Biggest Draft Day Trades
- Thread starter jnk96
- Start date
Tak7
Registered User
The Lindros deal
The Sedins
Two that come immediately to mind
While it wasn't as WOW, there was something very fun about the Schneider-Devils trade too.
Trades that make the crowd go... "OHHHHHHHHHHHEYYY" on the draft floor. Always cool.
Side note - great movie, a must watch for sports fans
The Sedins
Two that come immediately to mind
While it wasn't as WOW, there was something very fun about the Schneider-Devils trade too.
Trades that make the crowd go... "OHHHHHHHHHHHEYYY" on the draft floor. Always cool.
Side note - great movie, a must watch for sports fans
Jumptheshark
Rebooting myself
the last two trade in that movie were a joke--- a few NFL guys even said if the writers had researhed a few deals over the years they actually would have been a better plot
as for the nhl--sedins draft year had everyone bringout their slideruler to figure out who was going where
Lindros deal was a friggen drama
The best draft story I heard comes from the 1981 draft--not a trade but a wtf moment--Bobby carpenter was a highly rated player MA---Hartford was drafting 4th that year. As the draft unfolds--Jets takes Hawerchuck first --this was a slame dunk. LAK were next--they had the triple crown line but needed secondary scoring--they were taking a FW--Back in the early 80's it was all about the OHL--Because that is where wayne g came from that league was scouted to death--LAK took Doug Smith--before you crap on it he was ranked in the top 5. Then comes 3--Washington--they needed D and the names mentioned were Jim Benning (yes that Jim Benning) and Joe Cirella. I will pause to educate you younger posters--back in the early 80's --yes mircle on ice had just happened but US unis were still not scouted--let alone high school-- Caps brain trust decided with only a little scouting information and having only seen a few games live--they were taking C Bobby Carpenter from MA(while highly ranked he was an American in high school and now it is normal--81 not so much)---for those who do not know US geography Danvers (where he is was playing) is about 3 hours from where the Hartford whalers play. Washington drafted Bobby C-this lead to some very uncomforable moments at the Hartford table--where they had a Bobby Cartpenter jersey set to go--that was not the uncomfortable part--the uncomfortable part was when one of the men got up the Hartford table and head to Washtington table--how sure was Hartford they were going to get BC--Bob Cartpenters father was at their table
Hartford quickly had to run down their list of players and the only center they had ranked was some guy named Ron Francis
Voight
#winning
Lindros deal was a year after he was drafted.
The movie was OK but some of the deals were so unrealistic. I shook my head at some of the deals that were made.
1995 was the first year I started watching the Draft. Just some off the top of my head which occurred on the actual draft day (as opposed to the deadline):
1995: Vancouver trades for Alexander Mogilny; In return Buffalo gets Mike Peca, a prospect, and the 14th overall pick. Mogilny was only a couple years removed from a 76 goal season and he'd be reunited with Pavel Bure in Vancouver. Relatively big deal at the time, but didn't work out as well as expected.
1999: Brian Burke burned the midnight oil to secure both of the Sedins. The original top 4 of that draft was Tampa-Atlanta-Vancouver-Chicago. Burke engineered a four team trade to reshuffle the top 4 as Atlanta-Vancouver-Vancouver-Tampa.
Tampa then traded the #4 pick to the Rangers for Nik Sundstrom, Dan Cloutier, and a future 1st. The Rangers also traded up for Jamie Lundmark at #9. It's humorous now, but Calgary Sun writer Eric Francis predicted that Brendl/Lundmark would be a superior duo to the Sedins (Brendl was playing for the Calgary Hitmen and Lundmark also tore up the WHL).
2000: The Islanders trade away Roberto Luongo (I remember this one well. Back then the draft started on Saturday morning west coast time. I rolled out of bed, turned on the TV, and the first thing they showed was a graphic with the Luongo trade. At first, I didn't believe what I saw.)
2001: The Islanders trade the 2nd overall pick, Zdeno Chara, and Bill Muckalt to Ottawa for Alexei Yashin. Allegedly Boston turned down the same package for Jason Allison.
