Transactions Completed Prior to NHL Trade Deadline

Trade deadline

NEW YORK (March 21, 2022) – NHL clubs made 33 trades involving 54 players today prior to the 3 p.m., ET, trade deadline. Following is a list of the transactions:

Anaheim traded LW Rickard Rakell to Pittsburgh for LW Zach Aston-Reese, C Dominik Simon, G Calle Clang and Pittsburgh’s 2nd-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft.

Anaheim traded D John Moore and C Ryan Kesler to Vegas for RW Evgenii Dadonov and Vegas’ 2nd-round pick in the 2023 or 2024 NHL Draft.

Arizona traded LW Johan Larsson to Washington for Washington’s 3rd-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft.

Arizona traded C Riley Nash to Tampa Bay for future considerations.

Boston traded RW Zach Senyshyn and its 5th-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft to Ottawa for D Josh Brown and a conditional pick in 2022.

Calgary traded G Michael McNiven to Ottawa for future considerations.

Chicago traded G Marc-Andre Fleury to Minnesota for a conditional pick in the 2022 NHL Draft.

Chicago traded C Ryan Carpenter to Calgary for Calgary’s 5th-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.

Colorado traded D Justin Barron and its 2nd-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft to Montreal for LW Artturi Lehkonen.

Columbus traded C Max Domi and Toronto’s 6th-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft (previously acquired) to Florida for D Tyler Inamoto; Florida traded Domi to Carolina for RW Egor Korshkov; and Columbus traded Inamoto to Carolina for D Aidan Hreschuk.

Detroit traded D Nick Leddy and D Luke Witkowski to St. Louis for D Jake Walman, C Oskar Sundqvist and St. Louis’ 2nd-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft.

Detroit traded C Vladislav Namestnikov to Dallas for Dallas’ 4th-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.

Edmonton traded D William Lagesson, a 2nd-round pick in the 2022 or 2023 NHL Draft and Edmonton’s 7th-round pick in 2024 to Montreal for D Brett Kulak.

Los Angeles traded LW Brayden Burke to Nashville for D Frederic Allard.

Los Angeles traded D Markus Phillips to Winnipeg for D Nelson Nogier.

Minnesota traded G Kaapo Kahkonen and San Jose’s 5th-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft (previously acquired) to San Jose for D Jacob Middleton.

Minnesota traded C Jack McBain to Arizona for Vancouver’s 2nd-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft (previously acquired).

Minnesota traded C Victor Rask to Seattle for future considerations.

Montreal traded G Andrew Hammond to New Jersey for C Nate Schnarr.

NY Rangers traded D Anthony Bitetto to San Jose for RW Nick Merkley.

Ottawa traded LW Zach Sanford to Winnipeg for Winnipeg’s 5th-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft.

Philadelphia traded D Justin Braun to NY Rangers for the Rangers’ 3rd-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft.

Philadelphia traded C Derick Brassard to Edmonton for Edmonton’s 4th-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft.

San Jose traded C Andrew Cogliano to Colorado for Colorado’s 5th-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.

San Jose traded G Alexei Melnichuk to Tampa Bay for C Antoine Morand.

Seattle traded LW Marcus Johansson to Washington for RW Daniel Sprong, Washington’s 4th-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft and 6th-round pick in 2023.

Toronto traded D Alex Biega to Nashville for future considerations.

Vancouver traded C Tyler Motte to NY Rangers for the Rangers’ 4th-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft.

Winnipeg traded C Bryan Little and C Nathan Smith to Arizona for Arizona’s 4th-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft.

Winnipeg traded D Nathan Beaulieu to Pittsburgh for a conditional pick in the 2022 NHL Draft.

Winnipeg traded C Andrew Copp and its 6th-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft to NY Rangers for C Morgan Barron, a conditional pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, a 2nd-round pick in 2022 or 2023 and the Rangers’ 5th-round pick in 2023.

The following documents were posted in advance of the 2022 NHL Trade Deadline:

By the Numbers
Season-by-Season Activity
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2021-2022 NHL SALARY CAP SPACE – Which Teams Are Poised To Play By Trade Deadline

By Andrew Chernoff 04.02.2022

NHL Salary Cap By Team

NHL Salary Cap Limit: $81,500,000

NHL Salary Cap Floor: $60,200,000

Source: puckpedia.com
Source: puckpedia.com

The Vancouver Canucks are one of 7 teams in the Western Conference above the salary cap, having the 4rth most over cap of the 16 teams in the Conference.

Of the Canadian teams, the Canucks are in better shape than Montreal, Winnipeg and Edmonton.

Ottawa, and Calgary have the most cap space among the Canadian teams, with the Toronto Maple Leafs barely in positive territory at just below $600,000.

In some ways the current season records of the Canadian teams reflect their division positions, and the ability to take part in the trade deadline this season, and make a push for a playoff position that has a mathematical chance.

Or sell, and retool, rebuild for the future, starting with next season, and acquiring assets for players in demand by playoff pushing teams. Especially draft choices.

Only time will tell…and the deadline is fast approaching.