
2018-19 Free Agent Team Lists - North Division
Our AHL Team-by-Team Lists Continue!
It's that time of the year! With the NHL Entry Draft complete and the restricted free agent deadline now past us, it won't be too long before the start of free agency.
Here at Inside AHL Hockey, we aim to be a source for all AHL-related off-season news/notes/transactions throughout the summer.
Back again this summer is our team-by-team lists, now broken down by division for a clearer look at each of the 30 AHL clubs - their free agents (both NHL and AHL, RFA/UFA) and more.
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As soon as all four divisions' team lists are published online, I'll add links to the others below.
2017-18 Atlantic Division Team Lists2017-18 Central Division Team Lists
2017-18 Pacific Division Team Lists
After the jump, fans of North Division teams - Binghamton, Belleville, Laval, Rochester, Syracuse, Toronto and Utica - can take a look at how their favorite team is shaping up for the 2017-18 season prior to the start of free agency on July 1st.
Don't worry Cleveland, we didn't forget about you. The Cleveland Monsters come to the Eastern Conference for the 2018-19 season and fans in the North Division will get an early look at some of the names to familiarize in the Columbus Blue Jackets organization.
DISCLAIMER: For the sake of arguments over whether the under contract guys will be AHL or NHL players in 2017-18, I generally kept players on AHL rosters of they finished last year in the AHL or played an overwhelming majority of the season in the minors.
If you think someone is missing from these lists, or have a strong argument that any one of these players are NHL-bound in 2017-18 feel free to mention it in the comments after the article!
North Division
Belleville Senators (Ottawa Senators)
Under Contract
Forwards: Drake Batherson, Logan Brown, Filip Chlapik, Gabriel Gagne, Boston Leier (AHL, year 1 of 1), Aaron Luchuk, Jim O'Brien, Kelly Parker, Ryan Scarfo (AHL, year 1 of 1), Ben Sexton, Andrew Sturtz and Colin White
Defensemen: Julius Bergman, Erik Burgdoerfer, Andreas Englund, Macoy Erkamps, Christian Jaros, Maxime Lajoie, Jordan Murray (AHL, year 2 of 2) and Patrick Sieloff
Goaltenders: Filip Gustavsson and Marcus Hogberg
Impending Free Agents
NHL RFA: forward Nicholas Paul
NHL UFA: goaltender Chris Driedger and forwards Mike Blunden, Nick Moutrey, Tyler Randell and Max Reinhart
AHL UFA: forwards Daniel Ciampini, Kyle Flanagan, Eric Selleck and Ethan Werek
Binghamton Devils (New Jersey Devils)
Austin Cangelosi (Lillehammer - Norway) and Jan Manday (Pardubice - Czech Republic) have signed overseas.
Under Contract
Forwards: Brandon Baddock, Nathan Bastian, John Edwardh (AHL, year 1 of 1), Brandon Gignac, Michael Mcleod, Blake Pietila, John Quenneville, Ryan Schmelzer (AHL, year 1 of 1), Brett Seney, Blake Speers, Marian Studenic
Defensemen: Tariq Hammond (AHL, year 1 of 1), Josh Jacobs, Colby Sissons, Brian Strait, Colton White and Egor Yakovlev
Goaltenders: Mackenzie Blackwood and Cam Johnson
Impending Free Agents
NHL RFA (all received qualifying offers): defenseman Michael Kapla and forwards Nick Lappin and Kevin Rooney
NHL UFA: goaltender Ken Appleby and forwards Bracken Kearns, Michael Latta, Mario Lucia and Ben Thomson
AHL UFA: defenseman Jacob MacDonald and forward Tim Kennedy
Cleveland Monsters (Columbus Blue Jackets)
Under Contract
Forwards: Vitaly Abramov, Paul Bittner, Zac Dalpe, Jonathan Davidsson, Maxime Fortier, Nathan Gerbe, Hayden Hodgson (AHL - year 2 of 2), Justin Scott, Kole Sherwood, Kevin Stenlund, Alexandre Texier, Calvin Thurkauf and Sam Vigneault
Defensemen: Gabriel Carlsson, Ryan Collins, Jacob Graves, Blake Seibenaler and Doyle Somerby
Goaltenders: Jean-Francois Berube and Matiss Kivlenieks
Impending Free Agents
NHL RFA: None
NHL UFA: defensemen Andre Benoit and Cameron Guance and forward Ryan Kujawinski
AHL UFA: goaltenders Ivan Kulbakov and Brad Thiessen, defensemen Brady Austin and Scott Savage and forwards Terry Broadhurst, Brett Gallant, Kale Kessy, Miles Koules and Joe Pendenza
Laval Rocket (Montreal Canadiens)
Under Contract
Forwards: Morgan Adams-Moisan (AHL, year 1 of 1), Jeremiah Addison, Alexandre Alain, Daniel Audette, Will Bitten, Jake Evans, Phelix Martineau (AHL, year 1 of 1), Michael Pezzetta, Lucas Vejdemo, Hayden Verbeek, Antoine Waked
Defensemen: Simon Bourque, Brett Lernout, T.J. Melancon (AHL, year 1 of 1), Michal Moravcik, Adam Plant (AHL, year 1 of 1) Dacid Sklenicka, Matt Taormina and Rinat Valiev
Goaltenders: Charlie Lindgren, Etienne Marcoux (AHL, year 1 of 1) and Michael McNiven
Impending Free Agents
NHL RFA: forwards Michael McCarron and Kerby Rychel
NHL UFA: goalie Zachary Fucale, defenseman Tom Parisi and forwards Adam Cracknell, Jeremy Gregoire and Chris Terry
AHL UFA: defensemen Eric Gelinas and Stefan Leblanc and forwards Jordan Boucher-Gould, David Broll, Thomas Ebbing, Niki Petti and Yannick Veilleux
Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres)
Arvin Atwal, Andrew MacWilliam and Nathan Paetsch all re-signed AHL contracts with Rochester prior to July 1st, while Justin Danforth (Lukko - Finland), Alex Kile (Maine - ECHL) and Adam Krause (retired from pro hockey) have moved on from the organization.
