JANUARY FEBRUARY 2001 TRANSACTIONS

January 1st, 2001

A new millenium everyone! Welcome to year one!

    - The Columbus Blue Jackets trade (F) Bates Battaglia, (F) Peter Worrell and their 2001 4th round pick to the New Jersey Devils for (F) Mike Johnson, (F) Reto Von Arx, (D) Kevin Dean and (F) Denis Pederson.

    - The New Jersey Devils sign free agents (D) Steve Poapst and (D) Pavel Kolarik.

    - The Florida Panthers trade (D) Rene Vydernary and their 5th round pick in 2001 to the New Jersey Devil for (D) Mike Van-Ryn.

    - The New Jersey Devils sign free agent (F) Steve Maltias.

    - The Calgary Flames trade the rights to Carolina's first round pick in 2001 to the New Jersey Devils for (D) Toni Lydman and (F) Krysztof Oliwa.

    - The Toronto Maple Leafs sign free agents (F) Jon DiSalvatore, (F) Sven Helfenstein, and (F) Tony Salmelainen.

January 2nd, 2001

    - The Los Angeles Kings placed (F) Tomas Vlasak on waivers.

January 4th, 2001

    - The New Jersey Devils waive (D) Mark Tinordi, (F) Stanislav Gron, (F)  Andy Hilbert, (F) Alex Tatarinov, (F) Lucas Nehrling, (D) Matt DeMarchi, (F) Patrik Bias.

    - The New York Rangers trade (F) Keith Primeau and future considerations to New Jersey Devils for (D) Scott Niedermayer, (D) Sheldon Souray and future considerations.

    - The New Jersey Devils trade (F) Christian Berglund and the rights to Florida's 5th round pick in 2001 to the Calgary Flames for (D) Denis Gauthier, (F) Andrei Nazarov and (F) Jonas Ronnqvist.

January 6th, 2001

    - The New Jersey Devils trade the rights to their 4th and 5th round picks and the rights to the BlueJackets 4th rounder in 2001 to the Edmonton Oilers for the rights to Edmonton's 3rd round pick in 2001.

    - The New Jersey Devils trade (F) Adam Deadmarsh, (F) Tomas Holmstrom, (D) Kevin Haller and the rights to Edmonton's 3rd rounder, Anaheim's 3rd rounder and their own 3rd rounder in 2001 to the Detriot Red Wings for (F) Sergei Federov and Detriot's first round in 2001.

    - The Los Angeles Kings trade (D) Filip Kuba to the Florida Panthers for (D) Patrick Traverse and (F) Petr Tenkrat.

    - The Calgary Flames sign free agent (F) Dave Roche.

    - The Colorado Avalanche sign free agent (F) Benoit Hogue and waive (D) Joel Bouchard.

    - The New Jersey Devils sign free agents (F) Paul Laus and (G) Chris Mason.

    - The Toronto Maple Leafs trade (G) Jamie McLennan, (F) Petr Hubacek, (F) Robert Reichel and conditional draft picks to the Minnesota Wild for (G) Manny Fernandez, (D) Curtis Leschyshyn, (F) Jim Dowd and past considerations.

January 7th, 2001

    - The Boston Bruins trade Val Bure, and their 2001 first (previously acquired from the Rangers) and their own second round draft pick to the Nashville Predators for Mike Dunham.

    - The Calgary Flames sign Niko Kapanen

    - The Calgary Flames trade Steve Staios to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Mats Lindgren

    - The Nashville Predators release Ron Stern

    - The Columbus Blue Jackets release Ted Drury

January 8th, 2001

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins trade Rob Ray to the Florida Panthers for Josh Green.

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins sign Denis Hamel and release John Slaney.

January 9th, 2001

    - The San Jose Sharks have signed Toby Petersen and release Mirko Murovic

January 10th, 2001

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins release Valentin Morosov, Jattryt Balei, Craig Hillier and Dan Plante, and sign Matt Herr, Alexander Drozdetsky , Mikael Samuelsson and Jim Campbell.

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins trade Guy Hebert and Trent Klatt to the New York Rangers for Jeff Hereema, Paul Mara, Chris Terreri and future considerations.

    - The New York Rangers release forward Max Sushinsky.

