BREAKING : Lightning & Wild pull off trade for Stanley Cup Champion

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Austin Kelly
July 2, 2023 (9:39 PM)

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A former multi-time Stanley Cup Champion is on the move west

Wild and Lightning swing trade for former cup Winger

The Tampa Bay Lightning have traded Patrick Maroon & Max Cajkovic to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for the 2024 7th Round Pick.

As well, Tampa will retain 20% of Maroon's salary, set to expire at the end of the 2023-24 season.

Maroon, 35, has spent the past 4 seasons with the Lightning, having won the Stanley Cup for the St. Louis Blues in 2019, and then being apart of 2 Stanley Cup wins for the Lightning in 2020 & 2021, being the first NHLer to win 3 consecutive cups since Mike McEwen and Billy Carroll between 1980-1982 with the New York Islanders.

Cajkovic, 22, was a former third round pick of the Lightning, who played in both the AHL & ECHL and is under contract until 2024.

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