Well, according to tonight’s NHL broadcast on VERSUS, the Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed Dan Boyle to a six year contract extension. Word is he’ll make a total of $40 million, which would work out to about $6.6 per season.

Look for the Rangers to intensify talks with the Sabres about Campbell and the Leafs about McCabe.

The Lightning also traded forward Vaclav Prospal to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for young blueliner Alexandre Picard and a draft pick. Good deal for both teams. Prospal could work well with a guy like Briere, much as he did with Marty St. Louis down in Tampa.

The re-signing of Boyle indicates that the Lightning are going to trade former Conn Smythe winner Brad Richards by tomorrow afternoon.