The following is a list of all team-to-team transactions that occurred in the National Hockey League during the 2016–17 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 are also listed. The 2016–17 NHL trade deadline was on March 1, 2017. Any players traded or claimed off waivers after this date were eligible to play up until, but not in the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Retirement
Contract terminations
A team and player may mutually agree to terminate a player's contract at any time.
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.
- 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.
All players must clear waivers before having a contract terminated. Injured players cannot be bought out.
Free agency
Note: 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
This section is for players who were not previously on contract with NHL teams in the past season. Listed is their previous team and the league that they belonged to.
Trades
* 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/considerations for more information.
June
June 24, 2016 | To Ottawa Senators 1st-round pick in 2016 (#11 overall) | To New Jersey Devils 1st-round pick in 2016 (#12 overall) NYI's 3rd-round pick in 2016 (#80 overall) | [291] |
June 24, 2016 | To Winnipeg Jets 1st-round pick in 2016 (#18 overall) 3rd-round pick in 2016 (#79 overall) | To Philadelphia Flyers CHI's 1st-round pick in 2016 (#22 overall) 2nd-round pick in 2016 (#36 overall) | [292] |
June 24, 2016 | To St. Louis Blues 1st-round pick in 2016 (#26 overall) | To Washington Capitals 1st-round pick in 2016 (#28 overall) WSH's 3rd-round pick in 2016 (#87 overall) | [293] |
June 25, 2016 | To New York Islanders CBJ's 4th-round pick in 2016 (#95 overall) | To Chicago Blackhawks 4th-round pick in 2016 (#110 overall) 6th-round pick in 2017 | [294] |
June 25, 2016 | To New York Islanders SJS' 4th-round pick in 2016 (#120 overall) | To Philadelphia Flyers 4th-round pick in 2017 | [295] |
June 25, 2016 | To St. Louis Blues FLA's 5th-round pick in 2016 (#144 overall) | To Chicago Blackhawks 5th-round pick in 2017 | [296] |
June 25, 2016 | To Montreal Canadiens 7th-round pick in 2016 (#187 overall) | To Winnipeg Jets 7th-round pick in 2017 | [297] |
June 25, 2016 | To Florida Panthers 7th-round pick in 2016 (#195 overall) | To Boston Bruins 7th-round pick in 2017 | [298] |
July
July 2, 2016 | To Buffalo Sabres Anders Nilsson | To St. Louis Blues 5th-round pick in 2017 | [299] |
July 8, 2016 | To Anaheim Ducks Jonathan Bernier | To Toronto Maple Leafs conditional 2nd-round pick in 2017 or 3rd-round pick in 2017 | [300] |
July 18, 2016 | To Ottawa Senators Derick Brassard 7th-round pick in 2018 | To New York Rangers Mika Zibanejad 2nd-round pick in 2018 | [301] |
August
August 25, 2016 | To Arizona Coyotes Dave Bolland Lawson Crouse | To Florida Panthers conditional 3rd-round pick in 2017 conditional 2nd-round pick in 2018 | [302] |
October
October 7, 2016 | To St. Louis Blues Nail Yakupov | To Edmonton Oilers Zach Pochiro conditional 3rd-round pick in 2017 or 2nd-round pick in 2018 | [303] |
October 8, 2016 | To Florida Panthers Tim Bozon | To Montreal Canadiens Jonathan Racine | [304] |
October 11, 2016 | To Florida Panthers Brody Sutter | To Carolina Hurricanes Connor Brickley | [305] |
November
November 2, 2016 | To Ottawa Senators Mike Condon | To Pittsburgh Penguins 5th-round pick in 2017 | [306] |
November 8, 2016 | To Florida Panthers Dylan McIlrath | To New York Rangers Steven Kampfer conditional 7th-round pick in 2018 | [307] |
November 12, 2016 | To New Jersey Devils Petr Straka | To Philadelphia Flyers conditional 7th-round pick in 2017 or 7th-round pick in 2018 | [308] |
November 16, 2016 | To Anaheim Ducks Logan Shaw | To Florida Panthers Michael Sgarbossa | [309] |
November 19, 2016 | To Pittsburgh Penguins Danny Kristo | To St. Louis Blues Reid McNeill | [310] |
November 28, 2016 | To Columbus Blue Jackets Ryan Stanton | To Colorado Avalanche Cody Goloubef | [311] |
December
December 9, 2016 | To Arizona Coyotes Peter Holland | To Toronto Maple Leafs conditional 6th-round pick in 2018 | [312] |
January
January 10, 2017 | To Anaheim Ducks Jhonas Enroth | To Toronto Maple Leafs 7th-round pick in 2018 | [313] |
January 13, 2017 | To Nashville Predators Cody McLeod* | To Colorado Avalanche Felix Girard | [314] |
January 19, 2017 | To Nashville Predators Andrew O'Brien | To Anaheim Ducks Max Gortz | [315] |
January 21, 2017 | To Chicago Blackhawks Michael Latta | To Los Angeles Kings Cameron Schilling | [316] |
January 24, 2017 | To Ottawa Senators Tommy Wingels* | To San Jose Sharks Zack Stortini Buddy Robinson 7th-round pick in 2017 | [317] |
January 26, 2017 | To Montreal Canadiens Nikita Nesterov | To Tampa Bay Lightning Jonathan Racine 6th-round pick in 2017 | [318] |
February
March
April
April 28, 2017 | To Carolina Hurricanes Scott Darling | To Chicago Blackhawks OTT's 3rd-round pick in 2017 | [364] |
