General manager Julien BriseBois announced the deal. Yanni Gourde will count $2.33 million against the salary cap through the 2030-31 NHL season.
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Toews, 37, is a free agent now, and his camp can speak with any of the league’s 32 teams immediately.
Foerster will count $3.75 million annually against the salary cap in the 2025-26 and 2026-27 NHL seasons.
The 48-year-old former NHL forward, who spent the previous six seasons — including two Stanley Cups — with the Lightning, takes control of the team’s hockey operations department from Lou Lamoriello.
Bill Zito didn’t do any significant celebrating after the Florida Panthers clinched their third straight trip to the Stanley Cup Final. He got some food and went back to work. At this point, no one around the team would expect anything different.
An email was sent to season-ticket holders calling next season his last.
And not just to the roster — but “between the ears,” too.
The entire play took eight seconds, and basically summed up why the Florida Panthers have enormous, nonstop belief in Aleksander Barkov.
For the 2nd straight year, Hurricanes left to lament falling in huge series hole in NHL playoff exit
Carolina has won at least one postseason series in its current run of seven straight playoff appearances, though three have now ended in the Eastern final.
Florida coach Paul Maurice did not shake hands with the Carolina Hurricanes when the Eastern Conference final ended. And he asked Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour not to shake hands with the Panthers, either. It wasn’t out of disrespect. Quite the contrary, really.
The Dallas Stars are back home and on the verge of their season ending in the Western Conference final for the third year in a row — especially if they don’t start scoring goals again like they did all season.
