1981–82 NHL transactions

The following is a list of all team-to-team transactions that have occurred in the National Hockey League during the 1981–82 NHL season. It lists what team each player has been traded to, signed by, or claimed by, and for which player(s) or draft pick(s), if applicable.

Trades between teams

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June

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June 9, 1981 To Minnesota North Stars
Nelson Burton
To Quebec Nordiques
Dan Chicoine
June 10, 1981 To Colorado Rockies
1st-rd pick - 1981 Entry Draft
(# 5 - Joe Cirella)
2nd-rd pick - 1981 Entry Draft
(# 26 - Rich Chernomaz)
To Washington Capitals
1st-rd pick - 1981 Entry Draft
(# 3 - Bobby Carpenter)
3rd-rd pick - 1981 Entry Draft
(# 45 - Eric Calder)

July

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July 3, 1981 To Hartford Whalers
Don Gillen
Rick MacLeish
Blake Wesley
1st-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 14 - Paul Lawless)
2nd-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 35 - Mark Paterson)
3rd-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 56 - Kevin Dineen)
To Philadelphia Flyers
Ray Allison
Fred Arthur
1st-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 4 - Ron Sutter)
3rd-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 46 - Miroslav Dvorak)
July 3, 1981 To St. Louis Blues
Scott Campbell
John Markell
To Winnipeg Jets
Paul MacLean
Bryan Maxwell
Ed Staniowski
July 15, 1981 To Vancouver Canucks
rights to Ivan Hlinka
To Winnipeg Jets
Brent Ashton
4th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 74 - Tom Martin)
July 15, 1981 To Colorado Rockies
Brent Ashton
3rd-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 54 - Dave Kasper)
To Winnipeg Jets
Lucien DeBlois
July 21, 19811 To Boston Bruins
Bruins option to swap
1st-rd picks - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 1 - Gord Kluzak)2
2nd-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 22 - Brian Curran)
To Colorado Rockies
10th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 207 - Tony Gilliard)
July 23, 1981 To Detroit Red Wings
Mark Lofthouse
To Washington Capitals
Al Jensen
July 31, 1981 To Minnesota North Stars
Lindsay Middlebrook
To Winnipeg Jets
cash
  1. A compensation trade for Boston as Colorado signed restricted free agent Dwight Foster.
  2. Boston exercised the option and swap the 18th pick for the 1st overall pick in 1982.

August

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August 10, 1981 To Los Angeles Kings
5th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 100 - Garry Galley)
To Edmonton Oilers
Jay McFarlane
August 10, 1981 To Toronto Maple Leafs
Don Luce
To Los Angeles Kings
Bob Gladney
6th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 108 - Kevin Stevens)
August 21, 1981 To Minnesota North Stars
rights to Don Murdoch
To Edmonton Oilers
Don Jackson
3rd-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(MIN - # 59 - Wally Chapman)1
August 21, 1981 To Minnesota North Stars
1st-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 17 - Murray Craven)
To Detroit Red Wings
Greg Smith
rights to Don Murdoch
1st-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 2 - Brian Bellows)
  1. Minnesota's third-round pick was re-acquired on draft day to complete a trade on February 2, 1981 that sent Gary Edwards to Edmonton in exchange for future considerations.

September

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September 8,
1981
To Winnipeg Jets
Doug Soetaert
To New York Rangers
3rd-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 49 - Vesa Salo)
September 11,
1981
To Toronto Maple Leafs
4th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 73 - Vladimir Ruzicka)
To Pittsburgh Penguins
Paul Harrison
September 28,
1981
To Pittsburgh Penguins
future considerations
To New York Islanders
Robert Holland

October

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October 1,
1981
To Colorado Rockies
Dave Cameron
Bob Lorimer
To New York Islanders
1st-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 3 - Pat LaFontaine)
October 2,
1981
To Hartford Whalers
Chris Kotsopoulos
Gerry McDonald
Doug Sulliman
To New York Rangers
Mike Rogers
10th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 193 - Simo Saarinen)
October 2,
1981
To Hartford Whalers
Garry Howatt
To New York Islanders
5th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 84 - Bob Caulfield)
October 16,
1981
To Toronto Maple Leafs
5th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 99 - Sylvain Charland)
To New York Rangers
Pat Hickey
October 30,
1981
To Minnesota North Stars
cash
To New York Rangers
Tom Younghans

November

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November 10,
1981
To Calgary Flames
Gary McAdam
4th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 66 - John Bekkers)
To Detroit Red Wings
Eric Vail
November 11,
1981
To Toronto Maple Leafs
John Gibson
Billy Harris
To Los Angeles Kings
Ian Turnbull
November 11,
1981
To Calgary Flames
Mel Bridgman
To Philadelphia Flyers
Brad Marsh
November 25,
1981
To Colorado Rockies
Don Lever
Bob MacMillan
To Calgary Flames
Lanny McDonald
4th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 77 - Bill Claviter)
November 25,
1981
To Calgary Flames
Pat Ribble
2nd-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(MTL - # 35 - Todd Francis)1
To Washington Capitals
Bobby Gould
Randy Holt
  1. Calgary's second-round pick went to Montreal as the result of a trade on September 10, 1982 that sent the Doug Risebrough and Montreal's second-round pick in 1983 NHL Entry Draft to Calgary in exchange for Calgary's third-round pick in 1984 NHL Entry Draft and this pick.

