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The NHL playoffs are coming to an end, but things are happening outside of the North American Ice Hockey League playoffs, too. Buffalo and Minnesota made an inside player trade and Montreal signed a fullback contract.
The NHL Montreal Canadiens team has signed a 4-year contract with Canadian defender Joel Edmundson, a contract worth an estimated $ 14 million.
Edmundson, 27, has played 337 regular-season games in the NHL with a score of 20 + 52 = 72. The tough hill has previously represented the St. Louis Blues and Carolina Hurricanes.
Last season, Edmundson represented 7 + 13 = 20 points in 68 games.
Steel to Buffalo
The Buffalo Sabers got a lot of routine when they acquired Eric Staal from the Minnesota Wild. Staal, a 35-year-old Canadian center, has been teammates with Mikko Koivu for the past four seasons. Last year, Staal was Wild’s third-best scorer at 19 + 28 = 47 in 66 games.
In the other direction, from the Minnesota Wild to the Buffalo Sabers, is forward Marcus Johansson. The 29-year-old Swede was Buffalo’s sixth-best scorer last year with 9 + 21 = 30 points from 60 games.
Staal has played a total of 1,240 regular-season games in the NHL and accumulated a score of 436 + 585 = 1,021. His annual salary is about $ 3.25 million. In addition to Minnesota and Carolina, he has played for the New York Rangers.
Johansson’s corresponding figures are 129 + 235 = 364 in 648 games, and the annual salary is about $ 4.5 million. Before his short stint in Buffalo, Johansson played half a season for the Boston Bruins, one and a half for the New Jersey Devils and seven seasons for the Washington Capitals.
Eric Staal won the Stanley Cup with Carolina in 2006, as well as Olympic gold in 2010 and World Cup gold in 2007 with Canada.
