If the Sharks advance to the Stanley Cup Final this year or Nyquist re-signs in San Jose, the conditional third-round pick in 2020 becomes a second-round pick in the same draft.
Nyquist is in the final year of his contract that carries a $4.75-million cap hit. However, the Red Wings will retain 30 percent of his salary, giving him a $3.35-million cap hit with the Sharks, according to Cap Friendly.
The 29-year-old has 16 goals and 49 points in 62 games this season. He'll add to a San Jose offensive attack that ranks third in the NHL in goals per game.
Nyquist waived his full no-trade clause to join the Sharks.
The Isles signed Seidenberg to a professional tryout to start the season and he's been practicing with the team at home ever since, according to Newsday's Andrew Gross.
The 37-year-old brings plenty of experience to the table, having played in 859 regular season games and 69 playoff contests during his career. He won a Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins in 2011.
Seidenberg skated in 28 games with the Islanders a year ago and recorded five assists.
The first-rounder going to Anaheim won't be Buffalo's. The Ducks will receive the first-round pick of either the San Jose Sharks or the St. Louis Blues (both owned by the Sabres) based on the final order of the 2019 NHL Draft. Buffalo received San Jose's first-rounder in last year's Evander Kane trade, and collected St. Louis' in the Ryan O'Reilly deal.
Montour, 24, is a puck-moving blue-liner with a right-handed shot. He's collected 25 points in 62 games while averaging 22:40 of ice time per night.
Guhle has skated in just two games with the Sabres this season, but the 21-year-old has registered 27 points in 50 games in the AHL.
CHICAGO (AP) Jason Spezza broke a tie on a 5-on-3 power play midway through the third period and the Dallas Stars rebounded to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 after blowing a three-goal lead Sunday.
Spezza took Alexander Radulov's feed across the crease and tapped the puck past goalie Cam Ward.
The victory was overshadowed by the loss of Mats Zuccarello with what was thought to be a broken right arm in his first game with Dallas. Acquired from the New York Rangers on Saturday, Zuccarello had a goal and assist, but left after two periods and is expected to be sidelined at least four weeks.
Radulov and Radek Faksa also scored and Anton Khudobin made 44 saves for the Stars, fighting for a wild-card playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Chicago star Patrick Kane was held off the scoresheet, ending his points streak at 20 games.
Chris Kunitz, Drake Caggiula and Jonathan Toews tied it for Blackhawks after they fell behind 3-0 early in the second period. Duncan Keith and Erik Gustafsson each had two assists, and Ward stopped 25 shots. Chicago dropped its second straight game after winning 10 of 12.
Defenseman Ben Lovejoy, acquired from New Jersey on Saturday, also played his first game with Dallas.
Dallas forward Jamie Benn suffered an upper body injury during the first shift of the game and didn't return.
The Stars capitalized on a pair of Blackhawks breakdowns to take a 2-0 lead in the first period.
Set up by Zuccarello's long pass from the Dallas zone, Faksa got past Gustafsson, broke in alone and beat Ward between the pads 11:35 in to open the scoring. Gustafsson found himself alone in the Chicago zone after the blade on defense partner Slater Koekkoek's skate fell out.
Radulov, alone in front of the net, made it 2-0 on a backhander with 2:32 left in the period. He was set up on a quick feed by Miro Heiskanen, who had picked of Gustav Forsling's pass near the point.
Zuccarello made it 3-0 at 1:44 of the second when he whipped in Tyler Seguin's cross-ice feed from lower edge of the right circle.
Kunitz cut it to 3-1 on a one-timer from the slot 1:14 later. Caggiula trimmed it to 3-2 with 4:23 left in the second on a tip-in that required a video review to confirm. Caggiula's deflection of feed was ruled no-goal by referees when Khudobin lunged and gloved the puck at the goal line, but the review determined the puck had completely crossed the line.
Toews 29th goal, on a power-play at 4:16 of the third, tied it at 3. He connected on a screened shot from the top of the right circle.
