The Detroit Red Wings announced Tuesday that the team has signed defenseman Andy Delmore, re-signed forward Darryl Bootland and that forward Jason Williams has accepted his qualifying offer. All contracts are for one year. In keeping with club policy, additional terms of the contracts are not available.
The 28-year-old Delmore has seven seasons of NHL experience, totaling 276 games, 43 goals and 58 assists for 101 points and 103 penalty minutes. In 20 playoff contests, he has six goals and two assists for eight points. He entered the NHL as an undrafted free agent with Philadelphia in 1998-99. He spent three seasons with the Flyers followed by two years in Nashville and one season in Buffalo.
Delmore spent the 2004-05 season in Germany where he tallied seven goals and 26 assists for 23 points in 50 games for Adler-Mannheim.
Williams, 25, signed as a free agent with Detroit in September of 2000 and has logged time with both the Red Wings and their AHL affiliates over the past four years. He appeared in a career-high 49 NHL contests in 2003-04 and has totaled 95 career NHL games, scoring 17 goals and 15 assists for 32 points. He has 14 playoff games to his credit, including nine during the Wings 2002 Stanley Cup Championship. In 2004-05, Williams led Assat Pori in scoring and finished 11th in the Finnish League with 43 points in 43 games (26-17-43).
The 23-year-old Bootland was originally signed by Detroit in July of 2002 and spent the majority of the last three seasons with the Wings American Hockey League affiliate-the Grand Rapids Griffins. Bootland saw his first NHL action in 2003-04 when he appeared in 22 games for Detroit, tallying one goal and one assist for two points and 74 penalty minutes.