Sharks Jersey # Order

Note on waiver exemption - this is the player's status as of the start of the season. So playing the number of games indicated will remove their waiver exemption.

NHL roster (25+3): 2G, 7+2D, 16+1F

I am not keeping up with NHL/AHL league movement on this page.

NHL contracts (49+4) active until at least 6/30/2024:

Goalies (6): Blackwood, Chrona (ELS), Cooley, Mankiniemi, Romanov (ELS), Vanecek

Defense (15+1): Addison, Benning, Burroughs, Emberson, Ferraro, Guryev (ELS), Knyzhov (ELS), Laroque (ELS), MacDonald, Mukhamadullin, Pulli (ELS), Rutta, Thompson, Thrum (ELS), Vlasic; **Furlong (ELS)

Forwards (28+3): Bailey, Barabonov, Bordeleau (ELS), Bystedt (ELS), Cardwell (ESL), Carpenter, Coe (ELS), Couture, Eklund (ELS), Graf (ELS), Granlund, Gushchin (ELS), Hoffman, Kostin, Kunin, Labanc, Lindblom, Peterson, Robins (ELS), Russell, Sabourin, G Smith, Studnicka, Sturm, Todd, Weisblatt (ELS), Zadina, Zetterlund; **Edstrom (ELS), **Halttunen (ELS), **Musty (ELS)

Legend: ** ELS slidable contract, NHL, NHL IR, AHL, ECHL. On loan to Junior (overaer)/European team. ~~Suspended~~. [[name]] non-roster (preseson injury, visa issues, covid protocol, NHL investigation, etc). [covid, but still on roster] ((getting out of covid))

AHL roster:

AHL deals (9) 2023-24: Gabriel Carriere (ATO), Jeremie Bucheler (ATO), Donovan Houle (ATO), Lucas Vanroboys (ATO), Luke Grainger (ATO)

Goalie (1): Beck Warm

Defense (2+1): Akim Aliu (PTO), Ethan Frisch, Roman Kinal

Forward (6): Cole Cassels, Joe Carroll, Tanner Kaspick, Connor MacEachern, Bradley Marek, Anthony Vincent

