Notable NHL Signings and Trades – July 1, 2025
 Anaheim Ducks sign unrestricted free-agent forward Mikael Granlund to a three-year contract with an average annual value of $7 million.
The New York Rangers signed winger Will Cuylle to a two-year contract with an average annual value of $3.9 million. Cuylle was a restricted free agent completing his entry-level contract.
Buffalo Sabres re-sign center Ryan McLeod to a four-year contract with an average annual value of $5 million. McLeod was a restricted free agent with arbitration rights.
The San Jose Sharks signed John Klingberg to a one-year, $4 million contract. He was an unrestricted free agent.
Defenseman Ryan Lindgren signed a four-year contract with the Seattle Kraken with an average annual value of $4.5 million.
The Utah Mammoth signed defenseman Nate Schmidt inked a three-year contract ($3.5 million AAV) and forward Brandon Tanev to a three-year contract ($2.5 million AAV).
The Los Angeles Kings signed defenseman Cody Ceci to a four-year contract with an AAV of $4.5 million, blueliner Brian Dumoulin to a three-year deal with a $4 million AAV, and winger Corey Perry to a one-year, $2 million contract.
Winger Jonathan Drouin agreed to a two-year contract ($4 million AAV) with the New York Islanders.
Forward Radek Faksa inked a three-year contract ($2 million AAV) with the Dallas Stars.
The Vancouver Canucks brought back Brock Boeser, signing him to a seven-year contract with an average annual value of $7.25 million.
The New York Rangers sign defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov to a seven-year deal with an AAV of $7 million.
The Los Angeles Kings sign forward Joel Armia to a two-year contract with a $2.5 million AAV.
The Boston Bruins signed forward Tanner Jeannot to a four-year deal with an AAV of $3.5 million.
The New Jersey Devils sign forward Connor Brown to a four-year contract with an AAV of $3 million.
The Philadelphia Flyers sign goaltender Dan Vladar to a two-year contract with a $3.35 million AAV.
The San Jose Sharks sign winger William Eklund to a three-year deal with an AAV of $5.6 million. Eklund, 22, was a restricted free agent.
The Philadelphia Flyers signed center Christian Dvorak to a one-year, $5.4 million contract.
The Montreal Canadiens trade defenseman Logan Mailloux to the St. Louis Blues for forward Zachary Bolduc.
Logan Stankoven signs an eight-year contract extension ($6 million AAV) with the Carolina Hurricanes. The 22-year-old forward was slated to become an RFA next July.
Jake Allen re-signed with the New Jersey Devils. The 34-year-old goaltender agreed to a five-year contract with an AAV of $1.8 million.
The Edmonton Oilers trade winger Viktor Arvidsson to the Boston Bruins for a fifth-round draft pick in 2027. This move frees up $4 million of salary-cap space for the Oilers.
Thatcher Demko signs a a three-year contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks worth an average annual value of $8.5 million. The 29-year-old goaltender was eligible for UFA status next July.
The Canucks also confirmed that Conor Garland signed a six-year contract extension with an AAV of $6 million. Like Demko, he was slated to become a UFA next July.
Martin Fehervary signed a seven-year contract extension with the Washington Capitals worth an AAV of $6 million. The 25-year-old defenseman was a restricted free agent with arbitration rights.
Personally I do not get the Dennis signing at all? He should have been dealt at draft
who’s Dennis? Auto-correct for Demko? 🙂
I HATE that “feature.”
The Flames have extended Joel Hanley for two years at $1.75m AAV. Yes that Joel Hanley. Undersized LD coming off a career high 9 points.
Don Waddell remarked recently that a player who was worth $3m last year isn’t suddenly worth $4m just because the cap went up. Obviously many others think otherwise. Even the schlubs are getting raises.
Waddell is wrong
Here’s to a very quiet day for the Leafs. With only a couple of players yet to sign, the rest of their little nest egg, put it away for a rainy day. They won’t, but it woyld be a nice change
Mailloux for Bolduc straight up terrible trade for the Blues. Bolduc is a legitimate sniper. Plays physical will explode in Montreal.
Snold 49. I agree, on paper looks like a steal for Montreal.
