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2025–26 NHL transactions
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The following is a list of all team-to-team transactions that have occurred in the National Hockey League for the 2025–26 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 or that have had their contracts terminated are also listed.
The 2025–26 NHL trade deadline will be on March 6, 2026. Players traded or claimed off waivers after that date were not eligible to play in the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs.
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Retirement
- 1.^ After previously announcing that he would retire at the conclusion of the 2024–25 season, Fleury signed a professional tryout agreement with his original team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, and played a single 2025 preseason game on September 27 to end his career.[8]
- 2.^ On October 8, 2025, the Columbus Blue Jackets announced that Atkinson would sign a one-day contract to retire as a member of the team on October 16, with Atkinson subsequently honored prior to the team's home game that night.[11]
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Contract terminations
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A team and player may mutually agree to terminate a player's contract at any time. All players must clear waivers before having a contract terminated.
Buyouts can only occur at specific times of the year. For more details on contract terminations as buyouts:
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.
Injured players cannot be bought out.
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Free agency
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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.
- 1.^ Davies' contract was announced on July 2, 2025, but not formally signed until October 5 for salary cap reasons; in the interim period, Davies joined the team on an AHL contract.[129]
Imports
This section is for players who were not previously on contract with NHL teams in the past season. Listed is the last team and league they were under contract with.
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Trades
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* 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 for more information.
June
Pick-only trades
June 27, 2025 To Philadelphia Flyers
NYR 1st-round pick in 2025 (#12 overall)To Pittsburgh Penguins
COL 1st-round pick in 2025 (#22 overall)
EDM 1st-round pick in 2025 (#31 overall)[160] June 27, 2025 To Nashville Predators
1st-round pick in 2025 (#21 overall)To Ottawa Senators
TBL 1st-round pick in 2025 (#23 overall)
3rd-round pick in 2025 (#67 overall)[161] June 27, 2025 To Los Angeles Kings
EDM 1st-round pick in 2025 (#31 overall)
WSH 2nd-round pick in 2025 (#59 overall)To Pittsburgh Penguins
1st-round pick in 2025 (#24 overall)[162] June 27, 2025 To Carolina Hurricanes
2nd-round pick in 2025 (#34 overall)
DAL 2nd-round pick in 2025 (#62 overall)
5th-round pick in 2027To Chicago Blackhawks
1st-round pick in 2025 (#29 overall)[163] June 28, 2025 To Carolina Hurricanes
PIT 2nd-round pick in 2025 (#41 overall)
2nd-round pick in 2025 (#49 overall)To Montreal Canadiens
CHI 2nd-round pick in 2025 (#34 overall)
6th-round pick in 2025 (#189 overall)[164] June 28, 2025 To Philadelphia Flyers
2nd-round pick in 2025 (#38 overall)
TOR 2nd-round pick in 2025 (#57 overall)To Seattle Kraken
2nd-round pick in 2025 (#36 overall)
3rd-round pick in 2025 (#68 overall)[165] June 28, 2025 To Nashville Predators
2nd-round pick in 2025 (#58 overall)
4th-round pick in 2025 (#122 overall)To Vegas Golden Knights
TBL 2nd-round pick in 2025 (#55 overall)[166] June 28, 2025 To Carolina Hurricanes
NSH 3rd-round pick in 2025 (#67 overall)To Los Angeles Kings
4th-round pick in 2025 (#125 overall)
DAL 3rd-round pick in 2026[167] June 28, 2025 To Boston Bruins
VAN 3rd-round pick in 2025 (#79 overall)
DET 4th-round pick in 2025 (#108 overall)To Montreal Canadiens
3rd-round pick in 2025 (#69 overall)[168] June 28, 2025 To Columbus Blue Jackets
3rd-round pick in 2025 (#76 overall)To Detroit Red Wings
4th-round pick in 2025 (#109 overall)
4th-round pick in 2026[169] June 28, 2025 To Pittsburgh Penguins
WSH 3rd-round pick in 2025 (#91 overall)
5th-round pick in 2025 (#154 overall)To Vegas Golden Knights
OTT 3rd-round pick in 2025 (#85 overall)[170] June 28, 2025 To Ottawa Senators
CAR 3rd-round pick in 2025 (#93 overall)To Washington Capitals
FLA 3rd-round pick in 2025 (#96 overall)
7th-round pick in 2027[171] June 28, 2025 To Boston Bruins
4th-round pick in 2026To Tampa Bay Lightning
DET 4th-round pick in 2025 (#108 overall)[172] June 28, 2025 To Edmonton Oilers
5th-round pick in 2025 (#131 overall)To Nashville Predators
5th-round pick in 2026[173] June 28, 2025 To Nashville Predators
6th-round pick in 2026To Utah Mammoth
COL 6th-round pick in 2025 (#182 overall)[174] June 28, 2025 To Chicago Blackhawks
7th-round pick in 2026To Florida Panthers
BOS 7th-round pick in 2025 (#197 overall)[175] June 28, 2025 To Columbus Blue Jackets
7th-round pick in 2025 (#198 overall)To Seattle Kraken
7th-round pick in 2025 (#205 overall)
VGK 7th-round pick in 2025 (#218 overall)[176] June 28, 2025 To Calgary Flames
STL 7th-round pick in 2025 (#211 overall)To Detroit Red Wings
7th-round pick in 2026[177]
July
September
| September 4, 2025 | To Philadelphia Flyers Tucker Robertson |
To Seattle Kraken Jon-Randall Avon |
[191] |
| September 5, 2025 | To Montreal Canadiens Gannon Laroque |
To San Jose Sharks Carey Price 5th-round pick in 2026 |
[192] |
| September 14, 2025 | To Columbus Blue Jackets Ivan Fedotov |
To Philadelphia Flyers 6th-round pick in 2026 |
[193] |
October
| October 1, 2025 | To Edmonton Oilers Connor Ingram* |
To Utah Mammoth future considerations |
[194] |
| October 3, 2025 | To New Jersey Devils Zack MacEwen |
To Ottawa Senators Kurtis MacDermid |
[195] |
| October 5, 2025 | To Philadelphia Flyers Carl Grundstrom Artem Guryev |
To San Jose Sharks Ryan Ellis conditional CBJ 6th-round pick in 2026 or PHI 6th-round pick in 2026 |
[196] |
| October 15, 2025 | To Los Angeles Kings Pheonix Copley |
To Tampa Bay Lightning future considerations |
[197] |
| October 17, 2025 | To Minnesota Wild Oskar Olausson |
To San Jose Sharks Kyle Masters |
[198] |
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Waivers
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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.
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