The Seattle Kraken signed forward Chandler Stephenson to a seven-year contract worth $6.25 million per season, the team announced Monday.

Stephenson became a free agent Monday after five seasons with the Vegas Golden Knights. His deal with Seattle is a major raise over the $2.75 million he's earned annually since 2020.

The Kraken handed out a pair of max-term contracts Monday, also signing blue-liner Brandon Montour to a lucrative seven-year contract.

Stephenson is a dependable middle-six center and produced 51 points this past season after back-to-back 60-plus-point campaigns. He averaged 18:29 per contest in 2023-24 and won 52.6% of his faceoffs.

The 30-year-old has won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals and Golden Knights during his nine-year career.

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The Ottawa Senators signed free-agent forward David Perron to a two-year contract worth $4 million per season, the team announced Monday.

The 36-year-old registered 17 goals and 30 assists for the Detroit Red Wings last year. Those numbers marked a slight dip from the 24 goals and 32 assists he posted in 2022-23.

Ottawa also announced Monday that it inked forward Michael Amadio to a three-year deal with a $2.6-million cap hit.

Amadio, 28, tallied 14 goals and 27 points in 73 games with the Vegas Golden Knights last season. He won the Stanley Cup with the team in 2023.

Perron and Amadio join an Ottawa squad desperate to get back into contention amid a seven-year playoff drought. The Senators made a free-agency splash with Claude Giroux two summers ago to complement a young core, but the move has yet to result in a postseason berth.

Perron, a Stanley Cup champion with the St. Louis Blues in 2019, has also spent time with the Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Anaheim Ducks, and Vegas Golden Knights. He's tallied 310 goals, 458 assists, and 825 penalty minutes over 1,131 career games.

Ottawa has been busy early in the offseason, also picking up goaltender Linus Ullmark in a trade with the Boston Bruins before free agency began.

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The Los Angeles Kings signed forward Warren Foegele to a three-year contract that carries a $3.5-million cap hit and defenseman Joel Edmundson to a four-year pact with a $3.85-million average annual value.

Foegele spent the last three campaigns with the Edmonton Oilers and scored a career-high 20 goals in 2022-23. The Oilers picked him up in a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes in July 2021 and signed him for $2.75 million per year.

Edmundson featured with the Washington Capitals and Toronto Maple Leafs last season. He tallied six points in 53 games and played in all seven of Toronto's playoff contests.

The Kings ranked 16th out of 32 teams in goals last season but at times struggled to generate goals with the bottom half of their forward group. The Kings also jettisoned Pierre-Luc Dubois in a trade to begin the offseason, taking 16 goals out of their lineup.

Foegele, who bounced around the Oilers' lines, gives Los Angeles another scoring option on the wing. He's scored at least 10 goals every season since his first full campaign with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2018-19.

Despite making the playoffs in each of the past three campaigns, the Kings haven't advanced beyond the first round since winning the Stanley Cup in 2014.

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The Edmonton Oilers signed forward Viktor Arvidsson to a two-year contract with a $4-million cap hit, the team annouced.

Arvidsson, 31, scored six goals and 15 points in 18 games last year with the Los Angeles Kings. He didn't make his season debut until Feb. 15 due to a back injury.

The veteran tallied 26 goals and 59 points in 2022-23.

Edmonton has $8 million of cap space following Arvidsson's deal, according to CapFriendly.

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The Boston Bruins nabbed a pair of ex-Vancouver Canucks in free agency, signing forward Elias Lindholm and defenseman Nikita Zadorov, the team announced.

Zadorov inked a six-year deal at $5 million per season, according to Dreger.

Lindholm signed a seven-year pact carrying a $7.75-million average annual value, per TSN's Chris Johnston.

Lindholm and Zadorov also played together with the Calgary Flames. The Canucks added them in separate trades, acquiring Zadorov in November and Lindholm in January.

The forward was one of the top centers available, though he had an inconsistent season. Lindholm produced just nine goals and 23 assists over 49 games with the Flames in 2023-24, and then only six tallies and six helpers across 26 contests with the Canucks down the stretch of the regular season.

However, Lindholm was stellar in the playoffs, racking up five goals and five assists in 13 games. He's also two seasons removed from a 42-goal, 40-assist campaign.

Zadorov collected five goals and nine assists in 54 games with Vancouver after his trade from Calgary. He dished out 177 hits with both clubs in 2023-24.

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