Worst Trade Ever ?

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My Leafs have had some doozies, i.e. Tom Kurvers for a first rounder (niedemayer) but this one takes the case.

The Leafs drafted Doug Jarvis then traded him to the Habs (before he played one game for the Leafs!!!!!) for Greg Hubick. Jarvis goes on to become the NHL iron-man, (914 games), won 4 Stanley Cups, now asst coach of Dallas. Meanwhile Greg Hubick played 72 games for the Buds racking up 14 points !!!!

Doug Jarvis on that great late 70's team of the Leafs could have put us over the top.
(Sittler, MacDonald, Thompson Williams, Boutette, Salming, Turnbull, Paltmateer and Jarvis would have been one heck of a core group).

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Nope - you still had Prince Hal as the owner. He would have found a way to screw it up.
 

hockeytown9321

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Funny how Montreal stood pat while the other teams dealt their union guys away...well not so much funny as non-moronic.

Positively. Throw the Sawchuck trades in there too. Jack Adams was actually fairly close to trading Sawchuck to Montreal for Doug Harvey in 1955. Montreal backed out at the last minute and went on to win 5 Cups in a row. Detroit trades Sawchuck to Boston for nothing(admittedly, with Glenn Hall coming up, Sawchuck was tradable), but Adams never liked Hall because he was friends with Lindsay, so he gets traded for nothing and the Red WIngs give up Bucyk to get Sawchuck back. That 2 year span between 55-57 was the reason the Wings went 42 years without winning.
 

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Just copy the trades from the BEST TRADE EVER thread, and look at it from the other perspective.

Exactly. IMO, of course the Gretzky to L.A. trade was the best ever. The Oilers even won the Cup w/o him, so quit yer *****in' already.


Worst trade: Kings get Grant Fuhr & others from Buffalo for Alex Zhitnik & others.

As a King, Fuhr posts a record of 1-7-3, with a 4.04 GAA.

Then Fuhr went to St. Louis where he did quite well for several seasons. (???)
 

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Forsberg for Scottie Upshall, Ryan Parent, 1st and 3rd. The Preds won't get past the 1st round and Forsberg won't be signing in the offseason.
 

chitownhabsfan

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Positively. Throw the Sawchuck trades in there too. Jack Adams was actually fairly close to trading Sawchuck to Montreal for Doug Harvey in 1955. Montreal backed out at the last minute and went on to win 5 Cups in a row. Detroit trades Sawchuck to Boston for nothing(admittedly, with Glenn Hall coming up, Sawchuck was tradable), but Adams never liked Hall because he was friends with Lindsay, so he gets traded for nothing and the Red WIngs give up Bucyk to get Sawchuck back. That 2 year span between 55-57 was the reason the Wings went 42 years without winning.

In addition to not being too happy with Glenn Hall's being a friend of Ted, Glenn had a new style of playing in the nets, he was a butterfly goalie, going down way too much for Adams. Jack Adams didn't like Lindsay cause he was the primary force for forming an NHL Player's Association in the mid 50s and team management saw that as a union.

As has been noted, NHL players in the 50's and 60's were underpaid in comparison to other pro sports and the six owners were making big bucks from the player's labours. There is a book and video about this part of NHL history, called "Net Worth." :(
 

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In addition to not being too happy with Glenn Hall's being a friend of Ted, Glenn had a new style of playing in the nets, he was a butterfly goalie, going down way too much for Adams. Jack Adams didn't like Lindsay cause he was the primary force for forming an NHL Player's Association in the mid 50s and team management saw that as a union.

As has been noted, NHL players in the 50's and 60's were underpaid in comparison to other pro sports and the six owners were making big bucks from the player's labours. There is a book and video about this part of NHL history, called "Net Worth." :(
I think Hall was traded vecause of his performance in the 57 playoffs plus Adams had already reacquired Sawchuk.
 

Kyle McMahon

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A trade that always seems to get overlooked is Marcel Dionne going to LA from Detroit for Terry Harper and Dan Maloney. While it might not be the very worst/most one-sided in terms of what each team got out of it since LA never did anything great with Dionne, it might be the very stupidest. This wasn't like Vancouver trading Neely, who wasn't yet great, or other trades where its a young player who suddenly becomes great when he's traded. Dionne was coming off a 121 point season! He was already a star just coming into his prime. Terry Harper was a 35-year-old defenseman at the end of his career, Dan Maloney had 66 points the year before the trade and had a few average seasons with Detroit and Toronto before he was out of the league. Does anybody know why Detroit pulled such a bone-headed move?
 