Number	Name	Birth Country	League playing in	Social Media	Position	Shoots/ Catches	Birthday	Acquired	Links (Stats, Bios, etc.)	Under Contract 'Till	Waiver Exempt 23-24
1	Devin Cooley	USA	NHL		Goalie	Left	5/25/1997	TR240308	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL	240630	N Cleared 10/23
1	Beck Warm	Canada	ECHL		Goalie	Right	4/22/1999	FA230811	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 AHL	N/A
2	Will Smith	USA	Boston College HE (#6, '27)		Center	Right	3/17/2005	ED23/1/4	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| College	-	n/a
3	Henry Thrun	USA	NHL		Defense	Left	3/12/2001	TR230228	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 ELS	Y2/72
4	Kyle Burroughs	Canada	NHL		Defense / Forward	Right	7/12/1995	FA230701	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	260630	N
5	Matt Benning	Canada	NHL IR		Defense	Right	5/25/1994	FA220713	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	270630	N
6	Ty Emberson	USA	NHL		Defense	Right	5/23/2000	WA230930	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630	N
7	Nico Sturm	Germany	NHL		Center	Left	5/3/1995	FA220713	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630	N
9	Jacob MacDonald	USA	AHL		Defense / Forward	Left	2/26/1993	TR230125	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630	N
11	Luke Kunin	USA	NHL		Center	Right	12/4/1997	TR220708	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630	N
13	Quentin Musty	USA	OHL Sudbury		Left	Left	7/6/2005	ED23/1/26	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| College	3-year ELS	Y5/160
14	Kasper Halttunen	Finland	OHL London		Wing	Right	6/7/2005	ED23/2/36	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	3-year ELS	Y5/160
16	Jack Studnicka	Canada	AHL		Center	Right	2/18/1999	TR231215	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL	240630	N Cleared 11/?
17	Thomas Bordeleau	USA	AHL		Center	Left	1/3/2002	ED20/2/38	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 ELC	Y2/144
18	Filip Zadina	Czech Republic	NHL	x	Right	Left	11/27/1999	FA230710	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630	N
20	Fabian Zetterlund	Sweden	NHL		Right	Right	8/25/1999	TR230226	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630	N
21	Filip Bystedt	Sweden	Sweden Jr		Center	Left	2/4/2004	ED22/1/27	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Europe	3-year ELS	Y4/160
22	Ryan Carpenter	USA	NHL		Right	Right	1/18/1991	FA140324 / FA230701	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL	240630	N
23	Oskar Lindblom	Sweden	AHL		Left	Left	8/15/1996	FA220713	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630	N Cleared 10/7
24	Jacob Peterson	Sweden	AHL		Left	Left	7/19/1999	TR230303	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630	N Cleared 10/7
26	Jack Thompson	Canada	AHL		Defense	Right	3/19/2002	TR240307	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630 ELS	Y2/159
28	Gannon Laroque	Canada	AHL		Defense	Right	8/20/2003	ED21/4/103	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	260630 ELS	Y3/160
29	Mackenzie Blackwood	Canada	NHL		Goalie	Left	12/9/1996	TR230627	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630	N
30	Magnus Chrona	Sweden	NHL		Goalie	Left	8/28/2000	TR210412	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| College	250630 ELS	Y3/60
31	Georgi Romanov	Russia	AHL		Goalie	Right	12/15/1999	FA230503	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630 ELS	Y2/60
32	Eetu Makiniemi	Finland	AHL		Goalie	Left	4/19/1999	TR220713	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630	Y2/58
33	Calen Addison	Canada	NHL		Defense	Right	4/11/2000	TR231108	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630	N
35	Mason Beaupit	Canada	BCHL		Goalie	Left	9/23/2003	ED22/4/108	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	BFO	-
37	Alex Young	Canada	ECAC Colgate ('24)		Center	Right	3/22/2001	ED20/7/196	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| College	-	-
38	Mario Ferraro	Canada	NHL		Defense	Left	9/17/1998	ED17/2/49	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	260630	N
39	Logan Couture	Canada	NHL		Center	Left	3/28/1989	ED07/1/9	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF	270630 NTC	N
40	Evgenii Kashnikov	Russia	KHL		Defense	Left	12/25/2002	ED21/7/199	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	(rights held indefinitely)	-
41	Tanner Kaspick	Canada	AHL		Forward	Left	1/28/1998	FA230918	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 AHL	N/A
42	Luca Cagnoni	Canada	WHL		Defense	Left	12/21/2004	ED23/4/123	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	-	n/a
43	Michael Fisher	USA	Northeastern HE (#16, '27)		Defense	Right	5/2/2004	ED22/3/76	NHL \| IHDB\| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| College	BFO	=
44	Marc-Edouard Vlasic	Canada	NHL		Defense	Left	3/30/1987	ED05/2/35	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF	260630 NTC	N
45	Nathan Todd	Canada	AHL		Center	Left	12/2/1995	FA230703	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630	N Cleared 10/2
46	Cam Lund	USA	Northeastern HE (#12, '26)		Center	Right	6/7/2004	ED22/2/34	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| College	-	-
47	Axel Landen	Sweden	Swe-Jr		Defense	Right	3/29/2005	ED23/5/130	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	-	n/a
49	Scott Sabourin	Canada	AHL		Right	Right	7/30/1992	FA230701	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630	N Cleared 10/2
50	Joey Muldowney	USA	USHL Des Moines		Right	Right	6/5/2004	ED22/6/172	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	BFO	-
51	Collin Graf		NHL		Center	Right	9/21/2002	FA240404	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	260630 ELS	Y3/80
