It is a busy day with the start of NHL Free Agency. Even the Sabres make a splash in the pool. Here's your tracker:
July 4
12:29 a.m. Los Angeles acquires Ryan Smyth from Colorado for Kyle Quincey, Tom Preissing, and a fifth-round draft pick.
July 3
8:08 p.m. Rick Nash signs an eight year contract extension with Columbus for $62.4 million.
4:31 p.m. Minnesota signs Shane Hnidy for one year.
3:52 p.m. Ryane Clowe resigns with San Jose for four years at $14 million.
2:42 p.m. Pittsburgh resigns Ruslan Fedotenko for one year at $1.8 million.
12:19 p.m. Mikael Samuelsson signs with Vancouver for 3 years at $7.5 million.
11:39 p.m. Rangers sign Tyler Arnason to a two-way contract.
July 2
8:18 p.m. Phoenix signs Stefan Meyer for one year.
7:27 p.m. Chad LaRose resigns with Carolina for 2 years at $3.4 million.
6:18 p.m. Florida signs Jordan Leopold for one year at $1.7 million.
4:26 p.m. Los Angeles signs Rob Scuderi for four years at $13.6 million.
2:46 p.m. Mikhail Grabovski stays with Toronto for 3 years at $8.7 million.
1:45 p.m. Karlis Skrastins signs with Dallas for two years
11:48 a.m. Adrain Aucoin signs in Pheonix for one year.
11:37 a.m. Atlanta signs Nik Antropov for four years at $16 million.
11:33 a.m. Mark Recchi stays with the Bruins for one year at $1million.
10:48 a.m. Chris Thorburn remains in Atlanta
July 1
11:10 p.m. Minnesota replaces Marion Gaborik with Martin Havlat, sigining him to a 6-year, $30 million deal.
10:01p.m. Jason LaBarbera goes to Pheonix for two years.
9:36 p.m. Freddy Sjostrom to Calgary. Two years for a total of $1.5 million.
9:06 p.m. John Madden joins Marian Hossa and Tomas Kopecky in Chicago. The former New Jersey Devils forward signs a 1-year deal for $2.75 million.
8:48 p.m. Chris Neil will continue to torment the Buffalo Sabres. He re-signs with Ottawa. A 4-year pact worth a total of $8 million.
8:35 p.m. The Montreal Canadiens keep on spending. They reunite Scott Gomez with Brian Gionta. Gionta signs a 5-year, $25 million dollar contract with the Habs.
8:26 p.m. The New York Rangers finally make their highly anticipated splash in to the free agent market. Former Minnesota Wild forward Marian Gaborik signs with the Rangers. The deal is for five years, and he'll be paid $7.5 million per season.
7:40 p.m. Columbus finds a backup goalie for Steve Mason. They come to terms with Mathieu Garon, a 2-year pact worth $1.2 million per season.
7:20 p.m. Atlanta acquires Pavel Kubina and the rights to Tim Stapleton from Toronto for Garnet Exelby and Colin Stuart.
6:31 p.m. Columbus adds Samuel Pahlsson to their roster. Pahlsson gets a 3-year deal worth a total of $7.95 million.
6:20 p.m. Steve Sullivan will remain with the Nashville Predators. He re-signs for 2-years, and will be making $3.75 per season. Sullivan had 32 points in 41 games last season.
6:10 p.m. Steve Begin signs with the Boston Bruins. The former Dallas Star signs a 1-year deal worth $850,000.
6:05 p.m. Mike Komisarek is staying in Canada, but leaving Montreal. Komisarek signed a 5-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs worth $22.5 million. The defenseman is 27-year old.
5:42 p.m. A big fish in the free-agent pond, Mike Cammalleri has signed with Montreal. He gets a 5-year deal worth $30 million.
5:14 p.m. With Stanley Cup Ring coming, defenseman Hal Gill heads to Montreal from Pittsburgh. The Habs give Gill a 2-year deal worth $4.5 million.
4:43 p.m. Another 3-year deal. This one goes to forward Ian LaPerriere. He signs with Philly for 3-years and $3.5 million.
4:38 p.m. Goalie Scott Clemmensen is heading South to Florida. The former Devil signs with the Panthers for 3-years and $3.6 millon.
4:21 p.m. Erik Cole stays in Carolina. 2 years and $5.8 million. Cole won a Cup with the Canes in an injury-filled 2005-06 season. He scored 18 goals in 80 games splitting time with Edmonton and Carolina last season.
4:06 p.m. Goalie Nikolai Khabibulin leaves Chicago and heads to Edmonton. 4 years and $15 million.
