Ducks trade defenseman Lyubushkin to Leafs
The Ducks dealt stay-at-home defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin to the Toronto Maple Leafs in a threeteam trade involving the Carolina. Hurricanes on Thursday night.
The Ducks received Toronto's third-round pick in 2025, while Carolina gets Toronto's sixth-round pick in the 2024 draft. The Ducks will pay 50% of Lyubushkin's remaining salary this season, while the Hurricanes will pay an additional percentage.
Toronto also got the reserve rights to KHL forward Kirill Slepets from Carolina in the deal.
Lyubushkin has no goals and four assists with a minus-13 rating in 55 games this season for the Ducks, who acquired him from Buffalo last August for a fourth-round draft pick.
Lyubushkin will provide depth on the blue line for the Maple Leafs. The right-handed shooter likely will fill in for the injured Mark Giordano in the near future while Toronto continues its playoff push.
MAPLE LEAFS 4, COYOTES 2 » Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 53rd goal and Toronto topped Arizona, sending the Coyotes to a 14th straight loss.
Matthew Knies had a goal and an assist, Tyler Bertuzzi also scored and William Nylander added an empty-netter to go with two assists for Toronto. Joseph Woll made 30 saves in his return from a long injury absence.
Alex Kerfoot and Logan Cooley scored for Arizona, which dropped to 0-12-2 since its last victory on Jan. 22.
The Coyotes entered 0-10-2 over their 12 previous visits to Scotiabank Arena/Air Canada Centre, with Arizona's last regulation loss in Toronto dating to Oct. 17, 2002 — the day Knies was born in Phoenix.
STARS 4, JETS 1 » Rookie Logan Stankoven scored for the third time in four NHL games, Joe Pavelski
Ducks right wing Brett Leason (20) is congratulated for his goal against the San Jose Sharks during Thursday night's game in San Jose. The game was still in progress when this edition went to press. For details and more on the Ducks, go to
had a goal and an assist, and Dallas beat Winnipeg to take over the top spot in the Central Division
The Jets had their four-game winning streak snapped. PANTHERS 4, CANADIENS 3, SO » Sam Reinhart scored twice and Florida defeated Montreal in a shootout. Reinhart became the fourth player in Florida's franchise history to reach the 40-goal mark with his secondperiod tally.
SABRES 3, LIGHTNING 2, OT » Rasmus Dahlin scored a power-play goal in overtime and Buffalo rallied to beat Tampa Bay. Alex Tuch
and Tage Thompson also scored for the Sabres.
HURRICANES 4, BLUE JACKETS 2 » Teuvo Teravainen, Sebastian Aho, Brady Skjei and Seth Jarvis scored and Carolina rolled over struggling Columbus.
ISLANDERS 5, RED WINGS 3 » Mathew Barzal had a tiebreaking goal with 6:02 left in the third period and Brock Nelson scored twice, as New York ended Detroit's six-game winning streak. Pierre Engvall sealed the victory with an empty-net goal — the Islanders' first of the season — in the final minute.
BRUINS 5, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4 » Mason Lohrei scored the winning goal on the power play with less than five minutes to play, Morgan Geekie had his first NHL hat trick, and Boston snapped a three-game losing streak
PREDATORS 6, WILD 1 » Roman Josi had a goal and two assists and Nashville extended its winning streak to seven games.
AVALANCHE 5, BLACKHAWKS 0 » Zach Parise had two goals and an assist, Justus Annunen stopped 25 shots for his first NHL shutout, and Colorado blanked Chicago.