Worst (or Best) Trades of all Time

[charger77]

The Florida Panthers trade the 1st pick (Marc-Andre Fleury) and 73rd pick (Daniel Carcillo) to the Pittsburgh Penguins for the third pick (Nathan Horton), the 55th pick (Stefan Meyer) and Mikael Samuelsson.

Essentially its Samuelsson and picks to get the pick that gave the Penguins Marc-Andre Fleury. Samuelsson as a journeyman winds up in Detroit and loses to Fleury in the 2009 Final.

-Dan

[Brendan]

The Florida Panthers trade the 1st pick (Marc-Andre Fleury) and 73rd pick (Daniel Carcillo) to the Pittsburgh Penguins for the third pick (Nathan Horton), the 55th pick (Stefan Meyer) and Mikael Samuelsson.

Essentially its Samuelsson and picks to get the pick that gave the Penguins Marc-Andre Fleury. Samuelsson as a journeyman winds up in Detroit and loses to Fleury in the 2009 Final.

-Dan

I don't see how that is a bad trade. Samuelsson wasn't really important to the deal it was mainly Fluery for Thronton. Flordia couldn't just straight out swap the picks. Fluery and Horton have both grown into solid players for their teams, Fluery is on a better team thats all.

[Coast2CoastAM2006]

a trade that hasn't been mentioned.

Pit: Kevin Hatcher

Dal: Sergei Zubov

pittsburgh got completely raped on this one. Hatcher was on the down side of his career and really didn't do much in PIttsburgh or New york for that matter, while Zubov became a very key component of the Stars cup run.

on the flip side,

Dallas: Jason Arnott, Randy McKay

NJ: Jamie Langenbrunner, Joe Nieuwendyk

Dallas really hasn't been the same since that trade. Arnott didn't produce like the stars wanted him to and he was gone in a couple of seasons. McKay i think left in the off season. While Langenbrunner has been a really good player for New Jersey. This is a trade most stars fans would like to have back. Langenbrunner was another important piece in the Stars cup run. Newy was on the downside of his career, though.

[charger77]

The Florida Panthers trade the 1st pick (Marc-Andre Fleury) and 73rd pick (Daniel Carcillo) to the Pittsburgh Penguins for the third pick (Nathan Horton), the 55th pick (Stefan Meyer) and Mikael Samuelsson.

Essentially its Samuelsson and picks to get the pick that gave the Penguins Marc-Andre Fleury. Samuelsson as a journeyman winds up in Detroit and loses to Fleury in the 2009 Final.

-Dan

I don't see how that is a bad trade. Samuelsson wasn't really important to the deal it was mainly Fluery for Thronton. Flordia couldn't just straight out swap the picks. Fluery and Horton have both grown into solid players for their teams, Fluery is on a better team thats all.

I think we ran out of bad trades a while ago.

Lets call this one an interesting trade.

-Dan

[B-Rich]

Heres a doozy

1980 Lakers trade Don Ford to the Cavs for a 1982 draft pick.

Ford only plays 35 games in Cleveland, Cavs pick ends up being #1 overall and the pick was used to pick James Worthy.

On a similar note, in 1979, the Jazz traded their first rounder for Gail Goodrich. That first rounder became the first pick in the draft, used to select Magic Johnson.

Actually, it didn't work quite like that. The rules were a bit different back then, and there was no "trade" per se involved, and looking back on the rules, the reason why (and method of how) the Lakers got Magic was pretty stupid.

In 1975-76 season, Gail Goodrich played out his option year with the Lakers, which allowed him to be a "free agent" the following season (you'll see why I put that term in quotes in a second). In the summer of 1976, as a "free agent" he signed a three-year deal with the New Orleans Jazz. He played those three years and retired after the '78-'79 season.

But the League rules at the time allowed a team to recieve compensation from the "receiving" team for losing a veteran "free agent" (can you believe this rule? No way it would fly today). It was only after dickering (involving the League office as arbiter) that the Lakers and Jazz agreed to send New Orleans' highest pick from the far-upcoming 1979 draft (the year Goodrich retired) to Los Angeles, along with a 1978 number one pick and an additional second round pick. It just so happened that the Jazz finished the 1978-79 season with the worst record in the NBA, so the Lakers were eligible for one of the top two picks of that draft (until 1985, the two teams with the worst records flipped a coin to determine which team would receive the top pick). As the Lakers won the coin flip against the Chicago Bulls, they selected Magic Johnson.

[Cujo]

Or there's that one soccer player who got traded for a slab of meat...

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id...149&cc=5901

[Waffles]

Without this trade, there may not have been a late 90's Yankee dynasty:

MARINERS GET:

Russ Davis

Sterling Hitchcock

YANKEES GET:

Tino Martinez

Jeff Nelson

Jim Mecir

[pollux]

How about this one:

Patrick Roy and Mike Keane to Colorado.

Jocelyn Thibault, Martin Rucinsky and Andrei Kovalenko to Montreal.

[Blitz]

The Hasek trade already got mentioned, but here are a couple of other Sabres deals where they came out on top...

