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Zach MacEwen signs 3-year, 2.325M contract with Senators
MacEwen, who will turn 27 on Saturday, recorded 10 points (four goals, six assists), 66 penalty minutes and 150 hits in 56 games last season split between the Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings, who acquired the rugged forward ahead of the trade deadline.

Kraken, Will Borgen avoid salary arbitration with 2-year deal
Borgen, 26, is coming off the best season of his career after playing in all 82 regular-season games for Seattle. Borgen set career highs in goals (three) and assists (17) and averaged more than 16 minutes, regularly paired with Jamie Oleksiak on Seattle's blue line.
 
Canucks, F Niles Hoglander agree on 2-year contract
Hoglander, 22, appeared in 25 games for Vancouver and 45 regular-season contests for Abbotsford of the AHL in the 2022-23 season. In 141 career games with the Canucks, Hoglander has 54 points on 26 goals and 28 assists.

Flyers sign goaltender Alexel Kolosov to 3-year deal
Kolosov, 21, was 13-21-5 with a 2.55 goals-against average and .912 save percentage in 42 regular-season games with the KHL's Minsk Dynamo last season. The Belarus native is 28-39-7 with a 2.73 GAA and .909 save percentage in 79 career KHL games, all with Minsk, in 2020-23.
 
Panthers' Eetu Lupsstarinen gets extension after break out year
Luostarinen, 24, had a breakout season in 2022, setting career highs in goals (17), assists (26) and points (43). During the Panthers' 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs run, Luostarinen had five points over 16 games, including the winning goal in Game 6 of the opening round against Boston.

Hurricans bring back Tony DeAngelo on 1-year, $1.675M deal
DeAngelo, who spent the 2021-22 season with Carolina as an offensive threat on the blue line. DeAngelo had 10 goals and 41 assists in 64 games with the Hurricanes, then had one goal and nine assists in 14 playoff games that season.
 
Capitals sign Tom Wilson to 7-year, $45.5 million extension
Wilson, who will be 30 when the new contract begins, has been an important part of the Capitals' core for a decade after they drafted him in the first round in 2012. He had 15 points in 21 games during their 2018 Stanley Cup run.

Erik Karisson to Penguins in 3-team trade with Sharks, Canadians
Karlsson is the first defenseman to be traded fresh off winning the Norris as the NHL's top defenseman since Doug Harvey in 1961. The 33-year-old Swede became the first player at the position to record 100 points in a season since Brian Leetch in 1991-92.
 
Dumba, 'a great leader' joins Arizona Coyotes on 1-year deal
Dumba played 10 seasons with Minnesota after the Wild selected him with the seventh overall pick in the 2012 NHL draft. He served as an alternate captain for the Wild the past two seasons, playing more of a shutdown role after being one of the league's better two-way defensemen.

Ducks sign goaitender Alex Stalock to one-year contract
Stalock is 70-65-20 with 11 shutouts, a 2.70 GAA and a .908 save percentage in 179 games (148 starts) with the San Jose Sharks, Minnesota Wild and Blackhawks.
 
Easton Cowan, 28th pick in NH: draft, signs with Maple Leaf
Cowan, 18, was selected by the Maple Leafs with the No. 28 overall pick in June's draft. He played in 68 regular-season games with the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League last season, tallying 53 points (20 goals, 33 assists). He added 21 points (nine goals, 12 assists) in 20 playoff games.

Leaf sign veteran G Martin Jones to one-year, 875K deal
Over 10 NHL seasons, Jones is 225-163-35 with 28 shutouts, a 2.71 GAA and .905 save percentage with the Los Angeles Kings (2013-15), San Jose Sharks (2015-21), Philadelphia Sharks (2021-22) and Kraken.
 
Flyers sign restricted free agent Morgan Frost for years
Frost, 24, recorded 46 points (19 goals, 27 assists) in 81 games last season with the Flyers. He led the team with 41 even-strength points (18 goals, 23 assists) and ranked third in goals while playing on a one-year, $800,000 deal.

Senators sign Jake Sanderson tp 8-year, $64.4 million deal
Sanderson finished with four goals and 32 points in 77 games and parlayed his two-way potential into showing he could be trusted in multiple situations. He was second on the team in average ice time at 21:55 per contest behind alternate captain and defenseman Thomas Chatiot
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Dustin Brown, Jamie Langenbrunner top U.S. Hockey HOF class
Brown in 2012 became the second American captain to hoist the Stanley Cup when the Los Angeles Kings won it for the first time, and he did it again in 2014. Earlier this year, the team put a statue of Brown outside of its arena and retired his No. 23 to the rafters. - Langenbrunner also won the Cup twice, in 1999 with Dallas and 2003 with New Jersey. He was a teammate of Brown's at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics when the U.S. won the silver medal.


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Longtime executive Brian Burke, women's star Katie King Crowley and official Brian Murphy also are being inducted into the hall at a ceremony Dec. 6 in Boston.
 

Hurricanes' Derek Stepan retires after 13 NHL seasons


Forward Derek Stepan, who became the fourth player in league history to record a hat trick in his NHL debut, announced his retirement Tuesday after 13 NHL seasons with four different teams. Stepan, 33, made an immediate impact to start his NHL career, scoring three times against former Vezina Trophy winner Ryan Miller in the New York Rangers' victory over the Buffalo Sabers on Oct. 9, 2010. He spent seven seasons with the Rangers after being selected in the second round of the 2008 draft. His best season came in 2013-14, when he recorded a career-best 57 points (17 goals, 40 assists) in the regular season and 15 more (five goals, 10 assists) in the playoffs to help New York advance to the Stanley Cup Final. He had 11 points in 73 games last season with Carolina.

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