The Seattle Kraken added some depth Wednesday, inking forward Riley Sheahan to a one-year contract worth $850,000.

Sheahan was an unrestricted free agent.

The 29-year-old collected four goals and nine assists over 53 games while averaging 13:18 of ice time with the Buffalo Sabres last season. He led the Sabres in shorthanded ice time and topped the team in average ice time on the penalty kill among those who played more than 33 contests.

Sheahan played for four teams in the past three campaigns, the others being the Edmonton Oilers, Florida Panthers, and Pittsburgh Penguins. The Detroit Red Wings traded him to Pittsburgh in October 2017.

He played his first six-plus seasons with Detroit, the club that drafted him 21st overall in 2010.

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The New York Islanders signed four players to new deals Wednesday, agreeing to multi-year contracts with goaltender Ilya Sorokin as well as forwards Anthony Beauvillier, Casey Cizikas, and Kyle Palmieri.

Sorokin's pact is for three years, according to his agent, Dan Milstein. It carries an average annual value of $4 million, according to Sportsnet's Chris Johnston. Palmieri's new deal is for four years at a cap hit of $5 million, reports Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.

Beauvillier, whose three-year agreement was reported earlier Wednesday, will have a $4.15-million AAV, according to Johnston, who adds Cizikas' contract is for six years at $2.5 million annually.

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Anthony Beauvillier will soon have a new three-year contract with the New York Islanders, reports The Athletic's Arthur Staple.

The restricted free-agent forward and the club have agreed to the deal but it has yet to be filed, Staple adds.

Beauvillier ranked fourth on the team with 15 goals this season. He also collected 13 assists while averaging 16:24 of ice time in 2021.

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The Ottawa Senators are bringing back goaltender Filip Gustavsson on a two-year contract.

Gustavsson was a restricted free agent. The first year of his new deal is of the two-way variety, but the second is one way at an $825,000 cap hit.

The 23-year-old went 5-1-2 with a .933 save percentage over nine games with Ottawa as a rookie last season. He also posted a .910 save percentage in 13 contests with the Senators' AHL affiliate in Belleville in 2021, having spent parts of the last four campaigns with the farm club.

Gustavsson will likely enter the 2021-22 campaign behind Matt Murray and Anton Forsberg on Ottawa's goaltending depth chart.

The Senators have three remaining RFAs in forwards Brady Tkachuk, Drake Batherson, and Logan Brown.

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Natalie Spooner scored twice and added an assist as Canada cruised to a 7-0 victory over Germany in the Women's World Hockey Championship quarterfinals on Saturday night in Calgary.

Melodie Daoust tallied one marker and two helpers, while team captain Marie-Philip Poulin provided a goal and an assist during her return from injury. Sarah Fillier and Ashton Bell matched Poulin's production in the contest. Brianne Jenner scored the other goal.

Canada outshot Germany 52-3.

The Canadian squad's semifinal opponent will be determined following the quarterfinal matchup between Finland and the Czech Republic on Saturday night. The United States and Switzerland also moved on to the semis with victories earlier Saturday.

Canada kept rolling Saturday after going 4-0 in the preliminary round. The hosts dispatched the U.S. 5-1 on Thursday for their first victory over the Americans during the tournament since 2013. The Canadians also snapped their archrivals' 29-game win streak at the event.

The semifinals are scheduled for Monday.

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The Carolina Hurricanes filed an offer sheet for Montreal Canadiens forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi on Saturday.

It's a one-year, $6,100,015 contract. The Canadiens have seven days to match, and will get a first- and third-round pick if they choose not to do so.

Kotkaniemi is a restricted free agent.

The Hurricanes' social media staff clearly enjoyed the move, tweeting "LOL" with the accompanying press release, following that up with a tweet in French, and then making it clear this was payback for Montreal tendering an offer sheet for Hurricanes star Sebastian Aho in 2019.

The Kotkaniemi offer sheet does indeed come with a $20 signing bonus. Aho wears No. 20.

In addition, Hurricanes general manager Don Waddell's quote in Saturday's press release bears a striking resemblance to what Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin said two years ago.

Montreal tendered Aho a five-year offer sheet with an average annual value of $8.454 million on July 1, 2019. Carolina matched it one day later.

Kotkaniemi, who turned 21 last month, recorded five goals and 15 assists while playing all 56 regular-season games for Montreal last season. He added five markers and three helpers across 19 playoff contests.

