Sidney Crosby and Leon Draisaitl have their contract extensions, Paul Maurice and the Panthers have the Stanley Cup and a brief but busy summer of moving and shaking is over.

Now, back to hockey.

Less than 90 days since the Panthers beat the Oilers in Game 7 of a thrilling final, training camps open around the league this week with plenty of questions before the puck drops next month on another season.

The Blue Jackets’ camp goes on in sorrow after the tragic death of Johnny Gaudreau and players and staff in Utah get a fresh start after the Coyotes relocated from Arizona to Salt Lake City. Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog may be back, Capitals winger T.J. Oshie may be gone, and it’s anyone’s guess who will lift the Cup in June.

Mourning Gaudreau

The Blue Jackets are getting back on the ice mere weeks after Johnny Gaudreau and younger brother Matthew died when they were struck by a driver of an SUV while riding bicycles on the eve of their sister’s wedding. A candlelight vigil was held outside the arena in Columbus, Ohio, players and team employees attended the tearful funeral and playing hockey was the furthest thing from anyone’s mind.

Captain Boone Jenner and general manager Don Waddell hope the rink will serve as a refuge of sorts.

“We both agreed the quicker we can get guys back in the room together, the better it would be for everybody,” Waddell said. “We all mourn and heal differently, but I think as a team, being together like that is going to be critical for them to get moving forward.”

This is the team’s second camp in recent years that follows the offseason death of a player. Goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks died in July 2021 of chest trauma from an errant fireworks mortar blast at the wedding of an assistant coach’s daughter.

New home

This will be the 45th training camp for the organization that was once the original Winnipeg Jets, then the Phoenix Coyotes and until earlier this year the Arizona Coyotes. It’s the first and only season as the Utah Hockey Club after a move from the desert to Salt Lake City.

Ryan and Ashley Smith’s Smith Entertainment Group now owns the team, keeping the same hockey operations staff, coaches, players and prospects but starting over with a clean slate in the record books like an expansion franchise.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play with a new organization,” said Josh Doan, who’s now with Utah after making his NHL debut with the team dad Shane captained for much of his career. “But to do it with all the guys you’ve been with and the people that you’re close with already is something that’s fun to do.”

Utah, which is expected to get permanent name and logo after the season, plays its first game Oct. 8 against the Blackhawks at the downtown Delta Center, the home of the NBA’s Jazz.

Tryout time

Six-time 30-goal scorer Max Pacioretty is the biggest player attending camp on a professional tryout agreement. Pacioretty is in Toronto, and agent Allan Walsh has said he expects the 35-year-old winger to sign a contract prior to the start of the season.

Others with the opportunity to earn a deal include Travis Dermott with the defending Western Conference champion Oilers; fellow defenseman Tyson Barrie with the Flames; 2020 and ’21 Cup winner Tyler Johnson with the Bruins; and respected veteran forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare with the Avalanche. Longtime Islanders enforcer Matt Martin is also back, hoping to stick around and get another contract.

Coming and going

Landeskog’s next game will be his first in the NHL since lifting the Stanley Cup over his head when the Avalanche defeated the Lightning in Game 6 of the final in 2022. A nagging right knee injury and subsequent cartilage replacement surgery to attempt to fix the problem have cost the Swedish forward the last two seasons.

“Seeing him around the rink, obviously being more active on the ice, seeing the progressions he’s made from when we were here for playoffs previously, it’s awesome to see,” forward Logan O’Connor said.

Oshie has played through chronic back problems for years and said after the Capitals lost in the first round of the playoffs he would only return if he and doctors could come up with a solution that keeps him in the lineup.

The Caps seem to have prepared for life without Oshie, but it is not clear if the 37-year-old who was part of their 2018 Cup run intends to try to keep playing.

AP writers John Wawrow and Pat Graham and AP freelance writer W.G. Ramirez contributed.