The trade is a stunning midseason swap of point-per-game players in their primes, an anomaly in the NHL trade market in the salary-cap era.

The Chicago Blackhawks were involved in what is one of the biggest trades that has happened in-season or at all in the cap era of the NHL. This 3-team trade with the Colorado Avalanche and Carolina Hurricanes saw Taylor Hall and Mikko Rantanen head to the Hurricanes while Martin Necas and Jack Drury went to the Avalanche.

If people thought they were going into the weekend like normal, that certainly changed at 8 p.m. Eastern on Friday night (Jan. 24), as the Carolina Hurricanes stunned the hockey world with a massive blockbuster deal.