The Canadiens drafted him third overall in 2018.

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Henrik Lundqvist was about 72 hours away from heading to the United States to meet up with the Washington Capitals in April when he learned he had heart inflammation that ultimately forced him to conclude his career.

"It was three days before I was going back to Washington that I found out that I had pericarditis," Lundqvist told Swedish publication Goteborgs-Posten, as translated by NHL.com, according to the league website's Tom Gulitti. "I was very close to coming back. It was very tough to go through that again, but this was a completely different thing because it had nothing to do with the operation."

Lundqvist, who retired at 39 last week, never played for the Capitals after signing with them as a free agent in October. In December, the longtime New York Rangers star netminder said he wouldn't play all season due to a heart condition, and he underwent open-heart surgery shortly thereafter.

He appeared to make progress following the procedure and began to skate in the spring. However, on April 11, Lundqvist halted his comeback bid and revealed he had inflammation around his heart that would keep him out for a few more months.

The Capitals inked Lundqvist to a one-year, $1.5-million deal before doctors identified his condition. The Rangers bought out his contract in late September.

Lundqvist spent his entire 15-year on-ice career with New York. He was one of the best NHL goalies ever, ranking among the league's all-time leaders in wins, games played, saves, and shutouts.

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Montreal Canadiens head coach Dominique Ducharme says he wasn't worried that the Seattle Kraken would select Carey Price in the expansion draft last month.

"I was never nervous," Ducharme said Thursday, according to NHL.com's Sean Farrell. "We knew it was a possibility we could lose Carey but it was the organization's decision, and they had evaluated every situation and the reasons they believed he would stay with us."

The Canadiens exposed Price in order to protect backup netminder Jake Allen. Price waived his no-move clause - for expansion-draft purposes only - to facilitate the moves.

Three days before the expansion draft, it was reported Price was dealing with a knee issue that could require surgery and that he'd also have his hip examined. Seattle selected defenseman Cale Fleury from Montreal during the proceedings, and two days later, the Canadiens said Price was expected to be ready for next season after undergoing a knee procedure. He was given a recovery timetable of 10-12 weeks on July 23.

Ducharme echoed the team's projection Thursday, adding he'd have a more definitive update in the near future.

"He just arrived in Montreal not too long ago," Ducharme said. "I'll have more news next week, and he should be there for the start of (training) camp, and if not at the start, very soon after that."

Price's wife, Angela, wrote in early August that she "thought we were for sure headed to Seattle."

The 34-year-old goalie helped the Canadiens reach the Stanley Cup Final this summer for the first time since 1993. He's under contract through 2025-26 at a $10.5-million cap hit, according to CapFriendly.

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The New York Rangers inked goaltender Igor Shesterkin to a four-year contract.

It carries an average annual value of $5.65 million, reports Daily Faceoff's Frank Seravalli. That would be the largest second contract ever given to an NHL netminder, Seravalli adds.

Shesterkin was a restricted free agent. The 25-year-old went 16-14-3 with a .916 save percentage in 2021, his second NHL campaign.

The Russian puck-stopper ranked ninth among NHL goalies in both goals saved above expected (7.81) and goals saved above average (7.46) at five-on-five this past season, according to Evolving Hockey.

Shesterkin finished fifth in Calder Trophy voting for 2021. He went 10-2-0 with a .932 save percentage over his first 12 NHL games during the 2019-20 campaign.

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The Tampa Bay Lightning and Ross Colton agreed to a two-year contract, reports Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.

The pact will pay the forward $1 million next season and $1.25 million in 2022-23, Friedman adds.

Colton was a restricted free agent with a salary arbitration hearing scheduled for next Monday.

The New Jersey-born center, who turns 25 in September, scored the lone and eventual Stanley Cup-clinching goal during the second period of the Lightning's Game 5 victory over the Montreal Canadiens last month.

Colton recorded nine goals and three assists in 30 regular-season games as a rookie in 2021 before contributing four markers and two helpers over 23 postseason contests. He's been in Tampa Bay's system since 2018-19. The club drafted him 118th overall in 2016.

The Lightning are now nearly $7 million over the salary cap, but they're allowed to surpass it to that degree because Brent Seabrook is stashed on the long-term injured reserve.

Seabrook ended his career due to injury in March. The Chicago Blackhawks traded his contract to the Lightning for forward Tyler Johnson and a 2023 second-round pick in late July.

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