Late last night, the Dallas Stars announced they had acquired forward Max Domi and AHL goaltender Dylan Wells from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for goaltender Anton Khudobin and a second round pick in the 2025 draft. It was announced moment after they had just defeated Chicago, 5-2. While the move was rumored prior to puck drop, the team held off to avoid the awkward “pack up your stall and walk across the hall to the opposing team’s locker room” that inevitably would have ensued had the trade call gone down before the game.
That would have been funny for fans and potentially could have created a viral moment that surely would have been talked about all over social media and sports talk shows this morning, but not doing the trade right before the game kept Domi from being put in a weird place having to face his old team mere hours after departing from them.