The WORST Trades For All 32 NHL Teams

Completely disagree about the Capitals -- 2004 was a fire sale year once they fired Bruce Cassidy. It yielded Alex Ovechkin. The worst trade the Capitals made was in 2013 with the Nashville Predators: Martin Erat for Filip Forsberg.

Seems a bit crazy to not have the Patrick Roy trade for the Habs as the worst in franchise history. They probably could’ve won another cup without making that trade

Honestly the Fleury trade wasn't that bad in hindsight and made a lot of sense. We traded him for cap space not for nothing. Vegas won't have their Cup without that trade. Their worst trade imo, is trading a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for Tomas Tatar

There is NOTHING worse for Montreal than trading away Patrik Roy. Gomez and Mcdunnah was a nonsense side show

the thornton trade actually helped the bruins, it allowed bergeron to become the 1st center and krejci to become the 2nd center, allowed them to sign chara and then they won the cup after that.

If you're going put the Gretzky deal as a trade and not a sale, then for Pittsburgh their worst would have to be the Jagr deal to the Caps for prospects and a little cash, which was made to keep the team from going bankrupt, being sold, and possibly moved out of Pittsburgh. It was both a franchise saving move and the worst trade in their history.

There is a far worse Blackhawks trade. Phil Esposito to the Bruins for Pit Martin and a.couple other pieces. Pretty much the Chicago version of trading away Joe Thornton, with the added pain of Boston getting a couple of cups out of it.

The Neely trade is no longer the worst trade by Vancouver. The trade for Ekman-Larson is, and it's not even close.

Gretzky was not traded. He was sold

A little befuddled that any Canadiens trade would get the nod over Patrick Roy. That trade was so devastating, that no team residing in Canada has won a Stanley Cup since. Don't be surprised if they name a Cup-drought curse after him 30 years from now.

the kings traded Gabriel Vilardi he's going to be huge in a few years massive talent

Zarley Zalapski not Zalipsky may he rest in peace

lol Johansen trade was good for Nashville, ask any preds fan they will say the same. Preds don't make it to the finals in 2017 and don't win President Trophy in 2018 without Johansen. Look at his playoffs stats in his 3 first season in Nashville. Plus Weber/Subban and Ellis were always better than Seth Jones has ever been

For the Sharks it’s the Karlsson trade bar none. We had already had Burns so it didn’t make sense in the first place. Gave up a good 3C in Chris Tierney, Rudolf Balcers, Dylan Demelo who’s a good depth D-Man, Josh Norris who was the best prospect we had and put up 35 goals his sophomore NHL season with Ottawa even though right now he’s having a third shoulder surgery, and a 2020 1st rounder that after the Sharks fell so hard after signing Karlsson that it ended up being a #3 Overall selection who Ottawa used to select the best player of that draft Tim Stutzle. The San Jose Sharks were never the same. We continued to fall, and have now sold off every player that was tradeable and for the second season in a row are a basement dweller. This wasn’t entirely Karlssons fault but that trade expedited a basement dweller of a team that is stripping everything down to the frame before rebuilding again. Worst trade ever for the Sharks.

Chicago trading Phil Esposito away to Boston is their worst trade. Rangers trading Rick Middleton to Boston thats their worst

Maple leafs trading away Tuukka Rask to Boston could also be argued to have a place on this list. At least a dishonorable mention.

I can think of a tree that was worse than the Darryl Sittler one…. How about training their 1991 first round pick for Tom Kurvers…. Tom Kurvers ended up being a bum, and that first round pick they traded away, turned into Scott Niedermayer. One of the greatest defencemen of all time.

Arizona's worst trade has to have been when they were the OG Jets. Draper for $1.

Explain to me how anaheims trade was bad? They traded a player and got Corey Perry in the end…and the player returned for a resurgence….that’s a great trade

I can't believe you never mentioned the Erat-Forsberg and Jeannot trades. I think these were way worse than the Lang and Richards traded, especially given the circumstances explained in this very video