Happy Canada Day… and Merry Christmas. Didn’t do the annual list of the nontendered, or more accurately didn’t seek them out as aggressively, in part because of this year’s timing: the actual full free agents list should be out about 11 hours, as I post this. The ones I caught along the way are below. We’ll have the Bridgeport-centric lists as always at noon. And then it’s game on. The Islanders need at least two goaltenders if Kevin Poulin comes back and three if he doesn’t. There are tons of young defensemen, a group that’s even bigger if Aaron Ness indeed returns, but Ness would again be the closest thing they have to a vet back there; experience couldn’t hurt. And there’s plenty of depth, experience and scoring touch needed up front.
Elsewhere, Stunned to see “Community” is saved… by Yahoo!??!
And RIP, Frank Cashen, architect of some of the best moments of my sports childhood.
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Reported non-tendered (unrestricted free agents, noon Tuesday):
ANA — Mathieu Perreault
BUF — Jamie McBain, Connor Knapp, Cory Conacher, Matt MacKenzie, Nick Crawford
CAL — T.J. Galiardi
CBJ — Anton Blomqvist, Oliver Gabriel, Jake Hansen
DAL — Ryan Button, Dustin Jeffrey, Tristan King, Hubert Labrie, Austin Smith
EDM — Taylor Fedun
FLA — Steven Anthony, Matthias Lindstrom, Anthony Luciani, Jonathan Hazen
LA — Steve Quailer, James Livingston, Jonathan Parker
MIN — Tyler Cuma
MON — Ryan White, Robbie Czarnik, Peter Delmas
NAS — Michael Del Zotto, Joonas Rask, Charles Roussel
NJ — Riley Boychuk, Harry Young (Young to sign an AHL deal, Chere reports)
NYI — Marc Cantin, Joey Diamond, Matt Mangene
NYR — Justin Falk, Kyle Jean, Scott Stajcer, Kyle Beach, Jason Wilson
PHI — Cal Heeter, Kyle Flanagan, Marc-Andre Bourdon, Tyler Brown, Cullen Eddy, Tyler Hostetter
STL — Tyler Shattock, Brett Ponich
SJ — Nick Petrecki, Sena Acolatse, Adam Comrie, Brodie Reid, Sebastian Stalberg, Marek Viedensky
TB — Keith Aulie, Anders Lindback, Charles Landry, Geoff Walker
VAN — Jordan Schroeder, Zac Dalpe
WAS — Nicolas Deschamps, Brett Flemming, Peter LeBlanc
WIN — Matt Halischuk, Keaton Ellerby, James Wright, Cody Sol