The unrestricted free agent, who turns 35 on July 30, finished the final campaign of a three-year, $18 million contract with the Vancouver Canucks, where played the last 12 seasons.

Acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1996, Naslund bloomed into one the Canucks’ most celebrated players in franchise history. In 1,035 career NHL games, he has 371 goals and 823 points.

Drafted by the Penguins in 1991, Naslund won the Lester B. Pearson Award as the NHL’s most outstanding player – as voted by his peers – in 2002-03 after finishing second in league scoring with 104 points, including 48 goals.

The Rangers also announced the signing of defencemen Dmitri Kalinin to a one-year contract.

The 27-year old played 46 games for the Buffalo Sabres and marked one goal and seven assists. In eight seasons with the Sabres, Kalinin has 145 points in 466 games.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=242396&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_nhl

Interesting how sooooo many people last year when Jagr disappeared for the first 3/4 of the season wanted him gone and now he’s gone and everyone wants him back ! Time to move on and away from the prima donna’s. Did you happen to notice that Detroit doesn’t have any of them and won ? All gritty hard working guys. For those of you complaining why don’t you wait until the puck drops and then send out your “I told you so’s” if it doesn’t work out but I tend to think Gomez/Naslund or works out better then Jagr/Dubinsky any day of the week !

the early bird gets the contract

money skates, and bullshit waits

whatever… at least we don’t have Bertuzzi…

his ast three seasons worth of points are

79
60
55

Jagr’s last seasons are

123
96
71

I would have taken Jagr