Here are the most interesting contracts in the NHL player market and all about Finns | Sport

The NHL free agent market opened on July 1st. Unlimited free UFA players are therefore allowed to sign a contract with any club.

A record number of transfers have been seen since the opening of the player market. Never before have more than a billion dollars worth of players moved in the first day. In total, more than 100 players have already changed teams since Monday.

– There was a lot of money and really good players available, Toronto’s new CEO Brad Treliving said For Sportsnet.

Finns

Of the Finnish players in the Taalaliiga, they got a transfer to the new team Teuvo Teräväinen, Jani Hakanpää, Jesse Ylönen and Kaapo Kähkönen.

Juuse Saros and Kasperi Kapanen in turn wrote extension contracts with their clubs.

The extension cartilage also Joel Kivirintawho continues in Colorado with a one-year contract worth 775 thousand dollars.

Defender Urho Vaakanainen continues with his club Anaheim Ducks last season on a $1.1 million contract.

In addition, a Finnish striker Miko Matikka has signed a three-year rookie contract with the Utah Hockey Club.

Even before the start of the free market, a significant transfer was seen for the Finns, when the goalkeeper Joonas Korpisalo traded to Boston. Korpisalo, 30, who signed a five-year contract with Ottawa last summer, blocked pucks in the mouth of the Senators’ goal in 21 games, where the save percentage was a modest 89.0 percent. The visit to Ottawa was only for one season.

Teuvo Teräväinen returns to Chicago, with whom he celebrated the Stanley Cup in the 2014–15 season.

– We are excited to have Teuvo back in Chicago. He played a significant role on our 2015 Stanley Cup champion team. It is great to have his leadership and experience at our disposal, stated Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson after the transaction is confirmed.

Jani Hakanpää’s new address is the hockey-crazy Canadian city of Toronto. The Finnish defender represented the Dallas Stars for the previous three seasons. However, the season ended with an injury already in March. According to various sources, Hakanpää’s knee is either fine or even an NHL career at stake.

Jesse Ylönen is moving from the Canadian team Montreal to Tampa Bay on the west coast of Florida. The Finn flashed from time to time in Montreal that he is a very clinical finisher at his best, even if it was not reflected in the final score. The forward scored 4+4=8 power points in 59 matches last season.

Goalkeeper Kaapo Kähkönen was traded from the San Jose Sharks to New Jersey in the middle of last season, where he only played six games in the rest of the season with a save percentage of 92.3.

Now the new address can be found in Winnipeg, where you can find the best goalkeeper of the series in the season that ended Connor Hellebuyck. The role will be as a backup to the US goalkeeper as the second goalkeeper.

Juuse Saros, who has been Nashville’s main force for several seasons, signed a long eight-year, $61.92 million contract with the club despite transfer rumors.

The Finnish goalkeeper is clearly Nashville’s number one goalkeeper, as last season he made saves in no less than 64 out of 82 games.

St. Louis Blues forward Kasperi Kapanen signed a one-year contract extension with his team. The Finnish striker’s last season was modest in terms of power points: 22 power points (6+16) were created in 73 matches. Ahead is a significant season in terms of the continuation of Kapanen’s NHL career.

Nashville wild

The Nashville Predators have been the most active team in the free agent market that has started. Nashville club management By Barry Trotz the management has already brought two top class names to its team as well as last years’ Stanley Cup winner, By Steven Stamkos and by Jonathan Marchessault.

Trotz considered the trade of the aforementioned players extremely significant for the team.

– A big day for the future of our club.

When the Predators still acquired a defender from Carolina Brady Skjein30, for seven years for $49 million and a goaltender by Scott Wedgewood31, from Dallas for two years for three million dollars, the team has already spent nearly $112 million on players from the free transfer market.

Steven Stamkos, 34, has represented his entire previous NHL career for the Tampa Bay Lighting, from which he also moved to Nashville. The Canadian’s contract covers four years and is worth $32 million.

– I could never have imagined that a day like this would happen, but it did. The transfer from Tampa to another place was definitely a bitter pill to swallow, Stamkos, who celebrated the championship with Tampa in 2020 and 2021, said after the transfer was confirmed.

Jonathan Marchessault, 33, signed a five-season, $27.5 million contract with Nashville.

Marchessault moves to the country town from Las Vegas, with whom he won the Stanley Cup last summer (2023). The Canadian striker was also chosen as the most valuable player of the playoffs during the championship spring.

Marchessault and Stamkos played together in Tampa from 2014-16. The former teammates had talked to each other on the phone before Stamkos’ transfer was confirmed. Gamblers had thought the Predators would only sign one of them, so Stamkos had decided to ask Marchessault about it.

– Do they only sign the contract with the other?

– No “Stammer”, I’m coming to Nashville too, Marchessault had answered.

Florida lost pieces of its championship team

Having just celebrated the championship with Florida and Niko Mikkolan with the lutes downstairs as a pair of defenders Brandon Mountour30, has signed a seven-year, $50 million contract with Seattle.

Another defender is also moving from the basement of the Stanley Cup champion, when Oliver Ekman-Larsson, 32, found his new address in Toronto. The Swede moves to the puck-crazy city of Toronto on a four-year, $3.5 million deal.

During the season, the Yankee goalkeeper saved 27 games in the mouth of the Panthers’ goal Anthony Stolarz30, joins Ekman-Larsson in Toronto on a two-year contract and five million dollars.

The striker was also allowed to leave the champion team Ryan Lomberg, 29, whose new address is Calgary. The two-year contract is worth four million dollars.