The following players are currently projected to be eligible for unrestricted free agency when the new league year begins on July 1, 2024. Each player’s age as of the date of free agency opening is in parentheses. This post can be referenced using the Flame icon on our mobile menu.
Players who have confirmed their retirement after the season are not listed. Aside from notable injury-related exceptions, only players with more than 10 games played in the 2023-24 season are listed here. Those who play multiple positions are listed by their primary position played in 2023-24.
Updated 6/28/24
* – denotes Group 6 UFA
Centers
Pierre-Édouard Bellemare (39)
Colin Blackwell (31)
Nick Bonino (36)
Travis Boyd (30)
Sam Carrick (32)
Rourke Chartier (28)
Austin Czarnik (31)
Max Domi (29)
Byron Froese (33)
Tyson Jost (26)
Elias Lindholm (29)
Steven Lorentz (28)
Sean Monahan (29)
Fredrik Olofsson (28)
Jack Roslovic (27)
Oskar Steen (26)*
Kevin Stenlund (27)
Mitchell Stephens (27)
Chandler Stephenson (30)
Chris Tierney (30)
Alexander Wennberg (29)
Colin White (27)
Left Wingers
Tyler Bertuzzi (29)
Sammy Blais (28)
William Carrier (29)
Andrew Cogliano (37)
Nick Cousins (30)
Jonathan Drouin (29)
Anthony Duclair (28)
Adam Erne (29)
Warren Foegele (28)
Brendan Gaunce (30)
Zemgus Girgensons (30)
Jake Guentzel (29)
Jansen Harkins (27)
Danton Heinen (28)
Adam Henrique (34)
Mike Hoffman (34)
Mattias Janmark (31)
Dominik Kubalík (28)
Ryan Lomberg (29)
Anthony Mantha (29)
Pat Maroon (36)
Matt Martin (35)
Jordan Martinook (31)
Ben Meyers (25)*
Tyler Motte (29)
Stefan Noesen (31)
Tomáš Nosek (31)
Max Pacioretty (35)
Tanner Pearson (31)
Eric Robinson (29)
Kiefer Sherwood (29)
Devin Shore (29)
Jiri Smejkal (27)
Steven Stamkos (34)
Tomáš Tatar (33)
Teuvo Teräväinen (29)
Yakov Trenin (27)
James van Riemsdyk (35)
Jakub Vrána (28)
Radim Zohorna (28)
Jason Zucker (32)
Right Wingers
Michael Amadio (28)
Viktor Arvidsson (31)
Cam Atkinson (35)
Nicolas Aubé-Kubel (28)
Justin Bailey (29)
Alexander Barabanov (30)
Alex Barré-Boulet (27)
Anthony Beauvillier (27)
Connor Brown (30)
Ryan Carpenter (33)
Cal Clutterbuck (36)
Jake DeBrusk (27)
Matt Duchene (33)
Brandon Duhaime (27)
Christian Fischer (27)
Sam Gagner (34)
A.J. Greer (27)
Denis Gurianov (27)
Vinnie Hinostroza (30)
Tyler Johnson (33)
Patrick Kane (35)
Kasperi Kapanen (27)
Joel Kiviranta (28)
Kevin Labanc (28)
Sam Lafferty (29)
Trevor Lewis (37)
Jake Lucchini (29)
Jonathan Marchessault (33)
Carson Meyer (26)*
Kyle Okposo (36)
Victor Olofsson (28)
David Perron (36)
Corey Perry (39)
Matthew Phillips (26)*
Tyler Pitlick (32)
Sam Reinhart (28)
Craig Smith (34)
Daniel Sprong (27)
Vladimir Tarasenko (32)
Tyler Toffoli (32)
Austin Watson (32)
Blake Wheeler (37)
Left Defensemen
Sebastian Aho (28)
Nick Blankenburg (26)*
T.J. Brodie (34)
Ian Cole (35)
Calvin de Haan (33)
Travis Dermott (27)
Brenden Dillon (33)
Joel Edmundson (31)
Oliver Ekman-Larsson (32)
Haydn Fleury (27)
Derek Forbort (32)
Dennis Gilbert (27)
Mark Giordano (40)
Alex Goligoski (38)
Shayne Gostisbehere (31)
Matt Grzelcyk (30)
Erik Gustafsson (32)
Jack Johnson (37)
Caleb Jones (27)
Dmitry Kulikov (33)
Oliver Kylington (27)
William Lagesson (28)
Jacob MacDonald (31)
Alec Martinez (36)
Jaycob Megna (31)
Dakota Mermis (30)
Jordan Oesterle (32)
Mike Reilly (30)
Marco Scandella (34)
Ryan Shea (27)
Brady Skjei (30)
Brendan Smith (35)
Marc Staal (37)
Ryan Suter (39)
Jarred Tinordi (32)
Sean Walker (29)
Nikita Zadorov (29)
Right Defensemen
Tyson Barrie (32)
Robert Bortuzzo (35)
Josh Brown (30)
Alexandre Carrier (27)
Tony DeAngelo (28)
Vincent Desharnais (28)
Mathew Dumba (29)
Jani Hakanpää (32)
Erik Johnson (36)
John Klingberg (31)
Ilya Lyubushkin (30)
Colin Miller (31)
Brandon Montour (30)
Brett Pesce (29)
Matt Roy (29)
Chad Ruhwedel (34)
Justin Schultz (33)
Kevin Shattenkirk (35)
Troy Stecher (30)
Chris Tanev (34)
