Two fading NHL power forwards have found new homes for next season.

On Sunday the Minnesota Wild signed 36-year-old right wing Owen Nolan to a two-year, $5.5 million contract (worth $2.75 million per season) and on Monday the Calgary Flames inked 33-year winger Todd Bertuzzi to a one-year, $1.95 million contract.

Not very long ago these two would've commanded top dollar on the open market. Bertuzzi earned $6.8 million in 2003-04 with the Vancouver Canucks after coming off a 46-goal, 97-point performance with the Canucks the previous year.

Last summer Bertuzzi signed a two-year, $8 million contract with the Anaheim Ducks but cap constraints, a need to re-sign Corey Perry and Bertuzzi's 40-point performance in 68 games forced the Ducks to buy out the remaining year of his contract last month.

Nolan made $6.5 million with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2003-04 season but injuries and a contract dispute saw him miss the 2005-06 season, and the last two seasons he played for Phoenix and Calgary earning $1.225 million and $1.75 million respectively.

His point production over the past two seasons (40 and 32) suggests the Wild, to put it kindly, overpaid for the aging Nolan and was likely based on his playoff performance (5 points in 7 games) with the Flames this spring.

In signing Bertuzzi to replace Nolan the Flames get him at a reasonable price, although that combined with what he got in his buyout (approximately $2.6 million) means he'll actually earn more next season than he would made had the Ducks not bought him out.

For both players, this could be their last opportunities to prove themselves still worthwhile NHL forwards.

At 36 Nolan's NHL career appears to be rapidly winding down as he's now more of a checking forward than the high-scoring power forward he was at the turn of this century, while Bertuzzi still toils under the shadow of his infamous attack on Steve Moore over four years ago and a recent injury history that limited him to 83 games over the last two seasons.