Today marked the NHL’s trade deadline, the last day during the season on which players can be traded. The first trade of the day involved the Pittsburgh Penguins and Arizona Coyotes, with the Pens dumping Sergei Plotnikov for a prospect and conditional draft pick. One of the last trades of the day saw the Penguins send prospect Matia Marcantuoni to Arizona in return for well-traveled former Penguin Dustin Jeffrey along with Dan O’Donoghue and James Melindy.
It’s fitting, then, that these two teams were slated to play each other on the same day.