FREE AGENTS SUBJECT TO COMPENSATION AND RIGHT TO MATCH -- GROUP II:

Group II -- The players listed below have been tendered a qualifying offer by their respective clubs and are subject to draft choice compensation and right to match. The draft choice compensation scale is based on compensation offered by the new club:

OFFER COMPENSATION:

$551,076 or below - None
Over $551,076 - $757,729 Third-round choice
Over $757,729 - $895,498 Second-round choice
Over $895,498 - $1,102,152 First-round choice
Over $1,102,152 - $1,377,689 First-and third-round choices
Over $1,377,689 - $1,653,227 First-and second-round choices
Over $1,653,227 - $1,928,765 Two first-round choices
Over $1,928,765 - $2,342,071 Two first-round and one second-round choice
Over $2,342,071 -  Three first-round choices
Each additional $1,377,689 - One additional first-round choice to a maximum of five

ANAHEIM: Antti Aalto, Matt Cullen, J-S Giguere, Jorgen Jonsson, Ladislav Kohn, Mike Leclerc, Dean Malkoc, Marty McInnis, Patrick Traverse, Oleg Tverdovsky

ATLANTA: Donald Audette, Petr Buzek, Brett Clark, Hnat Domenichelli, Shean Donovan, Scott Fankhouser, Steve Guolla, Andreas Karlsson, Denny Lambert, Norm Maracle, Yannick Tremblay, Herbert Vasiljevs, Brian Wesenberg

BOSTON: Elias Abrahamsson, Shawn Bates, Anson Carter, Mikko Eloranta, John Grahame, Cameron Mann, Eric Nickulas, Sergei Samsonov, Andre Savage, Joe Thornton

BUFFALO: Martin Biron, Denis Hamel, Jason Holland, David Moravec, Michael Peca, Erik Rasmussen, Jason Woolley, Alexei Zhitnik

CALGARY: Wade Belak, Jason Botterill, Fred Brathwaite, Chris Clark, Jeff Cowan, Miika Elomo, Andreas Johansson, Derek Morris, Dave Roche, Marc Savard, Darrel Scoville, Jeff Shantz, Andrei Trefilov, Jason Wiemer, Clarke Wilm

CAROLINA: Bates Battaglia, Steven Halko, Greg Koehler, Ian MacNeil, Sandy McCarthy, Jeff O'Neill, Sandis Ozolinsh, Byron Ritchie

CHICAGO: Anders Eriksson, Michal Grosek, Casey Hankinson, Dean McAmmond, Bryan McCabe, Michael Nylander, Nathan Perrott, Marty Wilford

COLORADO: Adam Deadmarsh, Chris Drury, Milan Hejduk, Dan Hinote, Jon Klemm, Brad Larsen, Eric Messier, Ville Nieminen, Nolan Pratt, Joe Sakic, Dan Smith, Brian White, Stephane Yelle

COLUMBUS: Matt Davidson, Marc Denis, Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre, Steve Heinze, Krzysztof Oliwa, Deron Quint, Geoff Sanderson

DALLAS: Jamie Langenbrunner, Jere Lehtinen, Brad Lukowich, Blake Sloan, Marty Turco, Jamie Wright

DETROIT: Kris Draper, Jason Elliott, Yan Golubovsky, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Maxim Kuznetsov, Chris Osgood, Marc Rodgers **, Toivo Suursoo, B.J. Young

** Club retains draft choice compensation only

EDMONTON: Sean Brown, Josh Green, Mike Grier, Dan Lacouture, Georges Laraque, Todd Marchant, Ethan Moreau, Rem Murray, Alain Nasreddine, Brad Norton, Jason Smith, Ryan Smyth, Igor Ulanov, Doug Weight

FLORIDA: Eric Boguniecki, Dan Boyle, Dave Duerden, Rob Niedermayer, Rocky Thompson, Ray Whitney, Peter Worrell

LOS ANGELES: Eric Belanger, Aki Berg, Philippe Boucher, Craig Charron, Brad Chartrand, Marcel Cousineau, Jere Karalahti, Ian Laperriere, Jan Nemecek, Jason Podollan, Bryan Smolinski, Jozef Stumpel

