Three signings to announce:
Tuomo Ruutu -- 5 years, $5M per
Chris Kelly -- 3 years, $2.75M per
Hall Gill -- 3 years, $3.5M per
With these signings we're ready to roll. We like the few moves we made and are confident we will be strong playoff contenders for years to come. Our kid corps is deep with the likes of Jonathan Huberdeau, Quinton Howden, Nick Bjugstad, Rocco Grimaldi, Drew Shore, Alex Petrovic, Colby Robak, and John McFarland, to name just a few. We also added Matt Finn, Charles Hudon, and Troy Bourke in this year's draft.
Here's our lineup, barring any surprises:
FORWARD LINES
Tomas Fleischmann / Stephen Weiss / Kris Versteeg
Scottie Upshall /
Tuomo Ruutu / Tomas Kopecky
Sean Bergenheim /
Chris Kelly / Matt Bradley
Shawn Matthias / Marcel Goc / Jack Skille
Mike Santorelli
DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
Brian Campbell /
Hal Gill
Dmitri Kulikov / Mike Weaver
Erik Gudbranson / Ed Jovanovski
Keaton Ellerby
GOALTENDERS
Jose Theodore
Jacob Markstrom