The NHL trade deadline is like Christmas Eve for hockey fans with all the wheeling and dealing and former Tampa Bay C Brad Richards has found a new home.

The Dallas Stars traded talented backup G Mike Smith, C Jeff Halpern, LW Jussi Jokinen and a fourth rounder in ‘09 to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Richards and G Johan Holmqvist.

The Stars play the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday and SPORTSBETTING.COM doesn’t have a line set for that game yet but it does have Dallas listed at +600 to win the Western Conference and at +1500 to win the Stanley Cup in futures betting. 

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