NHL Trade Deadline: Blackhawks Deadline History

The 2017 NHL trade deadline arrives at 3 PM EST on Wednesday, March 1. As Blackhawks fans wait for the deadline to come and go, here’s a look back at every deadline deal made by the Hawks since 1986.

• 1986:

March 11, 1986: Chicago acquires Rik Wilson from Calgary for Tom McMurchy.

• 1987: None
• 1988: None
• 1989:

March 7, 1989: Chicago acquires Greg Gilbert from NY Islanders for Chicago’s 5th round pick in the 1989 Entry Draft (#90 – Steve Young).

• 1990:

March 6, 1990: Alain Chevrier traded from Chicago to Pittsburgh for future considerations.

• 1991:

March 5, 1991: Chicago acquires Paul Gillis and Daniel Vincelette from Quebec for Mike McNeill and Ryan McGill.

• 1992: None
• 1993:

March 22, 1993: Chicago acquires Craig Muni from Edmonton for Mike Hudson.

• 1994:

March 21, 1994: Chicago acquires Tony Amonte and the rights to Matt Oates from NY Rangers for Stephane Matteau and Brian Noonan.

March 21, 1994: Chicago acquires Robert Dirk from Vancouver for Chicago’s 4th round pick in the 1994 Entry Draft.

March 21, 1994: Chicago acquires Paul Ysebaert from Winnipeg for Chicago’s 3rd round pick in the 1995 Entry Draft.

March 21, 1994: Kevin Todd traded from Chicago to Los Angeles for Los Angeles’s 4th round pick in the 1994 Entry Draft (#85 – Steve McLaren).

• 1995:

April 7, 1995: Chicago acquires Gerald Diduck from Vancouver for Bogdan Savenko and Hartford’s 3rd-round pick in the 1995 Entry Draft (#61 – Larry Courville).

• 1996:

March 20, 1996: Chicago acquires Enrico Ciccone and Tampa Bay’s 2nd round pick in the 1996 Entry Draft (#42 – Jeff Paul) from Tampa Bay for Patrick Poulin, Igor Ulanov and Chicago’s 2nd round pick in the 1996 Entry Draft (#47 – Pierre Dagenais).

March 20, 1996: Chicago acquires Ravil Gusmanov from Winnipeg to for Chicago’s 4th round pick in the 1996 Entry Draft (#103 – Vladimir Antipov).

• 1997:

March 18, 1997: Chicago acquires Marc Hussey from Calgary for Ravil Gusmanov.

March 18, 1997: Chicago acquires Denis Chasse, Kevin Bolibruck and Ottawa’s 6th round pick in the 1998 Entry Draft (#161 – Chris Neil) from Ottawa for Mike Prokopec.

• 1998:

March 24, 1998: Chicago acquires Ryan Vandenbussche from the NY Rangers for Ryan Risidore.

• 1999:

March 23, 1999: Chicago traded D Chris Chelios to Detroit for D Anders Eriksson and 1st-round picks in the 1999 (Steve McCarthy) and 2001 (Adam Munro) Entry Drafts.

March 23, 1999: Chicago traded RW Nelson Emerson to Ottawa for RW Chris Murray.

• 2000: None
• 2001:

March 13, 2001: Chicago acquires Philadelphia’s 3rd round pick in the 2001 Entry Draft (#88 – Nicolas Corbeil) from Philly for Dean McAmmond.

• 2002:

March 19, 2002: Chicago acquires Lyle Odelein from Columbus for Jaroslav Spacek and Chicago’s 2nd round pick in the 2003 Entry Draft (#46 – Dan Fritsche) .

• 2003:

March 11, 2003: Chicago traded Steve Thomas to Anaheim for Anaheim’s 5th round pick in the 2003 Entry Draft (#156 – Alexei Ivanov).

March 11, 2003: Chicago traded C Peter White to Philadelphia for future considerations.

March 11, 2003: Chicago traded D Phil Housley to Toronto for Toronto’s 9th round pick in 2003 (#282 – Chris Porter) and 4th round pick in 2004 (#123 – Karel Hromas).

March 11, 2003: Chicago traded LW Sergei Berezin to Washington for Washington’s 4th round pick in the 2004 Entry Draft (#100 – JT Wyman).

• 2004:

March 9, 2004: Chicago traded D Alexander Karpovtsev to NY Islanders for the Islanders’ 4th round pick in the 2005 Entry Draft (#108 – Niklas Hjalmarsson).

• 2005: None
• 2006:

March 9, 2006: Chicago acquired Brandon Bochenski and Ottawa’s 2nd round pick in the 2006 Entry Draft (#61 – Simon Danis-Pepin) from Ottawa for Tyler Arnason.

March 9, 2006: Chicago traded Jim Dowd to Colorado for Colorado’s 4th round pick in the 2006 Entry Draft (#111 – Korbinian Holzer).

March 9, 2006: Chicago traded Todd Simpson to Montreal for Montreal’s 6th round pick in the 2006 Entry Draft (#169 – Chris Auger).

• 2007:

Feb. 27, 2007: Chicago acquired Nikita Alexeev from Tampa Bay for Karl Stewart and Florida’s 6th round pick in the 2008 Entry Draft (#160 – Luke Witkowski).

• 2008:

Feb. 26, 2008: Chicago traded RW Martin Lapointe to Ottawa for Ottawa’s 6th round pick in the 2008 Entry Draft (#169 – Ben Smith).

• 2009:

March 4, 2009: Chicago acquired Samuel Pahlsson and Logan Stephenson from Anaheim for James Wisniewski and Petri Kontiola.

• 2010: None
• 2011:

Feb. 28, 2011: Chicago acquired Chris Campoli from Ottawa for Ryan Potulny and a 2nd round pick in the 2011 Entry Draft (#48 – Xavier Ouelett) to Ottawa.

• 2012:

Feb. 27, 2012: Chicago acquired Johnny Oduya from Winnipeg for Chicago’s 2nd (#61 – Zach Sanford) and 3rd round (#91 – JC Lipon) picks in the 2013 NHL Draft.

Feb. 27, 2012: Chicago traded John Scott to NY Rangers for the Rangers’ 5th round pick in the 2012 NHL Draft (#149 – Travis Brown).

• 2013:

Apr. 3, 2013: Chicago acquired Maxime Sauve from Boston for Rob Flick.

• 2014: None

• 2015:

March 2, 2015: Chicago acquired Andrew Desjardins from San Jose for Ben Smith and Chicago’s 7th round pick in the 2017 NHL Draft.

• 2016:

Feb. 29, 2016: Chicago acquired goaltender Drew MacIntyre from Carolina for defenseman Dennis Robertson.