Dallas killed a double-minor high-sticking penalty to Roman Polak in the final five minutes to hang on for the win.
NOTES: Chicago D Brent Seabrook returned after missing three games with an abdominal strain. C Marcus Kruger was back in action after leaving Friday's game after blocking a shot. ... Radulov returned after sitting out Saturday due to an illness. ... To get Zuccarello, Dallas sent the Rangers a conditional second-round draft pick this year and a conditional third-round selection in 2020. The 2019 pick would become a first-rounder if Dallas advances to the conference finals this spring and Zuccarello plays in at least 50 percent of the team's cumulative games over the first two rounds. The 2020 pick becomes a first-rounder if Zuccarello signs with Dallas.
UP NEXT:
Stars: At Vegas on Tuesday night.
Blackhawks: At Anaheim on Wednesday night.
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Mats Zuccarello is expected to miss at least four weeks with an upper-body injury after blocking a shot in his debut with the Dallas Stars on Sunday, the team announced.
The Stars traded a conditional second-round pick and a conditional third-round pick to the New York Rangers in exchange for the pending unrestricted free-agent forward on Saturday.
The Norwegian was already fitting in nicely in his new threads, as he picked up a goal and an assist in Sunday's 4-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks. With the Rangers, Zuccarello recorded 37 points in 46 games this season.
The contest is Ottawa's last before Monday's trade deadline, and multiple teams have interest in Ceci, according to TSN's Darren Dreger.
The Senators have been scratching their high-profile trade assets for precautionary reasons throughout the week, and they've already unloaded Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel in separate deals. Forward Mark Stone, the biggest name of them all, will sit out his third straight game.
Ceci, 26, has recorded 20 points in 57 games while averaging over 22 minutes per night this season, while Boedker has notched six goals and 23 assists in his first campaign with the Senators.
The past week has been a complicated one for Devante Smith-Pelly, recently of the Washington Capitals and now of the AHL's Hershey Bears after clearing waivers.
With just eight points (four goals, four assists) through 54 NHL games this season, Smith-Pelly's heroics in the Capitals' Stanley Cup run last year are firmly in the rearview, and the former second-round pick is left to re-establish his value on the minor-league circuit.
"I was surprised," Smith-Pelly said of the demotion Saturday night, according to The Athletic's Chris Kuc. "I wasn't really sure what was going on. But around trade deadline time you kind of think something is going to happen. Right now, it is what it is. I'm just going to come down here (to Hershey) and play and get my stuff together and try and get back there."
The 26-year-old winger wasn't expecting to go unclaimed by another team but is relishing the opportunity to stay within the organization.
"I want to stay with Washington," he said. "It was surprising, but I'm happy to still be around here."
Smith-Pelly turned down offers from other teams for multi-year deals at higher annual salaries in the offseason to re-sign with the Capitals on a one-year, $1-million contract.
The blast from the replica Civil War cannon inside Nationwide Arena is stunningly loud and, as Matt Duchene put it following his trade to the Columbus Blue Jackets, "scares the shit out of" just about everybody in attendance.
Duchene underwent a Nationwide rite of passage Saturday, flipping a loose puck into the San Jose Sharks' net to initiate the sound the former Ottawa Senator once dreaded.
BOOM!
"It sounded a lot better tonight, being on the other side of things," a cheerful Duchene said after recording a goal and an assist in his home debut, a 4-0 victory over San Jose.
Matt Duchene (Getty Images)
Then, about an hour after the final buzzer, another boom, but without the cannon theatrics: the Blue Jackets acquired Ryan Dzingel and a seventh-round draft pick from the Senators for Anthony Duclair and two second-rounders. It was Columbus' second significant trade with Ottawa in as many days.
So, with another Nationwide initiation in the cards - this time for Dzingel - and considering the possibility general manager Jarmo Kekalainen isn't done dealing ahead of Monday's 3 p.m. ET deadline, it's worth asking: are the Blue Jackets suddenly an NHL alpha dog?
