One Winged Angel
You Can't Escape
The Joe Sakic one inspired me to make this thread. The summer of 2001 was a fun one for me in general. One of the things I distinctly remember was checking out websites online trying to see what the Rangers were going to do next and watching ESPN for rumor updates.
The big one that had me going was when it was reported that the Rangers had a deal in place with the Penguins to send Jaromir Jagr to Broadway for Jan Hlavac, Kim Johnsson and Label Brendl. Yes, the same package that ended up being sent to Philly for Eric Lindros. Reports were that the deal was about to go down and Patrick for whatever reason had backed out at the last second and then turned around and dealt him to Washington for a package that was significantly worse (Frantisek Kucera, Ross Lupashuk and Kris Beech) instead.
Although Jagr came for peanuts 2 seasons later, I can only imagine what a motivated Jagr in NY would have done then and the chain of events that would have occurred in the following seasons.
The big one that had me going was when it was reported that the Rangers had a deal in place with the Penguins to send Jaromir Jagr to Broadway for Jan Hlavac, Kim Johnsson and Label Brendl. Yes, the same package that ended up being sent to Philly for Eric Lindros. Reports were that the deal was about to go down and Patrick for whatever reason had backed out at the last second and then turned around and dealt him to Washington for a package that was significantly worse (Frantisek Kucera, Ross Lupashuk and Kris Beech) instead.
Although Jagr came for peanuts 2 seasons later, I can only imagine what a motivated Jagr in NY would have done then and the chain of events that would have occurred in the following seasons.