Worst trades in recent years

[sweetblazer 0]

After the attention the thorton trade is geting, Im wondering your thought on the worst trades in recent history are.

Id have to say either Luongo and Jokinen in exchange for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha.

Or another islanders trade

Draft pick (jason spezza),zdeno chara, and bill muckalt for alexei yashin.

Wut do you think?

[beaucoup_fish 0]

Kovalev for four no-names. Jagr for three no-names.

[2048 0]

New York Rangers traded Mattias Norstrom, Ray Ferraro, Ian Laperriere, Nathan Lafayette and 4th round selection (Sean Blanchard) in 1997 to the Los Angeles Kings for Marty McSorley, Jari Kurri and Shane Churla.

Ferraro went on to score 400 goals and Norstrom is the stay at home D who the Rangers haven't had in forever.

Kurri played 14 games as a ranger, Churla spent most of his time in NY with a broken nose and McSorely played even fewer games as a ranger than Kurri--9!

Also: Pittsburgh Penguins traded Petr Nedved, Sean Pronger and Chris Tamer to the New York Rangers for Alexei Kovalev and Harry York.

Other great ones from the Smith era in NYC...apparently Bure could have been had for Malholtra. Same story with Radek Dvorak during his Czechmate year and Todd Bertuzzi.

[Vapor 0]

Kovalev for four no-names. Jagr for no-names.

go rangers!!!!

[43%burnt 0]

the pens trades are awful, but sadly most were because of money reasons. the worst trade in history is another pens one: naslund to the canucks for alex stojanov. what a fantastic bag of suck for the pens.

[Eazy_b97 1]

The Luongo and Yashin deals rank up there.

New York Rangers traded Rem Murray, Tomas Kloucek and Marek Zidlicky to the Nashville Predators for Mike Dunham.

Recent Leaf Deals:

McCabe for Karpotsev was a steal.

San Jose Sharks traded Owen Nolan to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Alyn McCauley, Brad Boyes and a 1st round selection (later traded to Boston - Boston selected Mark Stuart) in 2003. That didn't work out well at all. I think Nolan played 6 games in the play-offs and wasn't healthy for any of them.

[43%burnt 0]

i think the islanders (....and maybe now the bruins?) are the worst when it comes to trading talent away. chara, luongo, bertuzzi, spezza (the pick that got him), mccabe, palffy.....many more. i can't understand how milbery lasted this long.

[beaucoup_fish 0]

The Luongo and Yashin deals rank up there.

New York Rangers traded Rem Murray, Tomas Kloucek and Marek Zidlicky to the Nashville Predators for Mike Dunham.

Recent Leaf Deals:

McCabe for Karpotsev was a steal.

San Jose Sharks traded Owen Nolan to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Alyn McCauley, Brad Boyes and a 1st round selection (later traded to Boston - Boston selected Mark Stuart) in 2003. That didn't work out well at all. I think Nolan played 6 games in the play-offs and wasn't healthy for any of them.

And they gave up Brad Boyes. What a boneheaded move.

[beaucoup_fish 0]

i think the islanders (....and maybe now the bruins?) are the worst when it comes to trading talent away. chara, luongo, bertuzzi, spezza (the pick that got him), mccabe, palffy.....many more. i can't understand how milbery lasted this long.

And still going...

[Eazy_b97 1]

:)............and Brad Boyes, he's the only "tough" part of the deal. Stajan>McCauley.

I think the tough thing with the Isles trades is, they weren't salary dumps. Jagr, Kovy, out of Pitts were, where Milbury actually though "this will make my team better". They've had an incredible number of "Stud" D-men come through there, it's insane.

[Chadd 916]

the pens trades are awful, but sadly most were because of money reasons. the worst trade in history is another pens one: naslund to the canucks for alex stojanov. what a fantastic bag of suck for the pens.

That's the only one that wasn't dictated solely by $$$$ and that makes it worse to me.

[43%burnt 0]

the pens trades are awful, but sadly most were because of money reasons. the worst trade in history is another pens one: naslund to the canucks for alex stojanov. what a fantastic bag of suck for the pens.

