Minnesota Wild & Tampa Bay Lightning Complete One-For-One Trade

The Minnesota Wild continue to make roster moves, this time around on a much different level than the Quinn Hughes trade. The Wild and Tampa Bay Lightning completed a deal on Sunday, seeing Boris Katchouk heading to Minnesota in exchange for Michael Milne.

#mnwild acquire Boris Katchouk from the Lightning for Michael Milne. 179 career NHL games for Katchouk, who is heading to Iowa
— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) December 28, 2025

Katchouk, 27, is a former second-round pick of the Lightning. He's appeared in 179 career NHL games, recording 15 goals, and 21 assists for 36 points. This season, the 6-foot-2 left winger has dressed in three Lightning games, without recording a point, meanwhile in the AHL with the Syracuse Crunch, Katchouk scored four goals and 10 points in 21 games. In 2024-25, he scored 21 goals and 49 points in 67 AHL games.

We have acquired forward Michael Milne from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for forward Boris Katchouk.

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— Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) December 28, 2025

As for Milne, the Lightning receive a 23-year-old left winger who was a 2022 third-round pick. The Abbotsford, BC native has appeared in just one NHL game, in 2024-25. This season with the Iowa Wild, Milne has recorded two goals and five points in 15 games. Milne is coming off a 15 goal season last year in Iowa.

Per the Wild's team release:

Katchouk, 27 (6/18/98), has skated in three games with Tampa Bay and has tallied 10 points (4-6=10) in 21 games with the Syracuse Crunch (AHL) this season. The 6-foot-2, 212-pound native of Vancouver, British Columbia, has collected 36 points (15-21=36) and 78 penalty minutes (PIM) in 179 career NHL games with Tampa Bay (2021-22, 2025-26), Chicago (2021-24) and Ottawa (2023-24). Katchouk has also recorded 154 points (64-90=154) and 161 PIM in 261 career AHL games with Syracuse (2018-22, 2024-25), Rockford (2023-24) and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (2024-25). He tallied six points (3-3=6) in seven games to help Canada win the gold medal at the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship. Katchouk notched 202 points (101-101=202) and 154 PIM in 199 career games in four seasons with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (2014-18) in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He was originally selected by the Lightning in the second round (44th overall) of the 2016 NHL Draft.

Milne, 23 (9/21/02), was selected by Minnesota in the third round (89th overall) of the 2022 NHL Draft. He tallied 65 points (32-33=65) and 104 PIM in 172 games with the Iowa Wild and appeared in one NHL game with Minnesota, making his NHL debut on Nov. 16, 2024 vs. Dallas.