    - The Florida Panthers sign Andy Hilbert.

    - The Calgary Flames trade Oleg Kvasha, Mike Mottau, and Atlanta's 2nd round draft choice in 2001 to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Aleksey Morozov, Donald Brashear, Maxim Balmochnyckh

    - The Calgary Flames release Dave Roche.

January 11th, 2001

    - The San Jose Sharks trade Jeff Cowan to the New Jersey Devils for Erik Rasmussen.

    - The Los Angeles Kings trade Saku Koivu, Chad Kilger, Jamie Storr, Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre, Jaroslav Modry and Matt Johnson to the Dallas Stars for Ed Belfour, Brett Hull, Derian Hatcher and a 2001 fourth round pick. (Passed)

    - The Colorado Avalanche trade Clarke Wilm and a 2001 4th round pick to the Hurricanes for Marek Malik.

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins trade Viktor Kozlov and Matt Cooke to the New Jersey Devils for Peter Worrell and Curtis Brown.

    - The Phoenix Coyotes trade Krys Kolanos and their 2001 4th round draft choice to the Calgary Flames for Brad Moran and Wade Belak.

    - The New Jersey Devils trade Keith Primeau, Craig Billington, NJ's COMPENSARY 1st, the Hurricane's' 1st, and Future Considerations to the Washington Capitals for Roman Cechmanek and Dan Hinote. (turned down)

    - The Los Angeles Kings sign Derek Armstrong.

 

January 12th, 2001

    - The Los Angeles Kings sign Bill Lindsay.

    - The San Jose Sharks sign Dave Lowry and Serge Payer and release Jeremy Van Hoof and Levente Szuper.

    - The Carolina Hurricanes sign Eric Boulton and release Steve Halko.

    - The New Jersey Devils sign Ted Drury (F) Vitali Yeremeyev-(G), Mike Gaul (D), Paul Kruse (F), Justin Morrison (F),Thomas Ziegler (F), Daniel Tjarnqvist (D), Rob Zepp (G) and release Jiri Bicek (F) and Dan Ellis (G) (the league is still double checking that all of these players are available to be signed- just in case!).

January 15th, 2001

    - The Calgary Flames win the Max Sushinsky waiver sweepstakes.

    - The Carolina Hurricanes trade Mike Minard, Vitali Vishnevsky, Carlina's 2001 3rd round pick to the Calgary Flames for Aaron Ward, Donald Brashear and Florida's 2001 5th round pick.

    - The Los Angeles Kings send D. Hatcher and Bryan Marchment to Buffalo for Al Macinnis and Buffalo's 1st round pick in 2001

    - The Los Angeles Kings send Ed Belfour and a future considerations to St. Louis for Roman Turek and Jeff Taffe.

    - The Florida Panthers sign D John Slaney and release Robert Schnabel (Jan 15, 7:00 PM EST)

January 17th, 2001

    - The Carolina Hurricanes trade Serge Aubin, Pavel Skrbek to the Penguins for Alexander Kharitanov and Martin Brochu

    - The New Jersey Devils release Paul Kruse, Mike Gaul, Vladamir Sapozhnikov, Steve Poapst, Steve Brule, Pavel Kolarik, (Jan 17, 8:30 EST)

    - The Phoenix Coyotes trade Scott Gomez to the Rangers for Ray Whitney, Patrick Desrochers, and Rich Pilon.

    - The Phoenix Coyotes release Brad Tiley (Jan 17, 8:30 EST)

    - The San Jose Sharks trade Alex Korolyuk, Steve Shields, and Ossi Vaananen to the New Jersey Devils for Keith Primeau.

January 19th, 2001

    - The San Jose Sharks sign Branko Radivojevic and Jordan Krestanovich

    - The LA Kings release prospect Ray Giroux (Jan 19, 8:30 EST) and sign Prospect Yanick Lehoux

January 21th, 2001

    - The San Jose Sharks trade Keith Primeau, Dave Lowry and Radim Vrbata to the Los Angeles Kings for Nikolai Khabibulin and Jeff Taffe

    - The Los Angeles Kings trade Jon Sim and Frantisek Kaberle to the New York Islanders for Dan McGillis

    - The San Jose Sharks sign Jeremy Van Hoof

    - The New York Islanders release Mike Wiril and Rob Shearer (Jan 21, 1:00 AM EST)

    - The New York Rangers trade Kent Manderville and the right to swap 2nd round picks between Carolina's and New Jersey's 2001 picks for Murray Baron.

