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The Atlanta Thrashers have signed free agent forward Fredrik Modin, giving the team another veteran with experience in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The 35-year-old Modin had 11 points in 44 games with Columbus and the Los Angeles Kings last season. He signed a one-year contract. The Thrashers announced the deal with Modin on Monday.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed forward Mike Comrie to a $500,000, one-year contract, giving them a proven scorer who might be capable of playing on one of their top three lines. The Penguins, looking for affordable scoring help because they have little salary cap space, signed forward Arron Asham to a $700,000, one-year contract two weeks ago.
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The Colorado Avalanche remain committed to their youth movement, signing forward Chris Stewart to a two-year deal. The 22-year-old Stewart led the team with 28 goals last season and finished with 64 points. The deal's terms weren't disclosed. Colorado general manager Greg Sherman says the team is looking forward to seeing Stewart "build on what he started a year ago." The Avalanche...
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The Nashville Predators owners have completed a purchase of the 26 percent stake in the team held by the bankrupt estate of a California financier jailed for fraud. Preadators Holdings LLC chairman Tom Cigarran announced Thursday that the NHL and Metro Nashville Sports Authority had approved the transaction for the ownership shares previously held by William "Boots" Del Biaggio III and...
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The San Jose Sharks signed the goalie who helped knock them out of the playoffs, agreeing to a one-year, $2 million deal with Antti Niemi on Thursday. Niemi joins fellow Finnish netminder Antero Niittymaki in San Jose as the replacements for longtime starter Evgeni Nabokov. Niittymaki signed a two-year, $4 million deal on the first day of free agency in July.
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Jacques Demers, the former NHL coach turned Canadian senator, said he will have a third operation after nearly dying during a botched hernia procedure. The 66-year-old Demers made his first public appearance since the initial operation when he joined Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday at an outdoor rally.
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San Jose Sharks CEO Greg Jamison is stepping down from his job running the day-to-day operations of the club. The team announced Wednesday that Jamison's last day as CEO will be Oct. 1. A search for a replacement will begin soon. Jamison will remain part of the ownership and will be the team's representative on the NHL's Board of Governors.
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The Buffalo Sabres have re-signed unrestricted free agent forward Matt Ellis to a one-year contract. A gritty fourth-line player, Ellis rejoins the team for a third season after setting career-highs with 13 points (three goals, 10 assists) and 72 games played last year. The signing was announced by the team as Ellis celebrated his 29th birthday on Tuesday.
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Chris Chelios, the longest-tenured defenseman in NHL history, is finally hanging up his skates. After 26 NHL seasons and three Stanley Cups, Chelios announced his retirement Tuesday at the age of 48. "I guess I've been dreading this day for a long time," he said at a news conference in Detroit.
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The Phoenix Coyotes have re-signed right wing Lee Stempniak to a two-year contract. Details of the contract were not released. Stempniak had 14 goals and four assists in 18 games with the Coyotes last season after he was traded from Toronto. He scored 28 goals and had 48 points in all last season. Stempniak has 96 goals and 113 assists in 374 NHL games.
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The New York Rangers have agreed to terms with free agent forward Tim Kennedy on Monday. The 24-year-old had 10 goals and 16 assists last season with Buffalo in 78 games. He also had a goal and two assists in the playoff for the Sabres. Kennedy, who was a rookie last season, was a two-time team scoring leader at Michigan State and won the NCAA title with the Spartans in 2007.
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Forward Clarke MacArthur has signed a one-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. The team announced the deal with the unrestricted free agent Saturday. MacArthur had 16 goals and 19 assists last season between the Buffalo Sabres and Atlanta Thrashers, who acquired him on March 3 in exchange for draft picks.
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Free agent forward Paul Kariya will not play next season after being diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome. The decision was announced Friday through a release from his agent. Don Baizley said in a statement that the decision was reached after Kariya was examined by concussion specialist Dr. Mark Lovell.
