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1998-99 Season

October 1
The Labatt Blue Hockey League forms for new users of the Faceoff hockey game
December 1
The Labatt Blue Hockey League votes to become a continous league
October 23
The LBHL begins the seven round inaugural draft from the six teams not included they are the Detroit Red Wings, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils, and the St Louis Blues.
December 15
Regular season starts

October 30
Edmonton Oilers trade Janne Niinimaa to the San Jose Sharks for Marty McSorley and Alexander Korolyuk
October 31
San Jose Sharks trade Andrei Zyuzin and their third round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the New York Islanders for Tommy Salo and their tenth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
November 1
Chicago Blackhawks trade Alexi Zhamnov and Chris Therien to the Carolina Hurricanes for Gary Roberts, Kevin Dinnen and Adam Burt
November 1
Carolina Hurricanes trade Curtis Leschyshyn, Ray Sheppard, and Kevin Brown to the Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers trade Roman Hamrlik and Kelly Buchberger to the Carolina Hurricanes
November 3
Los Angeles Kings trade Yanic Perrault and Mattis Norstrom to the Buffalo Sabres for Brian Holzinger
November 4
Buffalo Sabres trade Bob Boughner and Vaclav Varada to the Edmonton Oilers for Ryan Smyth and Andrei Kovalenko
November 5
Carolina Hurricanes trade Stephen Leach to the New York Rangers for Bill Berg
November 6
Buffalo Sabres trade Derek Plante, Mike McKee and Jason Woolley to the Phoenix Coyotes for Cliff Ronning, and Dallas Drake
November 6
Chicago Blackhawks trade Chad Kilger and their third round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Ottawa Senators for Magnus Arvedsson
November 13
Carolina Hurricanes trade Martin Gelinas, Kevin Haller, and Trevor Kidd to the San Jose Sharks for Tommy Salo, Mike Rathje, and Stephan Matteau
November 19
Montreal Canadiens trade Jocelyn Thibault, Saku Koivu and Mike Recchi to the Buffalo Sabres for Dominic Hasek and Donald Audette
December 2
Buffalo Sabres trade Steve Shields and Randy Burridge to the San Jose Sharks for Mike Vernon, Shawn Burr and their seventh round draft pick in the 1999/2000 re-entry draft
December 4
Buffalo Sabres trade Aaron Ward to the Edmonton Oilers for Drake Berehowsky
December 4
San Jose Sharks trade Brendan Shanahan and Janne Niinimaa to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Jaromir Jagr
December 9
Calgary Flames trade Andrew Cassels, and Marty McInnis to the Phoenix Coyotes for Derian Hatcher, Brad Isbister, Shane Doan, Jason Doig
December 9
Buffalo Sabres trade Alexi Zhitnik, and Ryan Smyth to the San Jose Sharks for Brian Marchment, and Owen Nolan
December 9
Calgary Flames trade Dwanne Roloson, Tommy Albelin, Trent Klatt, Eric Andersson to the Ottawa Senators for Damien Rhodes, Marian Hossa, and Radek Bonk
December 10
Toronto Mapleleafs trade Ron Francis, Geoff Courtnall, Rob Zettler, and Todd Warriner to the Ottawa Senators for Daniel Alfredsson, Shawn McEachern, Shawn Van Allen, and Wade Redden
December 11
Phoenix Coyotes trade Derek Plante, Mike Gartner, Keith Carney and their fourth round 1999-2000 re-entry draft pick to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Darcy Tucker, Janne Niinimaa and Steve Kelly
December 11
Calgary Flames trade Grant Fuhr and Cale Hulse to the Ottawa Senators for
Stan Neckar, Chris Phillips, and Pat Falloon to the Calgary Flames
December 12
Calgary Flames have traded German Titov and Tomas Holmstrom to the Buffalo Sabres for Geoff Sanderson and Curtis Brown
December 12th
Chicago Blackhawks trade Chris Chelios and Ethan Moreau to the Tampa Bay Lightning
Tampa Bay Lightning trade Brendan Shanahan and Dimitri Mironov to the Chicago Blackhawks
December 13
Toronto Mapleleafs trade Matt Schneider to the Vancouver Canucks for Bryan McCabe and their first round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft pick
December 13
Boston Bruins trade Scott Niedermayer, Anson Carter, Jim Carey, and their fourth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Florida Panthers for Ray Whitney, Jiri Slegr, Rhett Warrener, and their seventh round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
December 13
Tampa Bay Lightning trade Karl Dykhuis and Rob Zaumner to the Vancouver Canucks for trade Arturs Irbe and Sergei Zubov
December 13
Tampa Bay Lightning trade Arturs Irbe, and their third round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry to the Toronto Mapleleafs for Darby Hendricksson
December 14
San Jose Sharks trade John MacLean to the Buffalo Sabres for Rob Brown
December 14
San Jose Sharks trade Joe Murphy, Martin Gelinas, and their fourth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Florida Panthers for Mike Keane, Dino Ciccarelli, and Kirk Muller
December 14
San Jose Sharks trade Patrick Marleau, Marco Sturm their first round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Los Angeles Kings for Josef Stumpel, Jamie Langenbrunner, Oli Jokkinen, and their second round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
December 14
Colorado Avalanche trade Valeri Kamensky, Claude Lemiuex, and Sandis Ozolinsh to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks for Teemu Selanne, and their first round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
December 17
Buffalo Sabres trade Matthew Barnaby to the Montreal Canadiens for Dave Manson to the Buffalo Sabres
December 18
"Three team deal"