MINNESOTA: Zac Bierk, Sergei Krivokrasov, Filip Kuba, Darryl Laplante, Pavel Patera, Scott Pellerin, Andy Sutton

MONTREAL: Andrei Bashkirov, Craig Darby, Matthieu Descoteaux, Matt Higgins, Saku Koivu, Mike McBain, Trent McCleary, Craig Rivet, Stephane Robidas, Martin Rucinsky, Brian Savage, Sheldon Souray, Jose Theodore, Dainius Zubrus

NASHVILLE: Sean Haggerty, Greg Johnson, Richard Lintner, Chris Mason, Marc Moro, Kimmo Timonen, Mike Watt

NEW JERSEY: Jason Arnott, Frederic Henry, Steve Kelly, Scott Niedermayer, Jay Pandolfo, Richard Rochefort, Rob Skrlac, Colin White

NY ISLANDERS: Zdeno Chara, Ray Giroux, Roman Hamrlik, Brad Isbister, Kenny Jonsson, Dimitri Nabokov, Ray Schultz

NY RANGERS: Derek Armstrong, Drew Bannister, Jason Dawe, Daniel Goneau, Eric Lacroix, Dale Purinton, David Wilkie, Johan Witehall

OTTAWA: Magnus Arvedson, Radek Bonk, Viacheslav Butsayev, Ivan Ciernik, Andreas Dackell, John Emmons, John Gruden, Shane Hnidy, Chris Phillips, Jason York

PHILADELPHIA: Brian Boucher, Andy Delmore, John LeClair, Eric Lindros, Chris Therien, Steve Washburn

PHOENIX: Philippe Audet, Daniel Briere, Dan Focht, Travis Green, Eric Healey, Trevor Letowski, Craig Mills, Mikael Renberg, Radoslav Suchy

PITTSBURGH: J-S Aubin, Matthew Barnaby, Josef Beranek, Sven Butenschon, Rene Corbet, Chris Kelleher, Janne Laukkanen, Alexei Morozov

ST. LOUIS: Lubos Bartecko, Derek Bekar, Michal Handzus, Brent Johnson, Reed Low, Todd Reirden, Bryce Salvador

SAN JOSE: Christian Gosselin, Todd Harvey, Alexander Korolyuk, Patrick Marleau, John Nabokov, Owen Nolan, Marcus Ragnarsson, Steve Shields, Marco Sturm, Niklas Sundstrom

TAMPA BAY: Kaspars Astashenko, Dan Cloutier, Dwayne Hay, Brian Holzinger, Ryan Johnson, Pavel Kubina, Steve Martins, Fredrik Modin, Bryan Muir, Wayne Primeau, Todd Warriner, Andrei Zyuzin

TORONTO: Lonny Bohonos, Jonas Hoglund, Alexander Karpovtsev, Don MacLean, Danny Markov, Alyn McCauley, Yanic Perreault, D.J. Smith, Shawn Thornton

VANCOUVER: Donald Brashear, Brendan Morrison, Felix Potvin, Jarkko Ruutu, Corey Schwab, Brent Sopel, Lubomir Vaic

WASHINGTON: Nolan Baumgartner, Jan Bulis, Sergei Gonchar, Matt Herr, Ken Klee, Andrei Nikolishin, Mike Peluso, Jason Shmyr, Chris Simon, Brendan Witt

UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS - GROUP III:

Group III -- The following players have qualified for Group III Free Agency (age 31 or older with at least four years of NHL experience) and are therefore unrestricted Free Agents.

ANAHEIM: Ted Donato, Stu Grimson, Fredrik Olausson

ATLANTA: Johan Garpenlov, Bill Huard, Mike Stapleton

BOSTON: Marty McSorley, Don Sweeney

BUFFALO: Randy Cunneyworth, James Patrick, Rob Ray, Vladimir Tsyplakov, Dixon Ward

CALGARY: Bobby Dollas, Darryl Shannon, Brad Werenka

CAROLINA: Paul Coffey, Mark Fitzpatrick, Gary Roberts

CHICAGO: Kevin Dean, Ed Olczyk

COLORADO: Dave Andreychuk

COLUMBUS: Dallas Drake, Lyle Odelein, Mathieu Schneider, Rick Tabaracci

DALLAS: Shawn Chambers, Sylvain Cote, Dave Manson, Brian Skrudland

DETROIT: Brent Gilchrist, Joe Kocur, Igor Larionov, Larry Murphy

EDMONTON: Frantisek Musil, Bill Ranford, German Titov

FLORIDA: Ray Sheppard, Mikhail Shtalenkov

LOS ANGELES: Garry Galley

MINNESOTA: None.

