TheDebater
Peace be upon you
It's only pretty good if you forget about what was dealt to obtain Duchene.
At one point, sports fans have to move on from certain decisions. You win some and you lose some, maybe in Dorion's case; you win some and lose many but I digress. You can go back with any team and pick one trade and follow its history back towards the original seed and dissect it all you want until it becomes a fragment of space, but it really accomplishes nothing for the betterment of the teams future.
For example, nobody ever makes the statement, "well we basically lost Yashin, Chara and Spezza for Nick Paul " (I believe he is the only piece left from the Spezza trade?). Because if you really want to get specific, we traded Yashin for Spezza (2nd overall pick in 2001), Chara and Bill Muckalt. Chara walks, Spezza is later traded for Chiasson, Paul and a 2nd, and Bill Muckalt is, well who cares.
-Chiasson is traded for Patrick Sieloff, who is later traded for Gibbons who is now gone.
- Second round pick Gabriel Gagne is traded to Leafs for Klimchuk who I do not believe is with the organization anymore
So with that logic, the 2001 trade was Yashin for Nick Paul .
Edit: Correction, Klimchuk is still with Belleville, my mistake.