Calgary Chinook complete four important trades in rebuild

Chinook acquire 8 draft picks and 4 prospects in 4 separate trades

CALGARY - The Calgary Chinook today announced four significant trades in their rebuild of the franchise. This decision sets the team up for a promising future, building toward the creation of a younger, faster and stronger roster overall - characterized by a commitment to leadership, character, and chemistry.

Acquiring three blue-chip prospects (Dustin Wolf, Nils Hoglinder and Philip Tomasino), three current NHL roster players (Filppula, Dillon and Fiala), five first-round draft pick and three second-round pick,  while parting ways with Panarin, O’Reilly, Letang, Giordano, Carlson, de Haan, Sanheim, Hathaway and Smith - these deals leverages earlier decisions in the rebuild to deliver the largest pipeline of potential Calgary has had in its system in the past 16
years.

While looking to the future with excitement and optimism, the franchise does wish to thank Artemi Panarin, Ryan O’Reilly, Kris Letang, Mark Giordano and John Carlson for their service and the amazing Cup run in 2017 to bring home our first ever Kehler Cup. “They are all exceptional hockey players whose skills delighted our fans for the past years,” said general manager Eugene Yip. "We thank them for their dedication to hockey, and we wish them all the best."

"This is the right moment for us to rebuild our team, and shape our future with a faster, younger and more competitive team on the ice," Yip added. "We are going to build a culture of consistency which will allow this team to sustain better performance over the long term."

The deals includes the following:

FOR trades V. Filppula, Philip Tomasino-p, FOR 1st-21 & MIN 1st-21 to CGY for M.
Giordano & R. O’Reilly

DAY trades B. Dillon, Dimitry Zavgorodoni-p, Dustin Wolf-p, MIN 2nd-20, DAY
2nd-21 & $6.825M to CGY for K. Letang, G. Hathaway & M. Smith

MIN trades Nils Hoglander, HIW 1st-20 & DAY 1st-21 to CGY for J. Carlson
CAP trades K. Fiala, GIL 1st-20, $2m & future consideration to CGY for C. de Haan,

A. Panarin, T. Sanheim & CGY 9th-20...(*future consideration will be CAP 2nd-21
that will be obtained after the UFA trade freeze)