Habsman67, pure speculation on my part but all the Kyrou rumors lately makes me think that Mailloux Kyrou was a framework of a bigger deal that Montreal wasn’t willing to expand to the Blues liking. I would think taking Leddy or Faulk off the Blues hands maybe. Looks like Armstrong caved and sent Bolduc.
I get the Blues are loaded with wings at all levels and needed a right shot 2nd pair dman I just don’t get Bolduc for me sending Neighbors would have been better. What can you tell me about Mailloux.
Great move by Montreal. The guy was known as a pure one-way sniper in the Q as a left-shot RW, but has refined his game in leaps and bounds
Thank goodness Mailloux is gone.
I’m with everyone here. Love this trade for the Habs.
Even before the Dobson trade, there was talk about how the Habs would likely trade one of Mailloux or Reinbacher. After picking up Dobson, Mailloux became expendable.
Bolduc had scoring touch. 19 goals and 36 points in 72 games as a 21 year old rookie. At 13 minutes per game. Plays with some edge. Defensively responsible. At 6 foot and 187 pounds he’s not exactly huge but that’s decent size.
With Bolduc., Caufield, Demidov and Slafkovsky, all 25 or under, and with Laine who’s only 27, the Habs have put together a fine young group of wingers. Now if they could only find a center.
With Viktor Arvidsson added Zacha must be on the move
boston still has 8 mil to play with and all main pieces signed
Actually $5,343,333
They haven t traded Korpisalo yet!
Impressed by Vancouver. Seem like they got their act together? Signing all those right in a row.
I like Canucks, good team hard to play against!
Wonder what the Avalanche are up to? Adrian Dater says they are “in” on ejlers. That would be great but I think many teams in on him. Will see? I suspect that the Avalanche may make a trade.
How can you beat Florida, they have it going on!!
Gavrikov getting $7M from Rangers is a relative bargain when Provorov got $8.5 and Fehervary got $6M from Washington.
Also read that KAndre may be flipped to Carolina now.
Another contract which makes the Dobson signing look great!
Then again NY didn’t need a guy like Dobson. It’s a pretty friendly deal.
Are you suggesting it’s not?
CO I’m saying that Dobson is more worthy of his contract than Gavrikov.
Gavrikov will turn 30 early in the season and doesn’t bring a great amount of offense. Not overly physical either. Seven years way too long. The money is also high but that’s the new normal.
They definitely didn’t bring him in for offense. They were looking for the lock down guy that Fox has never had an opportunity to play with.
Although this past year these two were only separated by 9 points. +/- was a huge difference. I think he bounces back in Montreal. Montreal better pray he does. Or they just signed a 9.5 per for 8 years for a 40 point guy.
Not thrilled with the 7 years. But he was the top d-man on the board. 7 per isn’t the issue. He absolutely took a discount with an added year.
Ny desperately needed a shut down guy on the left side. Dobson would not really fit with Fox playing the big minutes, PP on the right side.
His age aside, this is a HUGE upgrade over the 25 year old Miller.
They’ve been attached to Gavrikov for a month or two. I’m actually shocked he didn’t cost more.
Could someone get Montreal’s management to just slow down please?
They’re getting too good too quickly.
Asking for a friend.
Tell your friend Hell No!!!
Tanner Jeannot A much needed player for the Bruins to get … Sweeney heard me
Bruins quietly became harder to play against in the past week
and Hagens fell in your lap
A carbon copy of Milan Lucic.Remember him?
Is there scouting report on Pezzetta
I am not sure what the Leafs are up to !
Perhaps it’s the trade route
Can’t think of who is moving out of Toronto
I did hear a random Carlo ?
They’re beefing up the Marlies
At this moment – barring something transpiring we haven’t heard about yet – Toronto has $5,008,081 and still with RFA W Nick Robertson to either re-up or move.
George I’m surprised Ottawa didn’t sign Docker. Me thinks Robertson, Kampf and Jancrock will be traded. If not then it’ll be off to the Marlies along with Reaves and Pazzetta
Yogi, I guess some of those UFAs who didn’t get new deals could wind up being signed later this summer as teams take time to breath and assess what they have done. If not, some will head to Europe
@ds
I agree , as per Hager’s falling to 7th and a Boston kid
Jeannot , I like as well
1 year at BC.
