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4:25 pm
The Golden Knights of Vegas have signed a $ 19.5 million, three-year contract with the Paul Stastny Center as part of an important day in the free agent market .
Stastny, 32 He collected 53 points last season and 15 more in 19 playoff games with the Winnipeg Jets, who lost to Vegas in the West final.
The Golden Knights also signed a two-year contract with defenseman Nick Holden striker Ryan Reaves, with an advance of $ 5.55 million over two years
16:05
The Columbus Blue Jackets signed a $ 8.25 million contract for three years they lost when Matt Calvert signed with Colorado.
Nash, 29, scored 41 points last season with Boston. There will be $ 2.75 million against the salary cap at Columbus
3:40 pm
The Arizona Coyotes have stepped up their punch, signing Michael Grabner to a three-year contract of an average of $ 3.35 million per season 19659010] Grabner, 30, had 27 goals and nine badists in 80 games with the New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils last season. The Austrian striker has scored 20 goals or more four times in nine seasons, including 27 each of the last two.
Grabner has 158 goals and 91 badists with five teams since he was selected with the 14th pick in the 2006 Vancouver draft.
3:25 pm
The Colorado Avalanche added two free Columbus Blue Jackets agents, signing defenseman Ian Cole and forward Matt Calvert for three-year contracts.
Cole gets $ 12.75 million and Calvert gets $ 8.4 million. The changes are the latest attempts by general manager Joe Sakic to try to improve the appearance of the playoffs last year. Downhill traded to goalkeeper Philipp Grubauer at the NHL draft
Calvert, 28, had nine goals and 15 badists for the Blue Jackets in the regular season . Cole, 29, had 20 points for Columbus and Pittsburgh, and won two Stanley Cups with the Penguins.
3:10 pm
The New York Rangers agreed to terms of $ 8 million, two … year contract with the restricted free agent before Vladislav Namestnikov. The team announced the contract a few hours after the start of the unrestricted free agency.
New York acquired Lightning's Namestnikov at the trading deadline when he sent J.T. Miller and Ryan McDonagh to Tampa Bay. The 25-year-old forward scored 44 points in 81 games with the Lightning and Rangers last season.
Namestnikov will have $ 4 million against the salary cap for each of the next two seasons. Agent Dan Milstein on Twitter earlier in the day refuted rumors that Namestiknov would be interesting to play in the Russian Kontinental Hockey League, claiming that it's not true
2:50 pm
Blake Comeau, veteran of the year with the Dallas Stars worth $ 2.4 million per season
Comeau is a 12-year NHL player who has spent the last three seasons with Colorado. The 32-year-old striker had 13 goals and 21 badists last season, including three under-scoring goals.
Since he debuted in the NHL with the New York Islanders in 2006-2007, he has also played with Calgary, Columbus and Pittsburgh. He was the Islanders' second-round pick in 2004.
The Stars also recruited goaltender Anton Khudobin for a five-year, $ 5 million contract as a likely substitute for Ben Bishop. And they bring winger Valeri Nichushkin on a $ 5.9 million contract over two years after their 10th pick in the 2013 draft, spent the last two seasons playing in his native Russia.
2:05 pm
The San Jose The Sharks have officially announced a $ 64 million extension for eight years with the Logan Couture Center.
The agreement signed Sunday will begin in 2019-2020 and will allow Couture, 29, to win a contract in San Jose in 2026-27 season. Both parties accepted the transaction on Saturday, but were unable to sign it until Couture enters the final year of its $ 30 million five-year contract on Sunday.
Couture was a first-round pick of San Jose in 2007 never wants to leave the franchise. He has become one of the Sharks' best forwards since he debuted in 2009 and he finished a career-high 34-goal season
. He has 213 goals and 224 badists in 582 career games. He was also a playoff player, leading the NHL with 30 points in 2016 when he helped San Jose reach the Stanley Cup final for the first time in the history of the franchise before lose to Pittsburgh in six games.
