| Player | Team | Pos | Status | 2008-09 Salary | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sakic, Joe | COL | C | UFA | 6,000,000 | 40 | 0 |
| Sundin, Mats | VAN | C | UFA | 5,626,500 | 78 | 0 |
| Zubov, Sergei | DAL | D | UFA | 5,350,000 | 35 | 0 |
| Fernandez, Manny | BOS | G | UFA | 4,750,000 | 0 | 2 |
| Fedorov, Sergei | WAS | C | UFA | 4,000,000 | 41 | 0 |
| Hatcher, Derian | PHI | D | UFA | 3,500,000 | 7 | 0 |
| Backman, Christian | CLB | D | UFA | 3,400,000 | 18 | 0 |
| Zherdev, Nikolai | NYR | RW | UFA | 3,250,000 | 61 | 0 |
| Havelid, Niclas | NJ | D | UFA | 2,900,000 | 14 | 0 |
| de Vries, Greg | NAS | D | UFA | 2,750,000 | 15 | 0 |
| Boucher, Philippe | PIT | D | UFA | 2,500,000 | 14 | 0 |
| Holik, Bobby | NJ | C | UFA | 2,500,000 | 34 | 0 |
| Kozlov, Viktor | WAS | C | UFA | 2,500,000 | 54 | 0 |
| McLaren, Kyle | SJ | D | UFA | 2,500,000 | 11 | 0 |
| Sillinger, Mike | NYI | C | UFA | 2,300,000 | 26 | 0 |
| Gauthier, Denis | LA | D | UFA | 2,200,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Kalinin, Dmitri | PHO | D | UFA | 2,100,000 | 8 | 0 |
| Axelsson, Per-Johan | BOS | LW | UFA | 1,850,000 | 29 | 0 |
| Gerber, Martin | TOR | G | UFA | 1,850,000 | 2 | 30 |
| Dandenault, Mathieu | MON | D | UFA | 1,750,000 | 14 | 0 |
| Zednik, Richard | FLA | RW | UFA | 1,750,000 | 26 | 0 |
| Bonk, Radek | NAS | C | UFA | 1,600,000 | 29 | 0 |
| Kolzig, Olaf | TOR | G | UFA | 1,500,000 | 2 | 25 |
| Peca, Michael | CLB | C | UFA | 1,315,000 | 34 | 0 |
| Ouellet, Michel | VAN | RW | UFA | 1,300,000 | 36 | 0 |
| Bell, Mark | TOR | LW | UFA | 1,250,000 | 10 | 0 |
| Bell, Mark | NYR | LW | UFA | 1,250,000 | 10 | 0 |
| Malik, Marek | TB | D | UFA | 1,250,000 | 10 | 0 |
| Svitov, Alexander | CLB | C | RFA* | 1,250,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Peltonen, Ville | FLA | LW | UFA | 1,200,000 | 20 | 0 |
| Numminen, Teppo | BUF | D | UFA | 1,100,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Roenick, Jeremy | SJ | C | UFA | 1,100,000 | 33 | 0 |
| Babchuk, Anton | CAR | D | RFA* | 1,000,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Hinote, Dan | STL | RW | UFA | 1,000,000 | 10 | 0 |
| Melichar, Josef | TB | D | UFA | 1,000,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Nilson, Marcus | CGY | LW | UFA | 1,000,000 | 5 | 0 |
| Vaananen, Ossi | VAN | D | UFA | 1,000,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Radulov, Alexander | NAS | RW | RFA | 984,200 | 58 | 0 |
| Schwarz, Marek | STL | G | UFA | 984,200 | 0 | 0 |
| Kukkonen, Lasse | PHI | D | UFA | 900,000 | 5 | 0 |
| Fritsche, Dan | MIN | C | RFA* | 875,000 | 22 | 0 |
| Pesonen, Janne | PIT | LW | UFA | 875,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Hedican, Bret | ANA | D | UFA | 870,500 | 17 | 0 |
| Bourret, Alex | PHO | RW | RFA | 850,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Kontiola, Petri | ANA | C | RFA | 850,000 | 5 | 0 |
| Pokulok, Sasha | WAS | D | RFA | 850,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Zagrapan, Marek | BUF | C | RFA | 850,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Denisov, Vladimir | NYR | D | RFA* | 837,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Cullimore, Jassen | FLA | D | UFA | 830,000 | 13 | 0 |
| Piskula, Joe | LA | D | RFA* | 803,250 | 0 | 0 |
| Novotny, Jiri | CLB | C | RFA* | 800,000 | 22 | 0 |
| Shanahan, Brendan | NJ | LW | UFA | 800,000 | 46 | 0 |
| Tellqvist, Mikael | BUF | G | UFA | 800,000 | 1 | 9 |
| Murray, Brady | LA | LW | RFA* | 782,720 | 2 | 0 |
| Brisebois, Patrice | MON | D | UFA | 750,000 | 11 | 0 |
| Chelios, Chris | DET | D | UFA | 750,000 | 12 | 0 |
| Lundqvist, Joel | DAL | C | UFA | 750,000 | 14 | 0 |
| Perrin, Eric | ATL | C | UFA | 750,000 | 47 | 0 |
| Stephenson, Logan | CHI | D | RFA | 750,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Tjarnqvist, Daniel | COL | D | UFA | 750,000 | 0 | 0 |
| York, Mike | CLB | LW | UFA | 750,000 | 15 | 0 |
| Babin, Noah | CAR | D | RFA* | 735,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Nikulin, Alexander | PHO | C | RFA | 725,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Ramo, Karri | TB | G | RFA | 725,000 | 1 | 7 |
| Soderberg, Carl | BOS | C | RFA | 725,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Stapleton, Tim | TOR | RW | RFA* | 725,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Bacashihua, Jason | COL | G | RFA* | 708,092 | 0 | 0 |
| Joseph, Curtis | TOR | G | UFA | 700,000 | 0 | 3 |
| Weekes, Kevin | NJ | G | UFA | 700,000 | 0 | 2 |
| Tukonen, Lauri | TB | RW | RFA | 688,940 | 0 | 0 |
