Steve Dangle walks you through one of the most complicated trade trees in NHL history. It begins back in 2009 when the Toronto Maple Leafs acquired Phil Kessel from the Boston Bruins. Find out how that deal is still shaping the future of three teams today.
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22 Comments
this trade got the leafs Rodion amirov, and jared mccann (for about 3 days )
It's Black and Gold
Expansion draft says hi again… (yoinks Lauzon)
It's kinda old but I would like if you did the trade tree that brought the Leafs their first 50 goal scorer, Rick Valve. Amazing that this trade was made by Leafs owner Harold Ballard when he served as GM.😀
Make a Scott Stevens trade tree. How a offersheet from Blues made him a 3 time Cupwinner in Devils!!!
Phil was a great player but he didn't fit in in Boston. It was nice they got something from him.
Me in 2021 watching this knowing Kapanen gets traded back to Pittsburgh just wishing this video would have been made this year.
watching this at the end of november 2021 and sean durzi just scored his first career NHL goal against the leafs 😂😂 YOU CANT MAKE THIS STUFF UP
Vancouver Has OEL because of Phil Kessel
Seguin is an absolute beauty
Freddie wasn't back-up in Anaheim, he started as one in 13/14, but even in that year, he has most play off appearances out of three Anaheim goalies at the time – him, Hiller (who overshadowed Giguere few years before that, so not a weak competition) and very young Gibson. In 14/15 and 15/16 seasons, Freedie was number one goalie and Gibson was mostly his back up – even though they played similar amount of games in 15/16 regular season, Freddie was still first choice for the play-offs. And his record in that three years in Anaheim was pretty good. Too bad they didn't manage to finish Chicago in 2015 conference finals, they were 3:2 up in that series and then lost game six and home game seven.
Good example why trading futures usually doesn't work out. Look at the roster the leafs could have had. Develop prospects, sign free agents , win cup.
What's funny is that Toronto ended up trading Kapanen back to Pittsburgh. I forget what they got in return or what else was sent to Pittsburgh, though.
Kessel still hasn't missed a game yet!!
thank you for this series Steve as it made me start looking back thru how some trades have evolved for my favorite team the Anaheim Ducks and there is a trade that parallels and overlaps with this trade tree that I think would be interesting to look at because there is reason to say that at least 5 teams have won this trade and branches of it are still evolving today for teams that got something from it. The trade I was looking at is the 2011 trade that sent Tomas Kaberle to the Boston Bruins
Since I'm from the future, I'll tell you that Kessel wasn't traded from the Coyotes. He did sign a contract for 2022 with the Golden Knights, and officially broke the games played streak in the process.
I laughed out loud so hard when you told the Tyler Seguin story at the bar where he tapped you on the shoulder saying "thank you Phil Kessel?" After using the leafs pick to select Dougie 😂 that's an all timer, and that's a dang it
You should do the Dougie to Calgary trade tree
I don’t think I’m overstating at all when I say in terms of pure trades, Kessel had to be one of, if not THE best trades for Pittsburgh. He was essentially in that back to back run and worked harder than anyone to make it happen
Shoutout fat phill the wild thrill, three time cup champ
Thw galchenyuk comments were damn near prophetic.
Man, if this tree could be edited to look better. I'd enjoy that.