Afternoon Hits: Bailey, Kovalchuk, Brunner, Markstrom, Bruins and Helm

Brett Cyrgalis: The Islanders avoid arbitration with the Josh Bailey: 5 years,…

Sunday Morning Hits: Markstrom, Miller, Vanek, Kovalchuk and the Blackhawks

Harvey Fialkov: The Panthers should be signing goalie Jacob Markstrom “shortly” according…

Kovalchuk’s mom talks, the Fallout, Gonchar and Datsyuk were close to leaving and the KHL cap

Dmitry Chesnokov: SKA is denying they had a deal in place with…

Free Agent Hits: Brunner, Whitney, Hainsey, Kadri and Duchene

Igor Eronko: The Devils are close to signing Damien Brunner. Josh Rimer:…

Morning Hits: Bruins, Hemsky and Barkov

CSNNE: Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli: “I think right now we’re going to…

Ilya Kovalchuk Hits: Likely to sign in KHL on Monday, Deal in place since January? Long term gain for Devils

Alexander Zaytsev: Ilya Kovalchuk’s signing with SKA will most likely be announced…

Free Agent Hits: Clifford, Penner, Prospal and Jagr

John Hoven of Mayor’s Manor: Kings GM Dean Lombardi on talks with…

Quick Hits: Rask, Zidlicky, Luongo, Islanders and Coyotes

Elliotte Friedman: From what Friendman understands, Tuukka Rask has a no-movement clause…

New Jersey Devils Ilya Kovalchuk retires from the NHL

5:15 PM Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo! Sports: From Paval Lysenkov of SovSport,…

21 Players File for Arbitration

NHLPA: 21 players have filed for salary arbitration. Deadline is today at…

Free Agent Hits: Jagr, Grabovski, Clifford, Boedker, Prospal, Rynnas, Stewart and Pietrangelo

The Fourth Period: Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford said on Tuesday that he’s…

Morning Hits: Arbitration dates, Devils, Lindolm, Islanders and the Heritage Classic

Terry Koshan: Arbitration hearings are from July 22nd to Aug. 6th. Tom…