Buffalo Sabres trade Dixon Ward and Miroslav Satan to the Florida Panthers for their sixth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Tampa Bay Lightning
Florida Panthers trade Doug Brown to the Buffalo Sabres
Florida Panthers trade Scott Mellanby to the Tampa Bay Lightning
Tampa Bay Lightning trade Mikeal Renberg to the Buffalo Sabres
December 18
Tampa Bay Lightning trade Ethan Moreau, Daymond Langkow and Sergei Zubov to the Florida Panthers for Robert Svehla, Johan Garpenlov, and their fourth round pick aquired from Boston on Dec 13th in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
January 6
Florida Panthers trade Al Macinnis, Ethan Moreau, Steve Washburn, and their fourth round pick aquired from San Jose Dec 14th in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Phoenix Coyotes for Oleg Tverdovsky, Daniel Briere, Mark Janssens, and their second round draft pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
January 9th
Edmonton Oilers trade Dean McAmmond and Matts Lindgren to the Buffalo Sabres
Buffalo Sabres trade Richard Smehlik, Yanic Perreault and their fifth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
January 15
Calgary Flames trade Pat Verbeek to the Vancouver Canucks for Todd Bertuzzi and their second and third round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
January 19
Chicago Blackhawks trade Eric Daze, Magnus Arvedsson, and their first round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Washington Capitals for Jeri Lehiten and their fifth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
January 23
Phoenix Coyotes trade Jeremy Roenick, Jason Woolley and Ethan Moreau to the Los Angeles Kings for Rob Blake, Glen Murray and Ian Laperriere
January 24
Phoenix Coyotes trade Guy Carbonneau, and their fifth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Chicago Blackhawks for Sergei Krivokrasov
January 25
Buffalo Sabres trade Tomas Holstrom and Andrei Kovelenko to the Washington Capitals for Adam Oates, Kelly Miller, and their third round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
January 25
Buffalo Sabres trade Jocelyn Thibault, Owen Nolan, Mike Wilson, and Drake Berehowsky to the Florida Panthers for John Vanbiesbrouck, Brad Werenka, Gord Murphy, their third and fifth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
January 25
Florida Panthers trade Martin Gelinas, Terry Carkner, Paul Laus, and their second round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Chicago Blackhawks for Bob Probert, Jean-Yves Leroux, Christian Laflamme, and Dimtri Mironov
February 1
Calgary Flames trade Chris O'Sullivan to the Florida Panthers for Kevin Weekes to the Calgary Flames
February 1
Florida Panthers trade Dallas Eakins and Mark Janssens to the Vancouver Canucks for Scott Walker and Brent Gilchrist
February 2
Phoenix Coyotes trade John Slaney to the Florida Panthers for David Nemirovsky
February 2
Washington Capitals trade Peter Bondra and Olaf Kozlig to the San Jose Sharks for Jaromir Jagr and Mike Dunham
February 2
San Jose Sharks traded Jamie Langenbrunner and Jeff Friesen to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Mighty Ducks for Paul Karya
February 7
Ottawa Senators trade Andreas Dackell, and Sheldon Souray to the Los Angeles Kings for Patrick Marleau and their third round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
February 7
Ottawa Senators trade Brett Hull and Tommy Albelein to the Washington Capitals for Eric Daze, Brendan Witt, Richard Zednick
February 9
Carolina Hurricanes trade Robert Kron and their third round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Edmonton Oilers for Stu Barnes
February 10
Ottawa Senators trade Ron Francis to the Boston Bruins for Joe Thornton, Alexander Daigle, and their first round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
February 17
Carolina Hurricanes trade Alexi Zhamnov and Glenn Wesley to the Ottawa Senators for Geoff Courtnall and Igor Kravchuk
February 19
New York Islanders trade Trevor Linden to the Carolina Hurricanes for Bates Battaglia, Nelson Emerson and their fourth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft
March 5
Washington Capitals trades Tomas Holstrom to Los Angeles Kings for Brian Holzinger
March 5
San Jose Sharks trade Trevor Kidd to the Buffalo Sabres for Dean McAmmond and Mike Vernon
March 10
Chicago Blackhawks trade Gary Roberts and Bobby Carpenter and their fourth round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Buffalo Sabres for Adam Oates and Cliff Ronning
March 10
Buffalo Sabres trade Dave Manson, Dallas Drake and their third round pick in the 1999-2000 re-entry draft to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks for Sandis Ozolinsh and Valeri Kamensky
March 24
Buffalo Sabres trade Brad Werenka to the Washington Capitals for Mark Tinordi
April 8
Washington Capitals trade Brian Holzinger, Slava Kozlov, Sergei Gonchar, Brett Hull, and Andrei Kovalenko to the Florida Panthers for Eric Lindros, Dixon Ward and Dimitri Mironov
April 8
Florida Panthers trade Joe Murphy to the San Jose Sharks for Dean McAmmond
April 8
Florida Panthers trade Scott Walker to Toronto Mapleleafs for trade Jay Pandolfo
April 8
Washington Capitals trade Steve Konowalchuk, and Tommy Albelin to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks for Travis Green, and Ted Drury
April 8
Washington Capitals trade Jan Bulis, Jaroslav Svejkovsky, Andrew Brunette, and Ken Klee to the Phoenix Coyotes for Larry Murphy, Andrew Cassels, Murray Baron, and Jim McKenzie

