{"id":6131,"date":"2017-02-02T00:54:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T05:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2017-02-02T00:54:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T05:54:50","slug":"day-minor-trades-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/02\/02\/day-minor-trades-nhl\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Minor Trades in the NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were quite a few minor trades in the NHL today. Let&#8217;s break it down.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Edmonton Oilers and Arizona Coyotes\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/oilers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> have acquired centre\u00a0<strong>Henrik Samuelsson<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/coyotes\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona Coyotes<\/a> in exchange for winger\u00a0<strong>Mitch Moroz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Samuelsson has two\u00a0goals and one\u00a0assist in 20 games with the AHL&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonroadrunners.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuscon Roadrunners <\/a>this season.\u00a0Samuelsson\u00a0is the son of former NHLer <strong>Ulf Samuelsson<\/strong>. He was selected 27th overall by the Coyotes in the 2012 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old spent three junior seasons with the <a href=\"http:\/\/oilkings.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oil Kings<\/a> of the WHL, where he won the Memorial Cup in 2014. He\u00a0scored 95 regular season points and 23 post-season points for the Oil Kings that season. Samuelsson has scored 55 points (23 goals, 32 assists) in 131 career AHL\u00a0games.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers chose Mitch Moroz in the second-round of the 2012 draft. He has three points in 17 games with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakersfieldcondors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bakersfield Condors<\/a> this season.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Dallas Stars and Arizona Coyotes\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Admist the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stars\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas Stars<\/a> goaltending struggles this season, they have acquired veteran goaltender <strong>Justin Peters<\/strong> from the Arizona Coyotes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kari Lehtonen<\/strong>, who has 29 starts, and <strong><span class=\"needsclick tipso_style\">Antti Niemi<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0who has 22, have been sharing the starting job\u00a0for the second straight season.<\/p>\n<p>Peters has played 12 games with the Tuscon Roadrunners and three with the Arizona Coyotes this season. He posts a .868 save percentage in the AHL and a .900 in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Peters has spent most of the season with Tucson, but the 30-year-old has 83 career NHL appearances with Carolina, Washington and Arizona in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Stars added minor league defenseman <strong>Justin Hache<\/strong> in the deal. Hache has played 21 games with the ECHL&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rapidcityrush.com\/splash\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rapid City Rush<\/a>, recording two goals and seven assists.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona acquired young forwards <strong>Brendan Ranford<\/strong> and <strong>Branden Troock<\/strong>. Ranford has six goals and 11 assists this season with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasstars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Texas Stars<\/a>. While Trook has seven goals and two assists in 15 games with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahosteelheads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Idaho Steelheads<\/a> of the ECHL.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ottawa Senators and Minnesota Wild<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/senators\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> acquired <strong>Marc Hagel<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/wild\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> for future considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel will be assigned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.binghamtonsenators.com\/splash\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Binghamton Senators<\/a>. He is expected to be in the lineup for Friday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hersheybears.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hershey Bears<\/a>. Hagel has seven points in 26 games with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iowa Wild <\/a>this season.<\/p>\n<p>He has\u00a093 points in 219 career AHL games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/621283564\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 70.033670% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/621283564?et=7xSsUSs4RBZN_pUpLSM3fQ&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=F4y3Kj_kVgfsPLqMFaaiQk1NVhCHBrQbm3rlP6PQ7ME=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were quite a few minor trades in the NHL today. Let&#8217;s break it down. Edmonton Oilers and Arizona Coyotes\u00a0 The Edmonton Oilers have acquired centre\u00a0Henrik Samuelsson from the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for winger\u00a0Mitch Moroz. Samuelsson has two\u00a0goals and one\u00a0assist in 20 games with the AHL&#8217;s Tuscon Roadrunners this season.\u00a0Samuelsson\u00a0is the son of former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":6144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29,23,30,8,21],"tags":[340,107,102,138,37,341,221,38,965,70],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stars","category-oilers","category-wild","category-senators","category-mammoth","tag-antti-niemi","tag-arizona-coyotes","tag-dallas-stars","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey","tag-kari-lehtonen","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-ottawa-senators"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}