52	Tristen Robins	Canada	AHL		Right	Right	11/15/2001	ED20/2/56	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630 ELS	Y2/157
54	Givani Smith	Canada	NHL		Right	Left	2/27/1998	FA230701	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL	250630	N
55	David Klee	USA	USHL/ND		Center	Left	5/10/2005	ED23/7/196	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior \| College	-	n/a
56	Ethan Cardwell	Canada	AHL		Right	Right	8/30/2002	ED21/4/121	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	260630 ELS
58	Mitchell Russell	Canada	ECHL		Right	Right	3/26/2001	FA220519	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630 ELS	Y2/80
60	Cole Cassels	USA	AHL		Center	Right	5/4/1995	FA230911	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 AHL	N/A
61	Jake Furlong	Canada	QMJHL Halifax		Defense	Left	3/4/2004	ED22/5/140	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	3-year ELS	Y5/160
62	Kevin Labanc	USA	NHL		Right	Right	12/12/1995	ED14/6/171	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL	240630	N
63	Roman Kinal	USA	AHL	x	Defense	Left	7/20/1998	FA230315	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 AHL	N/A
64	Mikael Granlund	Finland	NHL		Center	Left	2/26/1992	TR230806	NHL \| IHDB\| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF	250630	N
68	Mike Hoffman	Canada	NHL		Left	Left	11/24/1989	TR180619 TR230806	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF	240630	N
70	Brandon Coe	Canada	AHL		Right	Right	12/1/2001	ED20/4/98	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 ELS	Y1/160
71	Nikolai Knyzhov	Russia	NHL		Defense	Left	3/20/1998	FA190702	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630	N
72	William Eklund	Sweden	NHL		Left	Left	10/12/2002	ED21/1/7	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	260630 ELS	Y2/143
74	Connor MacEachern	Canada	AHL		Forward	Left	7/30/1999	FA230403	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 AHL	N/A
75	Danil Gushchin	Russia	AHL		Left	Left	2/6/2002	ED20/3/76	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630 ELS	Y2/158
76	Anthony Vincent	USA	AHL		Forward	Right	8/12/1997	FA230313	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 AHL	N/A
77	Valtteri Pulli	Finland	AHL		Defense	Left	3/13/2001	FA230503	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630 ELS	y
79	Ethan Frisch	USA	AHL		Defense	Right	10/29/2000	FA230322	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 AHL	N/A
80	Reese Laubach	USA	USHL Youngstown / Penn State ('27?)		Center	Right	11/20/2003	ED22/7/217	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	BFO	-
81	Eli Barnett	Canada	BCHL/Vermont		Defense	Right	9/16/2003	ED22/7/195	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	BFO	-
82	Artem Guryev	Russia	OHL Peterborough -> Flint		Defense	Left	5/17/2003	ED21/5/135	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	260630 ELS
84	Jan Rutta	Czech Republic	NHL		Defense	Right	7/29/1990	TR230806	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF	250630	N
85	Shakir Mukhamadullin	Russia	AHL		Defense	Left	1/10/2002	TR230226	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630 (ELS)	Y2/160
86	Bradley Marek	USA	AHL		Forward	Left	11/13/2000	FA230724	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630 AHL	N/A
88	Brandon Svoboda	USA	USHL / Boston University		Center	Right	2/4/2005	ED23/3/71	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior \| College	-	n/a
89	Ozzy Wiesblatt	Canada	AHL		Right	Right	3/9/2002	ED20/1/31	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630 ELS	Y2/160
90	Justin Bailey	USA	AHL		Right	Right	7/1/1995	FA231127	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL	240630	N
94	Alexander Barabanov	Russia	NHL		Left	Left	6/17/1994	TR21041	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	240630	N
10	Klim Kostin	Rissoa	NHL		Center	Left	5/5/1999	TR240308	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL	250630	N
	Vitek Vanecek	Czech Republic	NHL IR		Goalie	Left	1/9/1996	TR240308	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF	250630	N
18?	David Edstrom	Sweden	Sweden		Center	Left	2/18/2005	TR240308	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	3 year ELS	Y5/160
	Joe Carroll	Canada	AHL		Left	Left	2/1/2001	TR240315	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	250630 AHL	N/A
	Sasha (Alexander) Chmelevski	USA	KHL		Center	Right	6/9/1999	ED17/6/185	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	RFA - QO'd 2022 (signed in KHL through 2024) (Rights held through 2025-26 season)	N
	Emil Galimov		KHL		Left	Left	5/9/1992	ED13/7/207	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| THN \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	(rights held indefinitely)
	Mattias Havelid	Sweden	Sweden Jr		Defense	Right	1/1/2004	ED22/2/45	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	-	-
	Theo Jacobsson	Sweden	Sweden Modo Jr		Center	Left	4/6/2003	ED21/6/167	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	-	-
	Martin Kaut	Czechia	Czech		Right	Right	10/2/1999	TR230125	NHL \| IHDB\| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL	RFA / QO'd 2023 Sgns deal with Czech team	N
	Eric Pohlkamp	USA	USHL		Defense	Right	3/23/2004	ED23/5/132	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	-	n/a
	Yegor Rimashevskiy	Belarus	Russian Jr		Right	Right	2/1/2005	ED23/7/203	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| Junior	-	n/a
41??	Yegor Spiridonov	Russia	KHL SKA St. Petersburg		Center	Right	1/22/2001	ED19/4/108	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| KHL	(rights held indefinitely)	-
	Timofey Spitserov	Russia	Vermont HE ('25, #34)		Right	Left	3/26/2002	ED20/7/210	NHL \| IHDB \| Elite \| NHLPA \| TSN \| CF \| AHL \| ECHL \| College	BFO	-

