With simply over every week till the NHL commerce deadline, the Dallas Stars made a splash by buying defenseman Chris Tanev in a three-team cope with the Calgary Flames and New Jersey Devils. 

The Flames acquired defenseman prospect Artem Grushnikov, the Stars’ 2024 second-round decide and a conditional 2026 third-round decide. To assist facilitate the deal, the Devils received concerned within the commerce, receiving the Stars’ fourth-round decide within the 2026 draft. 

The Stars additionally landed goaltender prospect Cole Brady within the deal.

Tanev has registered 14 factors (one targets, 13 assists in 56 video games throughout the 2023-24 season. The veteran defenseman additionally leads the Flames in blocked photographs (171), whereas logging 19:50 of ice time per contest.

The 34-year-old is at present within the last yr of a four-year, $18 million ($4.5 average-annual-value) contract he signed with the Flames again in 2020. Tanev is slated to change into an unrestricted free agent this summer season, and the Flames will retain 50 p.c of his wage. The Devils will retain the extra 50 p.c within the deal.

Tanev was initially signed by the Vancouver Canucks as an undrafted free agent again in 2010. He recorded 185 factors (32 targets, 153 assists) in 773 regular-season video games between the Canucks and Flames.

Grushnikov, 20, was chosen by the Flames within the second spherical of the 2021 NHL Draft, and was enjoying for the workforce’s AHL affiliate, the Texas Stars. The Russian defenseman logged a purpose and 4 assists in 44 video games this season.

In the meantime, the at present unsigned Brady has racked up a 4-2-2 file, a 3.04 goals-against-average and a .886 save proportion throughout his senior season on the College of Massachusetts this season.

This marks the second main deal for the Flames main as much as the commerce deadline because the workforce shipped heart Elias Lindholm to the Canucks in late January.