Redo One Move From Your Team In The Last 20 Years

[Zarzh]

You wouldn't rather reverse something that has to do with the Joes and Patrick era? They were pretty darn close for pretty darn long. Quality era.

Maybe you get somewhere by taking Kopitar from LA or having Kucherov for 2016 but there's no one move which would really matter without a snowball effect or going more than 20 years.

 

[StoveTopStauffer]

Trading our 2015 1st and 2nd for Reinhart. What a stupid trade.

Would have changed everything

 

[barkovcanfinnish]

Protecting Nick Bjugstad and Alex Petrovic over Jonathan Marchessault

Cuz a 30 goal scorer making 750k the next season wasn’t worth keeping or trading for assets…

 

[Siignal]

Any of Brad Treliving's egregious contracts for both the Flames and the Leafs

 

[John Garretts KD]

Hiring Jim Elmer Benning. Without him, we likely end up with some combination of the players we have along with (minus JT Miller and maybe a few others):

Nylander/Ehlers, M. Tkachuk, Forsling, Theodore (Kesler trade), McCann, DeBrincat/Dunn (Gudbranson trade), Andersson (Baertschi trade), Guenther/Sillinger (OEL trade), Stankoven, Tanev, Toffoli, multiple 2nd/3rd round picks in other trades, etc. this doesn’t even factor in free agency moves and other trades (like trading Hamhuis/Ryan Miller/etc. as pending free agents when we were eliminated).

Easily the worst GM in franchise history.

 

[HFpapi]

Keep Kadri and Hyman with the 11 million we instead gave to Tavares. (Figure Kadri stays for 6 and Hyman for 5).

Not only are they exactly what we need in the playoffs as opposed JT bringing more of what we had (skilled yet soft forwards), having two players for the price of one means we get an extra forward contract freed up to allocate to the D.

 

[mundyc3]

This one likely not allowed, redo the 2017 lottery so Knights are not picking 6th in their inaugural draft. As long as they were not in position to take Nolan Patrick, they'd get Makar or Pettersson.

For actual moves, nix the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for Tomas Tatar.

 

[John Garretts KD]

This one likely not allowed, redo the 2017 lottery so Knights are not picking 6th in their inaugural draft. As long as they were not in position to take Nolan Patrick, they'd get Makar or Pettersson.

For actual moves, nix the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for Tomas Tatar.

The Knights preferred Glass over Pettersson. This was based on a widely reported rumour at the draft that the Knights were looking to trade picks with Vancouver, and upon finding out Vancouver wanted Pettersson, they elected to keep their pick to select Glass.

 

[DL44]

Bourdon dying isn't fair in this debate imo.
You should choose something else, like the Ekman-Larsson trade

I get the sentiment. Bourdon passed away and his potential wasn't realized and selecting this may seem insensitive/unfair.
But passing on Kopitar was tough in the moment.. it was tough in the subsequent 2 years prior to Bourdon's death.
As tragic as his death was, he wasn't trending to be an elite difference making piece like Kopitar... who went on to lead his team to 2 cups.
Kopitar would have modified the franchise direction for the next 10-15 yrs... No other hypothetical move comes potentially close to the impact of this one.

 

[Kamina]

For the Sens: draft Kopitar instead of Brian Lee in the 2005 draft.

Not only would it be better long-term, but Kopitar's first season was 2006-2007, where he put up 61 points. If the Sens had him that year, they would have stood a much better chance against the Ducks in the Finals.

Keep Chara over Redden

These are two good ways to give the 2007 Sens a better chance vs the Ducks. I think Chara would have made a bigger impact though. It's very likely that a rookie Kopitar struggles in the Finals like Spezza and Heatley did.

In the last 10 years or so, undoing the Duchene trade is an easy pick here. Having Byram or Seider on the current Sens would help so much.

 

[SomeDude]

Trading Vegas a 2nd to take MAF in the expansion draft to keep Murray.

It was 100% the correct move. You pick the young goalie on an ELC coming off b2b Cups 100/100 times.

Hindsight now shows Murray’s body failed him and he peaked at 22. I can’t imagine the haul we could have gotten from trading him after the 2017 Cup.

 

[Marlowe Syn]

easy: keep Brent Burns.

I was going to say drafting Benoit Balls Pouliot at #4 instead of Anze Kopitar in '05, but yeah that Burns trade got worse as it aged. Didn't even get decent value out of any of the trade assets in the future. Unless you count Donato in the Coyle trade, and I don't.

 

[PaulD]

Dint fire Savard
Don't trade Roy
Don't trade LeClair

Can't pick just one

 

[Aces89]

Easy one. Chara over Redden