The trade deadline is usually an eventful time of the year for Swedish forward Oskar Sundqvist. Last year on the day before the deadline he signed a two-year contract extension with the St. Louis Blues. Each of the two years before that he was traded – in 2022 from the Blues to the Detroit Red Wings and then in 2023 from Detroit to the Minnesota Wild.
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins announced they have traded defensemen Nikolai Knyzhov to the Grand Rapids Griffins in exchange for future considerations.
Russian defenseman Nikita Tryamkin, 30, has signed a three-year contract extension with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg that will run through the end of the 2027-28 season, the KHL club announced recently.