diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ServerManager.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ServerManager.java
index 25144b8155b..a9b1f17b5ea 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ServerManager.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ServerManager.java
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ZooKeeperConnectionException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClusterConnection;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionFactory;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.ServerNotRunningYetException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RetriesExhaustedException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.balancer.BaseLoadBalancer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.procedure.ServerCrashProcedure;
@@ -68,7 +67,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf.generated.ClusterStatusProtos.StoreSeque
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf.generated.ZooKeeperProtos.SplitLogTask.RecoveryMode;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.RegionOpeningState;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.RegionServerStoppedException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Triple;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.RetryCounter;
@@ -926,11 +924,6 @@ public class ServerManager {
           return info != null && info.hasServerName()
             && server.getStartcode() == info.getServerName().getStartCode();
         }
-      } catch (RegionServerStoppedException | ServerNotRunningYetException e) {
-        if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-          LOG.debug("Couldn't reach " + server, e);
-        }
-        break;
       } catch (IOException ioe) {
         if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
           LOG.debug("Couldn't reach " + server + ", try=" + retryCounter.getAttemptTimes() + " of "