3:54 p.m. Jaroslav Spacek is officially a former Sabre. Spacek signed a 3-year, $11.5 million deal with the Montreal Canadiens.
3:44 p.m. Veteran Goalie Brian Boucher is a Flyer....again. Boucher signed a 2-year, $1.85 million deal.
3:21 p.m. Lukas Krijicek gets a one-year deal to stay in Tampa Bay. Cross another name off of the list.
3:16 p.m. Forward Joel Ward stays in Nashville with a 2-year deal. Ward scored 17 goals with the Predators in 2008-09.
3:14 p.m. Defenseman Scott Neidermayer makes his return to Anaheim official with a 1-year deal worth $6 million.
3:11p.m. Aaron Rome signs a 1-year deal, jumping from Columbus to Vancouver.
2:59 p.m. Tough guy Donald Brashear will help replace Colton Orr in New York. The Rangers gave Brashear a 2-year deal worth $2.8 million.
2:58 p.m. Mike Knuble is a Capital. The now former Flyer signs in Washington for 2-years and $5.6 million. Knuble is 36-years old.
2:38 p.m. Tomas Kopecky heads to Chicago with a 2-year, $2.4 million dollar pact. The 27-year old forward skated with Detroit last season. Billy Kopecky was Tom Hank's character's best friend in the movie 'Big'.
2:32 p.m. Defenseman Steve Montador is coming to Buffalo. the 6-foot-0, 210 pounder gets a 2-year, $3.1 million deal from the Sabres.
2:28 p.m. Another goalie is off of the market. Dwayne Roloson heads to the N.Y. Islanders for 2 years and $5 million.
2:17 p.m. Goalie Ty Conklin goes to St. Louis for 2 years.
2:16 p.m. A Big one! RW Marian Hossa gets a 12 year deal from the Blackhawks. 12 years and $62.4 million. 12 years. Hossa is 30 years old. He scored 40 goals in Detroit last season.
2:09 p.m. Lightning strikes again. The Bolts picked up Matt Walker w/ a 4-year deal worth $6.8 million. The 29-year old Walker scored just one goal in 65 games on the blue line for the Blackhawks last season.
1:54 p.m. Goalie Craig Anderson has joined the Colorado Avalanche with a 2-year pact.
1:51 p.m. 26-year old defenseman Andy Greene stays in New Jersey with an undisclosed contract.
1:48 p.m. David Booth cashes in with the Panthers. The 24-year old forward signs for 6 years and $25.5 million. Booth reached 30 goals for the first time in his career in 2008-09. It was his second full season with Florida. He was a Restricted Free Agent.
1:24 p.m. Brian Burke has reeled in Colton Orr. The forward signed a 4-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs worth $4 million. Orr spent the last 4 seasons with the Rangers.
12:38 p.m. Radek Dvorak is staying in the sun. The forward signed a 2-year deal with the Florida Panthers. Dvorak will get $1.7 million per season.
12:17 p.m. Longtime Canuck blueliner Mattias Ohlund is departing Western Canada for a long-term deal down South, signing a seven-year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning averaging $3.75 million per season.
11:56 a.m. The Sedins are staying in Vancouver, according to TSN, signing identical five-year, $30.5 million deals with no-trade clauses.
1:47 a.m. Dany Heatley has reportedly used his no-trade clause to KO a deal to Edmonton for Dustin Penner, Andrew Cogliano and Ladislav Smid. It doesn't mean the deal is dead, according to TSN, but likely means Heatley would rather wind up in New York with the Rangers, another team supposedly in talks with Senators GM Bryan Murray.
June 30
-- Jay Bouwmeester inks a five-year, $33.4 million deal with the Calgary Flames, who acquired his rights several days earlier from Florida in exchange for Jordan Leopold and a third-round pick (Josh Birkholz). The Flames also have defenseman Dion Phaneuf under contract on a six-year, $39 million deal.
-- The Rangers ship Scott Gomez and others to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for the rights to RFA Chris Higgins, UFA Doug Janik, and players Ryan McDonagh and Pavel Valentenko. The Rangers also pick up Tom Pyatt and Mike Busto.
-- Jere Lehtinen re-signs with Dallas for one year at $1.5 million with incentives worth up to $1 million.
-- Bill Guerin agrees to one-year, $2 million deal with Penguins
-- Johnny Oduya re-ups with the Devils for three years in the neighborhood of $3 to $3.5 million per year (CBC).
-- Rob Blake signs with San Jose for one year and $3.5 million plus bonuses.
-- Anaheim's Ryan Christensen inks a one-year deal with the team. He was due to be an unrestricted free agent July 1.
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