| Hamilton, Ryan | TOR | LW | RFA | 685,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Pock, Thomas | NYI | D | UFA | 685,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Smith, Trevor | NYI | C | RFA | 685,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Battaglia, Bates | TOR | LW | UFA | 675,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Fox, Thomas Joseph | SJ | C | RFA | 650,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Isbister, Brad | OTT | LW | UFA | 650,000 | 11 | 0 |
| Sanford, Curtis | VAN | G | UFA | 650,000 | 1 | 4 |
| Shantz, David | FLA | G | RFA | 650,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Zigomanis, Michael | PIT | C | UFA | 650,000 | 4 | 0 |
| Funk, Michael | BUF | D | RFA | 635,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Wagner, Steve | STL | D | RFA* | 635,000 | 8 | 0 |
| Berti, Adam | CHI | LW | RFA | 625,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Gagnon, Aaron | DAL | C | RFA | 625,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Gratton, Chris | CLB | C | UFA | 625,000 | 21 | 0 |
| Klee, Ken | PHO | D | UFA | 625,000 | 10 | 0 |
| Mcdonald, Colin | EDM | RW | RFA | 625,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Mckenzie, Jim | OTT | RW | RFA | 625,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Rogers, Andy | TOR | D | RFA | 625,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Rohlfs, David | EDM | RW | RFA | 612,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Brown, David | PIT | G | UFA | 610,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Colliton, Jeremy | NYI | C | RFA* | 605,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Richmond, Danny | STL | D | RFA* | 605,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Stoner, Clayton | MIN | D | RFA* | 605,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Boumedienne, Josef | TOR | D | UFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Devereaux, Boyd | TOR | C | UFA | 600,000 | 17 | 0 |
| Earl, Robert | MIN | LW | RFA | 600,000 | 1 | 0 |
| Joudrey, Andrew | WAS | C | RFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Kaspar, Lukas | SJ | RW | RFA* | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Ledin, Per | COL | LW | UFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Leneveu, David | ANA | G | RFA* | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Niskala, Janne | TB | D | UFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Nycholat, Lawrence | COL | D | UFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Ogordonikov, Sergei | NYI | C | RFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Ramholt, Tim | NAS | D | RFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Schaefer, Nolan | MIN | G | UFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Sprukts, Janis | FLA | C | UFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Wharton, Kyle | CLB | D | RFA | 600,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Lewis, Grant | ATL | D | RFA | 587,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Albers, Paul | MIN | LW | RFA | 585,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Dakers, Taylor | SJ | G | RFA | 585,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Salcido, Brian | ANA | D | RFA | 585,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Lammers, John | DAL | LW | RFA | 583,300 | 0 | 0 |
| Pinizzotto, Steven | WAS | RW | RFA | 580,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Moore, Greg | NYR | RW | RFA* | 577,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Landry, Jon | CLB | D | RFA | 575,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Morris, Mike | SJ | RW | RFA* | 575,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Goulet, Stephane | EDM | RW | RFA | 565,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Painchaud, Chad | ANA | LW | RFA | 565,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Westgarth, Kevin | LA | RW | RFA | 560,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Foster, Alex | TOR | C | RFA* | 555,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Raduns, Nate | PHI | RW | RFA* | 555,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Aubin, Jean-Sebastien | PHI | G | UFA | 550,000 | 0 | 5 |
| Glumac, Mike | MON | C | UFA | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Hoffman, Mike | ATL | RW | UFA | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Lehoux, Yanick | MON | C | UFA | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Mannino, Peter | NYI | G | RFA* | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| McLean, Kurtis | NYI | RW | UFA | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Motzko, Joe | ATL | RW | UFA | 550,000 | 4 | 0 |
| Stevenson, Grant | ATL | C | UFA | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Stone, Ryan | EDM | C | RFA* | 550,000 | 1 | 0 |
