TRADES OF 1997

JANUARY 1997

17- Philadelphia signed Michel Petit off waivers from Edmonton.


25- To San Jose: Ed Belfour
To Chicago: Ulf Dahlen, Chris Terreri, Michal Sykora, and a cond. pick in 1998 (Round 6, Jari Viuhkola).

27- To Detroit: Tomas Sandstrom
To Pittsburgh: Greg Johnson

28- Dallas claimed Neil Broten off waivers from Los Angeles.

31- To Toronto: Craig Wolanin
To Tampa Bay: 3rd round pick in 1998

FEBRUARY 1997

6- To Rangers: Dallas Eakins and Mike Eastwood
To Phoenix: Jayson More

6- To New Jersey: Peter Zezel
To St. Louis: Chris McAlpine and a 9th round pick in 1999.

21- To Anaheim: J.J. Daigneault
To Pittsburgh: Garry Valk

21- Rangers claimed David Oliver off waivers from Edmonton.

25- To Toronto: Alyn McCauley, Steve Sullivan and Jason Smith
To New Jersey: Doug Gilmour, Dave Ellett and a cond. pick.

26- Edmonton signed Petr Klima as a free agent.

MARCH 1997

1- To Washington: Adam Oates, Rick Tocchet and Bill Ranford.
To Boston: Jim Carey, Jason Allison, Anson Carter, and a 3rd round pick in 1997 (Lee Goren) and a cond. pick in 1998

5- To Hartford: Steve Chiasson and a cond. pick in 1997
To Calgary: Hnat Domenichelli, Glen Featherstone, New Jersey's 2nd round pick in 1997 (previously acquired) and Vancouver's 3rd round pick in the 1998 Draft (Paul Manning).

8- To Vancouver: Sergei Nemchinov and Brian Noonan
To Rangers: Russ Courtnall and Esa Tikkanen.

16- Toronto signed Mike Johnson as a FA.

17- Washington signed Ryan Mulhern as a FA

March 18 Trade Deadline

-to Hartford: Jon Battaglia and a 4th round pick in 1998 (Josef Vasicek)
To Anaheim: Mark Janssens

To Ottawa: Mike Prokepec
To Chicago: Denis Chasse, Kevin Bolibruck and a 6th round pick in 1998.

To Pittsburgh: Josef Beranek
To Vancouver: future considerations

To Pittsburgh: Ed Olczyk
To Los Angeles: Glen Murray

To Hartford: Derek King
To Islanders: 5th round pick in 1997 (Adam Edinger)

To Islanders: Robert Reichel
To Calgary: Marty McInnis, Tyrone Garner, and a 6th round pick in 1997 (Ilja Demidov)

To Toronto: Kelly Chase
To Hartford: 8th round pick in 1998 (Jaroslav Svoboda)

To Detroit: Larry Murphy
To Toronto: future considerations

To Tampa Bay: Jeff Norton
To Edmonton: Drew Bannister, either Tampa or Anaheims' 6th round pick

To Tampa Bay: Jamie Hushcroft
To Calgary: Tyler Moss

To Buffalo: Miroslav Satan
To Edmonton: Craig Millar and Barrie Moore

To Philadelphia: Frantisek Kucera
To Vancouver: future considerations

To Florida: Kirk Muller
To Toronto: Jason Podollan

To Montreal: Dave Manson
To Phoenix: Murray Baron and Chris Murray

To Hartford: Chris Murray
To Phoenix: Gerald Diduck

Phoenix signed Jocelyn Lemieux as a FA

To Phoenix: Pat Jablonski
To Montreal: Steve Cheredaryk

To Chicago: Marc Hussey
To Colorado: Ravil Gusmanov

To Anaheim: Richard Park
To Pittsburgh: Roman Oksiuta

New Jersey claimed Chris Lipuma off waivers from San Jose

Vancouver claimed Steve Staios off waivers from Boston

27- Boston signed Randy Robitaille as a FA

APRIL 1997

26- Islanders signed Tony Tuzzolino as a FA

MAY 1997

14- Phoenix signed Sean Gagnon as a FA
Florida signed John Jakopin as a FA

30- To St. Louis: Brent Johnson
To Colorado: San Jose's 3rd round pick in 1997 (previously acquired, Rick Berry) and a cond. pick in 2000

