...here are 14 interesting numbers put together by the impeccable Sportsnet Stats staff, in relation to the trade deadline.

1: The fewest moves made in a deadline season by the eventual Stanley Cup champions in the salary cap era. This is shared by three different teams. In 2006, Carolina acquired Mark Recchi on deadline day; in 2008 Detroit picked up Brad Stuart on deadline day; and in 2012 Los Angeles acquired Jeff Carter four days before the deadline. In the salary cap era, the eventual champions have always made a deal within two weeks of the deadline.

2: The number of teams that haven’t made a deadline day trade in either of the past two seasons. Both Carolina and Minnesota were silent in 2017 and 2018.

4: The most times any one player has been traded on deadline day. Alan May was traded a total of five times in his career, with four of them happening at the deadline (1988, 1989, 1994, 1995). The teams that acquired him were Calgary, Dallas, Los Angeles and Edmonton. Lee Stempniak (just re-signed by Boston on Sunday) and Thomas Vanek (who has a no-move clause with Detroit) are the only players who could be traded for the fourth time on deadline day this season. If Vanek is moved, he would become the first player to ever get traded on three consecutive deadline days.

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