1989–90 NHL transactions

This list is for 1989–90 NHL transactions within professional ice hockey league of players in North America. The following contains team-to-team transactions that occurred in the National Hockey League during the 1989–90 NHL season. It lists what team each player has been traded to, or claimed by, and for which players or draft picks, if applicable.

July

 * 1)  The future considerations were cancelled in subsequent trade on October 3, 1989, involving Pete Peeters and Keith Acton.

August

 * 1) Philadelphia's seventh-round pick was re-acquired as the result of a trade on September 8, 1989, that sent Mark Laforest to Toronto in exchange for Toronto's sixth-round pick in the 1991 Entry Draft (later upgraded to a fifth- round) and this pick.

September

 * 1)  Calgary's second-round pick went to New Jersey as the result of a trade on June 16, 1990, that sent New Jersey's first-round and second-round picks in the 1990 Entry Draft to Calgary in exchange for Calgary's first-round, second-round (# 24 overall) picks in the 1990 Entry Draft and this pick.
 * 2)  The sixth-round pick later upgraded to a fifth-round pick in the 1991 Entry Draft.
 * 3)  Philadelphia's fifth-round pick went to Winnipeg as the result of a trade on October 3, 1989, that sent Keith Acton and Pete Peeters to Philadelphia in exchange for future considerations and this pick.

October

 * 1)  This trade also includes the cancellation of future considerations owed to Philadelphia from trade on July 21, 1989 involving Shawn Cronin.

November

 * 1)  Detroit's fifth-round pick went to Montreal as the result of a trade on June 15, 1990, that sent Rick Green to Detroit in exchange for this pick.

December

 * 1)  Trade completed on June 22, 1991.

March

 * Trading Deadline: March 7, 1989
 * 1)  Minnesota's fourth-round pick went to Los Angeles as the result of a trade on June 22, 1991, that sent Todd Elik to Minnesota in exchange for Randy Gilhen, Charlie Huddy, Jim Thomson and this pick.
 * 2)  Trade completed on August 13, 1990.
 * 3)  Vancouver's second-round pick went to Montreal as the result of a trade on March 6, 1990, that sent Jyrki Lumme to Vancouver in exchange for this pick.