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The U.S. is about to let a bunch of former Bullies become citizens. Four members of the Philadelphia Flyers championship Broad Street Bullies teams of the 1970s are going through the steps that will make them American citizens by the end of the year. Canadians Bill Clement, Orest Kindrachuk, Bob Kelly and Dave Schultz are known for leading the Flyers to their only two Stanley Cup titles in 1974 and...
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A top official of the National Hockey League Players' Association denied reports Thursday that Donald Fehr, the former leader of baseball's players' union, accepted an offer to take the top job at the NHLPA. Mike Ouellet, the NHLPA's chief of business affairs, praised Fehr's work as an unpaid adviser to the players on Thursday, but said no appointment has been ratified by the...
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The Pittsburgh Penguins won't re-sign forward Bill Guerin, preferring instead to give several young forwards a chance to play on one of their top lines. The 39-year-old Guerin scored 21 goals last season and had four more during the playoffs while often playing on Sidney Crosby's line. He has 429 goals and 427 assists in 1,263 career games with eight teams, starting with New Jersey in the...
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The Dallas Stars have agreed to terms with defenseman Nicklas Grossman on a two-year contract worth $3.25 million. The 25-year-old Grossman skated in 71 games for the Stars last season, finishing with seven assists and 32 penalty minutes. In 2008-09, he had career highs in goals (two), assists (10) and points (12).
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The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed 20-goal scorer Steve Downie to a two-year contract. The NHL team announced the deal Wednesday. Downie appeared in 79 games last season, finishing with 22 goals and 46 points. The 23-year-old right wing set career highs for games played, goals, assists, points and penalty minutes.
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The Los Angeles Kings have agreed to terms on a two-year contract with unrestricted free agent defenseman Willie Mitchell. The team announced the deal Wednesday. Mitchell had four goals, eight assists and 48 penalty minutes in 48 games with Vancouver last season. The 32-year-old was sidelined for 34 games after sustaining a concussion on Jan.
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Free agent forward Raffi Torres signed a one-year, $1 million contract with the Vancouver Canucks, the team said Wednesday. Torres split last season between Columbus and Buffalo, scoring 19 goals and getting 17 assists in 74 games. He is expected to add a physical, scoring presence to the Canucks' third line.
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The Nashville Predators have signed their top goal scorer, Swedish forward Patric Hornqvist, to a three-year, $9.25 million contract. Hornqvist, 23, is Nashville's first draft pick to score 30 goals, and he led the team with his 30 goals last season. That also marked the fourth highest total in team history.
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Aaron Ward, a member of three Stanley Cup championship teams, is retiring from the NHL after 13 seasons. Ward announced his retirement in a statement released through the NHL Players Association on Tuesday. Ward spent most of last season with the Carolina Hurricanes, where he won the Stanley Cup in 2006.
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The Red Wings have agreed to a two-year contract with forward Justin Abdelkader. Detroit general manager Ken Holland announced the deal Monday. Terms were not disclosed. Abdelkader played in 50 games for the Red Wings last season. He had three goals, three assists and was third on the team with 152 hits.
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Tampa Bay Lightning center Vincent Lecavalier had minor arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and is expected to recover in time for the start of training camp. The club said the surgery was Tuesday in Tampa, and recovery is expected to take three to four weeks. Lecavalier played 82 games last season and had 24 goals and 46 assists.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed former Philadelphia Flyers forward Arron Asham to a $700,000, one-year contract. Asham, a physical player who is considered an underrated shooter, had 10 goals, 14 assists and 126 penalty minutes for Philadelphia last season, playing mostly on the fourth line. Asham had four goals and three points in 23 playoff games as the Flyers reached the Stanley Cup finals.
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Defenseman Freddy Meyer, who appeared in 64 games with the New York Islanders last season, has signed with the Atlanta Thrashers. The 29-year-old Meyer was an unrestricted free agent. He had four goals and 11 assists with the Islanders last season. He began his NHL career with Philadelphia in 2003 and set a career high with 27 points for the Flyers in the 2005-06 season.
