Chicago Steel Player Acquisitions

      The purpose of this will be to document - to the best of my ability - how the Chicago Steel acquired their rostered players for the 2012/13 season.

ACTIVE PLAYERS

1) Alex Sakellaropolous: 2011 pre-season trade with Sioux Falls for G Charlie Lindgren and F Patrick Moore, was Sioux Falls' 6th round futures pick in 2010 (88th overall)
4) Christian Neumann: 2011 entry draft (19th round, final player taken in draft)
5) Johnny Wingels: 2011 entry draft (5th round, 66th overall)
7) Jaccob Slavin: Free agent, winter 2010
9) Nolan Valleau: Trade with Des Moines, 1/19/13
10) Thomas Ebbing: 2012 entry draft (3rd round, 39th overall)
12) Landon Smith: Trade with Cedar Rapids for Phil Maranaccio, 11/21/12
15) Tyler Hill: acquired from Muskegon on 10/24/12 for unknown compensation
16) Tim Davison: Acquired from Youngtown for D Mike Gunn, summer 2011 (was 1st round, 13th overall futures pick of Youngstown, 2010 futures draft)
17) Patrick Polino: 2011 futures draft (1st round, 4th overall)
18) Drew Smolcynski: Acquired from Indiana, 2/6/13
19) Mackenzie MacEachern: 2012 entry draft (1st round, 4th overall)
20) Woody Hudson: Acquired from Indiana on 1/12/13
21) Charlie O'Connor: unknown (was 2009 futures pick of Sioux Falls, 3rd round, 33rd overall)
22) Biagio Lerario: acquired in 2011 futures draft (3rd round, 32nd overall)
23) Ray Pigozzi: Trade with Des Moines on 1/2/12 for F Zach Saar
24) Bill Eiserman: Trade with Tri-City on 12/17/12 for conditional entry draft pick
25) Chris Dodero: 2012 futures draft (3rd round, 36th overall pick, 24th selected due to picks lost to tenders)
26) Danny Fetzer: Free agent, summer 2012 (veteran camp) (previously drafted by Steel in 18th round of 2011 entry draft)
27) Tyler Heinonen: Acquired from Muskegon, 2/6/13
28) Alex Roos: Free agent (possible waiver claim?), winter 2011 (was 2010 futures pick of Cedar Rapids, 2nd round, 16th overall)
31) Chris Nell: 2012 entry draft (1st round, 6th overall)

TRADED/RELEASED PLAYERS

2) Tobias Ruelykke: Free agent, summer 2012, released 1/12/13
3) Joel Benson: 2010 entry draft (1st round, 4th overall), retired 1/4/13
8) Joseph Widmar: 2012 entry draft (2nd round, 19th overall)

9) Philip Maranaccio: Free agent, summer 2011 (non-veteran camp)
11) Christian Heil: unknown, traded to Muskegon 2/6/13
14) Brian Leblanc: Free agent, summer 2012 (veteran camp), traded to Wichita (NAHL), 1/9/13 

15) Ali Thomas: 2011 entry draft (6th round, 76th overall)
18) Jeff Kubiak: 2011 entry draft (2nd phase, 181st overall), traded to Muskegon, 2/6/13
22) John Schilling: 2012 entry draft (7th round of 2nd phase)
27) Danny McNamara: Free agent, summer 2012 (veteran camp), released 1/19/13
35) Alec Derks: Free agent, fall 2012 (2012 open camp, was on green team, made it to vet camp)