This is our annual exercise in stupidity/futility (since we’ll find them out soon enough), but just to compile: Players who reportedly will not be tendered a qualifying offer or whose contract has been bought out (‘B’ denotes buyout):
ANA–Bobby Bolt, Shawn Weller, J.P. Levasseur
BOS–Daniel Paille, Kevin Regan
BUF–Mike Kostka, Matt Generous
CAL (unconfirmed, coupled with CapGeek)–Brad Cole
CLB–Kevin Lalande, Dan LaCosta, Andrei Plekhanov, Jordan Smotherman
DAL — Tyler Shelast
EDM (unconfirmed, coupled with CapGeek)–Bryan Lerg, Marc-Andre Pouliot, Viacheslav Trukhno, Josef Hrabal, Geoff Paukovich, Ryan Potulny
FLA — Pete Aston, Luke Beaverson, Dan Collins, Andrew Sweetland, Nick Tarnasky
MIN — Jamie Fraser, Morten Madsen
MON — Georges Laraque (B)
NJD–Brad Snetsinger, Myles Stoesz
NYI — Sean Bentivoglio, Sean Bergenheim, Jeff Tambellini
NYR–Enver Lisin
PIT–Aaron Boogaard, Jon D’Aversa
STL — (Thoroughly unconfirmed; assumes team’s qualified list is complete and CapGeek’s list is complete) Ben Bishop (still under contract), Joe Fallon, Nikolai Lemtugov, Alexander Hellstrom, Pierre-Cedric Labrie
SJS–Matt Jones, Daniel Rahimi, Michael Vernace
TB — Chris Lawrence, Lauri Tukonen, Radek Smolenak
TOR–Matt Jones, John Mitchell, Phil Oreskovic
We’ll add on the fly; point ’em out if you see ’em. Was otherwise occupied this week and probably should be next week — aw, always looking for something to do on break in Cromwell — so I’ll need all the help I can get. BTW, per the CBA, qualifying offers aren’t due until Monday, June 28, at 5 p.m.