The action heats up ...

 
First UFA to switch teams: Radim Vrbata, Phoneix to Tampa Bay..

Three years, $9 million. He was making $1.225 million.

Significant because Vrbata's numbers – 27 goals, 29 assists – are very similar to Andrei Kostitsyn's. Vrbata was plus-6 on a lousy team.

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Corey Perry re-ups in Anaheim: Five years, $26.625 million, $5.325-million per.

Getzlaf money – and a lot more than the $494,000 Perry made last season.

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Brad Stuart, a stay-at-home defenceman who's stayed at home in San Jose, Boston, Calgary and Los Angeles, will stay in Detroit.

Four years, $3.75 million per. A modest raise on the $3.5 million Stewart was making, but two years of no-trade with a Stanley Cup team and a great second-pair defence partner in Nik Kronwall.

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Pascal Dupuis stays in Pittsburgh.

Three years, $4.2 million. Nice raise on $880,000.

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Edmonton has dealt Joni Pitkonen, who has never lived up to his potential, to Carolina for Habs-killer Erik Cole, who hasn't been the same power forward since Brooks Orpik's hit from behind nearly killed him in 2006-'07.

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Rumours that Evgeni Malkin will sign an extension in Pittsburgh. Crosby money: fives years, $8.7 million per.