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 With the NHL's announcement that the salary cap is $56.7 million and the floor is $40.7 million, look for a lot of announcements shortly - as teams such as the Flames were holding back the official announcement of a contract with Daymond Langkow until the cap was announced.  Martin Straka has not officially signed to play [...]

Angus here, whats up gang. Scott Niedermayer will be confirming his return, possibly as early as tomorrow. The source is the Ducks official blog on their site. Will be very interesting to see how they handle RFA-to-be Corey Perry.  The Newsday out of New York is reporting that Jay Bouwmeester is unhappy with the Jokinen [...]

 The Flyers acquired Janne Niskala from the Preds for a seventh round pick. Niskala will beef up the Phantoms, but with Eminger already joining the team I don't see him cracking the roster.  The Lightning have waived Marc Denis for the purpose of a buyout.  The Hurricanes have signed Tuomo Ruutu to a one-year deal. I [...]

 Ben Clymer, Jeff Hamilton and David Tanabe have all been placed on waivers for the purpose of a buyout. None of them have any fantasy value.  Shea Weber is expected to be extended today by the Preds. The arrival of Boynton and Ballard in Florida makes it unlikely that Cory Murphy will ever get in the [...]

 Wayne Gretzky envisions Jokinen, Doan and Mueller as linemates. This is bad news for Turris owners, who anticipated that he would be in that middle spot. As such, Turris may fall short of 55-60 points as a rookie. The Coyotes gave up their No.90 pick to the Rangers for Alex Bourret. Bourret is coming off another [...]

 The Sens gave Chris Kelly a four-year contract extension. I think he could have actually had decent 55-point pop on a new team... but not in Ottawa. The Leafs and Islanders each blew their chance to pick up Nikita Filatov, who could be the steal of the draft. Remember - Jagr was chosen fourth in his [...]

 Dobber: Just want to extend my congratulations to Bugg. He had Viktor Tikhonov going 35th in Dobber's Fantasy Prospects Report. The Hockey News did not have him in their Top 100, and TSN did not have him in their Top 75. If that's not a great job of projecting, I don't know what is! Good [...]