| July 1/04 - San Jose trades Richard Stehlik, Prospects Dmitri Patzold, Owen Fussey, a 2004 Car. 3rd and 2007 SJ 8th to Pittsburgh for Nils Ekman, Pit 6, Pit 7, LA 7 and Pit 8 2004. |
| July 2/04 - Pittsburgh trades Andrei Nazarov and a SJ 07 8th to Dallas for prospects Joel Perrault and David Bararuk. |
| July 2/04 - Carolina trades Jesse Bouilerice and $100 to NYI for a Cal. 5th 2004. |
| July 2/04 - NYI trades Mark Messier, a NYI 3rd 2004 and 2 million to Calgary for Sean Bergenheim and a Cal 2nd 2007 |
| July 3/04 - NJ trades Toni Lydman, Denis Arkhipov, Nash 4th 2004 and a SJ 5th 2004 to Toronto for Brendan Witt. |
| July 3/04 - San Jose trades a Dal. 2nd 2006 and a SJ 1st 2007 to Pittsburgh for Pit 3, Tor 3, Car 3, Pit 4, Dal 4, Pho 4, Cal 4 and Pit 5 2004. |
| July 3/04 - Atlanta trades Christian Ehroff, Chi 1st 2004 500K to St. Louis for Christian Backman, St. Louis 1st and 4th 2004. |
| July 3/04 - LA trades a LA 2nd and Flo 4th 2004 to Carolina for a NJ 1st and Carolina 6th 05. |
| July 3/04 - San Jose trades a Carolina 3rd, Pit. 3rd and a Pit. 6th 04 to Columbus for a Nashville 2nd 04. |
| July 5/04 - Pittsburgh trades $33,029,968, Matthew Barnaby, Chris Simon and Jason Doig to Carolina for Nathan Horton, prospect Anton Kadeykin and Carolina's 3rd round pick in 08 |
| July 5/04 - Calgary trades Chuck Kobasew and an NYI 1st 05 to NYI for Jason Blake. |
| July 5/04 - NYI trades Tomas Vokoun and a NY
3rd 2010 to Dallas for David Aebischer/ Prospect Andreas Valdix,
Prospect Alexandre Picard, Prospect Wes Oneill, Was 5 2005, Dal 7
2005, Edm 7 2005, Pit 8 2005, Car 8 2005, Dal 8 2005, Edm 8 2005, Dal 6 2006, Dal 7th 2006, Dal 8th 2006, Boston 2nd 2007, Dal 6 2007, Dal 7th 2007, Dal 8 2007, SJ 8th 2007, Dal 2nd 2008, Dal 7th 2008, Dal 8th 2008, NY 2nd 2009, Dal 7th 2009, Dal 8th 2009, Dal 1st 2010, Dal 2nd 2010, Dal 7th 2010 and a Dal 8th 2010 |
| July 6/04 - Phoenix trades Dallas Drake, Rob Niedermayer, Jason Smith, Aaron Miller and Igor Ulanov to Calgary for Jarome Iginla. |
| July 6/04 - Boston trades Andrew Cassels to Calgary for Eric Nystrom. |
| July 6/04 - NYI trades David Aebischer, Craig Conroy and a Det 2nd 2005 to Calgary for Jocelyn Thibault, Matthew Lombardi, and a Atl 1st 2005. |
| July 6/04 - NYI trades Alexei Kovalev and a NYI 7th 2009 to Boston for Eric Daze, Eric Nystrom, Boston 1st 2005 and a Bos 1st 2007. |
| July 10/04 - NYI trades Eric Nystrom, OTT 2nd 2005 and Travis Brigley to TB for Raffi Torres. |
| July 10/04 - Columbus trades Rick Nash and Zach Parise to Montreal for all of Montreal's picks in 2005, Wojtek Wolski, Mike Comrie, Justin Williams, Geoff Sandersson and Donald Brashear. |
| July 14/04 - NYR trades Kris Beech and Alexei Morozov to NYI for NY 2nd, NY 3rd, NY 4th, NY 5, NY 7 (all in 2005) and Radek Martinek. |
| July 14/04 - TB trades Brad Richards, Alex.
