LBC's 2014 Florida Panthers / NHL Free Agency Day One Open Thread

And we're open! Thanks for joining the Litter Box Cats crew as we embark on our 6th annual NHL Free Agency open forum, featuring five or so hours of caffeine-induced paranoia and tens of thousands of Twitter reloads.

As always feel free to post rumors but please source them in order to cut back on inevitable "Where'd you hear that" followups. Our man Francisco is scheduled to be covering today's festivities from inside the BB&T Center around noon, so stay tuned for his updates (@FJOJR). Everything you'll need to play along throughout the day can be found below, so let's jump right in.

Broadcast:

• NHL Network
• NHL.com
• Sportsnet
• TSN/

On the Tweets:

• Bob McKenzie
• Darren Dreger
• Pierre LeBrun
• Elliotte Friedman
• George Richards
• Harvey Fialkov
• Steve Goldstein
• Panthers Official
• Donny (main LBC account)
• Todd
• Ryan
• Francisco
• John
• Shane
• JC/

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Florida's current unrestricted free agents (entire organization is found here via CapGeek):

• F Scott Gomez
• F Krys Barch
• F Jesse Winchester COL
• D Ed Jovanovski
• D Tom Gilbert MON
• G Scott Clemmensen NJ(!)

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Transactions

Updated as they roll in (Florida only)...

• Signed F Jussi Jokinen, 4 yrs @ $4M per
• Signed F Dave Bolland, 5 yrs @ $5.5M per
• Signed G Al Montoya, 2 yrs @ $1.05M per
• Signed F Shawn Thornton, 2 yrs @ $1.2M per
• Signed F Derek MacKenzie, 3 yrs @ $1.3M per
• Signed D Willie Mitchell, 2 yrs @ $4.25M per