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Right winger Adam Burish says he's had such a short offseason he's hardly had time to enjoy the summer. He thinks he'll have time for warm weather this winter after signing with the Dallas Stars following his successful stint in Chicago that ended in a championship. "I've been making fun of my parents, saying, 'Hey, when you guys in January are shoveling snow, I'm going...
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Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur was acquitted by the Quebec Court of Appeal on Tuesday of giving contradictory testimony at his son's bail hearing. The three-judge panel ruled the trial judge erred when he decided Lafleur knew his son Mark was supposed to remain at his parents' home when he was away from the rehabilitation center where he resided.
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The Montreal Canadiens traded minor league goaltender Cedrick Desjardins to the Tampa Bay Lightning for goalie Karri Ramo on Monday. In 90 games with Montreal's AHL affiliate in Hamilton, Ontario, Desjardins was 49-27-5 with 2.34 goals-against average and a .909 save percentage. He was an AHL All-Star last season while going 29-9-2.
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The Chicago Blackhawks have re-signed veteran defenseman Nick Boynton to a one-year deal. Boynton, acquired from Anaheim in a trade last March, played seven regular-season games and three games in the Stanley Cup finals for Chicago against the Philadelphia Flyers. He was on the ice when Patrick Kane scored the winning goal in Game 6.
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The family of Bob Probert has decided to proceed with a memoir the longtime NHL enforcer was working on before his death. "Tough Guy" is to published Oct. 26 by HarperCollinsCanada. It will recount Probert's career with the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks when he was one of the game's most feared players.
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Veteran forward Craig Conroy has re-signed with the Calgary Flames on Wednesday. Conroy received a one-year deal. Conroy has appeared in 991 games -- roughly half of them with the Flames -- over 14 seasons. He has 180 goals and 360 assists for 540 points. Last season, the 38-year-old had three goals and 15 points in 63 games.
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The Buffalo Sabres have re-signed forward Mark Mancari to a one-year contract. Mancari was a restricted free agent who spent most of last season playing for Portland of the American Hockey League. The 2004 seventh-round draft pick led the Pirates with 74 points (28 goals, 46 assists) in 74 games to finish eighth in AHL scoring.
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The Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks have re-signed defenseman Jordan Hendry to a one-year contract. Hendry appeared in 43 games, posting a plus/minus rating of plus-5 with two goals and six assists. He also appeared in 15 playoff games. The Blackhawks have lost a number of players to free agency or trades since winning their first Stanley Cup in 49 years, including Andrew Ladd, Ben Eager,...
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The New Jersey Devils have filled out the coaching staffs of their minor league teams in Albany, N.Y. and Trenton. Trenton coach Rick Kowalsky has been promoted and will be the head coach of the Albany Devils of the AHL. He will be assisted by Tommy Albelin, who was on Jacques Lemaire's staff with the Devils last season.
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Ilya Kovalchuk is back on the free-agent market, and talking already. An arbitrator ruled Monday that the NHL acted correctly in voiding Kovalchuk's landmark $102 million contract with the Devils. The league had rejected the 17-year contract, saying the longest deal in league history violated its salary cap.
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Philadelphia Flyers forward Riley Cote has retired and will stay with the organization as an assistant coach for the team's AHL affiliate. Cote announced his decision Monday. He played in 156 games for the Flyers and scored one goal with seven points and 411 penalty minutes from 2006-2010. He joined head coach Greg Gilbert's staff with the AHL's Adirondack Phantoms.
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Normally when Sidney Crosby walks into a room, he's the center of attention. He had some company Sunday. The NHL superstar met tennis ace Roger Federer for the first time at the Rogers Cup. They were going to hit balls together on a practice court but rain scuttled their plans. Instead, the two got a chance to talk before holding a photo opportunity at the Rexall Centre.