May
May 9, 2017 | To Dallas Stars Ben Bishop | To Los Angeles Kings MTL's 4th-round pick in 2017 | [365] |
May 31, 2017 | To Los Angeles Kings Bokondji Imama | To Tampa Bay Lightning conditional 7th-round pick in 2018 | [366] |
June (2017)
June 14, 2017 | To Washington Capitals Tyler Graovac | To Minnesota Wild 5th-round pick in 2018 | [367] |
June 15, 2017 | To Montreal Canadiens Jonathan Drouin conditional 6th-round pick in 2018 | To Tampa Bay Lightning Mikhail Sergachev conditional WSH's 2nd-round pick in 2018 | [368] |
June 16, 2017 | To Arizona Coyotes Nick Cousins Merrick Madsen | To Philadelphia Flyers Brendan Warren 5th-round pick in 2018 | [369] |
June 17, 2017 | To Buffalo Sabres Nathan Beaulieu | To Montreal Canadiens 3rd-round pick in 2017 | [370] |
June 17, 2017 | To Calgary Flames Mike Smith* | To Arizona Coyotes Chad Johnson Brandon Hickey conditional 2nd-round pick in 2018 or 3rd-round pick in 2018 | [371] |
June 17, 2017 | To New Jersey Devils Mirco Mueller 5th-round pick in 2017 | To San Jose Sharks BOS' 2nd-round pick in 2017 NSH's 4th-round pick in 2017 | [372] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights 6th-round pick in 2017 | To Buffalo Sabres future considerations | [373] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights Reilly Smith future considerations | To Florida Panthers 4th-round pick in 2018 | [374] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights BOS' 5th-round pick in 2017 | To Carolina Hurricanes future considerations | [375] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights Shea Theodore | To Anaheim Ducks future considerations | [376] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights David Clarkson 1st-round pick in 2017 2nd-round pick in 2019 | To Columbus Blue Jackets future considerations | [377] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights Mikhail Grabovski Jake Bischoff 1st-round pick in 2017 2nd-round pick in 2019 | To New York Islanders future considerations | [378] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights Alex Tuch | To Minnesota Wild conditional 3rd-round pick in 2017 or 3rd-round pick in 2018 future considerations | [379] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights Nikita Gusev 2nd-round pick in 2017 PIT's 4th-round pick in 2018 | To Tampa Bay Lightning future considerations | [380] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights 1st-round pick in 2017 3rd-round pick in 2019 | To Winnipeg Jets CBJ's 1st-round pick in 2017 future considerations | [381] |
June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights 2nd-round pick in 2020 | To Pittsburgh Penguins future considerations | [382] |
June 22, 2017 | To Carolina Hurricanes Trevor van Riemsdyk 7th-round pick in 2018 | To Vegas Golden Knights PIT's 2nd-round pick in 2017 | [383] |
June 22, 2017 | To New York Islanders Jordan Eberle | To Edmonton Oilers Ryan Strome | [384] |
June 22, 2017 | To Montreal Canadiens David Schlemko | To Vegas Golden Knights 5th-round pick in 2019 | [385] |
Waivers
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.
Expansion Draft
The 2016–17 NHL season saw the entrance of a 31st team to the league, the Vegas Golden Knights. While the team does not begin play until the 2017–18 NHL season, the team was active and able to make trades with the other 30 teams and sign free agents starting March 1, 2017.[416] In order to create a roster, an Expansion Draft was held June 21, 2017.
Vegas was required to select one player from each of the existing teams, for a total of 30 players selected. At least 20 of the players selected had to be on contracted for the 2017–18 NHL season and Vegas had to take a minimum of number of player at each position. Each of the thirty other teams were allowed to protect up to 11 players, but also had to expose a minimum number of players with NHL experience for Vegas to select at each position. Teams were 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 threatening injuries were exempt from selection and were not counted toward their teams' protection limits.[417]
On June 17, 2017, a waiver and trade freeze, as well as moratorium on signing players to new contracts went into effect for all teams except for Vegas, and each team had to submit their expansion protection lists.[418] Vegas had from June 18–21 to negotiate with all exposed free agents; if Vegas came to terms with a player in this time, that player counted as their previous team's expansion selection and Vegas was not able to select another player from that team.[419][420] On June 21, 2017, Vegas' final roster was submitted,[417] and was announced as part of the NHL Awards Ceremony that evening.[421] Any players picked by Vegas cannot be traded back to their former team before January 1, 2018, nor can they have their contracts bought out by Vegas until after the completion of the 2017–18 season.[417]