Below are players in the Sharks' organization under NHL (and/or AHL) contracts that expire Summer 2024.

Goalies: Free none. RFA: Mäkiniemi*. UFA: Cooley. UFA6: none. UFA Warm.

Defense: Free Thrun .RFA: Addison*, Emberson*. UFA: MacDonald. UFA6: none. UFA Frisch, Kinal.

Forwards: Free Bordeleau. RFA: Coe, Kunin*, Peterson*, Studnicka*, Zadina*. UFA: Bailey, Barabanov, Carpenter, Hoffman, Labanc, Lindblom. UFA6: none. UFA Bellerive, Cassels, Kaspick, MacEachern, Marek, Vincent.

Group 1 Free Agent - not enough experience to be group 2

RFA (Group 2); must be re-signed or receive a qualifying offer by 6/30/23 (6/25 or the Monday after the entry draft, whichever is later); otherwise become UFAs. * = arbitration rights.

UFA Group 3: a player age 27 with four accrued seasons or with seven accrued seasons

UFA Group 6: "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 less than 80 NHL games (regular-season and playoff), or (ii) in the case of a goaltender, have played less than 28 NHL games (regular-season and playoff)."

UFA (neither group 3 or 6; or no QO or released or bought out by organization or expiring AHL contract)

RFA-defected; QO'd but not re-signed. Sharks hold rights until player reaches age 27 (UFA age).

Emil Galimov
Martin Kaut

Unsigned Sharks draftees/prospects

2019: C Yegor Spiridonov (KHL)

2020: C Alex Young (college, '24), R Timofey Spitserov (college, '25)

2021: C Theo Jacobsson (Europe), D Evgenii Kashnikov (KHL)

2022: C Cam Lund (college, '26), D Mattias Havelid (Europe), D Michael Fisher (USHL), G Mason Beaupit (WHL), R Joey Muldowney (USHL), D Eli Barnett (BCHL), C Reese Laubach (USHL, '27?)