MONTREAL: Shayne Corson

NASHVILLE: None.

NEW JERSEY: Claude Lemieux, Vladimir Malakhov, Sergei Nemchinov

NY ISLANDERS: None.

NY RANGERS: Kevin Hatcher, Kevin Stevens

OTTAWA: Tom Barrasso, Grant Ledyard, Kevin Miller, Shaun Van Allen

PHILADELPHIA: Craig Berube, Adam Burt, Jody Hull, Rick Tocchet, Valeri Zelepukin

PHOENIX: Greg Adams, Sean Burke, Bob Essensa, Benoit Hogue

PITTSBURGH: Rob Brown, Tom Chorske, Steve Leach, Peter Popovic, Ron Tugnutt

ST. LOUIS: Bob Bassen, Kelly Chase, Mike Eastwood, Dave Ellett, Derek King, Rudy Poeschek, Stephane Richer

SAN JOSE: Dave Lowry, Jeff Norton, Ron Sutter

TAMPA BAY: Daren Puppa, Reid Simpson

TORONTO: Wendel Clark, Glenn Healy

VANCOUVER: Mark Messier

WASHINGTON: Craig Billington, Michal Pivonka, Rob Zettler

POTENTIAL GROUP V FREE AGENTS:

Potential Group V -- The following players: (i) have completed 10 pro seasons or more (NHL or Minors, excluding Junior hockey), and (ii) in the 1999-2000 season earned less than the League average salary of $1,356,380 and (iii) received a timely qualifying offer.

These players have the right to elect once in their careers to become unrestricted Free Agents. Should one of these players not elect to become an unrestricted Free Agent, since his prior club has tendered him a qualifying offer he shall remain subject to draft choice compensation and right to match as applies to Group II Free Agents. The players listed below have until July 15, 2000 to elect Group V status.

ANAHEIM: Kevin Haller (Group II)

CAROLINA: Sean Hill (Group II)

DALLAS: Scott Thornton (elected Group V)

SAN JOSE: Mike Craig (elected Group V)

UNRESTICTED FREE AGENTS -- GROUP VI:

The following players qualify for unrestricted free agency, having met the requirements for Group VI free agency. These players, whose contracts have expired, are age 25 or older, have completed three or more professional seasons, and (i) in the case of a player other than a goaltender have played fewer than 80 NHL games (regular-season and playoff), or (ii) in the case of a goaltender have played fewer than 28 NHL games (regular-season and playoff).

ANAHEIM: Tom Askey, Frank Banham, Scott Ferguson, Peter Leboutillier, Jeremy Stevenson

ATLANTA: Bob Lachance

BOSTON: Aaron Downey, Joe Hulbig, Antti Laaksonen, Joel Prpic

BUFFALO: Craig Fisher, Scott Nichol, Domenic Pittis, Chris Taylor

CALGARY: None.

CAROLINA: Steve Bancroft, Eric Dandenault, Len Esau, Mike Rucinski, Todd Simon

CHICAGO: Jeff Christian, Ted Crowley, Chris Herperger, Marc Lamothe, Todd Rohloff

COLORADO: Serge Aubin, Frederic Cassivi, Michael Gaul, Sami Helenius, Christian Matte

COLUMBUS: Barrie Moore

DALLAS: Mike Bales, Kelly Fairchild

DETROIT: None.

EDMONTON: Kevin Brown, Vladimir Vorobiev

FLORIDA: Paul Brousseau, Chad Cabana, Craig Reichert

LOS ANGELES: Rich Brennan, Allan Egeland, Dave MacIsaac, Mike O'Neill, Marko Tuomainen

MINNESOTA: None.

MONTREAL: None.

NASHVILLE: Eric Bertrand, Paul Healey, Brent Peterson

NEW JERSEY: Steve Brule, Mike Buzak, Sylvain Cloutier, Sasha Lakovic

NY ISLANDERS: None.

