Blockbuster trades that went bad for both teams

[algernon]

a different one then what has been mentioned

nash to new york for anisimov, dubinsky, erixon and a 2013 first

Nash had 1.5 good seasons in NY, and his playoff numbers in NY were meh (0.52 ppg) and he was making 7.8 per year (back when the cap was significantly lower)

anisimov was alright at best in columbus had one decent season
dubinsky's style of play made him a favorite but he really only had one good year
erixon is no longer in the league
draft pick was kerby rychel who isnt in the league either

EriXon

FoX

If Conroy ever drafts another kid with an X I'm done with the team

 

[Khelandros]

Both teams got a SCF appearance out of that trade

But only one of them got a Participation Ribbon.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Trade happened before the 2003 season, the key pieces were gone by the 2004 TDL. Calgary got scraps (Reinprecht, Warrener) for Drury, Colorado got even worse (Gratton, Vaananen, 2nd) for Morris (and lost Keith Ballard in the process ).

not a blockbuster, but i can’t let that be the only mention of keith ballard in this thread. this trade was the ultimate lose-lose.

to van > ballard, victor oreskovich

to florida > steve bernier, michael grabner, 1st

ballard was damaged goods and florida likely knew and hid it from the canucks. a total disaster, with ballard also getting completely destroyed by alain vigneault, who just didn’t like him. in the playoffs he lost his spot in the lineup to aaron rome. in the finals, the canucks lost hamhuis, forcing andrew AHLberts into the lineup. then rome got suspended. you have to imagine that ballard playing like the top four dman he’d been up to the trade would have made the difference with the team having to ice a bottom pair of alberts with chris tanev two years before he played anything resembling a full season. young tanev got the last three games of the finals after ballard, replacing the suspended rome, whiffed on his last chance.

as gruesome as it was watching ballard’s career crash and burn, it was worse watching victor oreskovich just stand there after adam mcquaid started throwing punches at ehrhoff, with two sedins on the ice no less.



oreskovich, you are 6’3, 215 and a fourth liner. there’s only one reason you’re on the team. now you know why nobody wanted to hug you. (sidenote: ballard jumped marchand, good man.)

on the florida side, bernier played some bottom six minutes for a year (which included getting waived and passing through unclaimed) before moving on to new jersey as a free agent. he was a useful fourth liner on new jersey’s finals run that year.

grabner was waived in training camp, after which he scored 35 goals and was a calder finalist for the team that got him for free.

the first rounder was quinton howden, who never amounted to anything.