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[DEBATE] Which is the greatest TRADE in Vancouver Canucks history?

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Naslund for sure was the best fleecing ... but the greatest trade has to the Linden trade, given two other great trades and others linked to it  (yet - the trade that gave us both Sedins - well a first overall briefly which we traded and ended up becoming a Sedin thanks to Burke's gymnastics)....

 

Thanks to a four year hiatus by Linden - we ended up with Bertuzzi, Sedin, Luongo, Markstrom etc ... was a gift that kept up giving for over two decades.   Hard to match that. 

 

I like AJs trade too - loved Butcher but wow what a haul.   Was my favourite trade all-time. 

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Also, since we are talking trades - Vancouver is linked to two of the top ten most lopsided trades in NHL history.   Actually two top fiveish ones.    First Neely .... then we got some retribution trading Stajanov for Naslund.   Pederson was actually a pretty good player though .... but still we got bent over on that one.  

 

Stajanov...well Naslund had more first team all-star selections then he scored NHL goals after the trade lol.   That's so lopsided the table tilted the moment the ink was dry.  3 in a row to be exact.   So close to our first Art Ross too...and a Pearson award.    

 

The best/worst trade in NHL history?   MTL traded three guys that never played a game to their nemesis - Boston - for a top 7 all-time goalie in Dryden.   Just think about that for a minute.   Imagine what sort of dynasty Boston would of had (for sure one more cup at the very least given as a rookie Dryden stoned them) with Dryden instead.   4-6  probably.  

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24 minutes ago, -AJ- said:

Lots of good choices, but I went with the trade that landed us Ronning, Courtnall, and Momesso. So much of those great 90s teams in one trade.

That was a key trade.  Same with acquiring McLean and Adams...one of the early 90's best tenders and money in the playoffs.   Losing Nedved for sure hurt the team, but it did give us Hedican for some time, and Brown who made the pass and played great for us in 94.    Those three trades gave us the magical run.   Momesso was probably my favourite middle six player all-time.    Guy looked like he was always hungover, and mad.   Scored goals and protected Radar i mean Ronning (we called Ronning Radar, because he looked like that guy from M.A.S.H.)... Courtnall was also one fugly dude.    That was my favourite trade.    I hope the one JB just made to clear cap will be just as important for this team. 

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2 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

Which is the greatest TRADE in Vancouver Canucks history?

 

Oooh I like this one.  Lots of good trades in our history.  But which one is the best?  Remember you can only pick one...  :)

 

Some of those Swedish trades could top the list...  Enjoy...  :)

Cracking job you are doing with all the polls to keep the faithful entertained... Kudos +1

 

PS. my affiliation with Canucks is nowhere near long enough so can't really comment, but I think, if we had won a cup, anything leading to that would have been the best trade.

Since we haven't I like the Daniel Sedin trade, as well as Erhoff for nothing.

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Cracking job you are doing with all the polls to keep the faithful entertained... Kudos +1

 

PS. my affiliation with Canucks is nowhere long enough so really comment, but I think, if we had won a cup, anything leading to that would have been the best trade.

Since we haven't I like the Daniel Sedin trade, as well as Erhoff for nothing.

That's ok.   One thing is for sure - we've had some great ones, and some really bad ones too.   Actually think overall, aside from Quin we haven't made enough big trades along the way to improve the club.   Quin was and will be until we win a cup, the master trader. 

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That's ok.   One thing is for sure - we've had some great ones, and some really bad ones too.   Actually think overall, aside from Quin we haven't made enough big trades along the way to improve the club.   Quin was and will be until we win a cup, the master trader. 

Yeah over the years, I have been enlightening myself through lots of highly valued posters here on CDC, both for good and bad issues within the club. And Quinn sure was a master at trading and team building.

 

If we go on to do well with this team, the OEL + Garland trade for scraps and a first, could go down as the best trade of the lot... yeah I know dreamland, but sure why not aim for the stars :P

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Yeah over the years, I have been enlightening myself through lots of highly valued posters here on CDC, both for good and bad issues within the club.

