In just a month, the NHL will resume play. And in not too long, I'll resume blogging. It's been a long summer, and unless I posted several times a day, there's no way I could have ever covered all the crazy deals that went down; the face of the league has changed in a big way. Here are the most major of those acquisitions for all 30 teams, and only the most major - to list them all would take an enormous amount of space. (I'm not touching the signing of draft picks; let's assume that they've been with the team all along...most notably, Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin.) See you in a couple weeks.

MIGHTY DUCKS OF ANAHEIM
-D Scott Niedermayer
-F Teemu Selanne

ATLANTA THRASHERS
-F Bobby Holik
-F Marian Hossa

BOSTON BRUINS
-D Brian Leetch
-F Alexei Zhamnov

BUFFALO SABRES
-D Teppo Numminen

CALGARY FLAMES
-F Tony Amonte
-D Roman Hamrlik

CAROLINA HURRICANES
-D Oleg Tverdovsky

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS
-D Adrian Aucoin
-G Nikolai Khabibulin

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS
-D Bryan Berard
-D Adam Foote

DETROIT RED WINGS
-G Chris Osgood

EDMONTON OILERS
-F Mike Peca
-D Chris Pronger

FLORIDA PANTHERS
-F Joe Nieuwendyk
-F Gary Roberts

LOS ANGELES KINGS
-F Pavol Demitra
-F Jeremy Roenick

NASHVILLE PREDATORS
-F Paul Kariya

NEW JERSEY DEVILS
-F Alex Mogilny

NY ISLANDERS
-F Miroslav Satan
-D Alexei Zhitnik

OTTAWA SENATORS
-F Dany Heatley

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS
-F Peter Forsberg
-D Derian Hatcher

PHOENIX COYOTES
-G Curtis Joseph

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
-D Sergei Gonchar
-F John Leclair
-F Zigmund Palffy
-G Jocelyn Thibault

ST. LOUIS BLUES
-D Eric Brewer

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING
-G Sean Burke

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
-F Jason Allison
-F Eric Lindros
-F Jeff O'Neill


If you aren't interested in watching the NHL now, even just for the new rules and player changes, stop smoking crack. Holy Moses!