The Nashville Predators have re-signed Justus Annunen to a 2-year contract with a cap hit of $1.25 million.
The 2-year contract covers 1 RFA season and 1 UFA season.
Annunen, 25, is 3-5-1 this season with a 0.878 SV%. The Predators acquired Annunen in November 2024 in a trade that sent Scott Wedgewood to Colorado.
The Minnesota Wild have acquired Quinn Hughes from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Zeev Buium, Marco Rossi, Liam Ohgren and a 2026 1st round pick.
Hughes, 26, is signed through 2026-27 at a cap-hit of $7.85 million.
The Devils made a self-assessed “strong offer” reports Pierre Lebrun. Many assumed the Devils would acquire Quinn Hughes to play with his brothers Jack and Luke, and that narrative will presumably prevail heading towards Quinn’s impeding free agency in 2027.
The Ottawa Senators have re-signed Shane Pinto to a 4-year contract with a cap hit of $7.5 million.
The contract covers 2 RFA seasons and 2 UFA seasons. Pinto will have a 10-team no-trade list in the final 2 seasons.
Pinto, 25, had 21 goals and 16 assists in 70 games last season for the Senators before stepping up his pace early in 2025-26 with 8 goals and 6 assists in 17 games.
The Vancouver Canucks have acquired Lukas Reichel from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for a 2027 4th round pick.
Reichel had asked for a trade as he hasn’t been a regular in the Chicago lineup to start this season.
The 22-year old forward had 8 goals and 14 assists in 70 games for the Blackhawks in 2024-25.
The Montreal Canadiens have re-signed Lane Hutson to an 8-year contract extension with a cap hit of $8.85 million.
The contract will start in 2026-27, as Hutson is still on the final year of his entry-level contract.
The contract pays $55 million of the total $70.8 million in signing bonuses.
The Vegas Golden Knights have re-signed Jack Eichel to an 8-year contract extension with a cap-hit of $13.5 million.
Eichel joins Kirill Kaprizov, Connor McDavid and Kyle Connor as elite forwards removing themselves early from the UFA class of 2026.
Eichel, 28, is entering his 5th season with the Golden Knights after a messy divorce from the Sabres. He had 28 goals and 66 assists in 77 games last season.
The Winnipeg Jets have re-signed Kyle Connor to an 8-year contract extension with a cap hit of $12 million.
Connor is the third high-profile forward to re-sign, following Kirill Kaprizov last week and Connor McDavid on Monday. Jack Eichel and Artemi Panarin are the last of the elite tier of potential 2026 free agent forwards still unsigned.
Connor, 28, had 41 goals and 56 assists in 82 games with the Jets last season.
The Oilers have re-signed Connor McDavid to a 2-year contract extension with a cap hit of $12.5 million.
The Oilers captain clearly left money on the table to preserve cap space with the goal of aiding the Oilers’ pursuit of the Stanley Cup. McDavid’s cap hit of $12.5 million has no raise from his previous contract signed in 2017, and falls $4.5 million below Kirill Kaprizov’s extension signed last week.
McDavid, 28, has won the Hart trophy in 2016-17, 2020-21 and 2022-23 as the league’s most valuable player. The Oilers have lost in the Stanley Cup Finals in back-to-back years, falling both times to the Florida Panthers.