I saw that Pigs posted a pending FA list in the transactions section.

Hey guys I'm offline all weekend but hope to be back for the free agent fireworks either Sunday or Tuesday at the latest. The wife will tell me when I can return to my fantasy hockey non-sense. 

Hope to wrap up a few last minute transactions and maybe another trade.
Take care and have a good one! 

Detroit and my Sharks made this trade as they were going to release their players outright. They were looking to clear cap space to rebuild via free agency. So we gave up a depth player on Defense in Butler and a gritty Winger with a tiny cap hit in Colton and to make the trade happen we sadly had to deal away stud prospect Rundblad who should be very good and some say as good if not better than Erik Karlsson and Oliver Ekman-Larsson. We'll see but that is the reason I traded for him middle of last season.

To Wings
Colton Gillies, $0.4m (2013-2014) LW
Chris Butler, $1.2m (2012-2013) D
D - David Rundblad, N/C, (30 Games) MiLR

To Sharks
Jakub Kindl, $1.2m (P-2012) - Contract Expires 8/4/2012 D
Raffi Torres, $0.8m (2011-2012) - Contract Expires 8/4/2012 LW
Todd Bertuzzi, $1.9m (2011-2012) - Contract Expires 8/4/2012 RW

DET to confirm this trade.
Let's hope our new players take our teams to the promiseland 

Sharks select Cody Ceci, D OTT

I'm reading the news bulletin and see 2011-12 contracts expire 8/4/2012. If so, that means 2012-13 contracts kick in after that date. My question is when can we start renewing and signing 2012-13 expiring contracts to extensions? On 8/5/2012, when the real NHL season starts or when?