The New York Rangers initially traded Hayes to the Winnipeg Jets, where Hayes played the final 20 games of the 2018-19 season and six games in the playoffs.
In return, the Rangers received the the 20th overall pick in the 2019 draft (which they traded back to Winnipeg in the deal for Jacob Trouba) as well as forward Brendan Lemieux and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2022 NHL draft (which they did not receive as Winnipeg did not win the Stanley Cup).
Winnipeg then traded Hayes’s rights as an unrestricted free agent to the Philadelphia Flyers who wanted to get a crack at Hayes before July 1 and managed to ink a big time deal with the 27-year-old forward.