If we go on to do well with this team, the OEL + Garland trade for scraps and a first, could go down as the best trade of the lot... yeah I know dreamland, but sure why not aim for the stars :P

The metric that also needs to evaluated later - is what impact OEL had, Garland but also how it helped the team sign our young studs.   A deep playoff run over the next three years will for sure make it look great pretty quickly. 

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The metric that also needs to evaluated later - is what impact OEL had, Garland but also how it helped the team sign our young studs.   A deep playoff run over the next three years will for sure make it look great pretty quickly. 

Yes true. trades are not easy to properly evaluate instantly... Some work out and some don't.

Few really makes a huge difference. it remains to be seen, but I choose to be optimistic...like the village idiot...:towel:

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There are a few up there that were tough to choose from but I chose the Sedins.  Just because it was so important to how things would play out here for years.  If we had one without the other, not sure that would have been the case.  Watching Sedinery over the years was a real treat.

 

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Burke staked his reputation on acquiring the Sedins, but months before the 1999 NHL draft he had no interest in using the team’s third overall draft pick on one of the twins from Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.

“They had had a poor World Juniors that year in Winnipeg,” Burke recalled. “I think they finished second and third in scoring in the tournament, but they scored a lot of points against, y’know, Bulgaria and Panama and some of the other teams. Against Canada and the U.S., they had a real hard time. When I left Winnipeg after the World Juniors I said I’m trading the pick.”

 

But Thomas Gradin, a Canucks scout based in Sweden, didn’t give up on them.

“I saw them a few times and the only two players that had the puck the whole game was them,” he said.

Gradin convinced Burke to give the twins another look at the IIHF World Hockey Championships in Norway.

“You could see that crazy thing they do for the first time and I came back from Norway and said I’ve got to get them,” Burke said. “There was no question about it.”

Despite a roster that included Mark Messier, Markus Naslund, Alex Mogilny and Todd Bertuzzi, the Canucks finished the 1998-99 season with the league’s third-worst record, giving them the third overall pick in the draft, but Burke needed another pick to secure both Sedins.

That meant making three trades before the draft began.

The Canucks traded defenceman Bryan McCabe and their first-round pick in the 2000 NHL draft to the Chicago Blackhawks for the fourth overall pick in the 1999 draft.

“Bob Murray is a tough man,” Burke said of the former Blackhawks GM. “Even though we overpaid, that took a lot of time. It started probably three weeks before. At first, he was like, ‘No, we’ll wait and see what happens’…Then it was me trying to get him off Bryan McCabe, who I loved as a player and [Murray] wouldn’t move. So finally we made a decision.”

 

Burke needed Chicago’s pick to entice the Tampa Bay Lightning to give up the first overall pick. If the Lightning didn’t make a deal with the Canucks, the twins were lost.

The night before the draft it didn’t look good.

“We talked ’til late in the night and hung up on each other, cursing and swearing,” Burke recalled. “I went to bed and I didn’t have this deal. And I’m thinking if I gave up Bryan McCabe and a first, and I’ve got to take one of these other players at four, I just made a horrible mistake.”

But just before the draft began, Tampa Bay changed its mind. The Canucks sent the fourth overall pick and two third-round picks to the Lightning for the first overall pick in the 1999 draft.

The Canucks made a final deal to ensure they could call up the Sedins to the stage at the same time. They sent the first overall pick to the Atlanta Thrashers, who promised to select Patrik Stefan, leaving the Canucks to pick Daniel and Henrik with the second and third picks.

After all the wheeling and dealing, the Sedins were going to be Vancouver Canucks.

“Five minutes before it started, Thomas [Gradin] walked up to us,” Henrik Sedin recalled. “He was yelling from the floor telling us that it was going to happen.”

 

Gradin remembers telling the twins, “Välkommen till laget” — Swedish for “Welcome to the team.”

Seventeen years, two Art Ross trophies and one Hart trophy later, the Sedins are still Canucks.

“We went to the draft knowing nothing. We expected to be on different teams,” Daniel said. “Vancouver made it happen so we are forever grateful.”

 

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47 minutes ago, timberz21 said:

Gotta be Naslund,

 

Luongo, Bertuzzi, Sedins were also all good trade, but the Canucks also gave some significant pieces the other way.  Naslund was just a plain robbery

Naslund and Lu were the ones, in particular, that I had a hard time NOT picking.

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