Winnipeg Jets acquire Tanev, Schenn in trade deadline deals
Posted March 7, 2025 12:17 pm.
The Winnipeg Jets have made a pair of moves on trade deadline day.
Brandon Tanev returning to Jets in trade with Kraken
Brandon Tanev is returning to the place where he began his career.
The veteran grinder was traded to the Winnipeg Jets from the Seattle Kraken ahead of the deadline, Sportsnet can confirm.
A second-round draft pick will go back to Seattle in the trade.
Tanev, 33, has skated in 60 games for Seattle this season, recording nine goals and eight assists.
The 10-year NHL veteran can provide the kind of intensity teams crave in the playoffs as a depth winger who leads the Kraken in penalty-kill minutes per game.
The Kraken selected Tanev in the 2021 expansion draft from the Pittsburgh Penguins and he is in the final year of a six-year, $21-million contract. He joined the Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2015 and spent four years in the organization before signing with the Penguins in 2019.
In 533 career games, Tanev has 83 goals and 92 assists.
In a similar mold to Tanev, the Jets also acquired veteran defenceman Luke Schenn in a trade with the Penguins earlier Friday. Winnipeg is currently first in the NHL with 90 points and looking to go on a deep playoff run for the first time since 2018.
Seattle has struggled for much of the season and sits well outside of the Western Conference playoff picture, which prompted the sale of the veterans Yanni Gourde and Oliver Bjorkstrand.
Jets acquire defenceman Luke Schenn from Penguins
The Winnipeg Jets are bolstering their blue line.
Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports that the Jets are acquiring defenceman Luke Schenn from the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Jets are sending a second-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft and a fourth-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft in the deal.
Pittsburgh acquired Schenn from the Nashville Predators along with forward Tommy Novak for Michael Bunting and a 2026 fourth-round pick earlier this week.
Schenn, a veteran defenceman, has been with the Predators since 2023 — his seventh NHL team over his 17-year NHL career. He spent considerable time with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and Vancouver Canucks. In 61 games this season, the defensive defenceman has one goal and five points.
He’s under team control for one more season at a $2.75 million cap hit.
