The Vancouver Canucks have signed free agent goalie Braden Holtby on Friday to a two-year contract worth an annual average value (AAV) of $4.3 million US. Holtby, 31, is coming off a five-year deal with the Washington Capitals worth $30.5M. OFFICIAL: <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Canucks?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#Canucks</a> sign goaltender Braden Holtby (<a href=”https://twitter.com/Holts170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@Holts170</a>) to a two-year contract worth an average annual
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The St. Louis Blues are signing defender Torey Krug to a seven-year contract worth $45.5 million. The deal carries a cap hit of $6.5 million per season, Elliotte Friedman would report Friday. The Blues are seemingly moving on from captain Alex Pietrangelo and are replacing his minutes on the back-end with Krug. Though the two
The Washington Capitals have signed defenseman Justin Schultz to a two-year deal with an AAV of $4 million, as reported by TSN’s Darren Dreger. Schultz is coming off a three-year, $16.5 million contract with an AAV of $5.5 million that he signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins back in 2017-18. This year, Schultz saw his lowest
7:17 AM ET ESPN staff Due to the altered schedule whereby the 2019-20 NHL season was completed quite a bit later than usual — with the Stanley Cup Playoffs lasting until Sept. 29 — free agency will begin on Oct. 9 this year, as opposed to the traditional July 1 starting point. But while the
The Edmonton Oilers have agreed to terms with goaltender Anton Forsberg and forward Alan Quine on one-year contracts, and with forward Seth Griffith on a two-year contract. Forsberg played 27 games with the AHL’s Charlotte Checkers last season, going 15-9-2 with a 2.95 goals-against average and a .905 save percentage. He also made three appearances
Day 2 of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft covered Rounds 2-7 on Oct. 7. The Chicago Blackhawks had seven picks, but they weren’t overly busy. They made only one move to trade-up in the seventh round, but, overall, the newcomers are worth getting excited about. If you missed coverage from Day 1, THW’s Shaun Filippelli
The Chicago Blackhawks will be entering the 2020-21 season with a very murky goaltending situation for the first time in a long time. On Thursday, the team announced that they would not be re-signing veteran Corey Crawford, ending a 17-year relationship that spawned two Stanley Cup championships. The plan for the upcoming season, according to
The usual July 1 opening of NHL free agency has turned to Oct. 9 due to the delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Eleven days after the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup in the Edmonton, Alberta, bubble and two days after the conclusion of the NHL draft, general managers are hard at work
The Winnipeg Jets have acquired centre Paul Stastny from the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for defenceman Carl Dahlstrom and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft. Stastny, 34, played 19 games with the Jets in 2018 after being traded by St. Louis. Stastny has one year left on a three-year, $19.5 million US contract
7:00 AM ET The word that typically defines free agency in the NHL is “uncertainty.” Players with expiring contracts enter a marketplace unsure of what their next deals will look like or where they’ll next call home. But in the 2020 free-agent frenzy, that uncertainty has reached previously unseen levels for players and teams. There’s
The Columbus Blue Jackets have acquired right wing Cliff Pu from the Florida Panthers in exchange for defenseman Markus Nutivaara. Pu, 22, tallied two assists in 10 games with the AHL’s Springfield Thunderbirds in 2019-20. He also appeared in four games with Greenville of the ECHL. A native of Richmond Hill, Ont., Pu has skated
Less than 24 hours after trading up to gamble on Hendrix Lapierre, the Washington Capitals made four picks in Rounds 4-7. GM Brian MacLellan did make the most of his assets, though. RELATED: Capitals Gamble With Hendrix Lapierre on NHL Draft Day 1 He grabbed two forwards that fit a similar mold, a precociously confident
It will be an NHL free-agency day like no other. For one thing, it’s happening on Oct. 9, not July 1 — messing around with the Thanksgiving weekend instead of Canada Day. Unlike previous years, teams were not allowed a three-day window to talk to players beforehand, although a few did get permission. Oh yes,
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The New York Rangers managed to get themselves out of another tight cap problem by offloading their two longest-tenured players, defenseman Marc Staal and legendary goaltender Henrik Lundqvist. These two moves were the true signal of the ending of an era in New York. Staal was sent to the Detroit Red Wings along with a
Two more signings in the NWHL were announced over the past week as we are now just a handful of days away from the open of extended training camps and official practices around the league. Related: Start of Sixth NWHL Season Pushed to January On Oct. 2 it was announced that defender Emma Stauber is
The Columbus Blue Jackets have traded defenceman Ryan Murray to the New Jersey Devils for a fifth-round pick in 2021. This move followed the earlier buyout of 26-year-old forward Alexander Wennberg and the trade of defenceman Markus Nutivaara to the Florida Panthers. With those moves, they cleared a total of $11.1 million in cap space.
7:53 PM ET The 2020 NHL draft is in the books, with 217 selections made over the course of two socially distanced, Zoom-filled days. There were also 27 trades made, although the vast majority were simple pick swaps, as most of the players rumored to be on the trading block remained with their current teams.