While the NBA has an eight-day negotiating period before free agents can sign, the NHL allows players to sign immediately and thanks to wide-spread tampering, the floodgates open immediately at Noon EST.
Within 15 minutes of the start of free agency, former Penguins defenseman Sergei Gonchar defected to Ottawa for a three-year deal and no-trade clause, two things Pittsburgh wouldn't give a 36-year-old defenseman. The Penguins nicely replaced him though, signing Paul Martin from New Jersey and Zbynek Michalek from Phoenix. Suddenly the Penguins have a really intriguing defense with these two joining Brooks Orpik, Kris Letang and Alex Goligoski.
The Sharks have signed Antero Niittymaki to be their new No. 1 goaltender. I can't believe he can possibly fail in the playoffs as consistently as Evgeni Nabokov did over the last decade.
Still waiting to see where Ilya Kovalchuk ends up and rumor has it the Rangers and Maple Leafs plan on making presentations to LeBron James.
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