Islanders buy out rest of Yashin deal
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The New York Islanders are buying out the remaining four years on Alexei Yashin's 10-year contract in the first step of an offseason overhaul they hope will include re-signing Jason Blake and Ryan Smyth.
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Chris Simon got a second chance from the New York Islanders. The rugged forward, still serving a record 25-game NHL suspension for a two-handed, swing-swinging attack against the Rangers' Ryan Hollweg last season, re-signed with the Islanders on Monday.
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The New York Islanders, locked in a tight race to make the Eastern Conference playoffs, added offense Monday when they acquired winger Richard Zednik from the Washington Capitals for a second-round draft pick in 2007.
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Add Sean Hill to the ever-changing New York Islanders' defense corps.
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Rick DiPietro re-signed with the New York Islanders on Tuesday, agreeing to a deal that reportedly will pay the No. 1 goalie $67.5 million over a record 15 years.
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The New York Islanders broke a few team records and the spirit of the Atlanta Thrashers at the same time.
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Trent Hunter scored his second goal with 8:34 left in the game Saturday to send the New York Islanders to a 4-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have reached a deal with on financing for a new arena, a television station reports Monday night.
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Alexei Yashin, the former Islanders captain, will play next season with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Russian Super League after failing to get an N.H.L. contract offer to his liking.Yashin, a center who had the final four seasons of his 10-year contract bought out by the Islanders in June, agreed to terms yesterday on a one-year deal with the Russian team he played with during the 2004-5 N.H.L. lockout. Financial terms were not immediately available.Yashin, 33, had 18 goals and 32 assists in 58 games last season, his second as the Islandersâ captain.
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NHL owners and players took turns rejecting each other&#39;s proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement during a 3 1/2-hour meeting at league offices in Toronto yesterday, moving the league closer toward canceling the entire 2004-05 season.
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Contract talks broke off today between the National Hockey League and its locked-out players union, leaving the sport a step closer to wiping out its whole season.
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The NHL players' association agrees to accept a salary cap, but contract talks break down early Tuesday over the amount that teams would pay.
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In perhaps the last effort to head off a lost season, the NHL makes a new offer to the players' association on Wednesday.
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The Montreal Canadiens re-signed goalie David Aebischer to a $1.9 million, one-year contract Wednesday, and also signed free-agent forward Sergei Samsonov to a two-year contract and made two trades.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins made the first move to keep their core group of young players together, reaching terms with restricted free agent defenseman Ryan Whitney on a $24 million, six-year contract.
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The New York Rangers and free-agent forward Brendan Shanahan have agreed terms on a new contract, the club said on Thursday.
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In the end, like most deals, there was a confluence of events that led to general manager Peter Chiarelli's trade of Brad Stuart and Wayne Primeau to the Calgary Flames last night for defenseman Andrew Ference and forward Chuck Kobasew.