How long must a team suffer? How long has a team suffered? This is the fourth of several posts looking into notable playoff droughts of 30 of the 32 active NHL franchises to figure out what went wrong and how it ended. This post covers Ottawa, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Jose, and St. Louis.
Vancouver Canucks
After going through the best trade deadline deals in Canucks history, we need to keep it fair by going through the worst.
In fairness, there’s no loss on here that was as monumental as Cam Neely for Barry Pederson.
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I would argue that the Canucks trade deadline wins were greater than their losses. As you can see below, there’s not a ton separating the worst trades here, forcing me to cheat a bit with the number one pick on this list.
The moral of the story of these trades shouldn’t be new…trading draft picks for old guys usually doesn’t work out.