The Minnesota Wild have re-signed Kirill Kaprizov to an 8-year contract extension with a cap-hit of $17 million.
The Wild and Kaprizov were in the news earlier this month when Kaprizov rejected the team’s 8-year offer at $16 million per season. The Wild came back and bumped up their offer and the Kaprizov is now signed to the largest contract in NHL history.
Kaprizov, 28, had 25 goals and 31 assists in 45 games for the Wild last season.
The Edmonton Oilers have re-signed Vasily Podkolzin to a 3-year contract with a cap hit of $2.95 million.
The new contract covers 2 RFA seasons and 1 UFA season.
Podkolzin, 24, had 8 goals and 16 assists in 82 games for the Oilers last season.
The Calgary Flames have re-signed Conor Zary to a 3-year contract with a cap hit of $3.775 million.
The forward was unsigned for 2 months this summer. He will have 1 RFA season remaining after this 3-year deal.
Zary, 23, had 13 goals and 14 assists in 54 games for the Flames last season.
The Minnesota Wild have re-signed Marco Rossi to a 3-year contract with a $5 million cap hit.
The Austrian forward will have 1 RFA season remaining after this contract, in which his team can keep his rights by extending a $6 million qualifying offer, as Michael Russo notes.
Rossi, 23, had 24 goals and 36 assists in 82 games for the Wild last season, though he was dropped to the 4th line in the playoffs where his production dipped. The length of time Rossi went without a contract suggests that the team and player have differing opinions about the player’s worth and/or long-term future, and it wouldn’t be shocking to see Rossi finish this contract on another team.
The Chicago Blackhawks have re-signed Frank Nazar to a 7-year contract extension with a cap hit just below $6.6 million.
The forward still has 1 more season on his entry-level contract, so the new 7-year pact will start in 2026-27. The new contract will cover 5 RFA seasons and 2 UFA seasons.
Nazar, 21, had 12 goals and 14 assists in 53 games last season for the Blackhawks.
The Detroit Red Wings have signed Travis Hamonic to a 1-year contract worth $1 million.
Hamonic, 34, had 1 goal and 6 assists in 59 games with the Senators last season.
Hamonic will join the right-side of the Red Wings’ blue line that includes Mo Seider, Justin Holl and Jacob Bernard-Docker.
The Buffalo Sabres have re-signed Devon Levi to a 2-year contract with a cap hit of $812,500.
The contract is for the NHL minimum salary of $775,000 in 2025-26 and $850,000 in 2026-27. Sometimes young NHLers will take a lower cap hit than they potentially could to make it easier for the NHL team to justify keeping them in the NHL. The Sabres have Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and the recently signed Alex Lyon in net. Levi can be sent to the AHL without waivers.
Levi, 23, will have 2 RFA seasons remaining after this contract expires. He has had mixed results at the NHL level through his young career, but went 25-13-4 with a 0.919 SV% with Rochester of the AHL last season.
The New York Islander have re-signed Maxim Tsyplakov to a 2-year contract with a cap hit of $2.25 million.
Tsyplakov and the Islanders had an arbitration hearing set for July 29.
The winger will be eligible to be a UFA after this 2-year pact.
Tsyplakov, 26, had 10 goals and 25 assists in 77 games for the Islanders in his first NHL season last year.