TO NYI: Pierre Turgeon

TO BUF: Pat LaFontaine

TO CGY: Rhett Warrener and Steve Reinprecht

TO BUF: Chris Drury

TO PHX: Chris Gratton

TO BUF: Daniel Briere

[BBTV]

Jays trade Roy Halladay to Phillies for Kyle Kendrick and first-base coach Davey Lopes.

[NEW.ERA]

The Hasek trade already got mentioned, but here are a couple of other Sabres deals where they came out on top...

TO NYI: Pierre Turgeon

TO BUF: Pat LaFontaine

TO CGY: Rhett Warrener and Steve Reinprecht

TO BUF: Chris Drury

TO PHX: Chris Gratton

TO BUF: Daniel Briere

The deal is bad now but both Warrener and Reinprecht played big rolls during the build up to the 04' playoffs and big rolls during the playoffs them self in 2004.

[BrySmalls]

Jays trade Roy Halladay to Phillies for Kyle Kendrick and first-base coach Davey Lopes.

Wishful thinking or did this happen?

[Puck]

This trade could have been the biggest win win deal in NHL history if it wasn't for the two main players of this trade (Forsberg, Lindros) weren't hampered by injuries throughout there career both could be still playing or both could be capping off a hall of fame careers.

Philadelphia Flyers

Trade: Peter Forsberg, Kerry Huffman, Steve Duchesne, Mike Ricci, Ron Hextall, a draft pick they turned into Jocelyn Thibault, Chris Simon and $15 million

to the

Quebec Nordiques

for Eric Lindros

Result: Forsberg going to Colorado was the cherry on top towards two Stanley Cups, Lindros made the Flyers the beast of the east but never quite could get it done in the playoffs only appearing in one Stanley Cup Final in 1997 when they ended up getting dismantled by the Detroit Red Wings. Both won Hart Trophy's and I'm not saying that both are out if the running to get into the Hall of Fame but it shows just what injuries can do to star players.

Even a healthy Lindros wouldn't have got Philadelphia a cup.

And is anyone saying Lindros belongs in the Hall of Fame? He was good, but Steve Larmer had better numbers than Lindros and Larmer isn't in the Hall of Fame.

Lindros was also 100% responsible for John LeClair's 50-goal seasons. LeClair is / was nothing without Lindros. Not saying he was a HOFer, but he really had a much bigger impact than even most Flyer fans give him credit for.

As a former LA Kings fan, I'm going to have to disagree with you on LeClair when he was with Montreal you could see he could score. He could have gotten 50 with any half-decent center. By the time the Flyers had a deep enough team to be a contender, it was the 21st century, and Lindros had already flown the coup.

[Drew22]

Jays trade Roy Halladay to Phillies for Kyle Kendrick and first-base coach Davey Lopes.

Wishful thinking or did this happen?

Seriously?

[floydnimrod]

The Reds-Rangers Trade where Cincinnati got Edinson Volquez and Danny Herrera, while Texas got Josh Hamilton, seemed like it could have been one of the best trades of the past 10 years during the first year, but now that Volquez and Hamilton are succumbing to injuries, Danny Herrera, who was seen as a throw in at the time, might be the part that makes it more of a win for the Reds.

[CMUBrent]

To Detroit:

Chris Chelios

To Chicago:

Anders Eriksson

1999 1st Round Pick (Steve McCarthy)

2001 1st Round Pick (Adam Munro)

I remember how the sports talk shows were howling about how the Wings were "mortgaging their future" with this and the other 1999 deadline deals. I never was impressed with Anders Eriksson, who I thought had already reached his peak. When this trade happened, I thought the Wings would be all right in this deal if they could get 4, maybe 5 years out of Chelios, who was 37 at the time. Never thought he'd play for 10 years in Detroit!

The Wings definitely got the better of this deal. Neither draft picks made that big of an impact on the Hawks and Eriksson has bounced around (and sometimes out of) the league.

[NEW.ERA]

To Tampa Bay:

2nd Round Pick (Winston Moss)

4th Round Pick (Bruce Hill)

To San Francisco

Steve Young

[Top Shelf]

The Hasek trade already got mentioned, but here are a couple of other Sabres deals where they came out on top...

TO NYI: Pierre Turgeon

TO BUF: Pat LaFontaine

TO CGY: Rhett Warrener and Steve Reinprecht

TO BUF: Chris Drury

TO PHX: Chris Gratton

TO BUF: Daniel Briere

Don't forget this beauty:

To FLA: Mike Wilson

To BUF: Rhett Warrener, and Florida's 5th round pick in 1999 (#138)

The pick turned out to be Ryan Miller.

[Mac the Knife]

November 5, 1976:

The Pittsburgh Pirates trade catcher Manny Sanguillen to the Oakland A's for manager Chuck Tanner.

April 4, 1978:

The Oakland A's trade Sanguillen back to the Pirates for Miguel Dilone, Elias Sosa and Mike Edwards.

October 1979:

Tanner and Sanguillen celebrate winning the 1979 World Series.

[boshalladay]

Jays trade Roy Halladay to Phillies for Kyle Kendrick and first-base coach Davey Lopes.

I hate you.