Hockey : NHL transfers/trades in 2011/2012 season

The Chicago Blackhawks have acquired veteran center Brendan Morrison from the Calgary Flames for minor league defenseman Brian Connelly. The 36-year-old Morrison has 200 goals and 601 points over parts of 15 NHL seasons, the past two with the Flames. He has four goals and seven assists this season. The 25-year-old Connelly has spent parts of the past four seasons as a member of the AHL's Rockford IceHogs.

The Carolina Hurricanes have traded left winger Alexei Ponikarovsky to the New Jersey Devils for minor-league defenseman Joe Sova and a fourth-round draft pick. Ponikarovsky had seven goals and eight assists in 49 games with Carolina, which signed him over the summer to a one-year deal worth $1.5 million. Sova, 23, is in his first full professional season and has split the year between the Devils' AHL affiliate in Albany and their ECHL team in Kalamazoo.

The Calgary Flames have acquired center Blair Jones from the Tampa Bay Lightning for defenseman Brendan Mikkelson. Jones has appeared in 78 career NHL games, including 22 this season with Tampa Bay. The 25-year-old had two goals and two assists. Mikkelson spent the entire season with Calgary's American Hockey League Affiliate in Abbotsford. He had three goals and 15 points in 33 games. He was claimed off waivers by Calgary from Anaheim in October 2010.

The Ottawa Senators acquired center Kyle Turris from the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday in exchange for defenseman David Rundblad and a second-round draft choice in the 2012 Entry Draft. Turris, 22, was an early season holdout after his initial three-year, entry- level contract expired, making him a restricted free agent. He inked a multi- year contract with the Coyotes on November 22 and has recorded four penalty minutes in six games this season. In 2010-11, Turris established career highs in games (65), goals (11), assists (14) and points (25). Rundblad made his NHL debut on October 7 -- the Senators' season-opener against Detroit. In 24 career games, the 21-year-old has recorded one goal and three assists.

The St. Louis Blues added one of new coach Ken Hitchcock's favorites from his former team, acquiring defenseman Kris Russell from the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Blue Jackets received defenseman Nikita Nikitin in the deal, which was announced Friday. The 24-year-old Russell has two goals, an assist and 13 penalty minutes in 12 games with Columbus. He has played in 288 NHL games over five seasons, all with Columbus, and has 18 goals and 61 assists. The 25-year-old Nikitin has no points and is minus-5 in seven games with St. Louis. He was a healthy scratch in eight of the last nine games. The 2004 fifth-round pick has one goal and eight assists in 41 career games, all with St. Louis.

The Rangers have signed Anton Stralman to help fill in on an injury-hit defensive unit. The 25-year-old Stralman, who has played in 212 NHL games, agreed to a one-year deal on Saturday worth $900,000. He had a training camp tryout with the New Jersey Devils but didn't earn a spot.

New York is missing top defenseman Marc Staal, who is out indefinitely because of a concussion sustained last season. Michael Sauer has also been sidelined at times this season by a shoulder injury. The Rangers also placed forwards Mike Rupp (knee) and Wojtek Wolski (groin) on the injured list. Rupp will undergo arthroscopic surgery within the next week.

The Phoenix Coyotes have traded center Petteri Nokelainen and minor league defenseman Garrett Stafford to the Montreal Canadiens for center Brock Trotter and a seventh-round pick in next year's draft. The 25-year old Nokelainen is a versatile forward who can play either wing or center. In five games for the Coyotes this season, he had one assist. Stafford had a goal and three assists in six games with the AHL's Portland Pirates. Trotter registered two goals and five assists in five games with the AHL's Hamilton Bulldogs this season.

The Vancouver Canucks have acquired left wing David Booth, center Steve Reinprecht and a third-round draft pick in 2013 from the Florida Panthers for veteran forwards Marco Sturm and Mikael Samuelsson. Booth, 26, has registered 87 goals and 80 assists in 309 career games. The 35-year-old Reinprecht, who was a member of the Colorado Avalanche team that won the Stanley Cup in 2001, has 140 goals and 382 points in 663 career games with five clubs.

Samuelsson and Sturm were both scratched for Vancouver's 3-2 overtime win over Minnesota on Saturday afternoon after struggling with injuries and performance early this season. Samuelsson, 34, played 37 games with Florida during the 2003/04 season. For his career, he has notched 135 goals and 179 assists in 621 games. The 33-year-old Sturm has 239 goals and 482 points in 896 career games.

The Colorado Avalanche traded defenseman Kyle Cumiskey to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenseman Jake Newton and a conditional draft pick. Cumiskey had 9 goals and 26 assists in parts of four seasons with the Avalanche. Taken in the seventh round of the 2005 draft, Cumiskey was assigned to the Lake Erie Monsters of the American Hockey League on Wednesday and waived Friday. Newton, who was with Anaheim's AHL team in Syracuse, N.Y., will report to Lake Erie.

New Jersey have signed Petr Sykora on a one-year deal, completing the former Devil's bid to return to the NHL after an 18-month absence. The 34-year-old forward last played in the NHL for the Minnesota Wild in 2009/10 and came into New Jersey's camp on a tryout basis. New Devils coach Peter DeBoer believes Sykora, who has 302 goals and 375 assists in 935 NHL games, can give his team some scoring punch.