Jagr Trade
I remember going to a game when the rumors were first happening, and a guy on line saying, "I rather trade for Peter Bondra." Moron.
Avery Trade
Thought it was a nothing trade at the time. I found Avery's first run here pretty magical, and give him pretty much a lifetime pass for that.
McDonaugh Trade
lol
Prust Trade
It can't be said enough how useless Chris Higgins was here. To get anything in return was pretty spectacular, letalone Prust.
Gaborik signing
The Greatest Rangers Free Agent signing of the Sather era (by far). It was a little risky with Gabby's injury history, but he was relatively healthy, and awesome those first couple years. While half as good, I still rather have him than the three stiffs we traded him for.
Shanahan Signing.
Second best of the Sather era. Shanny was awesome until the collision against the Flyers. Was actually at that game.
Rick Nash Trade
This might be a little controversial, but I still really like it. After dismal playoff scoring, we desperately needed another scoring threat to go along with Gabby, and that's exactly what we got. The only player we gave up that I miss at all, is Dubi, and I hated him half the time, anyway. I have no idea why people lament this trade. We had a really lucky year, combined with a Lundqvist career year, then immediately fell back to who we were the years prior.
Antropov trade
I loved Big Nik. Probably our most successful deadline trade in the Lundqvist era. I appreciate this mediocre acquisition, because its surrounded by truly awful ones.
Aaron Ward for Paul Mara
I hated Aaron Ward. It seemed like 20 goals went off this big goofs skate. Paul Mara was a little up and down, but there was a period where he and Staal were a really great defensive pairing. Most of this was Staal's doing as he came into his own into a top shutdown defenseman, but Mara found a way to compliment him very nicely. This was also around the time Paul Mara's beard was worth the acquisition alone. Paul Bunyan Mara was one of the many unnecessary Tortorella doghouse victims.
Adam Hall for Pascal Dupuis
I always liked Dupuis on Minnesota. My college roommate was from Minny, so I watched a lot of Wild games, and appreciated his game. Thought it was a nice low key trade that could benefit us. I won't mention what happened a week later, because this is the good stuff.
Petr Sykora
I would have forgotton about this if somebody else didn't mention it. I think 90% of his goals were on the shootout, but we seemed to win every game down the stretch that way, so it was just what we needed.
