Two premium centers and a pair of playoff-tested wings were among the biggest names on the move at the NHL trade deadline Wednesday. Both Calgary and Columbus were looking for centers to work on scoring lines, and they added Olli Jokinen and Antoine Vermette, respectively. Bill Guerin, Mark Recchi, Erik Cole and a host of others also changed addresses. Let’s take a quick look at how some of these transplanted souls were doing before they were dealt.

The Flames picked up Jokinen from Phoenix before the deadline, giving them a scoring threat who has tallied more than 30 goals in four of the last five seasons. He’s a long shot to reach the 30 plateau in 2008-09, but with 21 on the season, he’ll give it a go with a new team and new linemates, who may include Jarome Iginla. Jokinen had a hat trick on Feb. 21, in the Coyotes’ 6-3 win over the Kings, and he tallied four goals and four assists in his last eight games with Phoenix, a stretch in which his team managed just two wins.

Seeded sixth, two points ahead of Edmonton, Nashville and Anaheim in a tight Western Conference race, the Columbus Blue Jackets are in pursuit of the franchise’s first-ever playoff appearance. The Blue Jackets found the center they needed in Vermette, acquired from Ottawa, and he presumably will center Rich Nash and Kristian Huselius on the first line. Vermette, who has just nine goals and 28 points after a career-best 24-29-53 season a year ago, has had a scoring touch of late. He recorded two goals and seven assists in his final 10 games with the Senators, though he was held pointless in the last three, all Ottawa losses.

The Penguins added some depth in the 38-year-old Guerin, who once was a big goal scorer and brings 105 games of playoff experience to a young team. In his last 12 games with the Islanders, however, dating to the start of February, Guerin managed just one goal and two assists. All but three of his 16 goals on the season were scored before New Year’s Day. Maybe Guerin, who scored eight goals in 16 games after a late-season move to San Jose two years ago, will be recharged by a playoff race.

Recchi, another playoff-tested forward, was dealt from Tampa Bay to Boston, giving the Bruins a veteran of 140 postseason games. Recchi, who turned 41 in February, scored 13 goals and 45 points for the Lightning this season. He’s found the net just twice in his last 13 games, but a five-assist night in his Tampa Bay finale on Sunday sparked an 8-6 victory in Calgary. Recchi had a goal and seven assists in his final four contests, and he’ll make his Boston debut with a four-game point-scoring streak.

Just eight months after he was dealt to Edmonton, Cole returns to the team with which he had spent his first six NHL campaigns. The Carolina Hurricanes reacquired the 30-year-old veteran, who had 16 goals for the Oilers after averaging 27 goals a year over the previous three seasons. Cole has been extremely streaky in an off year. He was held without a point during an eight-game stretch in early February, but he rebounded with four goals and an assist in his final seven games with Edmonton.

The New York Rangers added career-long Maple Leaf Nik Antropov, who has 21 goals and is on course to at least match his career high of 26 goals and 56 points, both recorded last season. He’s managed to approach his 2007-08 goal total despite a five-week stretch without one, which carried into late January. The 29-year-old veteran ended the drought with goals in three straight games at the end of the month, and beginning with that surge, he tallied eight goals and 11 points in his final 15 games as a Leaf.