2:00 pm
The Dallas Stars have recruited standalone goalkeeper Anton Khudobin as part of a five-year, five-million dollar contract as a likely replacement for Ben Bishop.
Khudobin, 32-year-old backup role Tuukka Rask in Boston last season. He made his NHL playoff debut as a relief to Rask in the fifth game of a first-round series against Toronto, playing 27 scoreless minutes in a 4-3 loss.
The addition of Khudobin should mean the end of Kari Lehtonen's nine-year run in Dallas. Lehtonen was the starter of his first six years with the Stars, shared the # 1 role for two seasons with Antti Niemi and played behind Bishop.
Khudobin played in 147 games with 135 starts in nine seasons. Dallas will be his fifth team and he played two seasons with the Bruins.
Kazakhstan was 16-6-7 last season and has a career record of 67-51-16 with a 2.47 goals-against average.
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1:55 pm
The Stanley Cup champion, the Washington Capitals, lost one of his longest tenants: the Jay Beagle Center signed a 12-million-dollar deal dollars with the Vancouver Canucks.
Beagle, 32, won 60% of his faceoffs by helping the Capitals win their first title in the history of the franchise. It will count $ 3 million against the Vancouver wage limit each season
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1:40 pm
A year after allowing several players to go to a free agency, the Pittsburgh Penguins are doing it. The Penguins have brought back veteran Matt Cullen on a $ 650,000 one-year contract and signed a $ 16.25 million deal with defenseman Jack Johnson
Cullen won the Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh in 2016 and 2017 before returning home for the Minnesota Wild. Cullen, 41, had 22 points last season with Minnesota
Johnson, who will be $ 3.25 million against the pay limit for the 2022-23 season, leaving Columbus after more than seven seasons.
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Superstar center John Tavares returns home, accepting a seven-year, $ 77 million contract with his Toronto Maple Leaf children's team.
Tavares announced his intentions on Twitter on Sunday, posting a picture of himself as a child in the Maple Leafs bedding. The team says the deal is worth $ 11 million per season for seven years
The 27-year-old playmaker has met the Leafs, the New York Islanders, the San Jose Sharks , the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars spent the last days in Los Angeles to hear their shots for his services.
Originally from Mississauga, Ont., Tavares had 37 goals and 47 badists for 84 points in 82 games with the Islanders last season. He has 621 points in 669 career regular season games.
Losing Tavares is a blow for the Islanders, who have undergone organizational transformation in recent months under the direction of Scott Malkin and Jon Ledecky. They hired Lou Lamoriello as president of hockey operations and Barry Trotz, new Stanley Cup winner, as coach
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1 pm
Goalkeeper Michael Hutchinson signed a one year contract with Florida. Roberto Luongo and James Reimer were invited to provide depth, and it was well known that Florida would seek to add another goaltender to free will. He played 43 NHL games in four seasons with the Winnipeg Jets for four seasons.
Hutchinson spent most of last season with the Winnipeg Branch in Manitoba's AHL with a record of 2.05-4.
12:50 pm
The Washington Capitals signed a $ 650,000 contract for one year with the Nic Dowd Center and reappointed Travis Boyd for a two-year contract valued at $ 1.6 million. dollars.
make some representations to Jay Beagle, a long-time fourth-line center who was expecting to leave elsewhere for a lucrative long-term contract
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12:45 pm
The Coyotes of the Arizona signed star defender Oliver Ekman-Larsson earned a contract extension of $ 8.25 million a year on average for eight years
. The contract, announced on Sunday, follows a $ 33 million contract signed in 2013 between Ekman and Larsson
The 26-year-old Swede was an All-Star for the second time in his career last season, finishing with 14 goals and 28 badists. Ekman-Larsson is second among Arizona defensemen with 102 career goals and 290 points since he was selected with the sixth pick in the NHL draft in 2009.
L & # 39; Arizona also signed a two-year contract with Niklas Hjalmarsson
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12:40 pm
Tomas Plekanec is back in Montreal after accepting a one-year contract worth 2, $ 25 million with Canadians.
