Here are some significant trades:
June 10, 1957 -- Johnny Bucyk and cash from Detroit to Boston for Terry Sawchuk.
July 23, 1957 -- Glenn Hall and Ted Lindsay traded from Detroit to Chicago for Johnny Wilson, Forbes Kennedy, Bill Preston and Hank Bessen.
June 4, 1963 -- Jacques Plante, Don Marhsall and Phil Goyette sent from Montreal to the NYR for Leon Rochefort, Dave Balon, Gump Worsley and Len Ronson.
March 3, 1968 -- Frank Mahovlich, Pete Stemkowski, Garry Unger, and the rights to Carl Brewer traded by Toronto to Detroit for Norm Ullman, Paul Henderson, Floyd Smith and Doug Barrie.
May 15, 1973 -- Rights to Bernie Parent traded by Toronto to Philadelphia along with the Leafs 1973 2nd round pick (Larry Goodenough) for Flyers 1973 1st rounder (Bob Neely) and future considerations (Doug Favell).
June 23, 1975 -- Marcel Dionne signed by LA Kings as a FA; The Kings, through the NHL, compensate Detroit by sending Terry Harper, Dan Maloney and the Kings 2nd round pick in 1976. Bart Crashley was sent to LA as part of the trade.
June 24, 1976 -- Not a trade but Bobby Orr signing with Chicago.
March 10, 1987 -- Marcel Dionne traded by the Kings to the NYR along with Jeff Crossman and LA's 3rd round choice in 1989 for Bobby Carpenter and Tom Laidlaw.
November 24, 1987 -- Pittsburgh gets Paul Coffey, Dave Hunter and Wayne Van Dorp from Edmonton for Craig Simpson, Dave Hannan, Moe Mantha and Chris Joseph.
August 9, 1988 -- Wayne Gretzky traded to LA Kings by Edmonton with Mike Krushelnyski and Marty McSorley for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, LA Kings' 1st round choices in 1989 (later traded to New Jersey), 1991 (Martin Rucinsky) and 1993 (Nick Stajduhar) Entry Drafts and cash.
June 16, 1990 -- Dale Hawerchuk and a 1990 number 1 from Winnipeg to Buffalo for Phil Housely, Scott Arniel, Jeff parker and Buffalo's 1990 numner 1 (Keith Tkachuk).
June 29, 1990 -- Chris Chelios and a 1991 number 2 from Montreal to Chicago for Denis Savard.
May 30, 1991 -- 3-way trade between Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Edmonton: Jari Kurri, Dave Brown and Corey Foster traded by the Oilers to the Flyers for Scott Mellanby, Craig Fisher, and Craig Berube. Kurri then sent to the Kings by the Flyers with Jeff Chychrun for Steve Duchesne, Steve Kasper and LA's 4th in 1991.
October 4, 1991 -- Edmonton traded Mark Messier to the NYR for Bernie Nicholls, Steven Rice and Louie DeBrusk.
October 25, 1991 -- Buffalo gets Pat LaFontaine, Randy Hillier and Randy Wood from the NYI for Pierre Turgeon, Benoit Hogue, Uwe Krupp and Dave McLlwain.
January 2, 1992 -- Calgary sent Doug Gilmour, Ric Nattress, Jamie Macoun, Rick Wamsley and Kent Manderville to Toronto for Gary Leeman, Michel Petit, Craig Berube, Jeff Resse, and Alexander Godynyuk.
June 28, 1994 -- Toronto sends Wendel Clark, Sylvain Lefebvre, Landon Wilson and a 1994 1st rounder to Quebec for Mats Sundin, Garth Butcher, Todd Warriner and a 1994 number 1.
February 5, 1995 -- Philadelphia gets John LeClair, Eric Desjardins and Gilbert Dionne from Montreal for Mark Recchi and the Flyers 3rd round pick in 1995.
August 31, 1995 -- Luc Robitaille and Ulf Samuelsson to the NYR from Pittsburgh for Petr Nedved and Sergei Zubov.
December 6, 1995 -- Patrick Roy traded by Montreal to Colorado with Mike Keane for Andrei Kovalenko, Martin Rucinsky and Jocelyn Thibeault.
February 27, 1996 -- Wayne Gretzky traded to St. Louis by LA Kings for Craig Johnson, Patrice Tardif, Roman Vopat, St. Louis 5th round choice (Peter Hogan) in 1996 Entry Draft and 1st round choice (Matt Zultek) in 1997 Entry Draft.
October 9, 1996 -- Detroit gets Brendan Shanahan and Brian Glynn from Hartford for Keith Primeau, Paul Coffey and a 1997 number 1.
March 1, 1997 -- Bill Ranford, Adam Oates and Rick Tocchet traded by Boston to Washington for Jim Carey, Anson Carter, Jason Allison and Washington's 3rd in 1997.
January 17, 1999 -- Florida received Pavel Bure, Bret Hedican, Brad Ference and Vancouver's 3rd in 2000 from Vancouver for Dave Gagner, Ed Jovanovski, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes, and Florida's 1st in 2000.
March 6, 2000 -- Boston traded Ray Bourque and Dave Andreychuk to Colorado for Brian Rolstonm Martin Grenier, Sammy Pahlsson and New Jersey's 2000 1st round pick.
February 21, 2001 -- Colorado gets Rob Blake and Steven Reinprecht from the LAK for Adam Deadmarsh, Aaron Miller, Colorado's 1st in 2001 and Colorado's 1st in 2003; Jared Aulin added to the trade and sent to LA on March 22.
June 23, 2001 -- Buffalo traded Dominik Hasek to Detroit for Vyacheslav Kozlov and Detroit's 1st in 2002.
July 11, 2001 -- Jaromir Jagr to Washington from Pittsburgh with Frantisek Kucera for Kris Beech, Michal Sivek, and Ross Lupaschuk.
August 20, 2001 -- Eric Lindros from Philadelphia to the NYR for Kim Johnsson, Jan Hlavac, Pavel Brendl and the NYR 3rd (Stefan Ruzicka) in 2003.
March 19, 2002 -- Jamie Langenbrunner and Joe Nieuwendyk sent to New Jersey from Dallas for Jason Arnott, Randy McKay and New Jersey's number 1 in 2002.