The Arizona Coyotes made their first deadline day trade. No, it wasn’t Mikkel Boedker.
It wasn’t even a trade of Martin Hanzal, a potential move which has been picking up steam since Sunday afternoon.
The Coyotes traded AHL prospect Matthias Plachta and a conditional seventh round selection to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Sergei Plotnikov. They were certainly not the names hockey insiders expected to be called first this morning.
The move puts the Arizona Coyotes over the 23-player roster limit so that implies there will be more movement on deadline day.