Clint Malarchuk (born May 1, 1961) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1981 and 1992.
 He has been a coach for four NHL teams and two minor league teams, most recently the Calgary Flames.
 He was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and lives in Alberta and Nevada.
Brett Connolly (born May 2, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 During his major junior career with the Prince George Cougars, he was named Western Hockey League (WHL) and Canadian Hockey League (CHL) Rookie of the Year for the 2008–09 season.
 Selected sixth overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, he joined the team in 2011–12.
 He was later traded by the Lightning to play with the Boston Bruins.
The Washington Capitals season involved Alexander Ovechkin's rookie season.
 Following the 2004–05 NHL lockout, Alexander Ovechkin played his first game with the Washington Capitals on October 5, 2005, scoring two goals in a 3–2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
 In a shootout against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Ovechkin scored the game-winning goal in a 5–4 win.
 The Capitals finished the 2005–06 season in fifth and last place of the Southeast Division with a 29–41–12 campaign, having 12 more points than the 2003–04 season, good for 27th out of the 30 NHL teams.
 Yet the team played close in every game, playing in 42 one-goal games, although losing two-thirds of those games.
 A notable first was that Washington area native Jeff Halpern was named captain of the hometown Capitals.
 At the 2006 trade deadline, March 8, Witt was traded to the Nashville Predators.
 Several Capitals achieved career highs in several offensive categories, including Matt Pettinger and Dainius Zubrus, who both achieved career highs in all offensive categories.
 Jeff Halpern set a new career high in assists for the second consecutive season.
Ken R. Sabourin (born April 28, 1966) is a Canadian former hockey player who played 74 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Calgary Flames and Washington Capitals during a 13-year professional career in which he won the Turner Cup with the Salt Lake Golden Eagles in 1988.
 Since 2002, Sabourin has been a colour analyst on Washington Capitals radio broadcasts.
Timothy Leif "T. J." Oshie (born December 23, 1986) is an American professional ice hockey right winger for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 He was selected by the St. Louis Blues in the first round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, as the 24th overall pick.
 He attended Everett High School before transferring after his freshman year.
 He then spent the first seven years of his NHL career with the St. Louis Blues before being traded to the Washington Capitals in 2015.
Nathan Walker (born 7 February 1994) is an Australian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League (AHL) and a prospect for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League.
 Walker, who was born in Wales, grew up in Australia and first played ice hockey there.
 He moved to the Czech Republic in 2007 in order to further his career, and joined the junior program of HC Vítkovice, a member of the Czech Extraliga.
 He first played for the senior team in 2011, becoming the first Australian ice hockey player to play for a professional senior team in Europe.
 Along with HC Vítkovice, Walker was loaned to several lower-level Czech teams.
Quebec made a huge trade during the 1987 NHL Entry Draft, as the Nordiques traded away Dale Hunter and Clint Malarchuk to the Washington Capitals for Gaetan Duchesne, Alan Haworth, and the Capitals first round draft pick in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft, in which the Nordiques selected Joe Sakic.
 Haworth had an injury plagued season in 1986–87, appearing in only 50 games, however, he scored 25 goals and 41 points.
 In 1985–86, Haworth had a career high 34 goals and 73 points for the Capitals.
 Duchesne had a career high 52 points with Washington in 1986–87, as he scored 17 goals and had 35 assists.
 Joe Sakic was the Nordiques second selection in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft, as he scored 60 goals and 133 points in 72 games with the Swift Current Broncos of the Western Hockey League (WHL), as Quebec selected Bryan Fogarty with their first pick.
 Fogarty had 70 points in 56 games with the Kingston Canadians of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).
Adam Robert Oates (born August 27, 1962) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player, former co-head coach for the New Jersey Devils and former head coach for the Washington Capitals.
 He played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Philadelphia Flyers, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Edmonton Oilers.
 Known as an elite playmaker, his career total of 1,079 assists was the fifth highest total in NHL history at the time of his 2004 retirement.
 After retiring as a player, he served as an assistant coach for the Tampa Bay Lightning and New Jersey Devils prior to joining the Capitals as their head coach for two seasons between 2012 and 2014.
 On January 27, 2017, in a ceremony during the All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, Oates was part of the second group of players to be named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
The South Carolina Stingrays are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in North Charleston, South Carolina.
 The Stingrays play in the South Division of the ECHL's Eastern Conference.
 They play their home games at the North Charleston Coliseum.
 The Carolina Ice Palace, also located in North Charleston, serves as a practice facility and backup arena for the Stingrays.
 Established in 1993, the team has been owned by a conglomerate of local business owners since 1995.
 The team was affiliated with the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League and the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League starting in 2004 and ending in July 2012 when the Capitals announced their affiliation with the ECHL's Reading Royals.
 On June 26, 2014, the Washington Capitals announced an affiliation agreement with the Stingrays for the 2014–15 season.
Shawn Simpson (born August 10, 1968, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who is currently an on-air personality on TSN 1200 radio in Ottawa.
 After retiring as a player, Simpson worked in the front office for both the Washington Capitals and the Toronto Maple Leafs organizations.
 He was the first goaltender chosen in the 1986 NHL draft, taken 60th overall by the Washington Capitals.
 Simpson was part of the Canadian national junior team that was disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Championship for their involvement in the infamous "Punch-up in Piestany".
 Simpson was also a 1st-team OHL all-star in 1987.

Question: What Grand Prairie, Alberta-born hockey player was traded in 1987 to the Washington Capitals?
Answer: Clint Malarchuk