The contract includes an additional bonus clause of the value of the team announced that shortly after the opening of the signing period of the NHL free agency
Selected in the third round of the 2001 Montreal draft, Plekanec spent his first 13 seasons with the Canadiens before being traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in February. He fought in Toronto, where he had only two badists in 17 regular season games, before adding two goals and four points in seven games against Boston.
He has totaled 232 goals and 607 points in 998 career games. . He has 605 career points and Montreal is 13th on the team list
12:38 pm
The St. Louis Blues have added important reinforcements by signing winger David Perron, the center Tyler Bozak and goalkeeper Chad Johnson
Perron signed a $ 16 million contract over four years. Bozak received $ 15 million over three years. Johnson signed for $ 1.75 million on a one-year contract
Perron returns to St. Louis after setting career highs with 50 pbades and 66 points last season with the expansion of Vegas Golden Knights
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The Carolina Hurricanes and goalkeeper Petr Mrazek have agreed on a one-year deal worth $ 1.5 million
The move was announced Sunday after that goaltender Cam Ward has accepted a one – year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks.
General Manager Don Waddell says he expects a "healthy competition" for the starting post, and the Hurricanes have been looking for help during the off season.
Scott Darling opened last season but lost his job. saving the .888 percentage was the worst of the NHL. Darling enters the second year of a $ 16.6 million contract over four years
Mrazek debuted in Detroit, but was traded to Philadelphia in February for two draft picks. He has a career record of 78-64-23 with a 2.66 goals-against average and .911 save percentage.
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12:30 pm
Jared McCann stay with Florida.
The Panthers signed a $ 2.5 million contract for a two-year contract on Sunday. McCann had nine goals and 19 badists last season for Florida, which was not enough for the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Panthers General Manager Dale Tallon explains that McCann has been very active.
McCann came to the Panthers in the case that sent Erik Gudbranson to Vancouver
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12:20 pm
The Tampa Bay Lightning signed defenseman Ryan McDonagh at $ 47.25 million, seven-year contract extension. The agreement begins with the 2019-2020 season.
General Manager Steve Yzerman announced the contract on Sunday, a few minutes after the Lightning and McDonagh were eligible for the extension. Tampa Bay acquired McDonagh from the New York Rangers on the trade deadline. It will count $ 6.75 million against the salary cap.
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12:15 pm
The Dallas Stars bring winger Valeri Nichushkin on a $ 5.9 million contract over two years after their 10th overall pick The 2013 Draft spent the last two seasons playing in his native Russia.
Nichushkin, 23, made his NHL debut as a teenager in 2013 and spent three years in Dallas. His two seasons in Russia were with the Kontinental Hockey League's CKSA Moscow, where he collected 51 points (27 goals, 24 badists) in 86.
Last season, Nichushkin helped the club reach the series KHL with nine points (three goals, six badists) in 19 playoff games.
Nichushkin played in 166 games in the NHL, recording 64 points (23 goals, 41 badists). He was on the only two playoffs that Dallas has produced in the last 10 years in 2014 and 2016.
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12:05 pm
The Chicago Blackhawks signed goalkeeper Cam Ward, l & # Winger Chris Kunitz and defenseman Brandon Manning
Ward and Kunitz each signed one year contracts. The Ward agreement is worth $ 3 million. Manning got a two-year contract
By signing Ward, Chicago caught a veteran goalkeeper on the first day of the free agency after Corey Crawford missed most of last season with an injury to upper body
be ready for the training camp, but improving their situation in the net was one of their top priorities after missing the playoffs for the first time since the 2007-08 season
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noon
The move indicates that the Philadelphia Flyers signed left wing James van Riemsdyk for a five-year, $ 35 million contract. The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the case had not been announced.
Van Riemsdyk is back with the team that has chosen him second overall behind Patrick Kane in the 2007 draft. Now 29, he has scored 36 career goals last season and had 62 career points two years ago. It will count $ 7 million against the salary cap until 2022-23.
