NHL Trade deadline deals

 

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NHL clubs made 25 trades, involving 44 players, between 9 a.m., ET, today and the 3 p.m., ET, trading deadline. The number of trades matches the trading deadline high, set last year, while the number of players involved ranks second all-time to the 46 in 2003. Following is a list of the transactions:

Anaheim traded G Michael Wall to Colorado for LW Brad May.

Anaheim traded D Joe Rullier to Tampa Bay for D Doug O'Brien.

Atlanta traded RW Alex Bourret to New York Rangers for LW Pascal Dupuis and the Rangers' 3rd-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft.

Boston traded D Paul Mara to New York Rangers for D Aaron Ward.

Boston traded C Brad Boyes to St. Louis for D Dennis Wideman.

Buffalo traded G Martin Biron to Philadelphia for Philadelphia's 2nd-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft.

Buffalo traded C Jiri Novotny and its 1st-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft to Washington for RW Dainius Zubrus and D Timo Helbling.

Chicago traded LW Karl Stewart and Florida's 6th-round pick in the 2008 Entry Draft (previously acquired) to Tampa Bay for RW Nikita Alexeev.

Columbus traded G Ty Conklin to Buffalo for Buffalo's 5th-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft.

Dallas traded D Jaroslav Modry, D Johan Fransson, its 2nd- and 3rd-round picks in the 2007 Entry Draft and 1st-round pick in the 2008 Entry Draft to Los Angeles for D Mattias Norstrom, RW Konstantin Pushkarev and Los Angeles' 3rd- and 4th-round picks in the 2007 Entry Draft.

Edmonton traded LW Ryan Smyth to New York Islanders for C Ryan O'Marra, C Robert Nilsson and the Islanders' 1st-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft.

Florida traded LW Gary Roberts to Pittsburgh for D Noah Welch.

Florida traded D Joel Kwiatkowski to Pittsburgh for Florida's 4th-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft (previously acquired).

Florida traded RW Todd Bertuzzi to Detroit for C Shawn Matthias, a conditional 1st-, 2nd-, or 3rd-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft and a conditional pick in the 2008 Entry Draft.

Los Angeles traded RW Jason Ward to Tampa Bay for Tampa Bay's 5th-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft.

Nashville traded D Mikko Lehtonen to Buffalo for Buffalo's 4th-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft.

New Jersey traded D David Hale and its 5th-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft to Calgary for Calgary's 3rd-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft.

Phoenix traded LW Oleg Saprykin and its 7th-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft to Ottawa for Ottawa's 2nd-round pick in the 2008 Entry Draft.

Phoenix traded RW Georges Laraque to Pittsburgh for LW Dan Carcillo and Pittsburgh's 3rd-round pick in the 2008 Entry Draft.

Phoenix traded C Yanic Perreault and its 5th-round pick in the 2008 Entry Draft to Toronto for D Brendan Bell and Toronto's 2nd-round pick in the 2008 Entry Draft.

Pittsburgh traded C Dominic Moore to Minnesota for Minnesota's 3rd-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft.

St. Louis traded RW Bill Guerin to San Jose for LW Ville Nieminen, LW Jay Barriball and New Jersey's 1st-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft (previously acquired).

San Jose traded G Nolan Schaefer to Pittsburgh for Pittsburgh's 7th-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft.

San Jose traded RW Scott Parker to Colorado for Colorado's 6th-round pick in the 2008 Entry Draft.

Washington traded D Jamie Heward to Los Angeles for a conditional pick in the 2008 Entry Draft.

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There also were five waiver transactions:

Atlanta claimed C Jason Krog from New York Rangers.

Columbus claimed G Brian Boucher from Chicago.

Montreal claimed G Michael Leighton from Philadelphia.

Philadelphia claimed RW Denis Hamel from Atlanta.

Phoenix claimed C Niko Kapanen from Atlanta.

Trade Deadline Activity Since 1979-80

Season Date Trades Players

1979-80 March 11, 1980 3 5
1980-81 March 10, 1981 12 22
1981-82 March 9, 1982 5 11
1982-83 March 8, 1983 1 1
1983-84 March 6, 1984 2 2
1984-85 March 12, 1985 4 7
1985-86 March 11, 1986 8 14
1986-87 March 10, 1987 5 9
1987-88 March 8, 1988 8 12
1988-89 March 7, 1989 9 21
1989-90 March 6, 1990 10 16
1990-91 March 5, 1991 14 33
1991-92 March 10, 1992 11 22
1992-93 March 22, 1993 9 14
1993-94 March 21, 1994 18 35
1994-95 April 7, 1995 19 32
1995-96 March 20, 1996 13 21
1996-97 March 18, 1997 18 35
1997-98 March 24, 1998 19 38
1998-99 March 23, 1999 21 30
1999-00 March 14, 2000 12 23
2000-01 March 13, 2001 17 31
2001-02 March 19, 2002 17 35
2002-03 March 11, 2003 24 46
2003-04 March 9, 2004 20 32
2005-06 March 9, 2006 25 40
2006-07 February 27, 2007 25 44

 

 

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