Mark Messier, (III) Age EDM, NYR,VAN Sept. 12, 05 Pasi Nurminen Injury ATL Sept. 13, 05 Eric Messier, (UFA) Age COL, FLA Sept. 13, 05 Ron Francis, (III) Age HRT, PIT, CAR, TOR Sept. 14, 05 PJ Stock, (UFA) Injury MTL, PHI, BOS Sept. 17, 05 Don Sweeney, (III) Age BOS, DAL Sept. 17, 05 Rob Skrlac, (VI) Age NJ Sept. 21, 05 Adam Deadmarsh, (UFA) Injury QUE/COL, LA Sept. 22, 05 Dan Blackburn, (UFA) Injury NYR Sept. 27, 05 DJ Smith, (VI) Coach TOR, NAS, COL Sept. 30, 05 Kristian Antilla, (VI) Coach EDM Sept. 30, 05 Curtis Leschyshyn Age QUE/COL, WAS, HFD/CAR, MIN, OTT October 5, 05 Brett Hull Age CGY, STL, DAL, DET, PHX October 15, 05
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 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.)
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