DETROIT RED WINGS WIN THE STANLEY CUP


THE HARTFORD WHALERS ARE MOVED TO RALEIGH AND NAMED THE CAROLINA HURRICANES

JUNE 1997

9- Detroit signed Stacy Roest as a FA

9- Islanders signed Ray Schultz as a FA

12- To Toronto: Per Gustafsson
To Florida: Mike Lankshear

21- Rangers received Mike Peluso from St. Louis as compensation for Blues hiring Larry Pleau

21- To Calgary: Rick Tabaracci
To Tampa Bay: 4th round pick in 1998 (Eric Beaudoin)

21- To San Jose: Shawn Burr
To Tampa Bay: 5th round pick in 1997 (Mark Thompson)

21- To Boston: Mike Sullivan
To Calgary: 7th round pick in 1997 (Brad Defauw) and a 3rd round pick in 1998

27- To St. Louis: Alexander Godynyuk and a 6th round pick in 1998 (Brad Voth)
To Carolina: Steve Leach

27- Phoenix signed Ted Crowley as a FA

JULY 1997

2- Dallas signed Ed Belfour as a FA
2- Toronto signed Mike Kennedy as a FA

4- Toronto signed Derek King as a FA

7- Rangers signed Brian Skrudland as a FA

9- San Jose signed Rich Brennan as a FA

10- Islanders signed Sergei Nemchinov as a FA

11- Colorado signed Jari Kurri as a FA

12- Florida signed Dave Gagner as a FA

14- Ottawa signed Marc Labelle as a FA
14- Boston signed Ken Baumgartner as a FA

15- Los Angeles signed Garry Galley as a FA

15- To Tampa Bay: Vladimir Vujtek and a 3rd round pick in 1998 (Dmitri Afanasenkov)
To Edmonton: Brantt Myhres and a future pick

16- Dallas signed Peter Douris as a FA
Tampa Bay signed Yves Racine as a FA
San Jose signed Bill Houlder as a FA
St. Louis signed Terry Hollinger as a FA
Rangers signed Jeff Finley as a FA

17- Vancouver signed Grant Ledyard as a FA
Montreal signed Andy Moog as a FA
Dallas signed Shawn Chambers as a FA

21- Islanders signed John Namestnikov and Jim Storm as FA's
Islanders signed Mike Hough and Dane Jackson as FA's

22- Islanders signed Wade Flaherty as a FA
Edmonton signed Bill Huard as a FA

23- Toronto signed Kris King as a FA
Phoenix signed Rick Tocchet as a FA
Philadelphia signed Luke Richardson as a FA

24- To San Jose: Stephane Matteau
To St. Louis: Darren Turcotte

25- Los Angeles signed Chris Taylor as a FA

To Chicago: Petri Varis and a 6th round pick in 1998
To San Jose: Murray Craven

To Chicago: Ryan Risidore and a 5th round pick in 1998
To Carolina: Enrico Ciccone


28- Vancouver signed Mark Messier as a FA
Phoenix signed Jeff Christian and Darin Kimble as FA's
Dallas signed Bob Errey as a FA
Ottawa signed Derek Armstrong and Clayton Beddoes as FA's

29- Boston signed Dave Ellett as a FA
Islanders signed Mark Lawerence as a FA

30- Rangers signed Mike Keane as a FA
Los Angeles signed Mark Visheau as a FA
Florida signed Dallas Eakins as a FA

31- St. Louis signed Rudy Poeschek and Rich Parent as FA's
Pittsburgh signed Brad Werenka as a FA
Philadelphia signed Jamie Heward as a FA

AUGUST 1997

1- Detroit signed Brent Gilchrist as a FA
Anaheim signed Tomas Sandstrom and Bob Wren as FA's
Rangers signed Robb Stauber as a FA
Calgary signed Jim Dowd as a FA

5- Vancouver signed Arturs Irbe as a FA

6- Calgary signed Eric Landry as a FA
Dallas signed Chris Tancill as a FA
Chicago signed Todd White as a FA

7- Toronto signed Kevyn Adams as a FA
Pittsburgh signed Martin Straka as a FA

8- Toronto signed Glenn Healy as a FA

To Rangers: Jason Muzatti
To Carolina: 4th round pick in 1998

11- Buffalo signed Mike Hurlbut and Patrice Tardif as FA's
Anaheim signed Jeff Nielsen as a FA

12- St. Louis signed Terry Yake and Blair Atcheynum as FA's
Carolina signed Pat Jablonski as a FA
Dallas signed Tony Hrkac as a FA

