Not sure of all the details, but Pat Quinn had a deal in place to bring Gretzky to Vancouver just before he went to LA..maybe someone else can remember?
I doubt Edmonton would trade him to a rival like Vancouver. Canucks tried to sign Gretzky when he was a UFA in '96. That is probably what you are thinking of
I doubt Edmonton would trade him to a rival like Vancouver. Canucks tried to sign Gretzky when he was a UFA in '96. That is probably what you are thinking of
In retrospect that would have been a good trade but we wouldnt have gotten Kono for Battaglia.Avs had a deal on the table with Boston to acquire McLaren and Lapointe. the Avs would have traded Tanguay and Skoula for the two from Boston, however Boston demands Vrbata over Tanguay. The Avs are still high on Vrbata and nix the trade. Later that season they trade Vrbata for Battaglia.
Would have given Colorado quite the blueline. A healthy Morris, McLaren, Blake, Foote, that's a very good top 4.
Avs had a deal on the table with Boston to acquire McLaren and Lapointe. the Avs would have traded Tanguay and Skoula for the two from Boston, however Boston demands Vrbata over Tanguay. The Avs are still high on Vrbata and nix the trade. Later that season they trade Vrbata for Battaglia.
Would have given Colorado quite the blueline. A healthy Morris, McLaren, Blake, Foote, that's a very good top 4.
That offer we made was like in 02 I think.It's weird they offered Tanguay to boston, because I know that Lacroix Offered him along with Aebisher for Theo the summer after the lock-out.
That offer we made was like in 02 I think.
Not sure of all the details, but Pat Quinn had a deal in place to bring Gretzky to Vancouver just before he went to LA..maybe someone else can remember?
Here is an article that mentions it in brief:
http://www.canoe.ca/Gretzky/gretzky_janet_speaks.html
The following story is how it really happened, said Janet Jones.
"The day after the Stanley Cup, Pocklington told Wayne about an offer from Vancouver. Nelson Skalbania called. Wayne said to Pocklington, `I can't believe you coming up to me with this the day after we won the Cup.'
"It was obvious Peter did not have Wayne's backing and he backed out of the Vancouver deal.
"Before the wedding, Wayne had heard to many rumors about being traded and sold - Vancouver, Detroit, Los Angeles. He was hearing them from everywhere. `I brought my car to Edmonton and we had every intention of living the rest of our lives in Edmonton...'
The original Patrick Roy trade was supposed to bring Owen Nolan in Montreal and involve some other guys I don't remember.
By the way, all that's left from that trade was Niklas Sundstrom and he left.
Speaking of Bure, another Habs deal was Bure and Hedican for Recchi and Malakhov in 1999 but Brian Burke wanted Koivu, which killed the deal.
Other Canadiens centered ones included Pat Lafontaine for Shayne Corson and Claude Lemieux back in the late 80s as well as Yzerman for Mathieu Schneider and others around '94.
I remember some jammed fax machine.
From what I know, there were deals on the table from a few teams the the GM would take in move him. They asked #99 where he'd like to go, and it was between LA and Detroit. He picked the Kings.I am a huge, huge Gretzky fan (so not slaggin him) but did he not orchestrate his trade to L.A., was it not at least partially his idea ?
Not sure of all the details, but Pat Quinn had a deal in place to bring Gretzky to Vancouver just before he went to LA..maybe someone else can remember?
From what I know, there were deals on the table from a few teams the the GM would take in move him. They asked #99 where he'd like to go, and it was between LA and Detroit. He picked the Kings.
One that I remember was right before Palffy was traded to LA (and this was when he was a legitimate superstar, top 10 offensive player in the league), the anchors on sportscenter ended their show by saying "and we have recieved reports that the NY rangers have traded for Ziggy Palffy, shipping Todd Harvey and Nicklas Sundstrom to the islanders"
I was so excited, as a ranger fan, only to figure out 5 days later that it went down the shoot.
Other Canadiens centered ones included Pat Lafontaine for Shayne Corson and Claude Lemieux back in the late 80s
as well as Yzerman for Mathieu Schneider and others around '94.
When the Flames traded Nieuwendyk to the Stars, they origionally wanted Todd Harvey, but the Stars would not budge. So the Flames had to "settle" for some unproven kid named Jarome Iginla