The Vegas Golden Knights have reached a two-year contract extension with goaltender Adin Hill, the team announced Friday.

The deal is worth $4.9 million per year.

The Nashville Predators are buying out star center Matt Duchene after placing him on unconditional waivers Friday.

Duchene, 32, had three years left on the seven-year, $56 million contract he signed with the Predators in July 2019. It carried an average annual value of $8 million against the salary cap. Duchene was due $20 million in actual salary over the next three seasons.

His contract didn't carry any no-movement protection. He is now an unrestricted free agent.

Blake Wheeler is no longer a member of the Winnipeg Jets with the team announcing Friday they placed their former captain on unconditional waivers for the purpose of buying out the final year of his contract.

Wheeler's future with the Jets had been in question for some time. Prior to the season, he was stripped of his captaincy. And while the Jets reached the playoffs, they were knocked out in the first round by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights in five games.

Buffalo Sabres forward Jack Quinn is out six months with a ruptured Achilles, according to multiple reports.

Quinn was injured this week while training and the No. 8 pick in the 2020 draft will miss the start of the 2023 regular season, Sportsnet reported Thursday.

The Chicago Blackhawks made another move to expand their forward group and help another team's cap situation Thursday by acquiring winger Josh Bailey in a trade with the New York Islanders.

Bailey and a 2026 second-round pick were sent to the Blackhawks in exchange for future considerations. Bailey, 33, who played more than 1,000 games with the Islanders, has a year left on his contract worth $5 million.

The Edmonton Oilers traded forwards Kailer Yamamoto and Klim Kostin to the Detroit Red Wings for future considerations, the teams announced Thursday.

No salary was retained in the deal. Yamamoto has one year remaining on his contract at $3.1 million. Kostin is a pending restricted free agent. By shedding Yamamoto's contract, the Oilers have approximately $8 million in cap space (per CapFriendly) and key negotiations ahead with pending RFAs Evan Bouchard and Ryan McLeod.

It didn't take long for the Vegas Golden Knights to use their newfound cap space Wednesday, with the Stanley Cup champions signing forward Ivan Barbashev to a five-year contract worth $5 million annually.

The Golden Knights were facing a bit of a salary cap conundrum with Barbashev, who told ESPN before the Cup finals that he wanted to remain in Vegas, as a pending unrestricted free agent.

The Arizona Coyotes say they're looking at a half-dozen sites to build an arena and entertainment complex after a public vote defeated their bid to build one in Tempe.

"We're putting several options into play. We have over a dozen sites that we have had conversations with. We have half a dozen of those that we think are going to go to that next step," Coyotes CEO Xavier Gutierrez said Wednesday. "We're committed to still have a privately funded sports and entertainment district. We were disappointed with the vote in Tempe, but we turned the page very quickly. We reengaged with multiple sites that we had talked to beforehand, and we feel quite confident that one of these many sites that we put into play will come to fruition."

The team is eyeing East Valley sites in Scottsdale, Phoenix, Mesa and other places, including on tribal land. The team is looking at privately owned land and also public land that municipalities might sell to the Coyotes.

Matvei Michkov had one wish granted when the Philadelphia Flyers selected him seventh overall in the 2023 NHL draft Wednesday night. But he has another wish for his NHL career: To honor his late father by lifting the Stanley Cup.

Michkov's father, Andrei, died in April at the age of 51, according to the Russian Hockey Federation.

Matvei Michkov, an 18-year-old right wing who played for the Russian national team, was thinking about his late father as he wore a Flyers jersey for the first time.

"Right now, it's important for me to finish the goal that my dad had for me, and that's winning the Stanley Cup," he said through an interpreter.

The Anaheim Ducks made it known they were going to take a center with the second pick of Thursday night's NHL draft, but they kept whom they were going to select a secret.

Many considered University of Michigan freshman Adam Fantilli the favorite, but the Ducks instead opted to take Orebro HK center Leo Carlsson, presenting the first bit of intrigue on draft night after the Chicago Blackhawks used the No. 1 overall pick on Regina Pats center Connor Bedard.

"I had a meeting with the Ducks yesterday," Carlsson told reporters after he was drafted. "I had a good feeling."