The following is a list of all team-to-team transactions that have occurred in the National Hockey League during the lockout shortened 2012–13 NHL season. It lists what team each player has been officially released by, traded to, signed by, or claimed by, and for which player(s) or draft pick(s), if applicable. Players who have retired are also listed. The 2012–13 trade deadline was set for April 3, 2013, at 3 pm EST.[1] Players involved in any trades after this deadline are ineligible to participate in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
At any time, a team and a player can mutually agree to terminate a player's contract.
For more details on contract terminations:
Teams may buy out player contracts (after the conclusion of a season) for a portion of the remaining value of the contract, paid over a period of twice the remaining length of the contract. This reduced number and extended period is applied to the cap hit as well.
All players must clear waivers before having a contract terminated. Injured players cannot be bought out.
† - Following the 2012–13 NHL lockout each team was granted two compliance buyouts (to be exercised after the 2012–13 season and/or after the 2013–14 season that would not count against the salary cap in any further year, regardless of the player's age. After using a compliance buyout on a player, that player is prohibited from rejoining the team that bought him out for one year; the NHL deemed that the re-signing of a player following a trade and a subsequent compliance buyout would be ruled as cap circumvention.
‡ - Following the 2012–13 NHL lockout each team was granted one accelerated compliance buyout on a player with a salary cap hit of $3 million U.S. or more before the regular season began. If an accelerated compliance buyout is used, that team will only have one more compliance buyout left, and they must use it after the completion of the 2012–13 season (and before the start of 2013–14 season). The player's cap hit is applied in full to the team's salary cap for the 2012–13 season, but for no season after, regardless of contract length.
| Date | Name | Last team | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Stars | Buyout | |||
| New Jersey Devils | Buyout | |||
| Florida Panthers | Buyout | |||
| Carolina Hurricanes | Buyout | |||
| Toronto Maple Leafs | Buyout | |||
| Philadelphia Flyers | Buyout | |||
| Ottawa Senators | Buyout | |||
| Pittsburgh Penguins | Mutual termination | |||
| Montreal Canadiens | Mutual termination | |||
| Montreal Canadiens | Accelerated compliance buyout‡ | |||
| New York Rangers | Accelerated compliance buyout‡ | |||
| Anaheim Ducks | Mutual termination | |||
| Montreal Canadiens | Mutual termination | |||
| Philadelphia Flyers | Compliance buyout† | |||
| Philadelphia Flyers | Compliance buyout† | |||
| Montreal Canadiens | Compliance buyout† | |||
| Chicago Blackhawks | Compliance buyout† | |||
| Chicago Blackhawks | Compliance buyout† | |||
| Tampa Bay Lightning | Compliance buyout† |
An offer sheet is a contract offered to a restricted free agent by a team other than the one for which he played during the prior season. If the player signs the offer sheet, his current team has seven days to match the contract offer and keep the player or else he goes to the team that gave the offer sheet, with compensation going to his first team.
| Date Offered | Player | Original Team | Offer Team | Contract Offered --> | Date Resolved | Result | Compensation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Predators | Philadelphia Flyers | 14 years, $110 million --> | July 24, 2012 | matched | none | |||
| Colorado Avalanche | Calgary Flames | 2 years, $10 million --> | February 28, 2013 | matched | none |
| June 22, 2012 | To Buffalo Sabres 1st-round pick in 2012 (#14 overall -Zemgus Girgensons)[6] | To Calgary Flames NSH's 1st-round pick in 2012 (#21 overall - Mark Jankowski) 2nd-round pick in 2012 (#42 overall - Patrick Sieloff) | |
| June 23, 2012 | To Nashville Predators 3rd-round pick in 2012 (#89 overall - Brendan Leipsic)[7] | To New York Rangers 3rd-round pick in 2013 (#65 overall - Adam Tambellini) | |
| June 23, 2012 | To San Jose Sharks 4th-round pick in 2012 (#109 overall - Christophe Lalancette) | To Chicago Blackhawks TBL's 7th-round pick in 2012 (#191 overall - Brandon Whitney) 4th-round pick in 2013 (#111 overall - Robin Norell) | |
| June 23, 2012 | To New York Rangers 5th-round pick in 2012 (#142 overall - Thomas Spelling) | To Nashville Predators 5th-round pick in 2013 (#140 overall - Teemu Kivihalme) | |
| June 23, 2012 | To Dallas Stars EDM's 7th-round pick in 2012 (#183 overall - Dmitry Sinitsyn) | To Los Angeles Kings 7th-round pick in 2013 (#191 overall - Dominik Kubalik | |
| June 23, 2012 | To Florida Panthers 7th-round pick in 2012 (#194 overall - Jonatan Nielsen) | To Dallas Stars 7th-round pick in 2013 (#182 overall - Aleksi Makela) |
| July 1, 2012 | To Columbus Blue Jackets Nick Foligno | To Ottawa Senators Marc Methot | |
| July 2, 2012 | To Dallas Stars Derek Roy | To Buffalo Sabres Steve Ott Adam Pardy | |
| July 10, 2012 | To Tampa Bay Lightning B.J. Crombeen 5th-round pick in 2014 | To St. Louis Blues 4th-round pick in 2013 4th-round pick in 2014 | |
| July 20, 2012 | To Florida Panthers Casey Wellman | To New York Rangers 5th-round pick in 2014 | |
| July 23, 2012 | To New York Rangers Rick Nash Steven Delisle conditional 3rd-round pick | To Columbus Blue Jackets Brandon Dubinsky Artem Anisimov Tim Erixon 1st-round pick in 2013 |
No trades due to the 2012–13 NHL lockout.