Polushin, Rostislav Olesz, Mike Egener and Voltek Polak to Vancouver for
Rod Brindamour, Trevor Linden, Steve Staios, Jakub Klepis, Denis Grot, Chris Bourque, Brandon Nolan, Rob McVicar, F-Pierre Guenette, 2005 picks Van 1st, 2nd, 7th. |
| July 17/04 - Columbus trades Tomas Plekanec, prospect Wojtek Wolski and a Clb 5th 2005 to Anaheim for Joffery Lupul and Ryan Getzlaf. |
| July 17/04 - Toronto trades Toni Lydman, St.L's 3rd rd, NJ's 4th rd, and Toronto's 7th and 8th round picks 2005 to Columbus for Mika Noranen. |
| July 17/04 - Columbus trades Mike Comrie and Luke Richardson to Vancouver for Nick Boynton, 2005 Van 6th and 8th round picks |
| July 17/04 - TB trades Eric Desjardins and Nikita Alexeev to Vancouver for Michael Nylander, Jarkko Ruutu and 2.5 mil. |
| July 17/04 - TB trades Trevor Linden and Dmitry Afanasenkov to Washington for Jason Woolley, Eric Weinrich, Ian Laperriere, Chad Kilger, Kiel McLeod and Tom Preissing |
| July 17/04 - Pittsburgh trades Kyle Rossiter to Columbus for a Clb 2006 2nd and 2007 3rd. |
| July 17/04 - Detroit trades Radek Bonk and Richard Zednik to Nashville for Pavel Demitra, Nash 1st 2006 and 2nd 2005. |
| July 17 - Detroit trades Randy Robitaille to Nashville for Chris Dingman. |
| July 17/04 - Columbus trades Pascal Leclaire, Clb 2006 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th to St. Louis for Brent Johnson, St L. 2005 1st, 6th, 7th 8th. |
| July 17/04 - Edmonton trades Ruslan Fedotenko, Marc-Andre Bergeron and Prospect Jeff Drouin-Deslaurier to Phoenix for Tyson Nash, Claude Lapointe, Landon Wilson, Marty Murray, Stanislav Neckar, Drake Berehowsky, Joe Corvo and Josh Blackburn. |
| July 17/04 - Phoenix trades Ladislav Smid, Phx 3rd 2005 and 1 mill for Edm 1st 2005. |
| July 17/04 - NYI trades Raffi Torres, Mark Parrish, John-Michael Liles, Alexander Khavanov and $999k to Atlanta for Brian Rafalski, Dan Blackburn, Pierre Dagenais and Ben Simon |
| July 17/04 - NYI trades Pierre Dagenais and Christian Laflamme to Ottawa for Christoph Schubert and an Ott 3rd 2005, |
| July 18/04 - NYI trades Alexander Mogilny, Jaroslav Modry and a NY 2nd 2006 to Calgary for JP Dumont, Oleg Saprykin, Jason Smith and a Cal 1st 2006. |
| July 20/04 - Washington trades Scott Gomez, Trevor Linden and 8 mill to Atlanta for Brad Stuart and Mike Ricci. |
| July 20/04 - Toronto trades Jussi Markkanen to Dallas for Bob Bougher and Mike Smith. |
| July 21/04 - TB trades Micheal Nylander, Rod Brindamour, Steve Staios, Vesa Toskala and Chad Kilger to Detroit for Tomas Kurka, Nas 1st 2006 and all of Det. 2005 picks. |
| July 23/04- Detroit trades prospect Derek Meech to NYR for Garth Murray. |
| July 24/04 - LA trades Cristobal Huet to NJ for a 2007 NJ 2nd. |
| July 26/04 - Detroit trades Vesa Toskola and Frantisek Kaberle to Nashville for Martin Biron, NAS 2007 1st and Libor Pitko |
| July 26/04 - Ottawa trades Zac Bierk and Alex Edler to Atlanta for Brian Pothier and Luke Sellars. |
| July 26/04 - San Jose trades Eric Messier and a SJ 5th 07 to Dallas for a Dallas 4th 06 and 5th 07 |
| July 27/04 - Detroit trades Pavel Demitra, V. Kozlov, and Kevyn Adams to Phoenix for Jaromir Jagr, Phoenix 2006 2nd, 2007 6th, 2008 5th. |
| July 27/04 - San Jose trades Sean Hill, SJ 6th 05 and $5,000,000 to Dallas for Micheal Leighton and Eric Messier. |
| July 27/04 - Dallas trades Jussi Markkanen, Sean Hill and a Dallas 4th 07 to Ottawa for Jon Klemm, Ott. 3rd 07 and 3 mill. |
| July 29/04 - San Jose trades Ron Francis to Montreal for a NYR 3rd 2006. |
| July 31/04 - NYI trades Alexei Morozov, Marek Malik, Wsh 5th 2005 and NY 8th 2005 to Nashville for Lubomir Vishnovsky, Patrik Stefan and Henrik Tallinder. |
| July 31/04 - Atlanta trades Dan Mcgillis, Mark Parrish, Stephane Robidas to Nashville for Jiri Fischer. |
| July 31/04 - LA trades Andre Roy to Carolina for a 2010 3rd. |
| July 31/04 - San Jose trades 200K to Philly for Andre Savage |