Cut and pasted from an article about the 'Hawks moves in the last year. It's always comforting to be reminded that other teams screw up too.
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The Sharp trade and its aftermath
Sharp being traded was one of those things that seemed inevitable given his age and contract situation, and on July 10, not even two weeks after Saad was traded to Columbus, Sharp and Johns were traded to the Dallas Stars for Ryan Garbutt and Trevor Daley.
Before the 2015-16 season was over neither player the Blackhawks received in the trade would remain with the team. They now have nothing to show for it in terms of players on the ice.
On Dec. 14 the Blackhawks traded Daley, who never seemed to fit on their blue line or earn the trust of Joel Quenneville, to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Rob Scuderi. Daley would go on to be a key part of the Penguins' defense and play a huge role in their Stanley Cup run (he was the first person to get the Cup from captain Sidney Crosby) before he broke his ankle in the Eastern Conference Finals.
A little more than a month later, Garbutt was traded to the Anaheim Ducks for Jiri Sekac, who the Blackhawks would eventually lose on waivers to the Arizona Coyotes after he played in six games for the team.
Three days before the trade deadline, Scuderi was traded to the Kings for Christian Ehrhoff with the Blackhawks retaining a portion of his contract that will remain on the books through the end of the 2016-17 season. Ehrhoff played in eight games for the Blackhawks and is an unrestricted free agent.
The trade as it stands today: Patrick Sharp and Stephen Johns for salary cap space