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The NHL Trade Deadline is upon us and by 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, a number of players will have changed zip codes.

In recent years, the weeks leading up to the deadline have contained as much, if not more action than deadline day itself and that was again the case this season. Of importance here are the 11 defensemen that have changed teams over the past two weeks.

Scratch one big name off the list of potentially available goaltenders on the day of the 2013 NHL Trade Deadline.

Calgary Flames goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff has decided he wants to stay with his team, TSN's Darren Dreger reported Tuesday morning. The 36-year-old has one year left on his contract beyond this season and carries a salary cap hit of $5.833 million.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are prepared to move on in the aftermath of having their 15-game winning streak come to end on Tuesday in a loss to the Buffalo Sabres.

The Penguins, playing without their injured captain and NHL scoring leader Sidney Crosby for the first time this season, dropped a 4-1 decision to the Sabres at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh.

"The effort was not where we wanted to be, not where we can have it," said Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who relieved Tomas Vokoun after the Sabres' fourth goal. "We have been playing some great hockey, and [Tuesday] didn't seem like our best effort."

The loss to Buffalo was Pittsburgh's first setback since Feb. 28 and marked the first time in 12 games that the Penguins yielded more than two goals. Buffalo's triumph also snapped Pittsburgh's back-to-back-to-back shutouts against the New York Islanders, Winnipeg Jets and Montreal Canadiens.

The Penguins share the NHL's second-longest streak at 15 games with the 1981-82 New York Islanders. Pittsburgh fell two wins short of matching the League record it set in 1993 with a 17-game streak.

There won't be any hockey history made at Madison Square Garden. That doesn't mean there isn't plenty at stake in this week's Wednesday Night Rivalry matchup between the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers (7:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN).

Had the Penguins beaten the Buffalo Sabres at home on Tuesday night, they'd be coming to New York looking for their record-tying 17th consecutive victory. Instead, they'll try to start a new streak against an Atlantic Division rival that's desperately scrambling for points just to get into the Stanley Cup Playoffs and starts the day in ninth place, two points behind the eighth-place New York Islanders.

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Marian Gaborik spoke in a soft and quiet tone, but his message should resonate loud and clear as the New York Rangers head into a showdown Wednesday night against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

"We can't be spooked by them," Gaborik said quietly after practice Tuesday. "We can't give them too much respect."

Easier said than done, even with Sidney Crosby out of the lineup when the Rangers and Penguins begin a home-and-home at Madison Square Garden (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN). They also play Friday at Consol Energy Center (7 p.m. ET, NHLN-US), where newly acquired forward Ryane Clowe likely will make his Rangers' debut.

Though the Rangers' lineup may be slightly different because of trade deadline moves, they figure they can't be spooked or afraid of giving Pittsburgh too much respect provided they play the same way they did in the final 40 minutes of their 4-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday.

As the 2012 NHL Trade Deadline approached, Minnesota Wild forward Nick Schultz was doing his job when Minnesota Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher called him into the office and told him he would no longer be working in the only NHL market Schultz knew.

Fletcher traded Schultz to the Edmonton Oilers on deadline day, Feb. 27, 2012, in exchange for defenseman Tom Gilbert. Schultz had to be on a flight to Edmonton that night.

"I was in shock," Schultz told NHL.com as the 2013 deadline approached. "[Fletcher] thanked me for everything and that was it. I didn't really say anything to him. I was in shock and couldn't really believe it. I was there for 10 years and then, poof, I was packing my bags and moving on. It happens in a hurry."

Deadline Day isn't even here yet but starting with the Jarome Iginla blockbuster last Thursday morning (or Wednesday night, depending on where you live), 25 players and 16 draft picks have been exchanged in 15 trades involving 21 teams.

You can tack on three more players, including Brenden Morrow and Douglas Murray, plus four more draft picks, if you go back to March 24.

Even the media is struggling to keep up. There is barely enough time to write a story or publish a video about who could be on the move before one of those players is, in fact, moved.

Struggling to score with two proven NHL centers in the lineup, the Canucks acquired 5-foot-8 Roy from the Dallas Stars on Tuesday in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2013 NHL Draft and defense prospect Kevin Connauton.

Roy, who said he is finally healthy after an early-season groin injury, is ready to fill that gap on a Canucks team that has scored more than two goals four times in the past 16 games -- and one of those included two empty-net goals -- even if he wasn't yet sure where or how much he will play.

FRISCO, Texas -- A full-blown youth movement is officially under way with the Dallas Stars. The trading of veterans Jaromir Jagr and Derek Roy on Tuesday drove that point home emphatically.

The Stars (16-16-3, 35 points) sat 12th in the Western Conference heading into play Tuesday and were three points behind the St. Louis Blues for the final Stanley Cup Playoff spot in the Western Conference.

But with the contracts of Jagr and Roy expiring at season's end and Dallas already having traded former captain Brenden Morrow to the Pittsburgh Penguins on March 24 (who also had an expiring contract), Dallas general manager Joe Nieuwendyk was able to move three potential free agents before the NHL Trade Deadline, and in each case the Stars got prospects and draft picks in return.

"It's my responsibility to assess where I feel our team is at. We've been in this position before over the last three years in my tenure," said Nieuwendyk, GM since May 2009. "I felt this year that it was an opportunity for us to move some expiring contracts along to receive some good young assets and picks in a very deep draft. It's a unique season with only 12 games remaining after the trade deadline, so I really felt this was an opportunity to put our organization in a good position moving forward."

The Chicago Blackhawks traded forward Philippe Paradis to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday in exchange for the rights to unsigned defenseman Kirill Gotovets.

Paradis, 22, was playing with the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League. In 36 AHL games this season, he had one goal, seven assists and 100 penalty minutes. The 6-foot-2, 212-pound wing was the Carolina Hurricanes’ first-round pick (No. 27) at the 2009 NHL Draft.