Rumor: List a rumoured trade your team almost made

[TysonBarrie]

Name a trade that your team was rumoured to have about to make but opted out for one reason or another.
I'll start:

Edmonton almost traded Taylor Hall to the Ottawa Senators for Cody Ceci but Ottawa's GM needed to run it by Melnyk who took too long answering his phone.

Ben Bishop was almost an Oiler. Before he was traded to the Lightning, Edmonton offered winger Ryan Jones and a 2nd-4th round pick for goalie Ben Bishop. Instead, the Senators liked Cory Conacher and a 4th rounder better.

 

[CupInSIX]

Marchessault for Zucker last year, but Gallant threw McPhee down a flight of stairs in protest.

 

[Cootsfanclub]

Paul Ranger for Claude Giroux. I think the rumor was that Tampa turned it down. If I'm remembering correctly they also turned down a swap for Gomez.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Corey Perry + 1st for Mike Comrie

 

[AKL]

Zucker+Nino for Dvorak+Domi was rumored when Fenton first took over but I don't know how close it was to actually happening.

 

[ScottyK]

Gomez for Datsyuk in 03' Lou said no.

We did go on to win the cup that yr so w/e but wow what could of been

 

[Empoleon8771]

-The Penguins and Wild agreed to a Kessel and Johnson for Zucker and Rask trade, but Kessel vetoed it with his NTC.
-The Penguins and Predators wanted to expand their Neal for Hornqvist deal by also including a pick swap. The rumor was that the Penguins were going to send Paul Martin to Colorado for pick #23, and the Pens-Predators trade would also include picks #22 and #23 for pick #11.
-Kunitz was apparently nearly traded for Patrick Sharp during the 2014-2015 season.
-The Penguins offered Sutter, Bennett and futures for Saad before Saad went to Columbus in the 2015 off-season. They thought that package was better than what Saad was ultimately traded for.

Those are the big ones I remember from over the years.

 

[ScottyK]

Gomez for Datsyuk in 03' Lou said no.

We did go on to win the cup that yr so w/e but wow what could of been

Some others

New Jersey Devils: 5 Blockbuster Trades That Almost Happened

 

[AvatarAang]

Zucker+Nino for Dvorak+Domi was rumored when Fenton first took over but I don't know how close it was to actually happening.

 

[Forge]

2003, San Jose and New Jersey once agreed to a trade that sent Teemu, Sturm and Ricci to the Devils for Gomez and Tverdovsky. Teemu nixed the deal with this NTC.

In 2000, the framework was in place to send Messier to the Devils from Vancouver. Denis Pederson and Brendan Morrison were going to go to Vancouver with a pick. Didn't happen and the devils acquired Mogilny instead.

 

[Spurgeon]

Zucker+Nino for Dvorak+Domi was rumored when Fenton first took over but I don't know how close it was to actually happening.

Sounded like the holdup in that deal was with trying to include Ennis in the deal.

Funny how we all criticized that deal, but he'd look like an absolute genius this year if we ended up trading Zucker + Nino + Granlund for Dvorak + Domi + Fiala.

 

[Gabrielor]

Somewhere in the 2009-2011 range...there was a rumored deal involving Roy and Ennis to Ottawa for Spezza.

Regier refused to trade Ennis.

 

[Richard88]

Kadri vetoed a trade to Calgary which would have sent Brodie to Toronto, which worked out well for Colorado.

 

[The Burdened]

IIRC Flyers were hot after Bishop but Ottawa wanted Couturier.
No deal was worked out and Ottawa got Conacher from Tampa Bay for Bishop instead.

 

[Waivers]

Buchnevich for the Oilers 2019 8th OA.

I forgot exactly, but McDonagh may have been linked to the Oilers 2016 4th OA.

 

[wintersej]

Bruins was very close on Schenn last year and then STL got their shit together and, well, wish Boston added whatever sweetener they could have to make the deal then lol.

 

[Mogo]

Panthers owners blocked Keenan from trading Luongo to Boston for Joe Thorton to save money

 

[bbny]

Stamkos for 2-3 of Michael Del Zotto, Evgeny Grachev, Ryan Callahan, Brandon Dubinsky and Dan Girardi.

https://nypost.com/2010/04/04/rangers-had-done-deal-for-stamkos/

 

[Langdon Alger]

Name a trade that your team was rumoured to have about to make but opted out for one reason or another.
I'll start:

Edmonton almost traded Taylor Hall to the Ottawa Senators for Cody Ceci but Ottawa's GM needed to run it by Melnyk who took too long answering his phone.

I heard the deal didn’t get done because of Hall’s contract and Melnyk wouldn’t sign off on it.

 

[KnuckChuckinTkachuk]

It was Ceci for Hall 1v1 god damnit.... DAMNIT

 

[J1mLahey]

Tomas Kaberle for Jeff Carter and a 1st

 

[Flyer lurker]

An upcoming Claude Giroux for Craig Anderson.

 

[LeafsNation75]

Mike Richards going from Philadelphia to Toronto for Nazem Kadri and Nikolai Kulemin at the 2011 Draft.

 

[DatDude44]

Taylor hall for Kevin shattenkirk.... until shatty nixed it because he didn’t want to go there

 

[TysonBarrie]

Buchnevich for the Oilers 2019 8th OA.

I forgot exactly, but McDonagh may have been linked to the Oilers 2016 4th OA.

I never heard anything with Buchenvich for the 8th overall pick.