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Perry signed with the Los Angeles Kings last offseason on a one-year contract before being dealt to the Tampa Bay Lightning at the trade deadline. The 41-year-old forward will return to the Kings to start the 2026-27 season on a one-year contract worth $1.0 million. Last season, he scored 37 points (17G / 20A) in 72 combined games.

After spending his first five NHL seasons with the Nashville Predators, the team traded him to Vegas mid-season in 2025-26. The 30-year-old forward will have another change of scenery entering year seven of his career, signing a three-year contract extension worth $3.0 million AAV with the Chicago Blackhawks. He scored 12 points (8G / 4A) in 63 combined games last season.

Schwartz spent the past five seasons with the Seattle Kraken and has opted for a change of scenery, signing a three-year, $9.75 million contract ($3.25M AAV) with the Colorado Avalanche. The 34-year-old veteran forward averaged 16:08 time-on-ice and scored 26 points (11G / 15A) in 50 games with Seattle.

After being thrust into a starting role with the Philadelphia Flyers the past two seasons, Ersson was overtaken by Dan Vladar in the 2025-26 season, making Ersson expendable for the Flyers. The 26-year-old Ersson posted a 3.12 GAA and .870 SV% last season in 33 games (14-11-5) with the Flyers and hopes to provide complementary goaltending for Ottawa behind Linus Ullmark.

After seven successful seasons in Minnesota, Mats Zuccarello will start a new adventure in his 17th NHL season after signing a one-year, $1 million contract with Los Angeles on Wednesday. The 38-year-old Norwegian winger has surpassed 54+ points in each of his last five seasons and is expected to provide an offensive spark to Los Angeles who finished 4th worst in the NHL in goals for in 2025-26.

Samoskevich's rights were acquired from Florida prior to the NHL Entry Draft for a 2026 1st round pick (25th overall) and a 2027 condition second-round pick and the 23-year-old has now signed a three-year, $3.85 million AAV contract extension ($11.5M total) with Seattle. The former 2021 1st round pick (24th overall) is entering his third full season in the NHL after putting up a career high in points in 2025-26, with 12 goals, 32 points, 30 PIMs and 161 SOG.

One of the dominos of free agency has dropped after it was announced moments after the signing window that Los Angeles has signed Erik Haula to a two-year, $3.5 million AAV ($7.0M total). The 35-year-old is entering his 14th NHL season with his eighth organizations after spending last season with Nashville where he had 14 goals and 38 points in 81 games played.

The Blues will owe $1.33M AAV against the cap for each of the next two seasons. Drouin becomes a UFA after scoring four goals and 20 assists (24 points) in 64 games in 2025-26.

Although Detroit could have matched Mazur's qualifying offer, the team and player decided to skip that and sign a cheaper, two-year, $875,000 AAV contract extension ($1.75M total). Mazur is Detroit's 2021 3rd round pick (70th overall) but has failed to find success at the NHL level after going pointless in his first nine NHL games over three seasons. He is expected to battle for a bottom-six role in Detroit in training camp after putting up 11 goals and 16 points in 16 games with Grand Rapids (AHL) last season.

After four strong seasons in Philadelphia, the Flyers have locked up 24-year-old former 1st round pick (23rd overall) Tyson Foester to an eight-year, approximately $7.1 million AAV contract ($56.8M total). Foerster was forced to miss 53 games in 2025-26 due to an injury but still managed to score 13 goals and 17 points in just 29 games played during the regular season.

Montreal has secured their young superstar for the remainder of the decade and beyond after they announced on Wednesday that Ivan Demidov has signed an eight-year, $9.125 million contract extension ($73M total). The 20-year-old flashy Russian is coming off an incredible rookie campaign which saw him lead all first-year players in points with 19 goals, 62 points and 34 PIMs in 82 games played.