That's the only one that wasn't dictated solely by $$$$ and that makes it worse to me.

lol, as if it wasn't bad enough already!

[Fury of One 6]

Kris Draper for a dollar? A steal for the Red Wings.

[Dangles 0]

Naslund deal has to be right up there.

[golfpuck 0]

no team out does the leafs for bad trades

in the quinn era...

owen nolan

brian leetch

glen wesley

dmitri kristich

rick jackman

steve sullivan, jd smith (on waivers)

mikael renberg

theres only one trade quinn has won, mccabe for karpotsev..

in the 80s..

john kordic for russ courtnall

who can forget the tom kurvers for 1st round pick in the eric lindros draft year

[43%burnt 0]

no team out does the leafs for bad trades

in the quinn era...

owen nolan

brian leetch

glen wesley

dmitri kristich

rick jackman

steve sullivan, jd smith (on waivers)

mikael renberg

theres only one trade quinn has won, mccabe for karpotsev..

in the 80s..

john kordic for russ courtnall

who can forget the tom kurvers for 1st round pick in the eric lindros draft year

i thought leetch was pretty damn good for the leafs in his stint.

[beaucoup_fish 0]

the pens trades are awful, but sadly most were because of money reasons. the worst trade in history is another pens one: naslund to the canucks for alex stojanov. what a fantastic bag of suck for the pens.

That's the only one that wasn't dictated solely by $$$$ and that makes it worse to me.

The Pens had been waiting on Naslund long enough...he didn't become a good player until '98-99 when he was 26, and an elite player '00-01, when he was 28...it was a shit deal in hindsight for sure, but at the rate he was going in Pittsburgh ('cept for one decent year in '95-96), it didn't look like he was going to pan out...

That's like blaming Montreal for not keeping John LeClair when he sucked wind until he went to Philly.

[Chadd 916]

the pens trades are awful, but sadly most were because of money reasons. the worst trade in history is another pens one: naslund to the canucks for alex stojanov. what a fantastic bag of suck for the pens.

That's the only one that wasn't dictated solely by $$$$ and that makes it worse to me.

The Pens had been waiting on Naslund long enough...he didn't become a good player until '98-99 when he was 26, and an elite player '00-01, when he was 28...it was a shit deal in hindsight for sure, but at the rate he was going in Pittsburgh ('cept for one decent year in '95-96), it didn't look like he was going to pan out...

That's like blaming Montreal for not keeping John LeClair when he sucked wind until he went to Philly.

Naslund was a flop before that, no doubt about it.

[Fletch 219]

who can forget the tom kurvers for 1st round pick in the eric lindros draft year

Which turned out to be Scott Niedermayer... ;)

[milbs06 0]

what about any trade that involves wayne gretzky?

[beaucoup_fish 0]

Howabout the Winnipeg Jets for the Phoenix Coyotes, and the Quebec Nordiques for the Colorado Avalanche? Now those were crap trades. <_<

[supahdon 0]

what about any trade that involves wayne gretzky?

Roman Vopat, Patrice Tardif, Craig Johnson, and a 1st rounder (Matt Zultek)? Not that the Blues really got anything out of it either........

[kosydar 0]

no team out does the leafs for bad trades

in the quinn era...

owen nolan

brian leetch

glen wesley

dmitri kristich

rick jackman

steve sullivan, jd smith (on waivers)

mikael renberg

The Nolan trade sucked because he was hurt all the time. Had he actually played a full season or two and been productive, it'd have been worth it.

Leetch was a stud when he was with us, he averaged like 30 minutes a game. 100% worth it.

Wesley- result oriented. If they had made it deeper in the playoffs or won the Cup, people would be saying that picking him up was key.

Jackman- as far as I'm concerned, he was going nowhere. Not to say Berehowsky is half way decent, but neither of them could really crack the roster consistantly.

[beaucoup_fish 0]

no team out does the leafs for bad trades

Or for signing overpriced, former star free agents in the twilights of their careers...

[beaucoup_fish 0]

Cam Neely & a first round pick which turned out to be Glen Wesley for Barry Pederson...