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Notebook: Lombardi signs 3-year deal with Flames

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2 Min Read June 2, 2007 | 19 years Ago
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• Matthew Lombardi signed a three-year extension with the Calgary Flames on Friday. The 25-year-old forward is coming off a breakout season. He set career highs in goals (20) and assists (26) while playing 81 games this season. The Flames also re-signed forward Marcus Nilson to a two-year deal..

• The NHL's greatest dynasty has reunited. The surviving members of the select group of Montreal Canadiens that won five straight Stanley Cups from 1956-60 -- Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard, Dickie Moore, Tom Johnson, Jean-Guy Talbot and Don Marshall -- will be on hand tonight at Scotiabank Place for a tribute to the team prior to Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals.

• The Carolina Hurricanes re-signed Glen Wesley to a one-year, $1.4 million contract yesterday, bringing back their alternate captain for a 13th season with the franchise. The deal keeps the 38-year-old defenseman with the team he helped lead to the Stanley Cup in 2006.

• The Columbus Blue Jackets signed defenseman Mikko Maenpaa to a one-year, two-way NHL-American Hockey League contract, the club said yesterday. Maenpaa, 24, appeared in 142 games in five seasons with the Finnish Elite League.

• The Minnesota Wild relinquished their rights to 2004 first-round pick A.J. Thelen yesterday after failing to sign him. The Wild had until yesterday to sign him to a deal or forfeit his rights. The Wild will receive the 42nd overall pick in July's draft as compensation.

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835 - Games played by Glen Wesley for the Carolina Hurricanes, second in team history.

-- The Associated Press

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