| Turple, Dan | ATL | G | RFA | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Voloshenko, Roman | MIN | LW | RFA | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Walser, Derrick | TOR | D | UFA | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Wilson, Landon | DAL | RW | UFA | 550,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Hunter, Dylan | BUF | LW | RFA | 541,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Young, Bryan | EDM | D | RFA | 540,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Morin, Travis | WAS | C | RFA | 535,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Pihlstrom, Antti | NAS | LW | RFA | 530,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Rodney, Bryan | CAR | D | RFA* | 530,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Vigilante, John | CLB | LW | RFA | 525,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Barnes, Joe | NYR | C | RFA | 525,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Boyce, Darryl | TOR | C | RFA* | 525,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Ellis-plante, Julien | VAN | G | RFA | 525,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Green, Josh | ANA | C | UFA | 525,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Iggulden, Mike | NYI | C | UFA | 525,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Lessard, Junior | NYI | RW | UFA | 525,000 | 2 | 0 |
| Naurov, Alexander | DAL | LW | RFA | 525,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Rome, Ashton | SJ | RW | RFA | 525,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Sabourin, Dany | EDM | G | UFA | 525,000 | 0 | 10 |
| Filewich, Jonathan | STL | RW | RFA* | 522,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Fitzgerald, Zach | VAN | D | RFA* | 522,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Glass, Jeff | OTT | G | RFA* | 522,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Sharrow, James | CHI | D | RFA* | 522,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Stewart, Anthony | FLA | C | RFA* | 522,500 | 2 | 0 |
| Dennis, Adam | BUF | G | RFA | 520,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Taylor, Daniel | LA | G | RFA | 517,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Lehman, Scott | ATL | D | RFA | 515,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Macdonald, Craig | CLB | C | UFA | 515,000 | 10 | 0 |
| Seitsonen, Aki | CGY | C | RFA | 515,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Aubin, Mathieu | MON | C | RFA | 512,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Borer, Casey | CAR | D | RFA | 510,000 | 3 | 0 |
| Jones, Blair | TB | C | RFA | 510,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Karlsson, Mattias | OTT | D | RFA | 510,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Lukacevic, Ned | BOS | LW | RFA | 508,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Cormier, Kevin | NJ | LW | RFA | 505,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Cracknell, Adam | CGY | RW | RFA | 505,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Kaip, Rylan | ATL | C | RFA* | 505,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Petruzalek, Jakub | CAR | RW | RFA | 505,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Rabbit, Wacey | BOS | C | RFA | 505,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Spurgeon, Tyler | EDM | C | RFA | 505,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Anderson, Chad | MON | D | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Aubin, Brent | TOR | RW | RFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Birner, Michal | ANA | LW | RFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Bisaillon, Sebastien | EDM | D | RFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Boguniecki, Eric | ANA | C | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Bouck, Tyler | BUF | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Cavanagh, Tom | SJ | RW | UFA | 500,000 | 1 | 0 |
| Corazzini, Carl | EDM | C | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Cullen, Mark | VAN | C | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Disalvatore, Jon | NJ | RW | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Downey, Aaron | DET | RW | UFA | 500,000 | 3 | 0 |
| Dubielewicz, Wade | CLB | G | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 9 |
| Flinn, Ryan | MON | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Flood, Mark | CAR | D | RFA* | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Foy, Matt | STL | RW | RFA* | 500,000 | 8 | 0 |
| Fritz, Mitchell | NYI | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Gelech, Randall | DET | RW | RFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Germyn, Carsen | CGY | C | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Gove, David | PIT | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Hambly, Tim | CHI | D | RFA* | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Henry, Alex | MON | D | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Hoggan, Jeff | PHO | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| James, Connor | PIT | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 1 | 0 |