NY RANGERS: Milan Hnilicka, Chris Kenady, P.J. Stock

OTTAWA: Jeff Shevalier

PHILADELPHIA: Jeff Lank, Mike Maneluk, Steve McLaren, Sean O'Brien, Todd White

PHOENIX: Trent Cull, Sean Gagnon, Steven King, Sean McCann, Kevin Sawyer, Brad Tiley

PITTSBURGH: Dennis Bonvie, Tyler Moss, Dan Trebil

ST. LOUIS: Sylvain Blouin, Bryan Helmer, Tyson Nash

SAN JOSE: Jon Coleman, Jarrett Deuling, Eric Landry

TAMPA BAY: Pavel Torgaev

TORONTO: Greg Andrusak, Terran Sandwith

VANCOUVER: Brian Bonin, Martin Gendron, Chris O'Sullivan

WASHINGTON: Martin Brochu, Trevor Halverson, Steve Poapst

UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS:

The following players were not tendered a qualifying offer and are therefore unrestricted Free Agents not subject to a right to match or draft choice compensation.

* Players eligible to elect Group V Free Agency who did not receive a qualifying offer.

ANAHEIM: Corey Hirsch, Kip Miller *, Blaine Russell, Lloyd Shaw, Tony Tuzzolino, Chad Wagner

ATLANTA: Maxim Galanov, David Harlock, Joel Irving, Chris McAlpine

BOSTON: Marquis Mathieu, Mike Matteucci, Robbie Tallas

BUFFALO: Daniel Bienvenue, Jason Cipolla, Mark Dutiaume, Paul Kruse *, Mike Zanutto

CALGARY: Eric Charron *, Steve Dubinsky, Stewart Malgunas *, Lee Sorochan, John Tripp

CAROLINA: Jeff Daniels *, Gilbert Dionne *, Sergei Fedotov, Hugh Hamilton, Dave Karpa, Andrei Kovalenko, Mike Morrone

CHICAGO: Dallas Eakins *, Derek Plante

COLORADO: Jason Bowen

COLUMBUS: Dwayne Roloson

DALLAS: Keith Aldridge, Melvin Angelstad, Frederic Bouchard, Joel Bouchard, Matt Martin

DETROIT: David Arsenault, Alexandre Jacques

EDMONTON: Adam Copeland, Boyd Devereaux, Mike Minard, Rob Murray *, Michel Picard *, Alexander Selivanov

FLORIDA: Alex Hicks, Andrew Long, Jeff Ware

LOS ANGELES: Dan Bylsma, Nathan Lafayette

MINNESOTA: None.

MONTREAL: Jesse Belanger *, Byron Briske, Jim Cummins, Jonathan Delisle, Scott Lachance, Dave Morissette, Boyd Olson, Patrick Poulin

NASHVILLE: Phil Crowe, Jeff Kealty

NEW JERSEY: George Awada

NY ISLANDERS: Johan Davidsson, Jamie Rivers

NY RANGERS: Alexandre Daigle, Chris Wells

OTTAWA: Erich Goldmann, Yves Sarault, David Van Drunen

PHILADELPHIA: Chris Albert, Ryan Bast, Travis Brigley, Martin Cerven, Matt Henderson, Jim Montgomery, Jeff Tory

PHOENIX: Sylvain Daigle, Eric Houde, Brad May, David Oliver, Shayne Toporowski

PITTSBURGH: Pat Falloon, Valentin Morozov, Tom O'Connor, Peter Skudra, Jean-Paul Tessier

ST. LOUIS: Jim Campbell, Dan Keczmer *, Ricard Persson, Libor Prochazka, Darren Rumble *

SAN JOSE: Garrett Burnett, Brantt Myhres, Peter Roed, Jarrod Skalde

TAMPA BAY: Xavier Delisle, Robert Petrovicky, Andrei Skopintsev, Timothy Thomas, Jr.

TORONTO: Jason Bonsignore, Mark Deyell, Tyler Harlton, Francis Larivee, Ryan Pepperall, Marc Robitaille, Brian Wiseman

VANCOUVER: Chad Allan, Stewart Bodtker, Paul Ferone, Tim Keyes, Garth Snow, Mike Valley, Harry York

WASHINGTON: Jim McKenzie *, Jeff Toms