Morning Hits: Gagner, Grabovski, Hainsey, Jagr, Little, Wheeler, Bogosian and Spaling
Dan Tencer: The Oilers and Sam Gagner are listed as having an "AM" arbitration hearing today. May not be a good sign (for Oilers fans) if we don't hearing anything by mid-morning in Alberta time. Tencer thinks arbitration is likely.…
Free Agent Hits: Morrow, Rangers, Jagr, Sabres, Gagner, Capitals, Clarkson and Oilers
Patrick Caisse: Brenden Morrow's agent said he's had "a good discussion" with Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin and will likely have another. Brian Costello: The Rangers have about $6.5 million in salary cap and four RFA's to sign that will cost…
Morning Hits: Horton, Giroux, Ryan, Fleischmann, Oilers, Olympics, Escrow and Burmistrov
Aaron Portzline: Blue Jackets winger Nathan Horton will have shoulder surgery next week and is out for four to six months. Chris Johnston: Claude Giroux's salary breakdown: $10 million in 2014-15 followed by $9 million, $9 million, $9 million, $9…
Morning Hits: Burmistrov, Marchand, Kelly, Talbot, Jagr, Burakovsky and Stars coaching
Igor Eronko: Jets forward Alexander Burmistrov signed with Ak Bars of the KHL. Ken Wiebe: As long as the Jets send Burmistrov a qualifying offer each offseason, they will retain his rights until he's 27. Kevin Paul Dupont: Dupont wouldn't…
Free Agent Hits II: Blues and Capitals, Weiss, Filppula, Pietrangelo and Grabovski
Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Vincent Lecavalier, Stephen Weiss and Valtteri Filppula all turned down the Blues. “We were a little bit less (than Detroit and Tampa Bay), but not a lot,” he said. “We didn’t low-ball anybody…
Free Agent Hits III: Bozak, Filppula, Weiss, Alfredsson, Scuderi, Briere and the Predators
Pierre LeBrun: The Stars, Blues, Flames, Ducks and Red Wings are among the teams kicking tires on Tyler Bozak. The Leafs are still in it. Pierre LeBrun: The Wings are still talking with Valtteri Filppula. LeBrun thinks that Stephen Weiss…
Free Agent Hits II: Horton, Rask, Flames, Bergeron, Thomas and Lundqvist
Aaron Portzline: The Blue Jackets are pursuing Nathan Horton. Sources saying that Horton visited Columbus yesterday. One issue with Horton is that he's waiting to have shoulder surgery and won't do so until he's signed with a new team. He…
Afternoon Hits II: Schneider, Leafs, Bruins, Canucks, Red Wings and Kuba
Bill Watters: "Schneider 's exit from Vancouver was precipitated by off ice issues,rather than goaltending and financial as outlined in Gillis' rationale." The Fourth Period: The Maple Leafs plan on being active in the next few days. They are looking…
Quick Free Agent Hits: Clarkson, Bozak, Weiss, Briere, Giroux, Alfredsson, Henricks and Raymond
@Hope_Smoke: Darren Dreger on David Clarkson's next deal: "Clarkson will get 7 years if that's what he's after. I'll thrown out a number of around $6.5 per season" James Mirtle: Maple Leafs GM Dave Nonis on Tyler Bozak: "We have…
Teams extend/not extend qualifying offers to restricted free agents
Katie Carrera: The Capitals extend qualifying offers to RFAs Karl Alzner, Marcus Johansson, Tomas Kundratek, Nicolas Deschamps and Peter LeBlanc. The Capitals did not extend qualifying offers to Mattias Sjogren, Danick Paquette and Dustin Stevenson. Katie Strang: The Rangers extend…
Afternoon Hits II: Talks can start tonight, On waivers today, Bozak offer and Lecavalier
Pierre LeBrun: Free agents are allowed to start talking to other teams as of 12:01 ET tonight. Bob McKenzie: On waivers: Hal Gill (NSH), Greg Zanon (COL), Matt Hunwick (COL), Kris Russell (STL). Jeff Schultz (WSH) on unconditional waivers with…
Trade Hits: Oilers and CBJ, Schneider, Clutterbuck, Kennedy, Canadiens and Vanek
Dennis Bernstein: David Pagnotta on the Fan 590 said that the Oilers offered the Blue Jackets a package including goalie Devan Dubnyk and the 7th overall pick for Sergei Bobrovsky. Ryan Rishaug: The demand for Cory Schneider is very high.…