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.
The Carolina Hurricanes have re-signed Jackson Blake to an 8-year contract extension with a cap hit of $5.1 million.
Blake has 1 season left on his entry-level contract so his new deal will start in 2026-27.
The total value of the contract is $5.625 million per season, but the cap hit is reduced as some of the payments are deferred.
The Seattle Kraken have signed Kaapo Kakko to a 3-year contract with a cap hit of $4.525 million.
The contract covers 1 RFA season and 2 UFA seasons.
Kakko was traded from the Rangers to the Kraken last season in a trade that sent Will Borgen to the Rangers. He had 14 goals and 30 assists in 79 games split between the 2 teams.
The Winnipeg Jets have re-signed Gabe Vilardi to a 6-year contract with a cap hit of $7.5 million.
The contract will cover 2 RFA seasons and 4 UFA seasons.
Vilardi, 25, had 27 goals and 34 assists in 71 games for the Jets last season. He came to the Jets in the summer of the summer of 2023 in the trade that sent Pierre-Luc Dubois to the Kings.
Yegor Chinakhov has asked for a trade from the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The winger was injured for most of last season, and when he returned to health, was a healthy scratch for some games. That, according to general manager Don Waddell, is the source of Chinakhov’s frustration.
Chinakhov, 24, had 7 goals and 8 assists in 30 games for the Blue Jackets last season. He had a stronger 2023-24 season, putting up 16 goals and 13 assists in 53 games.
Chinakhov is signed through 2025-26 at a cap-hit of $2.1 million.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired Dakota Joshua from the Vancouver Canucks for a 2028 4th round pick.
The 29 year old winger had 7 goals and 7 assists in 57 games for the Canucks last season, a dip from the 18 goals and 14 assists in 2023-24.
Joshua is signed through 2027-28 at a cap hit of $3.25 million. The Canucks needed to clear space as they have a hole at the second line center spot which they have been unable to fill so far. Rick Dhaliwal reports that they have been in contact with Jack Roslovic.