| January 13, 2013 | To Philadelphia Flyers Brian Boucher Mark Alt | To Carolina Hurricanes Luke Pither | ||
| January 13, 2013 | To Carolina Hurricanes Kevin Westgarth | To Los Angeles Kings Anthony Stewart 4th-round pick in 2013 (#96 overall - Kyle Platzer) 6th-round pick in 2014 | ||
| January 13, 2013 | To Florida Panthers Brendon Nash | To Montreal Canadiens Jason DeSantis | ||
| January 13, 2013 | To Edmonton Oilers Mark Fistric | To Dallas Stars 3rd-round pick in 2013 (#68 overall - Niklas Hansson) | ||
| January 16, 2013 | To Phoenix Coyotes Matthew Lombardi | To Toronto Maple Leafs conditional 4th-round pick in 2014 | ||
| January 16, 2013 | To New York Rangers Brandon Mashinter | To San Jose Sharks Tommy Grant conditional 7th-round pick in 2014 | ||
| January 21, 2013 | To Tampa Bay Lightning Jean-Francois Jacques | To Florida Panthers future considerations | ||
| January 21, 2013 | To Chicago Blackhawks Henrik Karlsson | To Calgary Flames OTT's 7th-round pick in 2013 | ||
| January 24, 2013 | To New York Rangers Benn Ferriero | To Pittsburgh Penguins Chad Kolarik | ||
| January 24, 2013 | To Dallas Stars Carl Sneep | To Pittsburgh Penguins conditional FLA's 7th-round pick in 2013 | ||
| January 31, 2013 | To Washington Capitals Casey Wellman | To Florida Panthers Zach Hamill | ||
| January 31, 2013 | To Washington Capitals Peter LeBlanc | To Chicago Blackhawks future considerations < | --Washington, in conjunction with the Hershey Bears acquired LeBlanc from Chicago. Hershey then in turn shipped Mathieu Beaudoin back to Chicago's affiliate, Rockford. Beaudoin is not on an NHL contract though, so the official NHL trade is LeBlanc for future considerations, with an AHL trade also happening, consisting of Beaudoin for future considerations.--> |
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| February 4, 2013 | To Minnesota Wild Mike Rupp | To New York Rangers Darroll Powe Nick Palmieri | |
| February 6, 2013 | To New Jersey Devils Andrei Loktionov | To Los Angeles Kings 5th-round pick in 2013 | |
| February 6, 2013 | To Anaheim Ducks Ben Lovejoy | To Pittsburgh Penguins 5th-round pick in 2014 | |
| February 7, 2013 | To New York Islanders Tim Thomas | To Boston Bruins conditional 2nd-round pick in 2014 or 2015 | |
| February 8, 2013 | To Los Angeles Kings Keaton Ellerby | To Florida Panthers NJ's 5th-round pick in 2013 | |
| February 13, 2013 | To Winnipeg Jets Eric Tangradi | To Pittsburgh Penguins 7th-round pick in 2013 | |
| February 13, 2013 | To New Jersey Devils Alexei Ponikarovsky | To Winnipeg Jets 7th-round pick in 2013 4th-round pick in 2014 | |
| February 14, 2013 | To Tampa Bay Lightning Cedrick Desjardins | To Montreal Canadiens Dustin Tokarski | |
| February 19, 2013 | To St. Louis Blues Jani Lajunen< | -- Nashville, in conjunction with the Milwaukee Admirals of the AHL, sent Lajunen to St. Louis and St. Louis sent Ford to Nashville. Milwaukee then also shipped the rights to Andre Bouvet-Morrissett and Zoltan Hetenyi to St. Louis' affiliate, Peoria. Bouvet-Morrissett and Hetenyi are not on an NHL contracts though, so the official NHL trade is simply Lajunen for Ford, with an AHL trade also happening, consisting of Bouvet-Morrissett and Hetenyi for future considerations.--> | To Nashville Predators Scott Ford |
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| February 25, 2013 | To Calgary Flames Mike Testwuide | To Philadelphia Flyers Mitch Wahl | |
| February 26, 2013 | To Philadelphia Flyers Simon Gagne | To Los Angeles Kings conditional 4th-round pick in 2013 | |
| February 26, 2013 | To Dallas Stars Erik Cole | To Montreal Canadiens Michael Ryder 3rd-round pick in 2013 | |
| February 28, 2013 | To Calgary Flames Brian McGrattan | To Nashville Predators Joe Piskula |
| June 6, 2013 | To Dallas Stars Sergei Gonchar | To Ottawa Senators conditional 6th-round pick in 2013 | |
| June 12, 2013 | To Philadelphia Flyers Mark Streit | To New York Islanders Shane Harper 4th-round pick in 2014 | |
| June 14, 2013 | To Florida Panthers Bobby Butler | To Nashville Predators T.J. Brennan | |
| June 18, 2013 | To Calgary Flames Corban Knight | To Florida Panthers 4th-round pick in 2013 | |
| June 23, 2013 | To Toronto Maple Leafs Jonathan Bernier | To Los Angeles Kings Matt Frattin Ben Scrivens 2nd-round pick in 2014 or 2015 | |
| June 24, 2013 | To Pittsburgh Penguins Harry Zolnierczyk | To Anaheim Ducks Alex Grant | |
| June 27, 2013 | To Colorado Avalanche Alex Tanguay Cory Sarich | To Calgary Flames David Jones Shane O'Brien |
For details concerning conditional draft picks see the appropriate Entry Draft pages.
Once an NHL player has played in a certain number of games or a set number of seasons has passed since the signing of his first NHL contract (see here), that player must be offered to all of the other NHL teams before he can be assigned to a minor league affiliate.