Under Contract
Forwards: Pascal Aquin (AHL - year 1 of 1), Rasmus Asplund, Eric Cornel, Kyle Criscuolo, Vaclav Karabacek, Matt Moulson, Alexander Nylander, Andrew Oglevie, Victor Olofsson, Kevin Porter, Cliff Pu
Defensemen: Arvin Atwal (AHL - year 1 of 1), William Borgen, Taylor Fedun, Brendan Guhle, Andrew MacWilliam (AHL - year 1 of 1), Brycen Martin, Casey Nelson, Nathan Paetsch (AHL - year 1 of 1), Tobie Paquette-Bisson (AHL - year 1 of 2), Lawrence Pilut, Zach Redmond (AHL - year 1 of 2) Devante Stephens and Matt Tennyson
Goaltenders: Jonas Johansson, Linus Ullmark and Adam Wilcox (AHL - year 1 of 1)
Impending Free Agents
NHL RFA: forwards Justin Bailey, Nicholas Baptiste, Sean Malone, Danny O'Regan and C.J. Smith
NHL UFA: goaltenders Jason Kasdorf and forwards Seth Griffith and Mike Sislo
AHL UFA: defenseman Anthony Florentino, Barry Goers, Eric Knodel and Stuart Percy and forwards Colin Blackwell, Sahir Gill, Daniel Muzito-Bagenda, Garret Ross and Dalton Smith
Syracuse Crunch (Tampa Bay Lightning)
Under Contract
Forwards: Olivier Archembault (AHL, year 2 of 2), Alex Barre-Boulet, Troy Bourke (AHL, year 1 of 1), Michael Bournival, Brady Brassart (AHL - year 1 of 1), Anthony Cirelli, Gabriel Dumont, Mathieu Joseph, Boris Katchouk, Taylor Raddysh, Otto Somppi, Mitchell Stephens, Jonne Tammela, Carter Verhaeghe, Alexander Volkov and Dennis Yan
Defensemen: Erik Cernak, Cal Foote, Dominik Masin, Oleg Sosunov, Matthew Spencer, Ben Thomas and Daniel Walcott
Goaltenders: Connor Ingram, Martin Ouellette (AHL, year 1 of 1) and Edward Pasquale
Impending Free Agents
NHL RFA: defensemen Mat Bodie and Jamie McBain and forwards Erik Condra, Alex Gallant and Matthew Peca
NHL UFA: None
AHL UFA: goaltender Olivier Mantha, defenseman Reid McNeill and forwards Shane Conacher and Kevin Lynch
Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Under Contract
Forwards: Jeremy Bracco, Matt Bradley (AHL - year 1 of 1) Adam Brooks, Pierre Engvall, Brady Ferguson (AHL - year 1 of 1), Colin Greening (AHL - year 1 of 1), Carl Grundstrom, Josh Kestner (AHL - year 1 of 1), Par Lindholm, Mason Marchment, Trevor Moore, Chris Mueller, J.J. Piccinich (AHL - year 2 of 2), Derian Plouffe (AHL - year 1 of 1), Scott Pooley (AHL - year 1 of 1) and Dmytro Timashov
Defensemen: Andres Borgman, Timothy Liljegren, Jesper Lindgren, Vincent LoVerde, Andrew Neilsen, Igor Ozhiganov and Calle Rosen
Goaltenders: Kasimir Kaskisuo, Calvin Pickard and Garret Sparks
Impending Free Agents
NHL RFA: defensemen Justin Holl and Martin Marincin and forwards Frederik Gauthier and Andreas Johnsson
NHL UFA: forward Kyle Baun
AHL UFA: goaltenders Cal Heeter and Mackenzie Skapski, defensemen Alex Gudbranson, Sam Jardine snd Jeff King and forwards Rich Clune, Jean Dupuy, Martins Dzierkals, Kristian Pospisil and Josh Winquist
Utica Comets (Vancouver Canucks)
Under Contract
Forwards: Vincent Arseneau (AHL - year 1 of 1), Carter Bancks (AHL - year 1 of 2), Reid Boucher, Michael Carcone, Jonathan Dahlen, Cam Darcy (AHL - year 1 of 1), Nikolay Goldobin, Lukas Jasek, Tanner Kero, Kole Lind, Yan-Pavel Laplante, Zack MacEwen, Tanner MacMaster, Tyler Motte, Petrus Palmu and Elias Pettersson
Defensemen: Dylan Blujus (AHL - year 1 of 1), Guillaume Brisebois, Jalen Chatfield, Jagger Dirk, Evan McEneny, Ashton Sautner and Jaime Sifers (AHL - year 1 of 2)
Goaltenders: Richard Bachman, Thatcher Demko and Michael DiPietro
Impending Free Agents
NHL RFA: None
NHL UFA: defensemen Anton Cederholm and Patrick Wiercioch and forwards Cole Cassels, Joseph Labate, Jayson Megna, Griffen Molino and MazKenze Stewart
AHL UFA: goaltender Michael Garteig, defensemen Adam Comrie and forwards Alexis D'Aoust, Wacey Hamilton, Danny Moynihan and Brendan Woods