What trades turned out to be very lopsided for one of the teams?

Voight

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Cory Schneider for a 1st. That's a steal for a #1 goaltender

Horvat's looking like a really solid player so I wouldn't say its a steal just yet. Ok Schneider has played great for NJ but its not like Horvats been a bust or anything. Wr'll have to wait a couple seasons to se show Horvat develops.
 

ecemleafs

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Park and Ratelle for Esposito and Vadnais. Not a bust trade, but Rangers lost this deal in a trade that involved superstars.
 
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This looks ridiculously lopsided now, but at the time that it happened the deal appeared fairly even. In fact, some pundits believed Hartford was getting the better end of the deal.

Ron Francis had been stripped of the Whalers' captaincy by Rick Ley and was having somewhat of a down year. Meanwhile, John Cullen was wracking up points with the Penguins, having scored 31 goals and 94 points 65 games when the trade was made. This wasn't the first time Cullen had surpassed the 30-goal or 90-point mark either as he had done so in 1989-90. Some felt the Penguins were making a big mistake parting with one of the league's top scorers. As it turned out, the change of scenery was just what Francis needed. Cullen, on the other hand, couldn't maintain the same scoring pace in Hartford. He put up a solid season in 1991-92 but it was nothing like what he had done in Pittsburgh and injuries started to hamper his career. Considering that he eventually ended up back in Pittsburgh by 1994-95, it goes without saying the Pens made the right move.

In the case of Ulf Samuelsson and Zarley Zalapski you're basically looking at a swap of a skilled, offensive defense man for a more physical stay at home defense man. Both guys were roughly of equal trade value at the time, but I think from a Pittsburgh perspective Zalapski became expendable when Larry Murphy was acquired from Minnesota in December 1990. The Penguins needed to beef up their blue line after having parted with Jim Johnson and Chris Dahlquist in that trade with the North Stars and Samuelsson was ideal.

As for Grant Jennings and Jeff Parker, well...the Penguins got 248 games (regular season and playoffs) out of Jennings while the Whalers only got 4 NHL games out of Parker...'nuff said.

Well, that's the point of this thread. Trades that perhaps didn't look so bad then, but eventually turned out to be terrible for one side.
 

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Selanne to Anaheim for Tverdosky and Kilger. Stupid Phoenix owners orchestrated this trade when it was determined that once the team moved to the desert the following year the team would not be able to afford both Tkachuk and Selanne. They felt Tkachuk would be the better player long term.:shakehead

At the time, Tverdosky was thought to be a future elite offensive defenseman while Kilger showed promise as a power forward who would score plenty of goals. Tverdosky never became an elite scorer from the blueline (more like a good top-4 d-man but certainly not a #1) and Kilger ended up becoming a third line journeyman.
 

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Selanne to Anaheim for Tverdosky and Kilger. Stupid Phoenix owners orchestrated this trade when it was determined that once the team moved to the desert the following year the team would not be able to afford both Tkachuk and Selanne. They felt Tkachuk would be the better player long term.:shakehead

At the time, Tverdosky was thought to be a future elite offensive defenseman while Kilger showed promise as a power forward who would score plenty of goals. Tverdosky never became an elite scorer from the blueline (more like a good top-4 d-man but certainly not a #1) and Kilger ended up becoming a third line journeyman.
Awful trade but even at this time Kilger's ceiling was much lower than you think.
Despite being a high draft pick it was evident that he would be only an average Nhl player.
Kilger became even worse than that.
On the other hand OLEG looked like a franchise guy.
 

CC96

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Not really. It'll suck if Vermette walks, but he's been tremendous, and is even outscoring Turris so far this year (while also having the edge defensively). I know he wasn't in the original trade, but they flipped the pick for him

We also used the 2nd. acquired from trading Rundblad to Chicago for Christian Dvorak, who's starting to look like a huge draft steal.
 

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Bunch of goons for almost an entire 2nd line. St Louis and Vancouver. St. Louis went from second in the league overall in wins to a mediocre team, Vancouver becomes Cup Finalists eventually.

March 5, 1991

Geoff Courtnall, Robert Dirk, Sergio Momesso, Cliff Ronning and St. Louis' 5th round choice (Brian Loney) in 1992 Entry Draft for Dan Quinn and Garth Butcher

And getting Jeff Brown, Bret Hedican and Nathan Lafayette in compensation for St. Louis signing Petr Nedved helped a lot as well. :)

There was this trade as well.

September 15, 1987

Greg Adams, Kirk McLean and New Jersey's 2nd round choice in 1988 Entry Draft (Leif Rohlin) traded to Vancouver by New Jersey for Patrik Sundstrom and Vancouver's 2nd (Jeff Christian) and 4th (Matt Ruchty) round choices in 1988 Entry Draft
 

The Zetterberg Era

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All time Kris Draper to Detroit for a dollar to Winnipeg.

More along the lines of a normal trade the Wings sent Adam Oates in a disaster trade to St. Louis. Even with no real center spot available and a move felt necessary, that turned out extremely lopsided and is generally looked at as one of he worst trades executed by the Wings.
 

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Blues trading Shanahan to the Whalers for Pronger. Shanahan asked out within a year and was traded again, while Pronger became a fearsomestaple on the Blues' D and was a Norris and Hart trophy beast. The funniest thing about that is that Shanahan was traded simply because he slept with a teammate's wife while with the Blues.
 

Dr Pepper

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Dallas snagged Sergei Zubov from Pittsburgh, as he was just entering his prime (led the Rangers in scoring in '94).....for the princely sum of Kevin Hatcher. :laugh:
 

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Blues trading Shanahan to the Whalers for Pronger. Shanahan asked out within a year and was traded again, while Pronger became a fearsomestaple on the Blues' D and was a Norris and Hart trophy beast. The funniest thing about that is that Shanahan was traded simply because he slept with a teammate's wife while with the Blues.

Craig Janney's then wife. That trade was forced though.
 

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probably already been mentioned, but each time Luongo has been traded, the deal has been extremely one sided towards the team that got luongo.

Fla-NYI

Fla got
Luongo AND Olli Jokinen

for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha

Luongo to Van

Panthers got the washed up version of Todd Bertuzzi, a meh Bryan Allen, and the one year wonder of Alex Auld

Luongo back to FLA
Luongo for Markstrom and Matthias
 

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Horvat's looking like a really solid player so I wouldn't say its a steal just yet. Ok Schneider has played great for NJ but its not like Horvats been a bust or anything. Wr'll have to wait a couple seasons to se show Horvat develops.

Anytime you can trade a backup goalie for a 9th overall pick, you win. That was a horrible trade
 

Chyep

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Gilmour, Natress, Manderville, Macoun and Wamsley to the Leafs for Leeman, Berube, Godynyuk,Petit and Reese. I am assuming most on here are too young to remember this trade as it turned out to be one of the few times the Leafs actually fleeced the other team.
The kicker on this one was that when Cliff Fletcher wast the GM of the Flames there were always rumors of him trying to get Leeman to Calgary. He becomes GM of the Leafts, and Leeman is the first guy out of town.
 

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