"Management's 100 percent in on winning," Kekalainen said prior to puck drop Saturday.
It didn't take long for his words to carry greater meaning. In fact, they could seem even more prophetic over the next 36 hours. Kekalainen, after all, has made central Ohio the center of the hockey universe for the time being.
The general manager injected his forward group with two top-six talents nearly overnight, and all it cost him from his NHL roster was Duclair, a 23-year-old journeyman. Columbus has won two in a row (by a combined score of 7-0), seven of 10, and the small-market, oft-forgotten Blue Jackets now boast a league-high six 20-goal scorers. For a long-suffering fan base, it doesn't get any better than this.
"You know what, it's about time we started to make some noise in that regard," captain Nick Foligno told theScore ahead of Saturday's game and the Dzingel acquisition. "I'm tired of everyone looking at Columbus like that. I know what this city is and what this team's capable of. So I hope guys use it as a little bit of a chip on their shoulders, too. I mean, I'm tired of people counting us out before we even get out on the ice."
Ryan Dzingel (Getty Images)
In an odd twist, Duchene and Dzingel - both rentals as pending unrestricted free agents - arrived from one franchise bursting at the seams to another. Ottawa, on the cringe-worthy end of the spectrum, has never been so irrelevant and flailing, while Columbus has never been so prominent and daring.
The Blue Jackets, best known to casual fans as the Minnesota Wild's expansion cousins and the team that wasted Rick Nash's prime, have little to show for their 17 seasons: no division titles or playoff series victories (only five postseason wins, period). But they're banking on a lot more - the jackpot - in Season 18.
Including winger Artemi Panarin and goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, Columbus now has four key players on expiring contracts. And there exists a scenario in which all four walk this summer, leaving young studs Seth Jones, Zach Werenski, and Pierre-Luc Dubois to fend for themselves.
But July 1 is months away, and sometimes in life, you have to be a little reckless. So it's tough to blame Kekalainen for taking such a bold approach, for seizing the moment. Duchene's having a career year, while Dzingel - who fittingly played his college hockey at Ohio State - is a goal away from tying his career high (23) in about 20 fewer games.
Foligno, as one of the longest-tenured members, has been around for three of the franchise's four first-round exits, and while Kekalainen added some names at previous deadlines, such as Ian Cole and Thomas Vanek last year, he's never done anything quite like this. And the veteran knows the opportunity can't be wasted.
"It's on us now," he said. "It goes hand in hand. (Kekalainen's) doing his job, we've got to do our job, and that's what's great about this next month and a half, where we get to go out and do our job with whatever we have."
Sergei Bobrovsky (Getty Images)
The early returns are promising.
BOOM!
Duchene immediately joined the No. 1 line, finding quick chemistry with 5-foot-8 sniper Cam Atkinson and the wizardly Panarin, the latter being arguably the most talented player in franchise history. The trio has three of the team's seven goals since Duchene's arrival, while Bobrovsky quietly turned aside all 48 shots he saw Friday and Saturday.
The Duchene trade had a trickle-down effect on the lineup, most notably bumping Dubois, who's only 20 years old, into a less demanding role as the second-line center. The powerful pivot scored Saturday and is looking every bit worth the No. 3 selection of the 2016 draft.
Dzingel's impact is still to be determined, but Columbus beefed up significantly over a 48-hour period. Here's an early look at what its top nine may be Tuesday against the division-rival Pittsburgh Penguins:
LEFT WING
CENTER
RIGHT WING
Artemi Panarin
Matt Duchene
Cam Atkinson
Ryan Dzingel
Pierre-Luc Dubois
Oliver Bjorkstrand
Nick Foligno
Boone Jenner
Josh Anderson
Not too shabby, especially when you consider the above doesn't factor in further additions ahead of Monday's deadline.
Kekalainen, the league's first and only European GM, is still under pressure and could look to bolster his back end after adding to the offense. Despite being anchored by Jones and Werenski, it's a group unfit for a deep playoff run.