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins trade Hans Jonsson and Brad Werenka to Edmonton for Robert Esche and the Ranger's 2001 3rd round pick.

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins sign Andy Berenzweig

February 1st, 2001

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins release Mikael Sammuelsson, Matt Herr, and Boris Protsenko (Feb, 1 6:00 PM EST) and sign Jim Montgomery and Marc Chouinard.

    - The San Jose Sharks sign goalie Michel Larocque and release Eric Fichaud (Feb, 1 6:00 PM EST)

    - The New York Rangers trade Keith Tkachuk to the New Jersey Devils for Paul Kariya to complete an earlier deal.

    - The New York Rangers sign Matt DeMarchi

    - The San Jose Sharks trade San Jose's 2001 first round pick to the New Jersey Devils for Viktor Kozlov.

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins trade their first round pick and Chris Terreri to Calgary for Marc Denis, Cale Hulse, Vancouver's 2001 1st, LA's 4th and a conditional 2nd.

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins trade Markus Naslund, Darius Kaspiritis, Alexander Kharitanov their 2001 5th round pick to St. Louis for Pavel Demitra, Kenny Jonsson, Reed Low, and Marty Reasoner.

    - The Florida Panthers sign F Darcy Hordichuk and release John Slaney (Feb, 1 6:00 PM EST) .

    - The San Jose Sharks release Mike Brown (Feb, 1 6:00 PM EST) .

February 2nd, 2001

   - The Calgary Flames sign free agents F Mike Brown and G Eric Fichaud and waive F Tim Eriksson

February 4th, 2001

   - The Columbus BlueJackets trade D Marcus Ragnarsson, F Mike Johnson and a 3rd round pick in 2001 to the Detroit Red Wings for D Niklas Lidstrom

February 11th, 2001

    - The New Jersey Devils trade F Bates Battaglia, the rights to New Jersey's compensatory first round pick in 2001 and Carolina's first round pick in 2001 to the Buffalo Sabres for F Pierre Turgeon

February 13th, 2001

 - The New Jersey Devils trade D Ossi Vaananen, F Blair Betts and the rights to Detroit's 1st round pick in 2001 to the Atlanta Thrashers for F Denny Lambert, F Steve Heinze and D Chris Tamer.

February 26th, 2001

 - The New York Islanders trade (G) Dominik Hasek, (F) David Vyborny and (F) Jon Sim to the Tampa Bay Lightning for (G) Jean-Sebastien Giguerre, (F) Sheldon Keefe, (F) Justin Mapletoft and the rights to Tampa's first rounder in 2001.

 - The Atlanta Thrashers trade Atlanta's 2001 first round pick to the Calgary Flames for (D) Vitali Vishnevsky, (D) Jeff Jillson, (F) Daniel Tkachuk, (F) Alexei Morozov and Phoenix's 2001 1st.

 - The Calgary Flames sign free agents (F) Tim Eriksson, Steve Begin (F) and Henrik Lundqvist (F)

  February 27th, 2001

- The New York Rangers sign free agent (F) Jiri Bicek.

- The Calgary Flames trade (D) Petr Buzek, (F) Mats Lindgren to the Pittsburgh Penguins for (F) Kyle Calder, (F) Nathan Smith, and (D) Brooks Orpik.

- The Pittsburgh Penguins waive (F) Jim Campbell and sign free agents (F) Trent Whitfield and (F) Jason Williams.

-The Columbus Blue Jackets claim (F) Jim Campbell off of waivers (PIT) and waive (G) Rick Tabarracci

-The Pittsburgh Penguins sign (D) Lance Ward

-The Pittsburgh Penguins trade (G) Petr Skudra, (D) Cale Hulse, (F) Jim Montgomery to Columbus for (F) Mike Wilson and (F) Denis Pederson

  February 28th, 2001

- The Philadelphia Flyers release (D) Zdenek Kultak and sign free agent (F) Mark Murphy.