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NHL free agents

By Michael Russo, Star Tribune

Last update: June 30, 2007 - 10:53 PM

If unsigned by 10:59 this morning, here's a sample of some top NHL players who will become unrestricted free agents:

Forwards

Wild: Wes Walz, Todd White, Adam Hall

Anaheim: Teemu Selanne

Atlanta: Slava Kozlov

Buffalo: Daniel Briere, Chris Drury, Dainius Zubrus

Carolina: Anson Carter

Chicago: Michal Handzus

Dallas: Ladislav Nagy

Detroit: Todd Bertuzzi, Robert Lang

Edmonton: Petr Sykora

Nashville: Paul Kariya, Peter Forsberg

Montreal: Radek Bonk

New Jersey: Scott Gomez

N.Y. Islanders: Alexei Yashin, Ryan Smyth,

Jason Blake, Viktor Kozlov, Richard Zednik

N.Y. Rangers: Brendan Shanahan, Michael Nylander

Ottawa: Mike Comrie

Philadelphia: Mike York

Phoenix: Owen Nolan

Pittsburgh: Michel Ouellet

San Jose: Bill Guerin

Tampa Bay: Ruslan Fedotenko

Toronto: Jeff O'Neill

No Team: Jason Allison

Defensemen

Atlanta: Andy Sutton; Greg de Vries

Calgary: Roman Hamrlik, Brad Stuart

Columbus: Bryan Berard

Detroit: Mathieu Schneider, Danny Markov

Los Angeles: Aaron Miller

Montreal: Sheldon Souray, Janne Niinimaa

New Jersey: Brian Rafalski

N.Y. Islanders: Tom Poti

Ottawa: Tom Preissing

San Jose: Scott Hannan

Tampa Bay: Cory Sarich

Vancouver: Brent Sopel

Goaltenders

Detroit: Dominik Hasek

Florida: Ed Belfour

Montreal: David Aebischer

N.Y. Rangers: Kevin Weekes

Philadelphia: Robert Esche

Phoenix: Curtis Joseph

POTENTIAL WILD FREE AGENT INTEREST?

Unlike last July 1 when the Wild signed free agents Mark Parrish, Kim Johnsson and Keith Carney, the team isn't expected to be big players this summer in free agency. Still, the Wild will be looking for "middle-tier" players. Here are some players who could interest the Wild, although the Wild suddenly has little interest in defensemen after re-signing Martin Skoula Saturday:

Forwards

Bryan Smolinski (Vancouver); Alexei Yashin and Viktor Kozlov (N.Y. Islanders); Dainius Zubrus (Buffalo); Byron Ritchie and Darren McCarty (Calgary); Ryan Johnson and Ville Nieminen (St. Louis); Martin Gelinas (Florida); Eric Belanger and Jon Sim (Atlanta); Michael Peca and Yanic Perreault (Toronto); Erik Rasmussen (New Jersey); Eric Lindros (Dallas); Josef Vasicek (Carolina); Radek Bonk (Montreal).

Defensemen

Vitaly Vishnevski (Atlanta); Cory Sarich (Tampa Bay); Danny Markov (Detroit); Brent Sopel (Vancouver); Tom Preissing (Ottawa); Brad Lukowich (New Jersey); Ossi Vaananen (Colorado); Darryl Sydor (Dallas); Aaron Miller (Los Angeles).

MICHAEL RUSSO

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