Goaltending, meanwhile, is an area in which the Blue Jackets seem set. After a subpar December and January, Bobrovsky is back in Vezina form - he has a .937 save percentage and three shutouts since the All-Star break. Despite his contract situation, changing starting goalies down the stretch is less than ideal for a team with lofty aspirations. And the 30-year-old holds the hammer, in the end, thanks to a no-move clause and an unwillingness to waive it, despite indicating his intention is to test free agency, like Panarin.
Impressively, Kekalainen's held his ground with Panarin and Bobrovsky. The team, from head coach John Tortorella to the 20-plus everyday players, has embraced the uncertainty, though it's really had no choice.
"If you're here, you're helping us win hockey games and the rest is out of our control," Foligno said. "Why even worry about it? Why waste energy on things like that in a game where you need all of it? I think our team's done an outstanding job of keeping our focus and now we're at the point where it's going to be a distant memory in a few days."
Depending on how Columbus' season concludes, Kekalainen's going to either look like a genius who loaded up at the perfect time, or a schmuck who couldn't help himself on the trade market despite his hands being tied by his star players.
"Once 3 o'clock hits, whoever's with us, we're going to be rocking and rolling until the end," Atkinson said Saturday night.
Until that cannon goes off one last time in June, the club no doubt hopes.
BOOM!
John Matisz is theScore's National Hockey Writer. You can find him on Twitter @matiszjohn.
The blast from the replica Civil War cannon inside Nationwide Arena is stunningly loud and, as Matt Duchene put it following his trade to the Columbus Blue Jackets, "scares the shit out of" just about everybody in attendance.
Duchene underwent a Nationwide rite of passage Saturday, flipping a loose puck into the San Jose Sharks' net to initiate the sound the former Ottawa Senator once dreaded.
BOOM!
"It sounded a lot better tonight, being on the other side of things," a cheerful Duchene said after recording a goal and an assist in his home debut, a 4-0 victory over San Jose.
Matt Duchene (Getty Images)
Then, about an hour after the final buzzer, another boom, but without the cannon theatrics: the Blue Jackets acquired Ryan Dzingel and a seventh-round draft pick from the Senators for Anthony Duclair and two second-rounders. It was Columbus' second significant trade with Ottawa in as many days.
So, with another Nationwide initiation in the cards - this time for Dzingel - and considering the possibility general manager Jarmo Kekalainen isn't done dealing ahead of Monday's 3 p.m. ET deadline, it's worth asking: are the Blue Jackets suddenly an NHL alpha dog?
"Management's 100 percent in on winning," Kekalainen said prior to puck drop Saturday.
It didn't take long for his words to carry greater meaning. In fact, they could seem even more prophetic over the next 36 hours. Kekalainen, after all, has made central Ohio the center of the hockey universe for the time being.
The general manager injected his forward group with two top-six talents nearly overnight, and all it cost him from his NHL roster was Duclair, a 23-year-old journeyman. Columbus has won two in a row (by a combined score of 7-0), seven of 10, and the small-market, oft-forgotten Blue Jackets now boast a league-high six 20-goal scorers. For a long-suffering fan base, it doesn't get any better than this.
"You know what, it's about time we started to make some noise in that regard," captain Nick Foligno told theScore ahead of Saturday's game and the Dzingel acquisition. "I'm tired of everyone looking at Columbus like that. I know what this city is and what this team's capable of. So I hope guys use it as a little bit of a chip on their shoulders, too. I mean, I'm tired of people counting us out before we even get out on the ice."
Ryan Dzingel (Getty Images)
In an odd twist, Duchene and Dzingel - both rentals as pending unrestricted free agents - arrived from one franchise bursting at the seams to another. Ottawa, on the cringe-worthy end of the spectrum, has never been so irrelevant and flailing, while Columbus has never been so prominent and daring.
