The following is a list of all team-to-team transactions that have occurred in the National Hockey League during the 2020–21 NHL season. It lists which team each player has been traded to, signed by, or claimed by, and for which player(s) or draft pick(s), if applicable. Players who have retired or that have had their contracts terminated are also listed. The 2020–21 NHL trade deadline was on April 12, 2021. Players traded or claimed off waivers after this date were not eligible to play in the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Retirement
editNotes
editContract terminations
editA team and player may mutually agree to terminate a player's contract at any time. All players must clear waivers before having a contract terminated.
Buyouts can only occur at specific times of the year. For more details on contract terminations as buyouts:
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.
- If the player was under the age of 26 at the time of the buyout the player's pay and cap hit will reduced by a factor of 2/3 over the extended period.
- If the player was 26 or older at the time of the buyout the player's pay and cap hit will reduced by a factor of 1/3 over the extended period.
- If the player was 35 or older at the time of signing the contract the player's pay will be reduced by a factor of 1/3, but the cap hit will not be reduced over the extended period.
Injured players cannot be bought out.
Notes
editFree agency
editNote: This does not include players who have re-signed with their previous team as an unrestricted free agent or as a restricted free agent.
Imports
editThis section is for players who were not previously on contract with NHL teams in the past season. Listed is the last team and league they were under contract with.
Trades
edit* Retained Salary Transaction: Each team is allowed up to three contracts on their payroll where they have retained salary in a trade (i.e. the player no longer plays with Team A due to a trade to Team B, but Team A still retains some salary). Only up to 50% of a player's contract can be kept, and only up to 15% of a team's salary cap can be taken up by retained salary. A contract can only be involved in one of these trades twice.
Hover over-retained salary or conditional transactions for more information.
October
editOctober 6, 2020 | To New York Rangers 1st-round pick in 2020 (#19 overall) | To Calgary Flames CAR 1st-round pick in 2020 (#22 overall) 3rd-round pick in 2020 (#72 overall) | [243] |
October 6, 2020 | To Washington Capitals NYR 1st-round pick in 2020 (#22 overall) | To Calgary Flames 1st-round pick in 2020 (#24 overall) ARI 3rd-round pick in 2020 (#80 overall) | [243] |
October 7, 2020 | To Buffalo Sabres 2nd-round pick in 2020 (#34 overall) | To San Jose Sharks 2nd-round pick in 2020 (#38 overall) 4th-round pick in 2020 (#100 overall) | [244] |
October 7, 2020 | To Ottawa Senators 2nd-round pick in 2020 (#44 overall) | To Toronto Maple Leafs NYI 2nd-round pick in 2020 (#59 overall) 3rd-round pick in 2020 (#64 overall) | [245] |
October 7, 2020 | To Los Angeles Kings EDM 2nd-round pick in 2020 (#45 overall) | To Detroit Red Wings VAN 2nd-round pick in 2020 (#51 overall) 4th-round pick in 2020 (#97 overall) | [246] |
October 7, 2020 | To Tampa Bay Lightning STL 2nd-round pick in 2020 (#57 overall) | To Montreal Canadiens 4th-round pick in 2020 (#124 overall) 2nd-round pick in 2021 | [247] |
October 7, 2020 | To Minnesota Wild SJS 3rd-round pick in 2020 (#65 overall) | To Detroit Red Wings MIN 3rd-round pick in 2020 (#70 overall) 5th-round pick in 2020 (#132 overall) | [248] |
October 7, 2020 | To San Jose Sharks 3rd-round pick in 2020 (#76 overall) | To Edmonton Oilers BUF 4th-round pick in 2020 (#100 overall) OTT 5th-round pick in 2020 (#126 overall) | [249] |
October 7, 2020 | To Philadelphia Flyers DET 4th-round pick in 2020 (#94 overall) | To Tampa Bay Lightning 4th-round pick in 2020 (#116 overall) 5th-round pick in 2020 (#147 overall) | [250] |
October 7, 2020 | To San Jose Sharks ANA 4th-round pick in 2020 (#98 overall) | To Montreal Canadiens WSH 3rd-round pick in 2021 | [251] |
October 7, 2020 | To New York Rangers 5th-round pick in 2020 (#127 overall) | To San Jose Sharks 7th-round pick in 2020 (#196 overall) VAN 7th-round pick in 2020 (#206 overall) | [252] |
October 7, 2020 | To Vegas Golden Knights 5th-round pick in 2020 (#125 overall) | To Detroit Red Wings 4th-round pick in 2022 | [253] |
October 7, 2020 | To Philadelphia Flyers 5th-round pick in 2020 (#135 overall) | To Nashville Predators MTL 7th-round pick in 2020 (#202 overall) 7th-round pick in 2020 (#209 overall) | [254] |
October 7, 2020 | To Toronto Maple Leafs TOR 5th-round pick in 2020 (#137 overall) | To Florida Panthers VGK 5th-round pick in 2020 (#153 overall) STL 7th-round pick in 2020 (#212 overall) | [255] |
October 7, 2020 | To Colorado Avalanche 5th-round pick in 2020 (#139 overall) | To Pittsburgh Penguins 5th-round pick in 2020 (#149 overall) 7th-round pick in 2020 (#211 overall) | [256] |
October 7, 2020 | To Los Angeles Kings MTL 5th-round pick in 2020 (#140 overall) | To Carolina Hurricanes 6th-round pick in 2020 (#159 overall) 7th-round pick in 2021 | [257] |
