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Updated 12/19/24 (10:59am CT)
Unrestricted Free Agents
Centers
- Pierre-Édouard Bellemare (39)
- Note: Bellemare signed a one-year contract with Switzerland’s HC Ajoie on 10/31.
- Ryan Carpenter (33)
- Note: Carpenter signed a two-year contract with the AHL’s San Diego Gulls on 7/2.
- Sam Gagner (35)
- Michael McLeod (26)
- Note: McLeod signed a one-year contract with Russia’s Avangard Omsk on 11/19.
- Chris Tierney (30)
- Note: Tierney signed a one-year contract with Belarus’ Dinamo Minsk on 9/23.
- Colin White (27)
- Note: White signed a one-year contract with the AHL’s San Jose Barracuda on 8/13.
Left Wingers
- Alexander Barabanov (30)
- Note: Barabanov signed a two-year contract with Russia’s Ak Bars Kazan on 8/1.
- Sammy Blais (28)
- Note: Blais signed a one-year contract with the AHL’s Abbotsford Canucks on 8/22.
- Dillon Dubé (26)
- Note: Dubé signed a one-year contract with Belarus’ Dinamo Minsk on 7/1.
- Adam Erne (29)
- Mike Hoffman (34)
- Boris Katchouk (26)
- Note: Katchouk signed a one-year contract with the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on 10/8.
- Dominik Kubalík (29)
- Note: Kubalík signed a one-year contract with Switzerland’s HC Ambrì-Piotta on 9/4.
- Milan Lucic (36)
Right Wingers
- Cal Clutterbuck (37)
- Denis Gurianov (27)
- Note: Gurianov signed a two-year contract with Russia’s CSKA Moscow on 8/1.
- Filip Zadina (24)
- Note: Zadina signed a two-year contract with Switzerland’s HC Davos on 9/1.
Defensemen
- Calen Addison (24)
- Note: Addison signed a one-year contract with the AHL’s Henderson Silver Knights on 10/23.
- Tony DeAngelo (29)
- Note: DeAngelo signed a one-year contract with Russia’s SKA St. Petersburg on 9/23.
- Callan Foote (25)
- Note: Foote signed a one-year contract with Slovakia’s HK 32 Liptovsky Mikulas on 9/18.
- Mark Giordano (41)
- Lucas Johansen (27)
- Note: Johansen signed a one-year contract with the AHL’s Henderson Silver Knights on 11/7.
- John Klingberg (32)
- Nikita Zaitsev (33)
- Note: Zaitsev signed a four-year contract with Russia’s SKA St. Petersburg on 7/4.
Goaltenders
- Aaron Dell (35)
- Note: Dell signed a one-year contract with the AHL’s San Jose Barracuda on 9/26.
- Carter Hart (26)
- Martin Jones (34)
Where’s @Wilf been? He’s been quiet.
We finally were able to trade him to another website. PHR had to throw in some cash to make the deal work though. :D
I blocked him so I dunno
Best thing ever
Agreed the Mute button is fantastic. I have 10+ on my list lol
Same here, quite some time ago. Bliss.
Same. His schtick has run pale.
That’s a pathetic group of Goalies to be sure. Pretty slim talent all around in fact.
Other than the obvious guys who aren’t going anywhere I mean.
No true starters on that list really. A few 1B options in Kahkonen, Samsonov, Stolarz and a few others. Lots of third string options. Not sure we’ll ever see someone like Driedger back in the NHL unless he can pull magic out of his ass and play like he did in Florida again.
Funny though his stats look great in both the AHL/NHL. I haven’t really seen him play so can anyone expand on this? Seems like he’d be a great backup for a million bucks….?
Be interesting to play a “Pick a twenty-man expansion roster out of those names” game.
Would probably still beat the Sharks or Ducks in a 7 game series lol
They’d be a playoff team, imo. LD depth is sketch, but a lot of the wingers listed have experience at center and can shift to compensate for an otherwise weak market. Montour/Pesce/Tanev would be an absolutely sick RD depth chart
I certainly think so. Never mind that there’s enough star power there at wing to grab some trade bait. Unless the goalies collapse, that team would make the playoffs with room to spare.
Red Wings need to re-sign Perron and Kane
Hope the Preds keep Zucker around.
Stamkos to Toronto after they trade Mitch
No room after Pesce. Don’t think he’s leaving TB. Dallas is a possibility, but again seems unlikely.
Stamkos isn’t going to Toronto. He could have gone their back in 2016 when he was a free agent when Toronto offered more money than Tampa. He still chose Tampa. This time around is different as he said he has a family now & roots in Tampa now (even his parents moved to Tampa). Stamkos will be staying & retire as a Lightning player as he should. A deal will be reached between TBL & Stamkos when it’s all set & done. I feel the media is making a bigger thing out of it than what it is. I mean Stamkos & Kucherov are freakin training together already for next season. If he was thinking of leaving, he wouldn’t be spending his time fully training.
I could see them trading Sergachev for picks and prospects and maybe some depth D in order to free up some cash. He was injured all year and they still had a good season. Could restock the system with a Serg deal.
I don’t see Tampa parting with Mikhail Sergachev at all as he’s a young core piece. Sergachev is looked as the guy to eventually take Victor Hedman’s place once Hedman hangs it up. Sergachev had a career year last season. This season he did have a foot/ankle injury in December than came back in February & had a freak injury to his leg the night of his return & still came back well ahead of schedule & played quite well in the playoffs.
Tampa was 25th in defense this past season. They needed Sergachev (who’s widely considered a top 20 defenseman in the league) & just more experience guys hence for bringing back veteran Ryan McDonagh. Great defensemen are exceedingly hard to come by.
Tampa would get rid of Erik Cernak way before they would remotely consider trading Sergachev.
Canes need a right-handed center. Did they ever patch things up with Lindholm? He mocked the Canes fans over the Storm Surge clapping.