Best and Worst trades in Canuck history

[yave1964]

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BEST TRADES EVER:

Markus Naslund from the Penguins for the something named Alek Stojanov

 This may be the most lopsided deal in NHL history, surely among them. The deal was hoped by both teams to breath new life into disappointing prospects, Stojanov sucked hard and long, Naslund went on to become the heart and soul of the Canucks for over a decade scoring over 40 goals 3 times and a total of 350 with Vancouver. Stojanov scored 2.

 

ROBERTO LUONGO FROM THE PANTHERS FOR A PACKAGE

Luongo came to Vancouver in exchange for Todd Bertuzzi who played half a season for Florida before shutting it down with back spasms, Alex Auld who went on to have a mediocre at best career as a backup goalie, and Bryan Allen who was a bottom six defender. Luongo was brilliant for most of his run in Vancouver and holds most of the teams records for goalie stats.

 

CLIFF RONNING, SERGEI MOMESSO, ROBERT DIRK AND GEOFF COURTNALL FROM THE BLUES FOR GARTH BUTCHER

 Hugely one sided deal, Butcher was a solid stay at home defender but nothing more, Dirk replaced him on the back end, Ronning and Courtnall instantly plugged into the top six scoring 60ish points a year, Momesso was a 15-20 goal a year guy with 150-200 PIMs hitting everything that moved. Without this deal the Canucks would not ahve went to the finals in 1994 and pushed the Rangers to 7 games. An absolute steal.

 

THE MOVES TO GET THE SEDIN PICKS BY BRIAN BURKE

Too long and difficult to list in such a small space, the short version is the Canucks had the 3rd pick, maneuvered up to get the second pick and a promise from the Thrashers that they would not draft the Sedins (instead they drafted an all time bust in Patrik Stefan, ugh) with the first pick. They gave up very little to make certain that they got not one but two Sedin boys, who have went on to have brilliant careers and are arguably the two best players in franchise history.

 

TODD BERTUZZI AND BRYAN MCCABE AND A PICK (JARKKO RUUTU) FOR THE REMAINS OF TREVOR LINDEN

 

Linden was a bust on the Island, bounced around and actually came back to Vancouver for the final six years of his career. McCabe was a solid stay at home defender with  Vancouver who actually became a good puck mover in Toronto, Ruutu spent 6 years with the Canucks as a checking forward and Big Bert became the definition of a power forward in his 8 years with the team.

 

WORST DEALS IN TEAM HISTORY:

PAVEL BURE, HEDICAN AND FERENCE TO THE PANTHERS FOR JOVANOVSKI AND KEVIN WEEKES

 There were a few other pieces going to Vancouver, Mike Brown was a total bust and Sam Gagner was on his last legs, Weekes in parts of two seasons with the team was 6-15-5 before moving on, Jovanovski did have 7 nice years in Vancouver peaking at 40ish points from the back end, but the package they gave up, Hedican and Ference were both solid if unspectacular blueliners and Bure was brilliant with the Cats, scoring 58 and 59 goals in back to back years.

 

CORY SCHNEIDER TO THE DEVILS FOR A PICK. I like bo Horvat, I really do and think he will have a solid NHL career but C'mon, the Canucks went from having two brilliant goalies to none after this deal, trading Schneider who you could make an argument is the best goalie in the game today for a pick which turned into at best a good 2C. Wretched deal.

 

ROBERTO LUONGO BACK TO THE PANTHERS FOR SHAWN MATTHIAS AND JAKUB MARKSTROM

The other half of the goalie tandem went home to Sunrise for Shawn Matthias a bottom six forward with zero upside and Jakub Markstrom a prospect who is now more suspect than anything. The deal for Markstrom along with the signing of Miller convinced the Canucks to donate Eddie Lack to Carolina where he was solid last season. So in the space of a year, the Canucks have donated 3 starting goalies, two among the best in the game and have.......Ryan Miller.

 

CAM NEELY AND A PICK (GLEN WESLEY) FOR WHAT WAS LEFT OF BARRY PEDERSON

Local boy Neely was just getting started creating his legend when for some reason the team gave him away for Barry Pederson. Pederson did have two good years in Vancouver and one mediocre one before leaving the back nine of his career and going to the clubhouse, but Neely went on to a 10 year career in Boston, scoring over 35 goals six times and 50 three times. and to make it worse Wesley was a damn good puck mover on the back end for 7 years for the Bears and played 1457 games in his career.

 

As with all the teams I left some off the list, Richard Brodeur from the Islanders for a pick helped lead the Canucks to their first ever Stanley Cup final in the early eighties and was a steal, Mogilny was an absolute fleece of a pickup from the Sabres for Michael Peca, and on the bad side was pretty much every deal made during the short and sad tenure of Iron Mike Keenan. Also I could have mentioned Kesler for one bad year from Bonino (who found a home in Pittsburgh) and Sbisa.

 

 

[hf101]

Great read @yave1964  as always.  These are great summaries.

 

Wow, I forgot Schneider was traded for a 2nd round pick.  Trading  him and Luongo was a really, really bad decision.

[yave1964]

4 hours ago, hf101 said:

Great read @yave1964  as always.  These are great summaries.

 

Wow, I forgot Schneider was traded for a 2nd round pick.  Trading  him and Luongo was a really, really bad decision.

Actually it was a mid first. I do like Horvat but wow is that one going to be painful. Schneider almost single handedly kept the Devils in the race, with the 8 seed in the West (Wild) having a poor total of 87 points it is extremely possible that the Canucks make the playoffs with Schneider in net instead of the average at best Ryan Miller.

[Samifan]

1 hour ago, yave1964 said:

in net instead of the average at best Ryan Miller.

Love it! 

 

awaiting a response from HJ regarding Miller in 3,2,1........