But other than than he’s a Long Island kid and Islander die hard fan. For the week leading up to the draft he was begging for the Isles to trade up and get him.
Islanders did try to trade up into the 5th, 6th, and 7th slots to take him, but it didn’t work out.
Again .. trade Korpisalo get cap back up to 8 million go get either a top 3 Dman (Ryan Lindgren ) or a goal scorer
So Boeser staying in Vancouver. At $7.25m AAV.
Seems to me I recall hearing that he had turned down $8m a few months ago. Which can mean one of two things. Either he found the market much less receptive than he had thought or that rumor was bogus
What’s that they say about not believing everything you hear?
I believe the rumored offer+ was a 5 year offer for $8M. His issue was supposedly related to term. He wanted more years.
I hope Steeves gets a long look in Boston. Worked hard in Toronto just didn’t click for him
Too bad Steeves is in Boston but, man, what does a guy need to do to prove himself?
@George
5 mil left on the cap ?
That’s it
Tavares took a 7 mil bath
Marner and his 11 mil disappeared
Increase in the cap – 7 mil?
They had to to resign Kneis
New addition from Vegas – 3 mil left
Utah addition , another 3 mil
Should leave 12 mill left play with ?
If only 5 mill?
Kampfe , Domi , Järnkrok have to go … free up cap room
Pkg Mcmann with one or 2 of them , Reilly – no trade clause would be ideal ?
Ken, it’s going to take a few days for all details to be sorted out for a lot of teams.
Just now I looked at Ottawa at Puckpedia about 2 hours after my last scan, and I see that they signed veteran C Lars Eller, so it appears he’s the replacement on line 4 for Adam Gaudette. Older but bigger … we’ll see.
Where the Leafs are concerned, yeah, the big contracts of Tavares ($11,000,000) and Marner ($10,903,000) are no longer on the books – a $21,903,000 deduction.
But when you combined the cap space they had going into yesterday and today with what thei absorbed – $4,388,420 for Tavares, a new $7,750,000 deal for Knies and $1,350,000 for Lorentz, plus the additions of Maccelli ($3,425,000), Roy ($3,000,000) and Pezzetta ($787,500) – what you wind up with is a reserve of $5,008, 001.
$$$ out $$$ in. All you can do now is hope that the GM got it right. That’s sure all we got going for us in Ottawa.
As Brad Treliving said today, “It’s July 1. We don’t have a game tomorrow.”
Time to get to work, Brad.
Star UFA players this year were lacking besides a handful…
Bruins with all that cap they had to spend 26 million.. they didn’t really improve their team much at all .. unless they bring in a top line center or goal scorer and with only 1+ million to spend it’s going to be a no playoff team again this coming season
terrible job by Sweeney with 26 million in hand .. this guy won’t be the Bruins GM next offseason
Relax, Joeman.
We won’t win next year and we don’t really want to.
The only way to do this is to stink for a couple of seasons.
Get some lottery luck.
Hope like hell for good timing with regards to top prospects available.
As we sit, this is a bottom 5 club…….and that’s alright for now.
Where you get the joeman from
Penguins trade backup goalie Alex Nedejkovic to Sharks for 3rd round draft pick. Dubas likes accumulate draft picks!
I can’t remember who, but someone about a week ago Kandre Miller wouldn’t land an offer sheet / not worth a 1st and a 3rd.
He was just traded for a 1st, a 2nd and a former 2nd rounder Scott Hall.
Oooops.
And he signed an 8 year 7.5 deal. Yikes! Good luck with that Carolina!
Scott Morrow, not Hall!
Well I guess the Habs could now contend for the Cup. As long as the new CBA abolishes the center position.
Hughes has done a solid job building the team. Bolduc is a better fit for where the team is at and what it needs than any of the high priced UfAs would have been. As much as they need a second line center I’m glad Hughes didn’t throw $7m per year at Granlund.
That being said the Habs need more center depth. I’ve come to terms with Dach getting another shot at 2C and Evans is solid in the bottom 6. But Beck and Kapanen would both be better off with another year in the AHL and I’m not comfortable with Newhook at center.
The Habs should have taken a harder run at a guy like Bjugstad. Roslovich is still out there. Even Veleno would improve their depth. But that’s the one job Hughes has to finish this summer.