The Detroit Red Wings were one of the teams getting a jump on free agency, but more so to save their own players from hitting the open market. Early on in the day, the Red Wings announced that they had re-signed forward Darren Helm to a new 5-year deal, which would carry a $3.85 million cap hit each season.
Helm finished with 13 goals and 26 points in 77 games with Detroit last season, just finishing outside of the pool worthy list of 208 forwards, down in 217th. I do believe we've seen what he has topped out at, offensively, which would suggest that he would be a late round pick, if picked at all in the pool.
The Boston Bruins will have Anton Khudobin as their back-up goalie for the next couple of seasons, as the Kazakh goalie signed a 2-year, $2.4 million deal in the early moments of the frenzy. Khudobin was squeezed out of the crease in Anaheim and couldn't quite recover, but still managed 3 wins in nine appearances for the team.The Bruins do have a couple of good goaltending prospects coming up the ranks, so it won't be a slam dunk for Khudobin to make it into the job, but he has to be the favourite to be the guy, heading into training camp.
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