| Oct 1/03 - Boston trades Andy Hilbert, Ian Moran and Patrice Bergeron to Dallas for Sergei Zubov |
| Oct 1/03 - Florida trades Mathieu Biron and Wade Belak to Carolina for Mathieu Garon |
| Oct 1/03 - Nashville aquires Pavel Bure via auction from NY Rangers for 9.5 million dollars |
| Oct 1/03 - SJ trades Jamie Langenbrunner to Buffalo for Viktor Kozlov and 3rd, 6th and 9th round picks |
| Oct 3/03 - Edmonton trade Jyrki Lumme to Dallas for Claude Lemuiex. |
| Oct 3/03 - LA trades Craig Johnson to Edmonton for Georges Laraque. |
| Oct 4/03 - LA trades Philly's 2nd round pick 2004 to Nashville for Martin Erat and a Nash. 8th round pick 2005. |
| Oct 4/03 - Detroit trades Jason Williams and a Mon. 3rd round pick 2004 for 3 million dollars. |
| Oct 4/03 - LA trades Jason Holland to Atlanta for an Atl. 9th round pick 2004. |
| Oct 4/03 - San Jose trades Viktor Kozlov to Carolina for Denis Shvidki, a Cal. 4th, 5th, 9th and Bos. 9th round picks 2004. |
| Oct 4/03 - LA trades Dennis Seidenberg to San Jose for prospect Doug Murray, a Buff. 3rd and LA 9th round picks |
| Oct 5/03 - To Anaheim: Darren Langdon To Vancouver: Ana 2004 Rnd 4 |
| Oct 5/03 - To Carolina: Todd Harvey To Toronto: Jeff Heerema, NJ 2004 Rnd 4 |
| Oct 5/03 - To Toronto: Mike Commodore To LA: Blair Betts, Tor 2004 Rnd 3 |
| Oct 5/03 - To Carolina: Georges Laraque To LA: Danny Richmond, Car 2006 Rnd 3 |
| Oct 5/03 - To Florida: Glen Wesley To Carolina: Flo 2004 Rnd 3, $500,000 |
| Oct 5/03 - LA trades Joe Nieuwendyk to Florida for Darcy Hordichuk and a 3rd in 2006. |
| Oct 5/03 - LA trades Roman Cechmanek and Vincent Damphousse to Florida for Filip Novak, Kyle Rossiter, Patr Taticek, Rob Globke and Flo 2004 Rnd 4, 2003 4th. |
| Oct 5/03 - To Boston: Francis Lessard, $2 To LA: Milan Jurcina |
| Oct 5/03 - Philly trades Tomas Holmstrom to San Jose for Dennis Shvedki and a Car. 5th round pick. |
| Oct 5/03 - Florida trades an 8th round pick to Washington for Sergei Berezin. |
| Oct 5/03 - LA trades Mikko Elorenta to NJ for a Det. 4th in 2005 draft pick |
| Oct 7/03 - Washington trades prospect Brad Yonkman and Brad Isbister to Jan Hlavac |
| Oct 7/03 - To Florida: Chris Gratton, Brian
Sutherby, LA 8th 2004. To Washington: Chris Drury, Joe Niewendyk, FLA 7th 2004. |
| Oct 7/03 - To Florida: Aaron Ward To LA: FLA 3rd 2005, FLA 8th 2006 |
| Oct 7/03 - To Atlanta: Rod Brind'Amour
and 2 Million Dollars To Carolina: Ivan Majesky and Marc Andre Pouliot |
| Oct 7/03 - San Jose trades Lyle Odelein to Carolina for Sean Hill |
| Oct 7/03 - LA trades Jason Ward and a 7th round 2004 pick to NJ for NJ 2006 2nd and Was. 8th 2004. |
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Oct 7/ 03- To Florida - Brent Sopel and 2nd round pick To Tampa
Bay - Toni Lydman
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| Oct 7/03 - Carolina trades Brent Hedican and 2004 Fla 3rd to NJ for Barry Tallackson, Fernando Pisani, Petr Buzek and Sean Avery |
| Oct 10/03 - Boston trades a 2005 9th round pick to LA for Joel Bouchard and $3. |
| Oct 10/03 - LA trades Ian Laperriere to Washington for Rick Berry, Jakub Cutta and a Wash. 2004 4th round pick. |
| Oct 12/03 - Dallas trades Ryan Smyth to NJ for Brent Hedican and Gary Roberts |
| Oct 12/03 - San Jose trades Danny Markov and Marty Reasoner to Nashville for Petr Sykora, Richard Stehlik and Nas. 4th and 6th round picks. |
| Oct 12/03 - Carolina trades Oleg Tverdovsky to Tampa Bay for Anton But, 2nd round Van. draft pick and a TB 7th round draft pick |
| Oct 14/03 - Florida trades Vinny Damphousse and $21,069 to Boston for a 8th round draft pick |
| Oct 14/03 - Philly trades Donald Brashear to Boston for a Car. 3rd round 2004 pick |
| Oct 14/03 - Philly trades Eric Weinrich and John Leclair to TB for Cory Stillman, Cory Sarich and a 2004 3rd round pick |
| Oct 14/03 - Colarado trades Bate Batteglia to Philly for Chris Therian. |
| Oct 17/03 - NJ trades Daniel Mcgillis, Derek Armstrong and James Patrick to Dallas for Richard Mativichuk and Manny Malhotra |
| Oct 17/03 - Atlanta trades Rod Brind'amour, Ales Hemsky and Chris Nielsen to Vancouver for Daniel and Henrik Sedin, and Ryan Kesler |
| Oct 17/03 - Calgary trades Matt Davidson and a 7th round 2004 pick to Washington for Calle Johansson |
| Oct 17/03 - Detroit trades Jason Wooley and Tomas Kopecky to Atlanta for Lubos Bartecko and 1.5 million dollars |
| Oct 17/03 - LA trades Eric Boulton to Anaheim for $1. |
| Oct 24/03 - LA trades Jason Weimer to Toronto for Peter Worrel. |
| Oct 24/03 - Boston trades Joel Bouchard and Jan Kubista to Vancouver for Marc-Andre Bernier |
| Oct 25/03 - San Jose trades $600,000 to Florida for LA and Bos.'s 8th round 2004 picks |
| Oct 29/03 - NJ trades Karel Pilar, Kevyn Adams and Sean Brown to Carolina for Robert Lang |
| Oct 29/03 - LA trades Ivan Huml, Mon 3rd, Buf 3rd, Was 8th and Atl/LA 9th round 2004 picks to SJ for Todd Fedoruk, SJ 1st 2005 and LA 2nd 2005 |
| Oct 29/03 - Toronto trades Jay Pandolfo and Chris Phillips to Washington for Brendan Witt, Ulf Dahlen and Florida 7th round pick in 2004. |
| Oct 31/03 - NYI trades Brett Mclean and Mapletoft to Toronto for Mark Recchi |