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Canadian Press
2/14/2007 3:54:03 PM

LOS ANGELES (CP) - Scratch Derek Armstrong's name off the NHL trade market.

The veteran centre signed a US$3-million, two-year contract extension Wednesday with the Los Angeles Kings. He had been slated to be an unrestricted free agent July 1 and was garnering interest from other NHL teams.

"Derek is a good player and he's a really good teammate," Kings GM Dean Lombardi told The Canadian Press. "It's nice to have got this done. Obviously if we hadn't, we would have been in a situation where we would have to look at (a trade) because of the asset.

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