Happy Canada day to everyone here in Canada. Today also marks the first day of the NHL free agent season. Officially at noon EST all free agents were able to sign with whatever team they wanted to. There were alot of singings today and they go as follows:

• Jason Spezza – Toronto – 1 year – $700K
• Tyler Ennis – Ottawa – 1 year- $800K
• Ron Hainsey – Ottawa – 1 year – $3.5M
• Tyler Myers – Vancouver – 5 years- $6M/Season
• Matt Duchene – Nashville – 7 years – $8M/Season
• Mats Zuccarello – Minnesota – 5 years – $6M/Season
• Brett Connolly – Florida – 4 years – $3M/Season
• Markus Granlund – Edmonton – 1 year – $1.3M
• Sergei Bobrovsky – Florida – 7 years – $9.5M/Season
• Joe Pavelski – Dallas – 3 years – $7M/Season
• Richard Panik – Washington – 4 years – $2.5M/Season
• Ryan Hartman – Minnesota – 2 years – $1.9M/season
• Kenny Agostino – Toronto – 2 years – $700K/season
• Cam Talbot – Edmonton – 1 year- $2.75M
• Corey Perry – Dallas – 1 year – $1.5M
• Luke Schenn – Tampa Bay – 1 year – $700K
• Mike Smith – Edmonton – 1 year – $2M
• Keith Kinkaid – Montreal – 1 year – $1.75M
• Curtis McElhinney – Tampa Bay – 2 years – $1.3M/Season
• Andrej Sekera – Dallas – 1 year – $1.5M
• Noel Acciari – Florida – 3 years – $1.67M/Season
• Daniel Carr – Nashville – 1 year – $700K
• Patrik Nemeth – Detroit – 2 years – $2.5M/Season
• Anton Stralman – Florida – 3 years – $5.5M/Season
• Artemi Panarin – New York Rangers – 7 years – $11.642M/Season
• Oscar Fantenberg – Vancouver – 1 year – $850K
• Brandon Tanev – Pittsburgh – 6 years – $3.5M/Season
• Garnet Hathaway – Washington – 4 years – $1.5M/Season
• Timo Meier – RFA – San Jose – 4 years – $6M/Season
• Ryan Murray – Columbus – 2 years – $4.6M/Season
• Joonas Donskoi – Colorado – 4 years – $3.9M/Season
• Jean-Sebastien Dea – Buffalo – 1 year – $700K
• Landon Bow – Dallas – 1 year – $700K
• John Gilmour – Buffalo – 1 year – $700K
• Patrik Nemeth – Detroit – 2 years – $3M/Season
• Nathan Beaulieu – Winnipeg – 1 year – $1M
• Jordie Benn – Vancouver – 2 years – $2M/Season
• Curtis Lazar – Buffalo – 1 year – $700k
• Gustav Nyquist – Columbus – 4 years – $5.5M/season
• Gabriel Dumont – MInnesota – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Andy Andreoff – Philadelphia – 2 years – $750K/Season
• Alex Chiasson – Edmonton – 2 years – $2.15M/Season
• Luke Johnson – Minnesota – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Maxime Legacy – Boston – 1 year – $700K
• Valterri Filppula – Detroit – 2 years – $3M/season
• Tim Heed – San Jose – 1 year – $960K
• Andrew Hammond – Buffalo – 1 year – $700K
• Ryan Carpenter – Chicago – 3 years – $1M/Season
• Colin Wilson – Colorado – 1 year – $2.6M
• Patrick Brown – Las Vegas – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Pierre- Edouard Bellemarre – Colorado – 2 years – $1.8M/Season
• Nate Prosser – Philadelphia – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Kurtis Gabriel – Philadelphia – 1 year – $700K
• J.F. Berube – Philadelphia – 1 year – $700K
• Riley Barber – Montreal – 1 year – $700K
• Jordan Swarz – Ottawa – 1 year – $800K
• Tomas Nosek – Las Vegas – 1 year – $1M
• Brandon Pirri – Las Vegas – 2 years – $775K/Season
• Wayne Simmonds – New Jersey – 1 year – $5M
• Kevin Gravel – Toronto – 1 year – $700K
• Nathan Walker – St. Louis – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Jujhar Khaira – Edmonton – 2 years – $1.2M/Season
• Tomas Jurco – Edmonton – 1 year – $750K
• Tyler Wotherspoon – Philadelphia – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Andy Welinski – Anaheim – 1 year – $750K
• Sammy Blais – St. Louis – 1 year – $850K
• Calvin Pickard – Detroit – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Kyle Criscuolo – Philadelphia – 1 year – $700K
• Chris Bigras – Philadelphia – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Nick Shore – Toronto – 1 year – $750K
• Philippe Maillet – Washington – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Brendan Leipsic – Washington – 1 year – $700K
• Andy Miele – Arizona – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Beau Bennett – Arizona – 1 year – $700K
• Aaron Ness – Arizona – 2 years – $700K/Season
• David Warsofsky – Pittsburgh – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Andrew Agozzino – Pittsburgh – 2 years – $700K/Season
• Par Lindholm – Boston – 2 years – $850K/Season
• Brett Ritchie – Boston – 1 year – $1M
• Brendan Gaunce – Boston – 1 year – $700K
• Zane McIntyre – Vancouver – 1 year – $700K
• Anders Lee – New York Islanders – 7 years – 7M/Season
• Ryan Murray -RFA – Columbus – 2 years – $4.6M/Season
• Connor Clifton – RFA – Boston – 3 years – $1M/Season

The big news on the day came out of Montreal with them signing Sebastian Aho to an offer sheet for 5 years at $8.454M/Season. Carolina now has 7 days to match this offer or Montreal would forfeit a first, second and third round pick to Carolina as compensation. From the press conference in Carolina it sounds like the offer will be matched at some point during the next week.

I’m sure over the next few hours, day, weeks there will be more moves but these are the ones for July 1 until 4:45 pm EST.