Trade Trees

Follow every asset in a trade to what it became: picks turned into players, players flipped again, and the full lineage of each deal.

P.K. Subban for Shea Weber: Trade Tree

The rare one-for-one star-defenseman swap of June 29, 2016 (Montreal's Shea Weber for Nashville's P.K. Subban), traced forward on both sides: Subban to New Jersey in 2019 (with the two second-round picks Nashville received re-routed into Bobby Brink, Egor Afanasyev, Alexander Campbell, and Marat Khusnutdinov), and Weber's contract flipped from Montreal to Vegas in 2022 for Evgenii Dadonov and then dumped to Arizona in 2023, with Vegas sending Weber plus a 2023 fifth-round pick (which Arizona used on Justin Kipkie) to Arizona for Dysin Mayo.

Root trade Jun 29, 2016 · 6 linked trades

The Phil Kessel Trade Tree (2015 TOR-PIT)

On July 1, 2015 Toronto sent Phil Kessel (with $1.2M retained salary), Tyler Biggs, Tim Erixon and a conditional 2016 second-round pick to Pittsburgh for Kasperi Kapanen, Nick Spaling, Scott Harrington, Pittsburgh's conditional 2016 first-round pick and New Jersey's 2016 third-round pick. The tree traces Kapanen (flipped back to Pittsburgh in August 2020 for a package headlined by the pick that became Rodion Amirov) and the draft picks (the 2016 first became Sam Steel after Toronto re-routed it to Anaheim in the Frederik Andersen trade; the third became J.D. Greenway; the second Toronto sent became Kasper Bjorkqvist).

Root trade Jul 1, 2015 · 3 linked trades

The Mikko Rantanen Saga (2025): Colorado to Carolina to Dallas

In January 2025 the Colorado Avalanche traded pending-UFA winger Mikko Rantanen to the Carolina Hurricanes in a three-team blockbuster with the Chicago Blackhawks (Chicago retained 50% of Rantanen's salary and Colorado landed Martin Necas, Jack Drury and two picks). After just 13 games and no extension, Carolina flipped Rantanen to the Dallas Stars on March 7, 2025 in a sign-and-trade (8-year, $96M) for Logan Stankoven and four picks. This tree traces Rantanen, the Necas/Drury package, the prospect Nils Juntorp, and every draft pick's outcome.

Root trade Jan 24, 2025 · 3 linked trades

The Matt Duchene Three-Team Trade (2017)

On Nov 5, 2017 Colorado, Ottawa and Nashville completed a three-team blockbuster: Matt Duchene went to Ottawa, Kyle Turris to Nashville, and a prospect-and-pick haul (headlined by Samuel Girard) to Colorado. Ottawa's conditional first-round pick deferred to 2019 and became the 4th-overall pick used on Bowen Byram, the trade's most valuable long-term asset. Ottawa flipped Duchene to Columbus at the 2019 deadline; Duchene later left as a free agent to Nashville and Turris was bought out by Nashville, so both stars' chains ended without further trades.

Root trade Nov 5, 2017 · 2 linked trades

Matthew Tkachuk / Jonathan Huberdeau (2022)

The July 2022 Calgary-Florida blockbuster sent Matthew Tkachuk to the Panthers for Jonathan Huberdeau, MacKenzie Weegar, Cole Schwindt and a conditional 1st that became Cullen Potter (No. 32 overall, 2025). Weegar was later flipped to Utah two days before the 2026 trade deadline for Olli Maatta, Jonathan Castagna and three 2026 2nd-round picks, while the conditional 4th Florida received from Calgary became Mads Kongsbak Klyvo (No. 112, 2025).

Root trade Jul 22, 2022 · 3 linked trades

Jack Eichel to Vegas (2021)

Buffalo's November 2021 Eichel blockbuster returned Alex Tuch, Peyton Krebs, Noah Ostlund (No. 16 overall, 2022) and a 2023 2nd that was flipped for Jordan Greenway. By the June 2026 offseason the branches had produced Daxon Rudolph (No. 4 overall, 2026), Olen Zellweger, Louis Crevier, David Kampf and an unused 2027 3rd, while Eichel won the 2023 Stanley Cup in Vegas.

Root trade Nov 4, 2021 · 5 linked trades

Erik Karlsson to San Jose (2018)

Ottawa's September 2018 trade of captain Erik Karlsson to San Jose produced Tim Stuetzle (No. 3 overall, 2020), Josh Norris (later flipped for Dylan Cozens), Mads Sogaard, Leevi Merilainen and Zack Ostapchuk, while Karlsson himself moved again in an August 2023 three-team deal whose branches reached Buffalo (Konsta Helenius), Dallas, Montreal, Carolina, Detroit, Boston and Toronto.

Root trade Sep 13, 2018 · 15 linked trades