Tavares then signed a three-year, entry-level contract in July 2009.

In the most recent offer by the players, the union proposed restrictions on entry-level contracts for rookies.

On June 2, 2007, the deal was approved and announced as a three-year entry-level contract.

He was immediately signed by Boston to a three-year, entry-level contract.

Coming into training camp, the Blues signed him to an entry-level contract on September 4, 2008.

Extend entry-level contracts for players entering the league from three years to five.

Under the league's new collective bargaining agreement, he cannot make more than $984,200 a year in this entry-level contract.

He was signed to a three-year, entry-level contract worth the rookie maximum of $2.625 million on October 5, 2008.

He signed an entry-level contract with the Devils on March 29, 2004.

During his first professional season in 2006-07 he was signed by the Minnesota Wild to an entry-level contract.