2002: Another interesting shuffle at the top of the draft. Pretty much the entire year, it was a foregone conclusion that Jay Bouwmeester was going first. Columbus made a small trade to move up from #3 to #1 to secure Rick Nash since they were worried about Philadelphia (who had secured #4) making another move to snipe him. In the end, Bouwmeester would go #3 to Florida, but only after Florida gave Atlanta a 3rd round pick to promise to take Kari Lehtonen at #2.
2003: Another small swap at the top. Florida had #1 and had Nathan Horton at the top of their list. They figured they could trade down and still get him. Eventually Pittsburgh moved up from #3, but it wasn't a huge bounty (Mikael Samuelsson and a swap of 2nd/3rd round picks). Pens took Marc-Andre Fleury.
2007: Toronto trades #13, #44, and #98 to San Jose for Vesa Toskala and Mark Bell. Sharks use those picks to move up for Logan Couture.
2010: Florida trades Nathan Horton to Boston for Dennis Wideman and #15.
2012: Pittsburgh trades Jordan Staal to Carolina for Brandon Sutter, Brian Dumoulin, and #8.
2013: Vancouver trades Cory Schneider to New Jersey for #9.
2014: Vancouver trades Ryan Kesler to Anaheim for Nick Bonino, Luca Sbisa, and #24.
1995: Vancouver trades for Alexander Mogilny; In return Buffalo gets Mike Peca, a prospect, and the 14th overall pick. Mogilny was only a couple years removed from a 76 goal season and he'd be reunited with Pavel Bure in Vancouver. Relatively big deal at the time, but didn't work out as well as expected.
1999: Brian Burke burned the midnight oil to secure both of the Sedins. The original top 4 of that draft was Tampa-Atlanta-Vancouver-Chicago. Burke engineered a four team trade to reshuffle the top 4 as Atlanta-Vancouver-Vancouver-Tampa.
Tampa then traded the #4 pick to the Rangers for Nik Sundstrom, Dan Cloutier, and a future 1st. The Rangers also traded up for Jamie Lundmark at #9. It's humorous now, but Calgary Sun writer Eric Francis predicted that Brendl/Lundmark would be a superior duo to the Sedins (Brendl was playing for the Calgary Hitmen and Lundmark also tore up the WHL).
2000: The Islanders trade away Roberto Luongo (I remember this one well. Back then the draft started on Saturday morning west coast time. I rolled out of bed, turned on the TV, and the first thing they showed was a graphic with the Luongo trade. At first, I didn't believe what I saw.)
2001: The Islanders trade the 2nd overall pick, Zdeno Chara, and Bill Muckalt to Ottawa for Alexei Yashin. Allegedly Boston turned down the same package for Jason Allison.
2002: Another interesting shuffle at the top of the draft. Pretty much the entire year, it was a foregone conclusion that Jay Bouwmeester was going first. Columbus made a small trade to move up from #3 to #1 to secure Rick Nash since they were worried about Philadelphia (who had secured #4) making another move to snipe him. In the end, Bouwmeester would go #3 to Florida, but only after Florida gave Atlanta a 3rd round pick to promise to take Kari Lehtonen at #2.
2003: Another small swap at the top. Florida had #1 and had Nathan Horton at the top of their list. They figured they could trade down and still get him. Eventually Pittsburgh moved up from #3, but it wasn't a huge bounty (Mikael Samuelsson and a swap of 2nd/3rd round picks). Pens took Marc-Andre Fleury.
2007: Toronto trades #13, #44, and #98 to San Jose for Vesa Toskala and Mark Bell. Sharks use those picks to move up for Logan Couture.
2010: Florida trades Nathan Horton to Boston for Dennis Wideman and #15.
2012: Pittsburgh trades Jordan Staal to Carolina for Brandon Sutter, Brian Dumoulin, and #8.
2013: Vancouver trades Cory Schneider to New Jersey for #9.
2014: Vancouver trades Ryan Kesler to Anaheim for Nick Bonino, Luca Sbisa, and #24.