October 7, 2020 | To Minnesota Wild CAR 5th-round pick in 2020 (#146 overall) | To St. Louis Blues 6th-round pick in 2020 (#163 overall) 7th-round pick in 2020 (#194 overall) | [258] |
October 7, 2020 | To Anaheim Ducks 7th-round pick in 2020 (#207 overall) | To Columbus Blue Jackets conditional 7th-round pick in 2021 or 7th-round pick in 2022 | [259] |
Trade restructured due to shortened 2020–21 NHL season | |||
To Anaheim Ducks 7th-round pick in 2020 (#207 overall) | To Columbus Blue Jackets conditional 7th-round pick in 2022 or 7th-round pick in 2023 | [260] | |
October 7, 2020 | To Chicago Blackhawks OTT 7th-round pick in 2020 (#188 overall) | To Montreal Canadiens MTL 7th-round pick in 2021 | [261] |
October 7, 2020 | To Washington Capitals COL 7th-round pick in 2020 (#211 overall) | To Pittsburgh Penguins 7th-round pick in 2021 | [262] |
October 7, 2020 | To Toronto Maple Leafs 7th-round pick in 2020 (#213 overall) | To Boston Bruins 7th-round pick in 2021 | [263] |
December
editDecember 11, 2020 | To New York Islanders Dmytro Timashov | To Detroit Red Wings future considerations | [264] |
December 21, 2020 | To Nashville Predators Michael Carcone | To Ottawa Senators Zach Magwood | [265] |
December 26, 2020 | To Ottawa Senators Derek Stepan | To Arizona Coyotes CBJ 2nd-round pick in 2021 | [266] |
December 27, 2020 | To Ottawa Senators Braydon Coburn Cedric Paquette 2nd-round pick in 2022 | To Tampa Bay Lightning Marian Gaborik Anders Nilsson | [267] |
January
editJanuary 12, 2021 | To Carolina Hurricanes Maxime Lajoie | To Ottawa Senators Clark Bishop | [268] |
January 19, 2021 | To Minnesota Wild Ian Cole* | To Colorado Avalanche Greg Pateryn | [269] |
January 23, 2021 | To Columbus Blue Jackets Patrik Laine* Jack Roslovic | To Winnipeg Jets Pierre-Luc Dubois 3rd-round pick in 2022 | [270] |
January 27, 2021 | To Anaheim Ducks Trevor Carrick | To San Jose Sharks Jack Kopacka | [271] |
January 27, 2021 | To San Jose Sharks Christian Jaros | To Ottawa Senators Jack Kopacka 7th-round pick in 2022 | [271] |
February
editFebruary 13, 2021 | To Carolina Hurricanes Alex Galchenyuk Cedric Paquette | To Ottawa Senators Ryan Dzingel | [272] |
February 13, 2021 | To Columbus Blue Jackets Gregory Hofmann | To Carolina Hurricanes 7th-round pick in 2022 | [273] |
February 15, 2021 | To Toronto Maple Leafs Alex Galchenyuk | To Carolina Hurricanes Yegor Korshkov David Warsofsky | [274] |
March
editMarch 12, 2021 | To Columbus Blue Jackets Mikko Lehtonen | To Toronto Maple Leafs Veini Vehvilainen | [275] |
March 20, 2021 | To Colorado Avalanche Jonas Johansson | To Buffalo Sabres 6th-round pick in 2021 | [276] |
March 24, 2021 | To Anaheim Ducks Alexander Volkov | To Tampa Bay Lightning Antoine Morand conditional 7th-round pick in 2023 or 7th-round pick in 2024 | [277] |
March 26, 2021 | To Montreal Canadiens Eric Staal* | To Buffalo Sabres 3rd-round pick in 2021 5th-round pick in 2021 | [278] |
March 27, 2021 | To Los Angeles Kings Brendan Lemieux | To New York Rangers 4th-round pick in 2021 | [279] |
March 29, 2021 | To Ottawa Senators Michael Amadio | To Los Angeles Kings Christian Wolanin | [280] |
April
editJuly
editWaivers
editOnce 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.
Expansion Draft
editThe 2020–21 season saw the entrance of a 32nd team to the league, the Seattle Kraken. While Seattle did not begin to play until the 2021–22 NHL season, the team was active and allowed to make trades and sign free agents on April 30, 2021, after sending its final expansion payment to the NHL.[347] To create a roster, an Expansion Draft was held on July 21.
Seattle followed the same rules for this draft as the Vegas Golden Knights in 2017, with the provision that Vegas was exempted from losing a player in the draft.[348] Thus, Seattle was required to select one player from each of the other 30 existing teams, for a total of 30 players selected. At least 20 of the players selected had to be contracted for the 2021–22 season and Seattle is to take a minimum number of players at each position. Each of the thirty other teams are allowed to protect up to 11 players, but also had to expose a minimum number of players with NHL experience for Seattle to select at each position. Teams are required to protect players with no-movement clauses (or the player must waive it); all first- and second-year professionals, as well as all unsigned draft choices, and players determined to have career-ending injuries are exempt from selection and will not be counted toward their teams' protection limits.[348]
On July 17, the 30 teams excluding Vegas submitted their expansion protection lists and they were published the next day.[349] Seattle had from July 18 to 21 to negotiate with all exposed free agents; if Seattle came to terms with a player within this window, that player was counted as their previous team's expansion selection and Seattle was unable to select another player from that team.[348] On July 21, Seattle's final roster was submitted and it was announced later that evening.[350] Any players picked by Seattle cannot have their contracts bought out by the Kraken until the summer after the 2021–22 season.[348]