It's Free Agent Frenzy day and things are heating up.
The biggest splash so far is Daniel Alfredsson who is leaving the Ottawa Senators after 17 seasons in the nation's capital.
According to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger, the long-time Ottawa captain made the Senators aware of his decision on Thursday night and will sign a one-year, $5.5 million contract with the Detroit Red Wings.
Last season, Alfredsson scored 10 goals and 16 assists in 47 games. He also added 4 goals and 10 points in 10 playoff games.
The native of Gothenburg, Sweden has spent his entire career with Ottawa, scoring 426 goals and adding 682 assists in 1,178 games.
The 40-year-old veteran was originally selected in the sixth round by the Senators at the 1994 NHL Entry Draft.
McKenzie is also reporting that defenceman Andrew Ference will join the Edmonton Oilers on a four-year deal with an average annual value of $3.25 million.
Ference, who was born in Edmonton, had four goals, 13 points and 35 penalty minutes while averaging nearly 20 minutes of ice time per game for the Boston Bruins last season.
In 760 career NHL games for the Bruins, Flames and Penguins Ference has 37 goals, 193 points and 645 penalty minutes.
According to McKenzie, the Oilers are also working hard to sign veteran forward Boyd Gordon who spent the last two seasons with the Phoenix Coyotes.
Ray Emery meanwhile has agreed to a one-year, $1.65 million deal with the Philadelphia Flyers.
Emery had a record of 17-1-0 record as the No.2 goalie for the Stanley Cup winning Blackhawks last season and posted a .922 save percentage and 1.94 goals agains average. This contract appears to be a by Emery to re-establish himself as a starting goaltender before signing a potentially more lucrative and longer term deal later on.
Defenceman Mike Komisarek meanwhile is set to join his third NHL team,. The former Motnreal Canadien and Toronto Maple Leaf has aggreed to a one-year, $700,000 dollar deal with the Carolina Hurricanes.
Other big names still available include forwards David Clarkson, Nathan Horton and Jarome Iginla, centres Tyler Bozak and Mike Ribeiro as well as goaltenders Tim Thomas and Ilya Bryzgalov.
Elsewhere, the Florida Panthers have re-signed forward Shawn Matthias to a two-year deal with an average annual value of $1.75 million.
The Phoenix Coyotes meanwhile have re-upped with forward Lauri Korpikoski on a four-year deal worth $2.5 million per season. The Coyotes also re-signed centre Kyle Chipchura and Thoams Greiss.
Goaltender Evgeni Nabokov has also re-signed with te Nwe York Islanders on a one-year $3.25 million contract. Peter Regin has also agreed to join the Islanders on a one-year $750,000 contract after spending the first five years of his NHL career with the Senators.
Several other free agents have already agreed to new deals which are expected to be made official on Friday.
Those names include Vincent Lecavalier who is expected to sign a five-year, $22.5 million contract with the Philadelphia Flyers and Daniel Briere who agreed to a two-year, $8 million deal with the Montreal Canadiens.
In other news from the day, the trade sending Shawn Horcoff from the Edmonton Oilers to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Philip Larsen and a seventh-round draft pick in 2017 was finalized.
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