End of the Trading for the Season

Players picked up and waived by teams

December Files
Tampa Bay Lightning waive Cory Schwab
Vancover Canucks waive Barry Nieckar, Peter LeBoutillier, Mike Leclerc
Calgary Flames waive Todd Hlushko, Eric Charron
Carolina Hurricanes sign Greg Adams
Toronto Mapleleafs sign Robert Dome and waive Craig Wolanin, Kevin Adams, Jamie Baker
San Jose Sharks waive Niklas Andersson
Los Angeles Kings sign Sean Pronger
Washington Capitals waive Stewart Malgunas
Colorado Avlanche sign Jamie Rivers**
**not counted toward the three pickups per year as this was to get back to 32 minimum.
January Files


February Files
Toronto Mapleleafs sign Jay Pandolfo
Washington Capitals sign Tyler Wright and waive Benoit Gratton, Jeff Toms
Colorado Avalanche sign Tony Twist
Buffalo Sabres sign Dave Reid

March Files
Anaheim Mighty Ducks waive Tony Tuzzolino (to get to the roster limit)
New York Islanders waive Warren Luhning (to get back to player limit)
Florida Panthers waive Ryan Johnson (to get back to player limit)
Ottawa Senators waive Ivan Cierner (to get back to player limit)
April Files
Anaheim Mighty Ducks waive David Karpa, Jeremy Stevenson (to get back to player limit)
Boston Bruins sign Terry Yake
May Files
Boston Bruins sign Chris McAlpine
Florida Panthers waive Chris Allen, John Jakopin, and Chris Wells (to get back to player limit)