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The first big free agent re-signing with his own team is just the beginning of what’s to come around the NHL.Defenseman John Carlson signed a $64 million Patrik Berglund Jersey Womens , eight-year deal with the Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals. His agent and the representatives for other pending unrestricted free agents were able to start talking to any interested teams on Sunday at the beginning of the negotiating window that precedes the opening of the market July 1.Serious talks between New York Islanders center John Tavares and five suitors begin Monday in what should be the next step in shaking out signings and trades.”There’s going to be a lot happening,” Chicago Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman said Saturday in Dallas.”Things have sort of been at a standstill around the league, but I think with the free agent market being opened up to be able to have discussions with the agents, that will help, as well. Once you talk, you have an idea that you’re going to be able to get a free agent or if you won’t, then it might sort of move some teams to start looking at potential trades.”Only a handful of current NHL players were traded over the weekend at the draft: four in a swap between Carolina and Calgary and Washington sending two to Colorado to clear salary-cap space to re-sign Carlson. Montreal could still try to trade captain Max Pacioretty this week, and Hurricanes GM Don Waddell wants to make a move for a goaltender and said there’s a lot of interest in winger Jeff Skinner.”We have a lot of other possibilities, pieces to move around,” Waddell said.Tavares headlines this free agent class and his decision – reportedly among the Sharks, Maple Leafs, Stars, Bruins, Lightning, incumbent Islanders and perhaps a few more teams – could set up the rest of the market.Paul Stastny is the next-best free agent center available followed by the likes of Tyler Bozak, Derek Ryan and Tomas Plekanec. Teams that don’t land one of them could turn to Buffalo’s Ryan O’Reilly, who may be a better candidate to be traded July 2 after the Sabres pay him a $7.5 million bonus.At $8 million a year, Carlson ties Brent Burns for the second-highest cap hit in the league among defenseman behind only P.K. Subban’s $9 million with Nashville. Agent Rick Curran fielded calls from other teams Sunday before the deal got done with the Capitals.”Whatever your intentions are http://www.officialhockeyjetsshop.com/authentic-adidas-nikolaj-ehlers-jersey , you still have to do your due diligence because there’s more to it for me than that,” Carlson said Monday in Arlington, Virginia. ”I was hoping we could get something done and it worked itself out.”The Sharks are worth watching after they shed Mikkel Boedker’s $4 million salary to clear cap space and watched as Ilya Kovalchuk signed with Los Angeles on a three-year, $18.75 million deal. After saying San Jose will spend much of its space to re-sign players, GM Doug Wilson acknowledged there will still be room to make a deal.By July 1? Wilson smirked and said: ”The fifth is my birthday. Ask me then.”Toronto’s James van Riemsdyk, Vegas’ James Neal and David Perron, Boston’s Rick Nash, Columbus’ Thomas Vanek and New Jersey’s Patrick Maroon are among the wingers who are potentially available. Carlson staying with Washington leaves Detroit’s Mike Green, Dallas’ Dan Hamhuis and Columbus’ Ian Cole at the top of the list of defensemen.”There are some free agents out there that we like,” said Rangers GM Jeff Gorton, whose team shifted toward a rebuild this past season. ”We’re in a pretty good spot to talk to as many free agents that we can that we like and we’ll go forward that way.”Unlike New York, which had been in win-now mode for a while, the expansion Golden Knights were supposed to be building slowly toward becoming a perennial playoff contender. After reaching the Cup final in their first season, Vegas GM George McPhee doesn’t want to overpromise and under-deliver.”You just never know with these things and whether we’ll do anything at all or do something,” McPhee said. ”You’re sort of venturing into an area where there’s all kinds of things going on and you don’t know how it’s going to go. There’s no urgency for us to do anything. We like the team we have, we like the model we have. If we can make it better by doing something that makes sense, then we’ll do it.”The Capitals did not tender a qualifying offer to playoff star Devante Smith-Pelly, who will now become an attractive option to other teams as an unrestricted free agent. Washington said it’s still negotiating with Smith-Pelly Patrik Laine Jersey , who scored seven goals in the postseason and would have had arbitration rights.— SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks came from behind and finally experienced a victory again.Brent Burns scored on a power play at 22 seconds of overtime and the Sharks snapped a seven-game losing streak, beating the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 on Saturday night.The Sharks clinched second place in the Pacific Division and home ice in the first round of the playoffs, ending their longest skid of the season and sending Vegas to its franchise-worst fifth straight loss.“We needed a win and we found a way,” San Jose Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said.The teams are likely to meet in the first round of the playoffs.“Every time we play these guys, it’s always a hard-fought game. You definitely feel the intensity out there,” Sharks forward Evander Kane said. “It’s fun to be a part of that game. I’m sure we’ll see these guys again very soon.”The Sharks led the division as recently as March 12, when they defeated Winnipeg for their sixth straight win.Injuries to defenseman Erik Karlsson and center Joe Pavelski, both All-Stars, have figured prominently in their slide, and DeBoer said unspecified injuries to centers Melker Karlsson and Lukas Radil are a concern.“I don’t know if we’re ready” for the playoffs, DeBoer said. “You’ve got a list of four or five pretty good players sitting out, you’re not ready for the playoffs, obviously, but if we can get healthy, we know our game. I know we lost seven, but we played a lot of good hockey this year, so I think we’re confident in our game.”San Jose remained mathematically alive in the Pacific Division title race Vladimir Sobotka Jersey Womens , closing to within six points of first-place Calgary in the Pacific Division. A regulation loss would have eliminated them from contention.Colin Miller took a hooking penalty with 54.7 seconds left in regulation, setting up the power play.Tomas Hertl, Kane and Marc-Edouard Vlasic also scored for San Jose, and Martin Jones made 23 saves.San Jose hadn’t lost more than seven straight since a 10-game skid Nov. 5-30, 2005, when it went 0-7-3.“To win a game, it feels like it’s been three months, honestly,” Sharks center Logan Couture said. “When you don’t win, you feel it weighing on you, so it’s a relief to finally win one.”William Karlsson had a goal and had an assist for the Golden Knights. Cody Eakin and Shea Theodore also scored, and Malcolm Subban stopped 30 shots.“We’re losing too much,” Karlsson said. “Things have been going way my, but that’s in the past. We have to look forward.”Karlsson opened the scoring at 3:54 of the first period. The Sharks tied it at 58 seconds of the second period on Hertl’s 35th goal of the season and fourth in five games.Eakin flicked in a backhander past Jones at 5:30 of the second period for 21st goal to give Vegas a 2-1 lead.Kane tied it for San Jose with his 29th goal at 7:22 of the third period.Vlasic scored at 11:26 of the third period, and Theodore tied it for Vegas less than 40 seconds later.“There’s pride in the rivalry and that’s the way it’s going to be,” Eakin said. “There was a lot of stuff going on we could have straightened out. Four-on-three is tough at the end, in overtime. It could have gone either way. They’re going to be playing hard and I’m sure they enjoyed it as much as we did.”NOTES: Vegas G Marc-Andre Fleury (lower body injury) missed his eighth straight game. … Vegas’ Ryan Reaves was assessed a 10-minute misconduct penalty and two minutes for roughing for his role in a brawl late in the first period. Sharks C Joe Thornton was assessed a two-minute penalty for roughing.UP NEXTVegas: Hosts Edmonton on Monday night.San Jose: Hosts Calgary on Sunday night.