December

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December 2,
1981
To Buffalo Sabres
Mike Foligno
Dale McCourt
Brent Peterson
To Detroit Red Wings
Danny Gare
Jim Schoenfeld
Derek Smith
December 2,
1981
To Buffalo Sabres
future considerations
To Detroit Red Wings
Bob Sauve
December 4,
1981
To Colorado Rockies
Dick Lamby
Joe Micheletti
To St. Louis Blues
Bill Baker
December 11,
1981
To Edmonton Oilers
Lance Nethery
To New York Rangers
Eddie Mio
December 19,
1981
To Montreal Canadiens
6th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft1
(# 117 - Ernie Vargas)
To Winnipeg Jets
Serge Savard
December 21,
1981
To Hartford Whalers
Pierre Larouche
1st-rd pick - 1984 Entry Draft
(# 11 - Sylvain Cote)
3rd-rd pick - 1985 Entry Draft
(PIT - # 58 - Bruce Racine)2
To Montreal Canadiens
1st-rd pick - 1984 Entry Draft
(# 5 - Petr Svoboda)
2nd-rd pick - 1984 Entry Draft
(# 26 - Brian Benning)3
3rd-rd pick - 1985 Entry Draft
(# 47 - Rocky Dundas)
December 29,
1981
To Hartford Whalers
Russ Anderson
8th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 143 - Christian Duperron)
To Pittsburgh Penguins
Rick MacLeish
December 30,
1981
To Quebec Nordiques
Jere Gillis
Dean Talafous4
To New York Rangers
Robbie Ftorek
8th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 160 - Brian Glynn)
December 31,
1981
To Minnesota North Stars
cash
To Colorado Rockies
Kevin Maxwell
rights to Jim Dobson
  1. This is a compensation trade. Savard retired from the NHL on August 12, 1981. The Jets selected him in the NHL waiver draft on October 5, 1981. The trade was completed upon Savard's return to the NHL with the Jets.
  2. Hartford's third-round pick went to Pittsburgh as the result of a trade on September 30, 1983 that sent Greg Malone to Hartford in exchange for this pick.
  3. Montreal's second-round pick went to St. Louis as the result of a trade on June 9, 1984 that sent St. Louis' first-round and second-round picks in 1984 NHL Entry Draft to Montreal in exchange for Rick Wamsley, Montreal's second-round pick (32nd overall) and third-round pick in 1984 NHL Entry Draft along with this pick.
  4. Dean Talafous did not report to Quebec and retired from hockey. Pat Hickey was substituted to complete the trade after an arbitrator's decision on March 8, 1982.

January

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January 12, 1982 To Hartford Whalers
Michel Plasse
4th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 72 - Ron Chyzowski)
To Quebec Nordiques
John Garrett
January 20, 1982 To Toronto Maple Leafs
Rich Costello
2nd-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 25 - Peter Ihnacak)
future considerations1
(Ken Strong)
To Philadelphia Flyers
Darryl Sittler
  1. Trade completed in May, 1982.

February

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February 1,
1982
To Quebec Nordiques
Tim Tookey
7th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 131 - Daniel Poudrier)
To Washington Capitals
Lee Norwood
6th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(CGY - # 118 - Mats Kihlstrom)1
February 2,
1982
To Hartford Whalers
10th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 193 - Reine Landgren)
To New York Rangers
Rob McClanahan
February 3,
1982
To Toronto Maple Leafs
5th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 83 - Dan Hodgson)
future considerations2
(6th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft -
# 115 - Craig Kales)
To Pittsburgh Penguins
Greg Hotham
February 14,
1982
To St. Louis Blues
8th-rd pick - 1984 Entry Draft
(# 148 - Don Porter)
To Pittsburgh Penguins
right to claim Gary Edwards
off waivers from Blues without
having to pay a cash waiver price
  1. Washington's sixth-round pick went to Calgary as the result of a trade on June 9, 1982 that sent Ken Houston and Pat Riggin to Washington in exchange for Howard Walker, George White, Washington's third-round pick in 1983 NHL Entry Draft, second-round pick in 1984 NHL Entry Draft and this pick.
  2. Trade completed on June 9, 1982 at the 1982 NHL Entry Draft.

March

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  • Trading Deadline: March 9, 1982 [1]
March 2, 1982 To Minnesota North Stars
Mark Johnson
To Pittsburgh Penguins
2nd-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 38 - Tim Hrynewich)
March 8, 1982 To Toronto Maple Leafs
Jim Korn
To Detroit Red Wings
4th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 66 - Craig Coxe)
5th-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 88 - Joe Kocur)
March 8, 1982 To Toronto Maple Leafs
Phil Drouillard
Walt Poddubny
To Edmonton Oilers
Laurie Boschman
March 8, 1982 To Calgary Flames
future considerations
To St. Louis Blues
Kari Eloranta
March 9, 1982 To Colorado Rockies
Stan Weir
To Edmonton Oilers
Ed Cooper
March 9, 1982 To Edmonton Oilers
Todd Bidner
To Washington Capitals
Doug Hicks
March 9, 1982 To Toronto Maple Leafs
Miroslav Frycer
7th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 139 - Jeff Triano)
To Quebec Nordiques
Wilf Paiement
March 9, 1982 To Vancouver Canucks
Tony Currie
Rick Heinz
Jim Nill
4th-rd pick - 1982 Entry Draft
(# 71 - Shawn Kilroy)
To St. Louis Blues
Glen Hanlon
March 9, 1982 To Montreal Canadiens
2nd-rd pick - 1983 Entry Draft
(# 27 - Sergio Momesso)
To St. Louis Blues
Guy Lapointe

References

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Additional sources

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  • hockeydb.com - search for player and select "show trades"
  • "NHL trades for 1981-1982". NHL Trade Tracker. Retrieved July 22, 2021.