The Tampa Bay Lightning announced as their final trade on Monday that the Syracuse Crunch have sent forward Antoine Morand to the San Jose Sharks organization in exchange for 23-year-old goalie Alexei Melnichuk. Morand was a former pick of the Ducks and had four goals and 10 points in 44 games this season for Syracuse. Melnichuk was an undrafted goalie out of the KHL and playing in five NHL games last year, but has struggled this year in the AHL.
Melnichuk has been assigned to the Orlando Solar Bears to start.
This trade, which was largely inconsequential to the Lightning, marks the end of a trade deadline that wasn’t huge, but made impactful moves at forward.