It’s Noon, Time for Fun

Well, the noon bell has rung, and free agency has begun.

I swear, I didn’t mean for that to rhyme.

Don’t miss the post below this one about Yours Truly contributing to Puck Prospectus.

Anyway, the Sedins resigned with Vancouver. That happened before noon, but I wanted to put some space between posts. 5 years, $6.1 million per year, each.

Update 12:06pm: Rangers still interested in Heatley, as per Bob McKenzie.

Update 12:23pm: Mattias Ohlund to TB, 7 years, $3.75 million annually. This sets the market for defensemen. That’s a lot of years for Ohlund. I guess he will help transition Hedman. It’s a front loaded contract, with just $1 million annually for the final two years of the contract. Those two years were added to bring the cap hit down.

Update 12:45pm: Hossa going to Chicago is all but done.

Update 12:46pm: Dvorak resigned with Florida, 2 years, $1.7 million per.

Update 12:52pm: Lunch time, back in an hour. Enjoy the Havlat to CBJ rumor, and Biron to EDM rumor.

Update 2:00pm: Back from lunch. Orr to Toronto, 4 years, $4 million. Good for him.

Booth back to Florida, 6 years $25.5 million.

Hossa to Chicago, terms being finalized. 12 years, $5.2 million cap hit ($62 million, front loaded, $53 million in first 7 years $59.3 million in first 8 years).

Kane-Toews-Hossa. Yikes.

Kubina trade to Atl still being finalized.

I missed a lot in an hour.

Update 2:10pm: Craig Anderson to the Avs, 2 years, $3.8 million total. Ty Conklin to St. Louis, 2 years, $2.6 million.

Update 2:30pm: Dwayne Roloson to the Islanders, 2 years, $5 million. Guess DiPietro is worse off than initially thought. How’s that 15 year deal working out so far?

Update 2:45pm: Donald Brashear to the Rangers. Ugh. We let Orr go to replace him with Brashear? I feel dirty. Guess this means Blair Betts is gone.

2:55pm: Mike Knuble to Washington, two years, $2.8 million a year. Risky giving someone over 35 a multi year deal. Brashear gets $700,000 a year for two years.

Make that 2 years, $1.4 million per year. Why is Orr gone? He wanted less money. This makes no sense. Why? Someone? Bueller?

Update 3:05pm: You know, I’m a huge advocate of never booing someone on your team. But I may just break this for Brashear.

Scott Niedermayer to Anaheim, duh.

Update 3:30pm: Did I mention how much I abhor Donald Brashear?

Update 3:50pm: Jaroslav Spacek to Boston Montreal, 3 years $11.5 million. Ouch. I thought they were trying to resign Kessel? I butchered that one.

Rangers made an offer to Chris Neil. What is this? 3rd liner day? Get some scoring Slats.

Update 4:05pm: Khabibulin to Edmonton (4 years $15 million, Cole to Carolina.

Update 4:25pm: Brian Boucher back to Philly.

The Bulin signing to Edmonton clogs up some cap room for Heatley. I don’t know if they are still in the running for him now.

Update 4:35pm: Scott Clemmenson to Florida, 3 years, $3.6 million.

Update 4:40pm: The TSN feed just crapped out on me. Is this available elsewhere?

Ian Lapierreire (butchered that one) to Philly, 3 years, $3.5 million. How can they afford all this?

Update 4:50pm: Rangers no longer in the Heatley running. With Gomez gone, Dubinsky is a deal breaker.

Pittsburgh signed Mike Rupp (2 years, $825K per), Hal Gill to the Habs (2 years, $4.5 mil).

Rangers offer Chris Neil a four year deal. Who is going to score? What are you doing Sather? You are losing all that good faith you got when dealing Gomez.

Update 5:00pm Ok, five day weekend time. I’ll be back with you in about 90 minutes. In the mean time, I’m asking Mike Axisa to update this with any Ranger news (if he’s around). If not, well, I’ll be back soon.