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ATLANTA – Free agent forward Jason Williams, who scored 13 goals for Chicago despite missing nearly half the season with an injury, signed Monday with the Atlanta Thrashers.

The New York Islanders have announced head coach Ted Nolan will not return to the team next season.

“Ted has helped us achieve some success over the last two seasons, however it has become clear that we have philosophical differences and have decided together to part ways,” GM Garth Snow said in a release.

TAMPA, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Lightning signed goalie Mike Smith to a two-year extension on Monday.Smith, 26, went 15-19-0 with a 2.59 goals-against average and a .

Peter Forsberg wants to return to the NHL for another season, but it doesn’t look like he’ll be available in October.

After consulting with doctors in his native Sweden, Forsberg was told he would need several months of rehabilitation before he could return to an NHL game, according to the Denver Post.

According to A-Channel of London, Ont., Jason Williams has signed a one-year, $2.2 million contract with the Atlanta Thrashers.
Williams scored 13 goals and 36 points in 43 games for the Blackhawks this season.

Jason Williams has signed a one-year deal worth a reported $2.2 million.
Williams scored 13 goals and 36 points in 43 games for the Blackhawks this season.

TAMPA, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed their all-time leading scorer Vincent Lecavalier to an extension that could keep him with the team for the rest of his career.

TAMPA BAY, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed Vincent Lecavalier to an US$85-million, 11-year contract extension, a source told The Canadian Press.

TAMPA, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed their all-time leading scorer Vincent Lecavalier to an extension that could keep him with the team for the rest of his career.

Movements in the world of hockey Friday:National Hockey LeagueANAHEIM DUCKS-Signed D Brennan Evans to two-year contract and D Steve Montador to a one-year contract.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Sharks re-signed centre Marcel Goc to a US$775,000, one-year contract Friday, avoiding arbitration with the defensive specialist.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Anaheim Ducks signed defenceman Steve Montador to a one-year contract, the club announced Friday.The 6-0, 211-pound Montador appeared in 73 games for the Florida Panthers last season, scoring 23 points (8-15) with a plus-1 rating and 73 penalty minutes.

TAMPA, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Lightning re-signed centre Chris Gratton to a one-year contract Friday.Gratton, 33, had 21 points (10-11) in 60 games for the Lightning last season.

ZURICH, Switzerland – It didn’t take long for the tentative agreement between the NHL and Russia’s new hockey league to be tested.Reports suggested Friday that Nashville Predators forward Alexander Radulov, who has one year remaining on his NHL contract, had signed a lucrative new deal with a Russian team.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – In need of centres, the Minnesota Wild traded defenceman Shawn Belle to Montreal for centre Corey Locke on Friday.Both young players have spent the majority of their careers in the American Hockey League.

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Washington Capitals re-signed forward Boyd Gordon to a one-year contract on Friday.Gordon, 24, had seven goals and nine assists in 67 games last season.

SIMCOE, Ont. – Former NHL enforcer Ryan VandenBussche was cleared of assault charges Friday stemming from a brawl outside a bar in which he punched a police officer in the face, threatened to kill another, and was Tasered three times and pepper-sprayed before being subdued.

OTTAWA – The Ottawa Senators hired Curtis Hunt on as assistant coach on Friday.Hunt was signed on a three-year deal.The 41-year-old has spent the last four seasons as head coach of the Western Hockey League’s Regina Pats, compiling a 132-127-29 record.

TAMPA, Fla. – Jay Feaster resigned as general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday.Feaster won a Stanley Cup, two Southeast Division championships and guided the Lightning to four playoff appearances in his five seasons as GM.

The agent for Alexander Radulov wouldn’t say whether or not he approves of his client’s decision to sign a three-year contract with Salavat Ufa in Russia, but he did acknowledge that the Continental Hockey League team offered so much money that it put Radulov in an almost untenable situation.