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Red Wings general manager Ken Holland says Chris Chelios is going to work for the team. Holland said Saturday night that Chelios' new job doesn't have a title yet and his specific responsibilities haven't been determined. The 48-year-old Chelios played for the Atlanta Thrashers last season.
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The Minnesota Wild have been searching for quality depth at the center position for several seasons, and this might be the summer they finally found it. The Wild announced an agreement Friday with veteran center John Madden on a one-year, $1 million contract, bringing a player with plenty of playoff experience and defensive prowess to a team that last month signed Matt Cullen for three years and...
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The Edmonton Oilers have signed goalie Martin Gerber to a one-year contract. The 35-year-old Swiss netminder spent last season with Altant Moscow of the Continental Hockey League. In 30 appearances, he went 15-6-6 with a 2.19 goals-against average and .914 save percentage. In 226 career NHL games with Anaheim, Carolina, Ottawa and Toronto, Gerber is 110-78-21 with a 2.65 GAA and .910 save...
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The Buffalo Sabres have re-signed restricted free agent defenseman Marc-Andre Gragnani (Gruh-NA-nee) to a one-year contract. Terms of the deal weren't released Thursday. Gragnani, Buffalo's 2005 third-round draft pick, has an opportunity to play with the Sabres this season after spending last season with Portland of the AHL.
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The Boston Bruins have hired Doug Jarvis as an assistant coach. Jarvis replaces Craig Ramsay, who was hired as head coach of the Atlanta Thrashers on June 24 after three seasons as an assistant to Boston coach Claude Julien. The Bruins announced the appointment of Jarvis on Wednesday. Jarvis was an associate coach for Montreal the past four seasons, the first of them when Julien was coach of the...
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The St. Louis Blues have signed 34-year-old forward Dave Scatchard, a 13-year NHL veteran. Terms of the deal announced Wednesday were not disclosed. Scatchard split time last season between Nashville and Milwaukee of the American Hockey League. He had three goals and two assists in 16 games with the Predators, and 20 goals and 10 assists for Milwaukee.
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The San Jose Sharks have signed free-agent forward Jamal Mayers to a one-year contract. The team announced the deal Wednesday. Mayers says he was looking to join a team that gave him the best chance to win. San Jose made it to the Western Conference final last season before losing to eventual champion Chicago.
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Detroit Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch remembers Mike Modano leading Ilitch's Little Caesars Midget AAA hockey team to the organization's first championship in 1985. Now Ilitch hopes Modano can help the Red Wings win another Stanley Cup. "I don't want to talk too much, but Cuppy, Cuppy, Cuppy," a smiling Ilitch said at a news conference Friday announcing the Livonia native's...
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Russian winger Igor Makarov has signed a two-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. One day after making a major move at goalie by letting playoff star Antti Niemi go and signing Marty Turco, the Stanley Cup champions locked in one of their prospects. A second-round NHL draft pick by Chicago in 2006, the 22-year-old Makarov split last season with the Moscow Dynamo and St.
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The New York Islanders have agreed to terms on a one-year contract with winger Jon Sim. Sim had 13 goals and nine assists in 77 games last season, his third with the Islanders. During the 2008-09 season, he split the season between the Islanders and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
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For Marty Turco, the bottom line is to play for a Stanley Cup contender. By agreeing to a one-year deal with the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday, the veteran goaltender made that clear. Turco, who will replace Stanley Cup hero Antti Niemi as the Blackhawks' top goalie, could have earned more money and gotten a longer contract elsewhere, according to his agent, Kurt Overhardt.
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The Anaheim Ducks signed veteran defenseman Andy Sutton to a two-year contract worth $4.25 million Monday, filling a major need on their depleted blue line. The 35-year-old Sutton played in 72 games and scored 13 points last season with the New York Islanders and Ottawa, which acquired him at the trade deadline.
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