The trade: Winnipeg trades captain Andrew Ladd to the Chicago Blackhawks for forward Marko Dano, a first-round draft pick in 2016 and a conditional draft pick in 2018.
"That was everyone's biggest fear: another attack on the Pentagon like the World Trade Center," Captain Wirtz said.
In 1845, while on the hunt for this elusive trade route, Captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic, along with two ships and 128 officers and crew.
The Islanders traded their captain, defenseman Mark Streit, to the Philadelphia Flyers for a minor league forward, Shane Harper, and a fourth-round draft pick in 2014.
The first-place Capitals traded their captain, Chris Clark, and defenseman Milan Jurcina to last-place Columbus for left wing Jason Chimera earlier in the day.
(AP) BLUES 3, SABRES 0 Ty Conklin stopped 25 shots to lead visiting St . Louisafter it traded its captain, Eric Brewer, to Tampa Bay for defenseman Brock Beukeboom and a third-round pick in this year's draft.
The Devils traded their captain, Jamie Langenbrunner, to the Dallas Stars for a conditional draft choice Friday morning, signaling the end of the Devils' hopes for this season and the possible start of a series of rebuilding moves by the N.H.L.'s last-place club.
The trade: Carolina send captain Eric Staal to New York in exchange for Aleksi Saarela and two second-round draft picks.
Rumors about a possible trade of team captain Danny Califf emerged on Saturday when El Bandito Battalion, an unofficial Union supporters group, posted on their Facebook page that a club insider had informed them of the move to Chivas USA possibly happening.
Several questions remained unanswered — chief among them being just why, exactly, the Flyers had felt compelled to trade him, their captain, to Los Angeles last June as the pièce de résistance of Philadelphia's biggest single-day shake-up since it mortgaged its future for Eric Lindros 20 years ago.