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A trade that always seems to get overlooked is Marcel Dionne going to LA from Detroit for Terry Harper and Dan Maloney. While it might not be the very worst/most one-sided in terms of what each team got out of it since LA never did anything great with Dionne, it might be the very stupidest. This wasn't like Vancouver trading Neely, who wasn't yet great, or other trades where its a young player who suddenly becomes great when he's traded. Dionne was coming off a 121 point season! He was already a star just coming into his prime. Terry Harper was a 35-year-old defenseman at the end of his career, Dan Maloney had 66 points the year before the trade and had a few average seasons with Detroit and Toronto before he was out of the league. Does anybody know why Detroit pulled such a bone-headed move?
Dionne declared himself a free agent and said if he wasn't allowed to go to LA he'd bolt to the WHA.
 

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He wanted to go to L.A.? I thought they sent him to another bottom dweller as punishment for his "high" salary demands.

And he stayed on that team for 921 games for fun?

Its more because LA offered Eagleson the highest contract ever known to a player at the time for him.
 

OpAck

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Not the worst, but definitly a bad one for Toronto (Milbury pulled this off):

To the Islanders:
Kenny Jonsson
1st rounder - Roberto Luongo
Sean Haggerty
Darby Hendrickson

To Toronto:
Wendel Clark
Mathieu Schneider
DJ Smith

Haggerty, Smith, and Hendrickson didn't amount to much in the NHL. The oft-injured Wendel Clark was at the tail end of his career, but still managed to put together a 30 goal season for the Leafs. Schneider basically made the deal a little better for the Leafs, though he didn't really last too long there.

Besides the draft pick, Kenny Jonsson turned out to be the best player in that deal and put in over 8 seasons with the Isles. Add the draft pick to select Luongo and that put it way over the top.
 

kovalev27hf

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keep it more recent i'd say the luongo for bertuzzi's medical bills and alex auld was brutal and the thornton deal was awful and then of course pretty much every one of mad mike milbury's crazy isles deals does it for me.
 

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Forsberg for Scottie Upshall, Ryan Parent, 1st and 3rd. The Preds won't get past the 1st round and Forsberg won't be signing in the offseason.

If there's a team that had the depth to lose Upshall, Parent, and a first.....it was Nashville. As for the rest of your post....it's mostly conjecture.

It was a great trade for Philly, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is/will be a bad trade for Nashville.

I find it funny that most people don't even remember Colorado giving up Regehr to rent Theo Fleury. But Bobby Clarke giving up Maxime Ouellet and 3 draft picks to rent Adam Oates is still looked down upon even though Ouellet/draft picks didn't necessarily turn out to be anything worthwhile.
 

jamiebez

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Also failure of the Rangers to sign Gordie Howe to a contract when he attended their training camp ranks up as one of the biggest blunders of all time.
I recently read an interesting profile on Gordie that talked about this.

The Rangers camp was in Winnipeg, and Gordie, being a 15-year old kid away from Saskatchewan for the first time, was very homesick and didn't want to sign with them. When the Wings wanted to sign him a year or two later, there were several other kids he knew at the tryout camp, so he was much more inclined to do the deal. Plus, he was two years older by then.

It's true that the Rangers didn't want him - an egregious error in hindsight - but I'm not so sure he would have signed if they did....
 

arrbez

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To me, the worst trades are the ones that make no sense. Many of the trades listed here turned out awful for one team, but I can at least wrap my head around why they would have done it.

Some just don't make sense though. The Courtnal for Kordic trade isn't the most lopsided in terms of talent lost (Courtnal was a good player, but not a great one), but it's terrible due to the fact that it was done for absolutely no good reason, apart from Ballard not liking the kid (same reason the Leafs passed on Joe Sakic during his draft year as well, depressingly).

The Joe Thornton trade is also awful for the simple reason that Boston could have recieved a much sweet package had they even bothered to ask around to other teams. It just makes no sense.
 

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