Trades GMs wish they could take back (NSHL style)

[ColumbusGM]

Anybody have any big regrets on any moves they've made? I'll start the ball rolling...

To BOS: Devin Setoguchi, CLB 1st
To CLB: Lubomir Visnovsky

I got punked. Anybody else?

[Elite Sim News (ESN)]

No regrets, that's my motto. That and everybody wang chung tonight.

Actually, this Buffalo general manager seems to be a moron. Check out some of these beauties:

To Buffalo: Anders Eriksson, $100,000
To LA Kings: BUF 2006 Rnd 7

Anytime you give up ANYTHING for Anders Eriksson, you made a mistake.

To Vancouver: Shane Doan
To Buffalo: Daniel Paille, Radim Vrbata, Karri Ramo

That...did not work out.

To Anaheim: James Wisniewski, Martin Hanzal
To Buffalo: Kurt Sauer, ANH 2006 Rnd 5, ANH 2007 Rnd 5

Yuck is as light as I can comment on the message board.

To Buffalo: Brent Seabrook
To Carolina: Dave Bolland, BUF 1 2010, BUF 2009 Rnd 1, $500,000

You have to try pretty effing hard to make a worse deal than that.

To Atlanta: Brent Seabrook, Lee Stempniak, Cody Goloubef, OTT 2009 Rnd 2
To Buffalo: Ethan Moreau, Mattias Ohlund

Unless you follow it up with that. Wow.

Pretty impressive track record in Buffalo eh?

[ex-BluesGM]

1st rounder for Adam Deadmarsh that was the worst cause despite all of Deadmarshes attributes he did jack diddly for us that year.

[Anaheim GM]

The one that STILL haunts me to this day:

To BUF: Patrick Kane (1st Overall Pick)

To ANH: Ryan Whitney and a BUF 3rd

[NYRangersGM]

any trade the rangers have ever made with mike handerson. at the top of this list is the paul martin trade, i will let henderson explain that one

[CanucksGM]

lol

[NashvilleGM]

I think maybe this one for me ...

To Nashville: Devan Dubnyk
To LA Kings: NSH 2006 Rnd 1

[NashvilleGM]

depends on how you look at this one I guess

To Ottawa: Dan Hamhuis, NSH 2009 Rnd 1
To Nashville: Paul Kariya, $2,000,000

[FlyersGM]

The one for me is

To Ottawa: Mike Richards

To Philadelphia: Karel Rachunek

There were some more specifics that I don't remember...

[CalgaryGM]

I regretted this trade after the season was over. But looking back, it wasn't too bad, the only two guys i regret moving was Butler and Varlamov.

To Chicago: Andrew Alberts, Josef Vasicek, Josh Hennessy, Lauri Korpikoski, Chris Butler, Semen Varlamov
To Calgary: Brad Lukowich, John Madden
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Jeff lasted just the remainder of the season before going to UFA. I did get my 1st back for a 3rd because I couldn't sign him.

To Calgary: Jeff Friesen
To Atlanta: Troy Brouwer, Ryan Parent, CGY 2007 Rnd 1
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Roger, remember this one, my very 1st trade. aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrg.

To Calgary: Jaromir Jagr, $5,000,000
To Buffalo: Jaroslav Svoboda, Toni Lydman, CGY 2005 Rnd 1, CGY 2006 Rnd 3, CGY 2007 Rnd 3, CGY 2008 Rnd 1
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This was painful to look back on. What was I thinking? I was trying to dump salary since I lost a lot of cash that year. Had a payroll at one point upwards of 67 mill I think.

Nice selling job Rob.

To Calgary: Chris Heid, COL 7 2005 (214th), Jonas Johansson, NSH 2005 Rnd 5
To Colorado: Rod Brind'Amour

[LAKingsGM]

Yep, I have you all beat:

To LA Kings: Richard Zednik, NYI 2009 Rnd 4
To Islanders: Nigel Williams, COL 2009 Rnd 1, $2,500,000


The COL 2009 Rnd 1 was...yes, the 1st overall pick of the 2009 draft (John Tavares).

I traded John Tavares for Richard Zednik.

Haunting.

[LAKingsGM]

However, I did PRECEDE that above awful trade with this gem: Look closely....it's John Tavares (which I squandered to Richard Zednik), Alex Goligoski, and Peter Regin (all playing very well in the NHL) for Lidstrom.



To LA Kings: Alex Goligoski, Peter Regin, COL 2009 Rnd 1
To Washington: Nicklas Lidstrom, $4,000,000

[formerDevilsGM]

My 1st trade ever is one that haunts me the most.
To this day I think Jason brought me into the league so he could do this trade.

To Chicago: Ilja Bryzgalov
To New Jersey: Michal Barinka, Mikhail Yakubov, CHI 2005 Rnd 8

[Detroit Cherni]

As a former Trade-a-holic, there are a number of deals I regret. But these three really did me no favours, which left me scratching my head.

1) TO CAROLINA: ALEXANDRE BURROWS, JOSH GORGES, MARK FISTRIC, ZACH HAMILL, SJ 2008 RND 1, VAN 2008 RND 5, OTT 2008 RND 6, OTT 2008 RND 7
TO ATLANTA: MARK PARRISH, SHELDON SOURAY, DAVID VAN DER GULIK, KYLE CUMISKEY

** I have one player left from this trade that's of NsHL calibre and that's Cumiskey. Van Der Gulik's in the minors and will likely stay there. The other two are AWOL.

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2) TO NASHVILLE: KENDAL MCARDLE, TAYLOR CHORNEY, ANH 08 RND 2, ATL 2009 RND 1
TO ATLANTA: SCOTT HARTNELL

** I gave up the 8th overall pick and a decent second rounder for a player who wouldn't last three months on our roster. During his tenure, Hartnell, playing first and second line minutes contributed a total of 2 goals and three assists in 25 games.

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3) TO NASHVILLE: MARK GIORDANO, CLB 2008 RND 5
TO ATLANTA: MARTIN GERBER

** Uh, yeah, I think this one was a little lop sided as well. Giordano will look real nice with a re-rate this year. I remember I only moved him because he'd signed in the KHL. I didn't expect him to come back and be the NHL Flames best defenseman this season. Who did?

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Honorable mention goes to this trade with Spenny:

To Washington: Scottie Upshall and Andrew Cogliano
To Atlanta: Jason Pominville

Enough said.

[ex-BluesGM]

"former" yeah sure Dave "former trad-a-holic" You got and dealt Alfredsson in the same season pal.