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The New Jersey Devils have acquired defenseman John Marino from the Penguins in alternate for defenseman Ty Smith and a 2023 third-round choose, the groups introduced Saturday.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired defenseman Jeff Petry and ahead Ryan Poehling from the Montreal Canadiens in alternate for defenseman Mike Matheson and a 2023 fourth-round choose, the groups introduced Saturday.

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The situations Canadiens normal supervisor Kent Hughes has not moved one inch from what he initially stated about buying and selling Jeff Petry. Any deal must make sense for Petry, but additionally for the Canadiens.

That the Canadiens must come out of the commerce improved, both now or sooner or later.

Now that free company has opened, a bunch of groups spent a bunch of cash on gamers and the already small marketplace for Petry may need gotten even smaller, Hughes has not modified his tune.

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Now that the mud has settled following a busy opening day of free company, the Washington Capitals’ 2022-23 depth chart is beginning to come into focus.

The opening evening lineup is, too — assuming, in fact, normal supervisor Brian MacLellan’s renovations are full.

With that caveat in thoughts, this looks like time to take inventory of all of the adjustments and mission how the lineup would possibly look when Alex Ovechkin and Co. take the ice Oct. 12 vs. Boston.

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The Sharks had already made main adjustments off the ice, together with just a few medium-sized alterations to the roster, previously two weeks earlier than the beginning of the NHL’s free company interval Wednesday.

Then normal supervisor Mike Grier went from tinkering with the structure of his new lounge to knocking a wall down.

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Free-agent ahead Dylan Strome is signing with the Washington Capitals on a one-year, $3.5 million contract, Sportsnet reported Thursday.

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Kevyn Adams has been clear about his plan.

The Sabres’ normal supervisor didn’t wish to do something in free company that might jeopardize what the group is attempting to construct over the long run. And when it got here to the group’s want at goaltender, Adams wasn’t going to fling himself desperately into the market on the place.

That’s why when free company opened on Wednesday afternoon, the Sabres settled on a special type of signing, one they’d been excited about for months. While Jack Campbell inked a hefty take care of the Oilers and Darcy Kuemper signed for large cash in Washington, the Sabres took an opportunity on Eric Comrie on a two-year deal value $1.8 million per yr.

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When Reilly Smith first arrived in Las Vegas in 2017, he seen it as simply one other pit cease alongside the highway of his NHL profession. After bouncing from Dallas to Boston to Florida after which to Vegas in a span of solely six years, who may blame him?