The Ottawa Senators have crossed another restricted free agent off their To Do list this morning, reaching a one year/one way agreement with forward Kaspars Daugavins. The Latvian born winger appeared in 65 games with the Sens last year, picking up 11 points and 12 penalty minutes.  With the signing, Daugavins avoids an arbitration hearing that was scheduled for tomorrow.

For those of you that may have missed it, today I was lucky enough to have an article published over on the official website of the Ottawa Senators.  Obviously an extremely exciting opportunity and one that could mean some new visitors to this site in the coming days. If by chance you are here on SensChirp for the first time; allow me to introduce you to the website.

The news of the Shea Weber offer sheet has obviously dominated headlines around the league today. It's an extremely aggressive move by the Flyers, an extremely frustrating move for the Predators and a really oddly unfortunately timed move for the National Hockey League. What happens next will be fascinating to watch. Preds can match, take the picks and run or try to strong arm the Flyers into a trade.

(UPDATE 3:01 PM)- Suddenly a busy day for the Senators in the middle of July. The organization has also announced that they have signed forward Jim O'Brien to a two year, one way contract with an average cap hit of $637,500. O'Brien played 28 games with the Sens last season and appeared in all seven playoff games. What's interesting here is the fact that O'Brien has received a one way deal. Means they fully expect him to crack the roster again next season.