Nikita Zaitsev (32)
Goaltenders
Laurent Brossoit (31)
Eric Comrie (28)
Pheonix Copley (32)
Casey DeSmith (32)
Chris Driedger (30)
Martin Jones (34)
Kaapo Kähkönen (27)
Kevin Lankinen (29)
Matt Murray (30)
Ivan Prosvetov (25)*
Antti Raanta (35)
James Reimer (36)
Ilya Samsonov (27)
Anthony Stolarz (30)
Cam Talbot (36)
Scott Wedgewood (31)
Where’s @Wilf been? He’s been quiet.
We finally were able to trade him to another website. PHR had to throw in some cash to make the deal work though. :D
I blocked him so I dunno
Best thing ever
Agreed the Mute button is fantastic. I have 10+ on my list lol
Same here, quite some time ago. Bliss.
Same. His schtick has run pale.
That’s a pathetic group of Goalies to be sure. Pretty slim talent all around in fact.
Other than the obvious guys who aren’t going anywhere I mean.
No true starters on that list really. A few 1B options in Kahkonen, Samsonov, Stolarz and a few others. Lots of third string options. Not sure we’ll ever see someone like Driedger back in the NHL unless he can pull magic out of his ass and play like he did in Florida again.
Funny though his stats look great in both the AHL/NHL. I haven’t really seen him play so can anyone expand on this? Seems like he’d be a great backup for a million bucks….?
Be interesting to play a “Pick a twenty-man expansion roster out of those names” game.
Would probably still beat the Sharks or Ducks in a 7 game series lol
They’d be a playoff team, imo. LD depth is sketch, but a lot of the wingers listed have experience at center and can shift to compensate for an otherwise weak market. Montour/Pesce/Tanev would be an absolutely sick RD depth chart
I certainly think so. Never mind that there’s enough star power there at wing to grab some trade bait. Unless the goalies collapse, that team would make the playoffs with room to spare.
Red Wings need to re-sign Perron and Kane
Hope the Preds keep Zucker around.
Stamkos to Toronto after they trade Mitch
No room after Pesce. Don’t think he’s leaving TB. Dallas is a possibility, but again seems unlikely.
Stamkos isn’t going to Toronto. He could have gone their back in 2016 when he was a free agent when Toronto offered more money than Tampa. He still chose Tampa. This time around is different as he said he has a family now & roots in Tampa now (even his parents moved to Tampa). Stamkos will be staying & retire as a Lightning player as he should. A deal will be reached between TBL & Stamkos when it’s all set & done. I feel the media is making a bigger thing out of it than what it is. I mean Stamkos & Kucherov are freakin training together already for next season. If he was thinking of leaving, he wouldn’t be spending his time fully training.
I could see them trading Sergachev for picks and prospects and maybe some depth D in order to free up some cash. He was injured all year and they still had a good season. Could restock the system with a Serg deal.
I don’t see Tampa parting with Mikhail Sergachev at all as he’s a young core piece. Sergachev is looked as the guy to eventually take Victor Hedman’s place once Hedman hangs it up. Sergachev had a career year last season. This season he did have a foot/ankle injury in December than came back in February & had a freak injury to his leg the night of his return & still came back well ahead of schedule & played quite well in the playoffs.
Tampa was 25th in defense this past season. They needed Sergachev (who’s widely considered a top 20 defenseman in the league) & just more experience guys hence for bringing back veteran Ryan McDonagh. Great defensemen are exceedingly hard to come by.
Tampa would get rid of Erik Cernak way before they would remotely consider trading Sergachev.
Canes need a right-handed center. Did they ever patch things up with Lindholm? He mocked the Canes fans over the Storm Surge clapping.