This is the largest free rookie of general manager Ron Hextall and the richest in Philadelphia since she awarded goalkeeper Ilya Bryzgalov $ 41.9 million in 2011 -foot-3, a 217-pound forward gives the Flyers a clear power-play advantage and could be a long-term replacement for Wayne Simmonds, who still has a year-long contract
– Stephen Whyno, AP Hockey Editor [1965-19115]
11:00 am
Veteran defenseman Jack Johnson has agreed to sign a five-year $ 16.25 million deal with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
A person with direct knowledge of the negotiations confirmed the agreement. from the contract to the Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement can be announced only after the opening of the signing period of the free agencies at noon Sunday.
Johnson, 31, has spent the last six seasons playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets. , where he has ambaded 36 goals and 118 badists for 154 points in 445 games. He has 12 seasons of experience in the NHL after being selected by Carolina with the # 3 pick in the 2005 draft. The Hurricanes then traded Johnson to Los Angeles the following year
The Penguins reorganize their blue line after trading Matt Hunwick as part of the deal that also sent Conor Sheary to the Buffalo Sabers last week.
– AP Hockey Writer John Wawrow
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10:40 am
The Minnesota Wild brings in some veterans, accepting one-year agreements with Matt Hendricks and Eric Fehr.
The Associated Press the Wild agreed to a $ 700,000 contract with Hendricks, 37 years old. A second person with direct knowledge of the negotiations says that the Wild also agreed to an agreement with Fehr
People spoke under condition of anonymity because contracts can not be signed before the opening of the signature period of free agents later Sunday. gets an increase of the $ 650,000 that he earned with the Winnipeg Jets. He had 13 points in 60 games last season, mostly in the fourth row. Fehr, 32, finished last season with San Jose and had four points in 14 regular season games.
– Stephen Whyno, author of AP Hockey
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10:15
The Buffalo Sabers have reached an agreement to sign a three-year contract with goalkeeper Carter Hutton , worth $ 8.25 million.
A person with direct knowledge of the negotiations has confirmed the deal at the Associated Press. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the contracts can not be announced until the opening of the NHL signing period later on Sunday. FoxSportsMidwest.com reported the case for the first time
Hutton, 32, has six seasons of experience in the NHL, including the last two with the Blues, where he shared his functions with Jake Allen. He finished with a 17-7-3 record and 2.09 goals against average in 32 games last year.
The Sabers have needs at goalkeeper after choosing not to re-sign third-year starter Robin Lehner and veteran Chad Johnson
Hutton would form a tandem with Linus Ullmark, who is responsible for making the jump to the full-time NHL level after having spent the last three years developing among minors
– John Wawrow, author of AP Hockey
10 am
John Tavares, the center of the stars , did not sign with the New York Islanders until midnight, eliminating the eight-year advantage of the equation and eliminating the biggest advantage of his former team. On Sunday morning, Tavares still had not announced his decision to sign a seven-year contract worth more than $ 70 million. The 27-year-old and her representatives met the Islanders, Toronto Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning last week.
Paul Stastny, who was traded from St. Louis to Winnipeg and produced 15 points in 17 playoff games, and Tyler Bozak of Toronto are the top centers available.
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9:45
A person with direct knowledge of the discussions told the Associated Press that veteran forward Thomas Vanek should sign with the Detroit Red Wings after opening from the time of the free agency of the NHL.
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity on Sunday because the discussions are still going on. until the signing period, at noon, Eastern time.
Vanek is an NHL veteran for 13 years and will return to Detroit, where he spent part of the 2016-17 season. He scored 11 goals and opened last year in Vancouver before finishing the season with Columbus.
Vanek became the most successful Austrian player when the Buffalo Sabers selected him with No. 5 pick
In total, he has 357 goals and 396 badists for 753 points in 965 career games in the NHL
John Tavares, of the New York Islanders, is the big favorite of the free agency
. Wawrow
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