To Pittsburgh: Jiri Slegr
To Edmonton: 3rd round pick in 1998

13- San Jose signed Jarrod Skalde and Jamie Ram as FA's

14- Buffalo signed Mike Bales as a FA
Carolina signed Mike Fountain as a FA
Philadelphia signed Chris Gratton as a FA

15- San Jose signed Peter Allen and Barry Potomski as FA's

18- Phoenix signed John Slaney as a FA

To San Jose: Mike Vernon
To Detroit: conditional picks in 1998 (Maxim Linnik) and 1999

19- Dallas signed Kevin Sawyer as a FA

20- Colorado signed Jason Simon as a FA

To Tampa Bay: Mikael Renberg and Karl Dykhuis
To Philadelphia: 1st round picks in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001

22- To New Jersey: Vlastimil Kroupa
To San Jose: 3rd round pick in 1998

25- To St. Louis: Steve Duchesne
To Ottawa: Igor Kravchuk

To Calgary: Andrew Cassells and JS Giguere
To Carolina: Gary Roberts and Trevor Kidd

To Islanders: Mariusz Czerkawski
To Edmonton: Dan LaCouture

26- Rangers signed Pierre Sevigny and Brent Thompson as FA's
Tampa Bay signed Louie Debrusk as a FA

28- To Los Angeles: Luc Robitaille
To Rangers: Kevin Stevens

29- To Boston: Dimitri Khristich and Byron Dafoe
To Los Angeles: Jozef Stumpel, Sandy Moger, and a 4th round pick 1998

SEPTEMBER 1997

3- Calgary signed Valeri Karpov as a FA

4- To Calgary: Eric Charron
To Washington: future considerations

5- Florida signed Esa Tikkanen as a FA

24- New Jersey signed Sasha Lakovic as a FA

28- WAIVER DRAFT

Boston received Tim Taylor from Detroit
Islanders received Tom Chorske from Ottawa
Calgary received Mike Peluso from the Rangers
Boston received Robert Lang from Pittsburgh
Tampa Bay received Mick Vukota from the Islanders
St. Louis received Pascal Rheaume from New Jersey
Phoenix received Jimmy Waite from Chicago
Anaheim received Brent Severyn from Colorado
New Jersey received Scott Daniels from Philadelphia

OCTOBER 1997

10- To Chicago: Martin Gendron and a 6th round pick in 1998 (Jonathan Pelletier)
To Washington: 4th round pick in 1998 (Erik Wendell)

15- To Edmonton: Jason Bowen
To Philadelphia: Brantt Myhres

21- To Philadelphia: Mike Maneluk
To Ottawa: cash

22- To Chicago: Greg Johnson
To Pittsburgh: Tuomas Gronman

NOVEMBER 1997

12- To Chicago: Andrei Trefilov
To Buffalo: future considerations

14- To Tampa Bay: Dave Lowry and 1st round pick Vincent Lecavalier
To Florida: Viktor Kozlov and 5th round pick in 1998 (Jaroslav Spacek)

14- To Rangers: Brad Smyth
To Los Angeles: cond. draft pick

18- To Carolina: Sean Hill
To Ottawa: Chris Murray

20- To San Jose: Mike Ricci and 2nd round pick in 1998 Draft
To Colorado: Shean Donovan and a 1st round pick in 1998 (Alex Tanguay)

DECEMBER 1997

7- To San Jose: John MacLean and Ken Sutton
To New Jersey: Doug Bodger and Dody Wood

20- To Tampa Bay: Bryan Marchment, Jason Bonsignore and Steve Kelly
To Edmonton: Roman Hamrlik and Paul Comrie

31- New Jersey signed Rich Shulmistra as a FA

RETIRED AFTER THE 1996-1997 SEASON

Tim Cheveldae, Boston Bruins
Charlie Huddy, Buffalo Sabres
Denis Savard, Chicago Blackhawks
Sergei Makarov, Dallas Stars
Neal Broten, Dallas Stars
Mike Ramsey, Detroit Red Wings
Vladimir Konstantinov, Detroit Red Wings
Dale Hawerchuk, Philadelphia Flyers
Brad McCrimmon, Philadelphia Flyers
Dan Quinn, Pittsburgh Penguins
Joe Mullen, Pittsburgh Penguins
Tim Hunter, San Jose Sharks
Craig MacTavish, St. Louis Blues
Gary Leeman, St. Louis Blues
Jon Casey, St. Louis Blues
Jay Wells, Tampa Bay Lightning
Don Beaupre, Toronto Maple Leafs
Mike Ridley, Vancouver Canucks



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