| Kelly, Steve | CLB | C | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Kemp, T.J. | MON | D | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Kolanos, Krystofer | MIN | C | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Laing, Quintin | WAS | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 6 | 0 |
| Larose, Cory | SJ | C | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemieux, Claude | SJ | RW | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Lindstrom, Joakim | PHO | C | RFA* | 500,000 | 7 | 0 |
| Lundbohm, Bryan | MIN | C | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| MacIntyre, Drew | NAS | G | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Mauldin, Greg | OTT | C | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Minard, Christopher | PIT | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 2 | 0 |
| Mink, Graham | WAS | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Mojzis, Tomas | MIN | D | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Murley, Matt | CAR | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 1 | 0 |
| Pineault, Adam | CHI | RW | RFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Regier, Steve | STL | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Reich, Jeremy | BOS | LW | UFA | 500,000 | 4 | 0 |
| Sigalet, Jonathan | CLB | D | RFA | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Waugh, Geoff | OTT | D | RFA* | 500,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Wirtanen, Petteri | ANA | C | RFA | 500,000 | 5 | 0 |
| Dravecky, Vladimir | LA | RW | RFA | 497,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Card, Mike | BUF | D | RFA | 495,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Gionta, Stephen | NJ | RW | RFA* | 490,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Machesney, Daren | WAS | G | RFA | 490,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Westgarth, Brett | SJ | D | UFA | 480,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Wilson, Kelsey | NAS | LW | RFA | 480,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Bonneau, Jimmy | BUF | LW | RFA* | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Boulerice, Jesse | COL | RW | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Boutin, Jonathan | SJ | G | RFA* | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Buckley, Brendan | SJ | D | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Coulombe, Patrick | VAN | D | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Emmerson, Riley | MIN | D | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Fraser, Jamie | NYI | D | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Fretter, Colton | BUF | C | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Helmer, Bryan | WAS | D | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Hendrikx, Trevor | CLB | D | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Heward, Jamie | TOR | D | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Holt, Chris | STL | G | RFA* | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Keller, Justin | TB | LW | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Lacasse, Loic | MON | G | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Lacouture, Dan | CAR | LW | UFA | 475,000 | 1 | 0 |
| Latendresse, Olivier | MON | C | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Linglet, Charles | STL | LW | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Macdonald, Franklin | FLA | D | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| MacKenzie, Aaron | COL | D | RFA* | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| McKenna, Mike | TB | G | RFA* | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Mormina, Joey | PIT | D | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Murphy, Ryan | NJ | C | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Murphy, Colin | BUF | LW | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Murray, Garth | PHO | LW | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Nesbitt, Derek | PHO | RW | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Pitton, Jason | NYI | LW | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Pohl, Petr | CLB | RW | RFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Ryan, Michael | CAR | C | UFA | 475,000 | 8 | 0 |
| Vrana, Petr | NJ | LW | RFA* | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Wiseman, Chad | NJ | LW | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Yonkman, Nolan | NAS | D | UFA | 475,000 | 0 | 0 |