2023: C Will Smith (college), C Brandon Svoboda (college), D Luca Cagnoni (WHL), D Axel Landen (Sweden), D Eric Pohlkamp (USHL/college), C David Klee (USHL/college), RW Yegor Rimashevskiy (Belarus)

Which draftees do the Sharks need to sign/make contract offers to:

Sharks have to offer contracts to any college players leaving college before graduation (e.g., freshman, sophomore, junior) by June 1 of the year they leave college. (Potentially: Spitserov, Lund, Laubach, Smith, Svoboda, Pohlkamp, Klee)
Sharks have until June 1, 2024 to sign major junior players who received bona fide offers in 2023. (Cagnoni) p
Sharks have until June 1, 2024 to offer contracts to major junior players drafted in 2022. (But will still have their rights for another year.) (Beaupit)
Sharks have to sign their 2024 college graduating draftees/prospects by August 15, 2024 or (potentially) lose them as free agents. (Young)
IIHF European players - rights held until age 27? (none this year)
Defected players/rights held indefinitely:
- Galimov
- Kashnikov
- Rimashevsky
- Spiridonov

Notes

Each NHL team is limited to having fifty (50) players signed to NHL contracts. (Players aged 18 or 19 playing in North American major junior leagues or Europe are excluded from that number.) Each NHL team may have no more than ninety players in their organizational depth chart.

The average salary for 2018-19 was $3,244,126.

NHL Salary cap (per team) for 2021-22 is $81.5m.

NHL salary cap (per team) for 2022-23 is $82.5m.

If the club/team wishes to take a player to arbitration, they have from June 15 or 48 hours after Stanley Cup being awarded (first period) or 5:01pm ET July 5 to 5pm ET July 6 to elect arbitration. A team can take a player to arbitration only once (but a player can elect arbitration as many times as he wants). If a team takes a player to arbitration, they cannot walk away from the award. If a player-elected arbitration award is $4,084,219 (2017)or greater, teams can "walk away" from the arbitration (and match negotiated contract up to 85% of arbitration award with new club).

The minimum NHL player salary is 2021-22 $750,000.

QO amounts from CBA: Article 10.2 (a)(ii) Players earning $660,000 or less will be entitled to qualifying offers (QO) at 110% of their prior year’s salary; players earning more than $660,000 and up to $1 million will be entitled to QOs at 105% of prior year’s salary (but not to exceed $1 million); players earning more than $1 million will be entitled to QO at 100% of their prior year’s salary.

Official free agent list and RFA compensation

OFFER COMPENSATION 2023-24
Offer Sheet (AAV)	Compensation
$1,415,740 or below	None
Over $1,415,740 to $2,145,061	3rd
Over $2,145,061 to $4,290,125	2nd
Over $4,290,125 to $6,435,186	1st, 3rd
Over $6,435,186 to $8,580,250	1st, 2nd, 3rd
Over $8,580,250 to $10,725,314	(2) 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Over $10,725,314	(4) 1st

Arbitration-eligible players must elect arbitration by July 5, 2018. See CBA Article 12. 2019 arbitration walk away: over $4,397,832

Age of signing NHL contract	Years professional experience
18-20	4 years
21	3 years
22-23	2 years
24+	1 year

Nominally, Accrued Season means any league year during which a player was on a club's active NHL roster for 40 (30 if the player is a goalie) or more regular season games.

NHL = NHL.com (NHL San Jose Sharks)
IHDB = hockeydb.com (Internet Hockey Database)
Elite - Elite Prospects
NHLPA = nhlpa.com (NHL Players' Assocation)
TSN = tsn.ca/nhl
CF = CapFriendly.com
AHL = theahl.com
+ = NHL Rookie
IR = injured reserve
ED = entry draft (YY/R/OOO - year, round, overall)
TR = trade (YYMMDD - year, month, day)
FA = free agency signing (YYMMDD - year, month, day)
RFA = contract expired; new negotiations in progress
? (only) = prospect in organization with unknown assignment for upcoming season. May have completed college, may be ready to leave juniors.
YYMMDD? - esimated ELS contract expiration
R = pro rookie
V = AHL veteran
(nn) = jersey number worn at camp

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