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FREE AGENCY: Looks like Devils are winding the clock back a bit and getting bigger physical players (veterans) in. Jason Arnott returns. Hopefully that improves the face-off issues. Couple of more rugged defenders in (Volchenkov & Tallinder) and Paul Martin is a Penguin now. Hope that works out for the Devils. :unsure: Devils still intend to get Kovalchuk.

Jokinen to Calgary. Can't see him doing much up there. :P

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Canucks add Dan Hamhuis on a free after trading for Keith Ballard (silly Pens trading for his negotiating rights when it seemed a dead cert he was signing in Vancouver), hopefully means a lot more protection for Luongo next season without compromising our attack. Need to get rid of Kevin Bieksa for cap purposes, will take anything.

Also added Manny Malhotra from the Sharks. Not overly familiar with him but 2.5m a year for 3 years seems like quite a lot, especially given he apparently has a no trade clause. Jeff Tambellini was the other notable free agent addition.

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FREE AGENCY: Looks like Devils are winding the clock back a bit and getting bigger physical players (veterans) in. Jason Arnott returns. Hopefully that improves the face-off issues. Couple of more rugged defenders in (Volchenkov & Tallinder) and Paul Martin is a Penguin now. Hope that works out for the Devils. :unsure: Devils still intend to get Kovalchuk.

Jokinen to Calgary. Can't see him doing much up there. :P

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Canucks add Dan Hamhuis on a free after trading for Keith Ballard (silly Pens trading for his negotiating rights when it seemed a dead cert he was signing in Vancouver), hopefully means a lot more protection for Luongo next season without compromising our attack. Need to get rid of Kevin Bieksa for cap purposes, will take anything.

Also added Manny Malhotra from the Sharks. Not overly familiar with him but 2.5m a year for 3 years seems like quite a lot, especially given he apparently has a no trade clause. Jeff Tambellini was the other notable free agent addition.

Are you sure? The Sharks paid him relatively little last year to be a fourth line forward. As it turned out he played better than expected and ended up on the first line in the play-offs. But still, that does seem somewhat excessive.

The Sharks have signed some goalie I'd never heard of to replace Nabokov and his 7 million a year salary. Which allowed them to retain Patrick Marleau. Still in the market for a defender. But they weren't too far away last year so major changes were never on the cards.

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:o Kovalchuk :guntoting

Not very Devils like to do this!

Thought Kings would get him after he'd apparently got down to the nitty-gritty of a contract with them.

Cap hit is about $6m a year I think but this is based on rumours of a 17 year deal! :o

Not ratified with league yet either.

Never mind. :D

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