The Blue Jackets, best known to casual fans as the Minnesota Wild's expansion cousins and the team that wasted Rick Nash's prime, have little to show for their 17 seasons: no division titles or playoff series victories (only five postseason wins, period). But they're banking on a lot more - the jackpot - in Season 18.
Including winger Artemi Panarin and goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, Columbus now has four key players on expiring contracts. And there exists a scenario in which all four walk this summer, leaving young studs Seth Jones, Zach Werenski, and Pierre-Luc Dubois to fend for themselves.
But July 1 is months away, and sometimes in life, you have to be a little reckless. So it's tough to blame Kekalainen for taking such a bold approach, for seizing the moment. Duchene's having a career year, while Dzingel - who fittingly played his college hockey at Ohio State - is a goal away from tying his career high (23) in about 20 fewer games.
Foligno, as one of the longest-tenured members, has been around for three of the franchise's four first-round exits, and while Kekalainen added some names at previous deadlines, such as Ian Cole and Thomas Vanek last year, he's never done anything quite like this. And the veteran knows the opportunity can't be wasted.
"It's on us now," he said. "It goes hand in hand. (Kekalainen's) doing his job, we've got to do our job, and that's what's great about this next month and a half, where we get to go out and do our job with whatever we have."
Sergei Bobrovsky (Getty Images)
The early returns are promising.
BOOM!
Duchene immediately joined the No. 1 line, finding quick chemistry with 5-foot-8 sniper Cam Atkinson and the wizardly Panarin, the latter being arguably the most talented player in franchise history. The trio has three of the team's seven goals since Duchene's arrival, while Bobrovsky quietly turned aside all 48 shots he saw Friday and Saturday.
The Duchene trade had a trickle-down effect on the lineup, most notably bumping Dubois, who's only 20 years old, into a less demanding role as the second-line center. The powerful pivot scored Saturday and is looking every bit worth the No. 3 selection of the 2016 draft.
Dzingel's impact is still to be determined, but Columbus beefed up significantly over a 48-hour period. Here's an early look at what its top nine may be Tuesday against the division-rival Pittsburgh Penguins:
LEFT WING
CENTER
RIGHT WING
Artemi Panarin
Matt Duchene
Cam Atkinson
Ryan Dzingel
Pierre-Luc Dubois
Oliver Bjorkstrand
Nick Foligno
Boone Jenner
Josh Anderson
Not too shabby, especially when you consider the above doesn't factor in further additions ahead of Monday's deadline.
Kekalainen, the league's first and only European GM, is still under pressure and could look to bolster his back end after adding to the offense. Despite being anchored by Jones and Werenski, it's a group unfit for a deep playoff run.
Goaltending, meanwhile, is an area in which the Blue Jackets seem set. After a subpar December and January, Bobrovsky is back in Vezina form - he has a .937 save percentage and three shutouts since the All-Star break. Despite his contract situation, changing starting goalies down the stretch is less than ideal for a team with lofty aspirations. And the 30-year-old holds the hammer, in the end, thanks to a no-move clause and an unwillingness to waive it, despite indicating his intention is to test free agency, like Panarin.
Impressively, Kekalainen's held his ground with Panarin and Bobrovsky. The team, from head coach John Tortorella to the 20-plus everyday players, has embraced the uncertainty, though it's really had no choice.
"If you're here, you're helping us win hockey games and the rest is out of our control," Foligno said. "Why even worry about it? Why waste energy on things like that in a game where you need all of it? I think our team's done an outstanding job of keeping our focus and now we're at the point where it's going to be a distant memory in a few days."
Depending on how Columbus' season concludes, Kekalainen's going to either look like a genius who loaded up at the perfect time, or a schmuck who couldn't help himself on the trade market despite his hands being tied by his star players.
"Once 3 o'clock hits, whoever's with us, we're going to be rocking and rolling until the end," Atkinson said Saturday night.
Until that cannon goes off one last time in June, the club no doubt hopes.
BOOM!
John Matisz is theScore's National Hockey Writer. You can find him on Twitter @matiszjohn.
