Montreal Canadiens
The Canadiens got tougher by resigning Travis Moen and signing former Brandon Prust who is a 28 year old who not afraid of going into the corners and if someone messes with the Canadiens smaller players like BRIAN GIONTA and DAVID DESHARNAIS who are 5'7 when the new norm in the NHL is over 6 foot he will not be afraid to drop the gloves as he had 20 fighting majors last season. The best thing for the Canadiens is addition from subtraction with Scott Gomez being bought out any day now and they have brought in Colby Armstrong and maybe with the Canadiens or the bulldogs like goaltender Cédrick Desjardins will be doing next season.
Ottawa Senators
The Senators made a trade with the Columbus Blue Jackets but was not Rick Nash but instead it was Marc Methot native coming home in exchange for Nick Foligno as defensive defenceman to replace Flip Kuba who is headed to Florida and joining the Panthers. While former 25 goal scorer Guillaume Latendresse winger from Minnesota signed an one year deal to replace Matt Carkner who is heading to the island while also signing defense man Mike Lundin from the wild to fill out their roster. GM Brain Murray says it will be a quiet week in the Nation Capital and that neither Rick Nash or Zach Praise will not becoming are way and will just build on last season success signing Eric Karlsson to a 7 year/45.5 deal and hoping he can take if game to that next level.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Leafs signed Jay McClement to a 2 year/ 3 million dollars who was a penalty killer and logged the most penalty killing minutes with Colorado and will hopefully help the dreadful leaf penalty killing and probably the fourth line center. They were also paying attention to the Calder cup as they signed Calder cup winning defense man Mike Kostka who is likely staying in the AHL with the Marlies on an one year deal. Even though they did little to nothing on day one the big fish are still out there with Zach Praise, Ryan Suter, and Martin Brodeur still on the marker but really not a player yet for any of team it looks like while the likes of Roberto Luongo and Bobby Ryan out there for the right price while Jonas Gustavsson is now a dead thing.
Winnipeg Jets
ALEXEI PONIKAROVSKY is the newest Jets who if focused will be able to create trouble in front of the opposing goalie but he can be a little hit and miss and when he does not he is likely invisible on the ice. They lose forward Tanner Glass to the Penguins and backup goalie Chris Mason to Nashville Predators but has signed Ondrej Pavelec to a 5 year/19.5 million dollars and not done yet with lots of cap space.
Day one was quiet
Tom Mehegan
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