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OK, seeing how the 'worst trade ever' thread generated some decent discussion, let's try one about the best trades in franchise history.

Here are some of the more notable rip offs in Canuck history. Not in order of importance.

1) This one is easily the best in Canuck history and quite possibly in the entire history of the league.

1996

To Vancouver: Markus Naslund

To Pittsburgh: Alek Stojanov

Everyone knows what Naslund did here. As for Stojanov, he managed to play 45 games for Pittsburgh recording 6 points.

2) 1991

To Vancouver: Cliff Ronning, Geoff Courtnall, Sergio Momesso and Robert Dirk and a 5th round pick

To St Louis: Dan Quinn and Garth Butcher

The 4 Vancouver got all played vital rolls in the team's 1994 playoff run. While Dan Quinn was a headcase and Butcher was near the end of his career.

3) 1987

To Vancouver: Kirk McLean and Greg Adams

To New Jersey: Patrik Sundstom and a 4th round pick.

For as much good as Sundstrom did here, Adams is actually one spot ahead of him on the all time Canuck scoring list. Does anything need to be said about what McLean did in Van?

4) 1998

To Vancouver: Todd Bertuzzi, Brian McCabe and a 3rd round pick (Jarko Ruutu)

To NY Islanders: Trevor Linden

Some people may have a hard time with this one but this was a steal for the Canucks.

Bertuzzi for a time became one of the best power forwards in the game. McCabe was solid and in addition to that was later used as bait to land the 1999 first round pick that landed Vancouver a Sedin.

Linden struggled with the Islanders scoring just 54 points in 107 games before being moved to Montreal.

5) 1980

To Vancouver: Richard Brodeur and a 5th round pick

To NY Islanders: a 5th round pick

Yup, Van switched a higher 5th round pick with the Islanders and got King Richard for free. Brodeur backstopped Vancouver to the 82 finals and was the starter for 7 years.

6) 2001

To Vancouver: Trevor Linden and a 2nd round pick (Denis Grot, yeah I know who???)

To Washington: Van's 1st round pick in 2002 (Boyd Gordon) and a 3rd rounder in 2003.

Linden was moved out during the Messier/Keenen fiasco. Bringing him home just seemed to right a major wrong. Not to mention he played another 6 seasons scoring another 65 goals. While it was Naslund who wore the 'C' during this time we all know who the captain was.

7) 2009

To Vancouver: Christian Ehrhoff

To San Jose: Patrick White and Daniel Rahimi

To be fair to San Jose they needed to dump salary in order to acquire Danny Heatley. Still doesn't make this any less of a rip off as neither White nor Rahimi have ever played a game of professional hockey on this continent.

8) 2006

To Vancouver: Roberto Luongo, Lukas Krajicek and a 6th round pick

To Florida: Todd Bertuzzi, Bryan Allen and Alex Auld

While everyone loves to make him the whipping boy. Luongo is easily the best goalie in team history.

Bertuzzi was well past his expiry date and needed to be moved after the Steve Moore incident. Forida managed to get a whole 7 games out of Bert before shipping him to Detroit for picks which never materialzed into anything.

9) I'll toss one more in here though it wasn't actually a trade.

1994

Canucks acquire Martin Gelinas off the waiver wire from Quebec. I think the cost for the pick up was either $1000 or $5000.

Gelinas was solid during the 94 run. His best year with the Canucks came in 96-97 when he scored 35 goals and 68 points and was voted team MVP. Sadly he ended up in Mike Keenen's doghouse and was shipped out of town prematurely as he had another 9 productive seasons left in him.

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Naslund could be spectacular. Sometimes it seemed he was just going through the motions. And then he would snap home a game winner when nobody expected him to shoot.

The Sedin's are different; They add puck control. Maybe they are only almost as dynamic as scorers in comparison to Nazzy or Sundstrom. That element of puck control adds a dimension no other players in the history of the Canucks have ever offered! Nobody else scores when we have the puck. Henrik Sedin plus 181 as a Canuck, Nazzy plus 2; Nuff said.

Sedin trades #1

Bertuzzi/McCabe #2 (We still are reaping from this trade, trading McCabe is effectively our 2jnd Twin to this day).

Nazzy #3

McLean/Adams #4

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Naslund was part of the forward trio that pulled Vancouver from a very icky era and time in the franchise. He helped put fans in the stands.

Luongo becmae one of the few goalies ever to really become the face of a franchise. Guy got snubbed of a vezina and a Hart trophy, was a finalist for a vezina twice, and he took a mediocre team and put them into a legit cup contender. He was probably the 'biggest' trade at least in recent history, if not for the imrpessive stats, the fact he made the Canucks into a real contender.

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Naskund trade is one of the best/worst trades in NHL history depending on which team you're a fan of.

Though all the trades Nonis did to get the Sedins is also a brilliant aswell.

Luongo trade is great, but i did not approve of it when it happend, though Bertuzzi never returned to his glory days form, and that's why we "won" that deal.

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Definitely the Naslund trade. The Linden trade with NYI was good when you look at it now, but back then, it was one of the worst ones.

I also like your #2, 3 and 7 trades too (saves me some typing), and i also liked the Tanti/Fraser one later on.

Here's a few that i think people may have missed or overlooked (or not thought of):

To Van: Sami Salo.

To Ott: Peter Schaefer.

While i think Schaefer was good, Salo added quite a bit to the D in the years before the lock-out and a couple after. He's declined a bit in the years, but he's done a lot more then Schaefer ever has.

To Van: Denis Prederson, Brendan Morrison

To NJ: Alex Mogilny

This is another case of "bad trade then, good trade now"... in some opinions anyways. While we lost a lot in Alex Mogilny, we did gain alot in Morrison who was part of the WCE line/era and was one of the best players we had in that time.

To Van: Alex Mogilny, 5th rounder (Todd Norman)

To Buf: Mike Peca, Mike Wilson, 1st rounder (Jay McKee)

Here's one i always like to think of. While the whole re-uniting Bure & Mogilny thing didn't really thrive, for obivous reasons, he still put up 2 damn good first years with us before declining a bit during the 'Messier years'. McKee and Wilson were 2 D-men who didn't do a whole lot in the years/teams they've played on, while Mike Peca won 2 Selke's, along with a few decent years in Buffalo and NYI, but also sat-out the entire 2000-01 season during a contract dispute and suffered numerous injuries and a steady decline after the lock-out.

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Despite giving up a 1st rounder to get Linden back (Honestly I'm sure Washington would have accepted a 2nd rounder).

Linden is the gift that keeps on giving. If we trade Luongo and get one wicked prospect for him. We are still benefiting from the trade over a decade after it happened.

Can't say that about Boyd Gordon. In fact Boyd Gordon's career numbers so far are 108 points. Trevor got us 163 points in six seasons. So it looks like we won that trade too. I'm not sure Gordon is even going to get 163 points for his career, unless he plays more than 4 seasons and can maintain over 20 points a season (Something he's struggled to do).

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Here's a few that i think people may have missed or overlooked (or not thought of):

To Van: Sami Salo.

To Ott: Peter Schaefer.

While i think Schaefer was good, Salo added quite a bit to the D in the years before the lock-out and a couple after. He's declined a bit in the years, but he's done a lot more then Schaefer ever has.

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