The Minnesota Wild acquired defenseman John Klingberg from the Anaheim Ducks ahead of the NHL trade deadline Friday in exchange for defenseman Andrej Sustr, the
Excuse Seattle Kraken general manager Ron Francis if he had to check his calendar once or twice. Given all the wheeling and dealing that took place around the NHL over the past few weeks, he wondered if the league’s trading deadline had been switched. “At one point there, I thought maybe they moved the trade deadline to like Wednesday, and nobody told me,” Francis said after the deadline officially arrived Friday.