DENVER, CO – The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the team has signed defenseman Anton Lindholm to a two-year contract.
Lindholm, 24, skated in two games with the Avalanche this past season and has four points (0g/4a) in 62 career NHL contests. He has 21 points (3g/18a) in 119 career American Hockey League games with the San Antonio Rampage and Colorado Eagles and has registered one point (1g/0a) in four AHL postseason contests.
NEW YORK, NY – The New York Rangers have agreed to terms with restricted free agent defenceman Jacob Trouba, who they acquired from Winnipeg in a major off-season trade.
The deal reached Friday with Trouba, 25, is for seven years and $56 million US, with an $8 million salary cap hit for the upcoming season. He is expected to anchor the team’s defence.
A 2012 first-round draft pick by the Jets, Trouba set career highs in points (50) and assists (42) last season.
DENVER, CO – The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the team has signed forward J.T. Compher to a four-year contract through the 2022-23 season.
Compher, 24, finished fifth on the Avalanche with 16 goals and tied for the team lead with three shorthanded tallies in 66 games during the 2018-19 campaign. His 16 goals, 16 assists and 32 points all surpassed his rookie season totals from 2017-18. The Northbrook, Illinois, native was one of eight NHL players with at least three shorthanded, power-play and game-winning goals in 2018-19, joining Sebastian Aho, Cam Atkinson, Patrice Bergeron, Blake Coleman, Leon Draisaitl, Brad Marchand and Brandon Saad. Compher was the first Avalanche player to accomplish that feat (at least three SHG, PPG and GWG in a season) since Joe Sakic in 2000-01.
BRANDON, FL – Nolan Foote got his first taste of Florida in the final week of June while participating in Tampa Bay Lightning development camp after he was selected in the first round (No. 27) in the 2019 NHL Draft last month.
“It’s hot here,” Foote said.
Luckily, Foote spent most of his time in Florida on the ice, where he could avoid the heat but not the power skating drills taught by instructor Tracy Sutton.
“The legs are sore,” Foote said. “Really sore, but that’s what you want.”
EDMONTON, AB – Jujhar Khaira has re-signed with the Oilers. It’s a two year deal valued at 1.2MM AAV a year. Khaira played in sixty games with the Oilers in 2018-19, he finished with 18 points (3-15-18) on the season.
Khaira is one among several contracts that have been tendered to bottom six players today (we haven’t even gotten to Tomas Jurco yet). He’ll likely continue to vie for time on the third line, though he may peak his head out from the top six due to the club’s lack of top six depth on the wings.
DENVER, CO – In its third move of the day, the Avalanche on Monday signed veteran French forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, 34, who is defensive/faceoff specialist from the Vegas Golden Knights.
Bellemare, who joined the NHL at age 29 with the Philadelphia Flyers, was signed to a two-year deal worth $3.6 million ($1.8 million cap hit). He was an expansion-draft acquisition for Vegas, and played in 72 and 76 games in each of the Knights’ first two seasons (just 12 combined goals).
Bellemare will help replace center Carl Soderberg in faceoffs and the penalty kill. Soderberg was traded to Arizona for defenseman Kevin Connauton last week.
EDMONTON, AB – Mike Smith won’t have to travel far to join his new team.
The veteran goalie, who played with the Calgary Flames last season, signed a one-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Monday as NHL free agency opened.
Smith went 48-38-8 with a 2.99 goals-against average and a .909 save percentage in 97 games.
The 37-year-old was 23-16-2 with a 2.72 GAA and a .898 save percentage in 2018-19.
In 13 NHL seasons with the Dallas Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning, Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes and Calgary, the Kingston, Ont., native is 243-236-68 with a 2.70 GAA and a .912 save percentage.
Smith is also 11-12 with a 2.17 GAA and .938 save percentage in 24 playoff games.
TAMPA BAY, FL – Throughout the year, tampabaylightning.com will periodically talk to Lightning players or coaches to get their first-hand account of a critical moment from the season or just what’s on their mind currently.
In this installment, we hear from Nolan Foote, who was selected by the Lightning in the first round of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, joining his older brother Cal, a 2017 first round pick of the Bolts, in the organization. Nolan Foote comes to the Lightning from the Kelowna Rockets of the WHL, where he recorded nearly a point a game during the 2018-19 season with 36 goals and 63 points in 66 regular season games. The 6-foot-4, 195-pound power forward is an attractive prospect for the Lightning, Tampa Bay assistant general manager and director of amateur scouting Al Murray saying Foote has a NHL shot right now in an interview after the prospect’s selection. “It’s a quick release. It’s a hard shot,” Murray said from the Rogers Arena draft floor. “He’s a big body who plays with an edge. He’s a good skater, and we think he’s got room to improve.”
PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Philadelphia Flyers announced they have re-signed goaltender Brian Elliott to a one-year contract extension worth an average annual value (AAV) of $2.0 million, according to Executive Vice President & General Manager Chuck Fletcher.
”Brian has played well for us the last two seasons,” said Fletcher. “He is a proven, quality goaltender who competes and battles hard every time he has the net. We are excited to have him rejoin our team.”
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