The amazing part has to be that Chara is still in the NHL and Spezza is also still in the league.

when he said "a defenseman I will not yet" name we all knew it was Chara right?

This might get the giant Canadian appeal but: Breaking down the Blues signing of Brendan Shanahan, and the Devils receiving Scott Stevens and how it paid off for the Devils, Blues, and... Ducks? It's one of the most amazing transaction trees ever.

> “trio of assassins” > “Dany Heatley” Oh no.

The fact that this trade tree had a pic of Mike Milbury instead of Alexei Yashin is the supreme insult.

Mike Milbury was an awful GM for the Islanders.

Oh God... this trade As an Islander fan, Mike Milbury was the worst GM in our history. So many players who could have been amazing for us...

Dorion getting forwards Chris Tierney, Rudolfs Balcers and Josh Norris and defenseman Dylan DeMelo along with a conditional 2019 second-round draft pick and the Sharks #3 pick (Stutzle or Byfield) and receive a 2021 second-round pick if Erik Karlsson re-signs with the sharks which he did...might be Ottawa's best trade if the prospects and picks pan out

Just rolled up a joint and this was posted as soon as I was done, perfect

can we not dive into Mike Milbury's trade history. :(

That Yashin deal was the craziest thing to happen to New York in September 2001

It's truly hilarious that popular vote for the worst and second worst GMs in NHL history were both Islanders GMs who were almost consecutive GMs except for this one month tenure of someone else.... and yet they each ran the team for over a decade

was half expecting you to play Simon and Garfunkel's Hello Darkness My Old Friend, when you reminisced about the Leafs' struggles with the Bruins and Chara XD

As an islander fan I’m crying inside while watching this

2000 NHL Draft 1st overall pick- Islanders select Rick Depietro 7 ROUND pick- Rangers select.... Henrik Lundqvist Damn

Commenting this before I watch the video - growing up as a young Isles fan, Yashin was always my favorite player. He was so much fun to watch and was my first favorite player in the game. I know this won’t end well for my Islanders, but I can’t replace the memories.

My favorite chant as a Ranger's fan is DP-15, Years! Years!

As of now, this is the best trade in Sens history. In a few years, the Karlsson trade might top it though

This is definitely in contention, but I'd have to say Alex Auld for Mark Stone, or the Karlsson trade is the best for Ottawa.

I love the build up for saying Chara’s name lol

I don't know why you need 14 minutes to say "because any trade moving Yashin is a good trade"

I think Steve might have had a kid maybe, not sure if he mentioned it.

The pain 😭 what could’ve been

Love your videos, keep up the great work, happy holidays, and stay sake

I really dig Steve going back looking at old trades! Very interesting!

Idk if you guys ended up seeing my comments on your old videos but I mentioned this on almost all of your trade trees to do, been waiting for you guys to do this one I wanna see what Ottawa all got from it. This is going to be a great watch thank guys!

Hockey GM tip: ask Milbury and do the opposite

These are my favorite on all of KZfaq

just watched again, it's still alive with Nick Paul going to Tampa at the deadline this year! two branches!

I am using this video to make it to the next 2-3 hour interval. Worth it

The Karlsson trade will end up being the best in sens history

Congrats on the kid! Love the videos!

Great video. It's interesting to take a dive into the bufferfly effects of trades. I'd like to suggest "The Trade" for a future video - Gretzky from the Oilers to the Kings.

CONGRATS STEVE DADGLE!

Congrats Steve🙏🏻

I legitimately laughed out loud when you named the mystery defender.

Idk how deep a Trade tree of “the Trade” would be but that

Congrats on the kid. I have a new two month old. Being a dad is awesome. Love the videos

“Buy high, sell low” -Mike Milbury

Steve Dangle gave birth!

Yo Steve really liking this camera angle. Hope Leo, you and Mrs Dangle are doing great!

I am an Islanders fan and I have a signed Alexei Yashin jersey. My prized possession.

I know you did Chris Pronger from Edmonton to Anaheim, but I think if you took a closer look, you can see how the Blues trading Chris Pronger to Edmonton helped them land a quintessential piece for their 2019 Stanley Cup run.

Steve:Who trades 2nd overall picks Leafs:phil kessel

yashin: i want money, ottawa: we don't have money. yashin+osgood teamed up to get a bad islanders team into the playoffs to lose to cujo.

Shoutout Mathieu Joseph for being the final link now

Congrats on your new kid Mr Dangle!

And to further this trade tree along the third round pick traded with the second to new jersey ( joey andersen) was dealt to the toronto maple leafs for andreas johnsson

Fun fact about the DiPietro contract. I calculated with the date he signed his contract and with my age. When his 15-year contract will end, I will be officially major. Also, a trade tree only on Mike Sillinger's Career would be interesting I think.

THE TRADE KEEPS GOING

You will be a great dad. So happy for you.

Steve, I think you really need to do a Mike Milbury Special for this Trade Tree series. We all know how those trades paid off in 2-3 years time, but it would be interesting to see how they evolve in longer terms.

Update on this trade: Nick Paul was dealt to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Mathieu Joseph and a 2024 4th round pick (TBL). We will see where this goes

Great video! I would love to see the shanahan trade to Detroit in 96. Or really just more Detroit.

Congrats on the kid Steve!

Ottawa obtaining Karlsson for Chet Pickard & Taylor Beck should be up there. Or shipping off Brian Elliot for Craig Anderson. These 2 trades alone showed how well Ottawa drafted over the years as they turned the second last pick in the '03 draft (who played 130 games for the team as a goaltender) into their starting goaltender for the next decade, and gambled to trade up to get who was once considered the 3rd best hockey player in the league for an 85-games plugger and an AHL goalie. At least Yashin gave the Isles some value. These two trades were fleecings.

Chara's last year in Ottawa, they also had Dominik Hasek. Greatest team never to win the cup in that teams history. And they lost it all halfway through the season due to an ankle injury at Czech international play

A Mark Messier 1991 trade tree would be very good. It’d be worth it just to hear the story of how Pierre McGuire (former Whalers coach) totally screwed the Whalers in the Steven Rice compensation hearing where the Oilers ended up with Marchment instead of Robert Kron.

Not sure how it would work but you should do one involving the trades that got the Sedins to Vancouver

As a sens fan, This tree is still so much pain.

I don't want to label this trade the best in Sens history yet because I want to see how the Karlsson trade pans out. If Stutzle/Byfield turns into a franchise winger/center, Josh Norris translates his game to the NHL, and Rudolfs Balcers pans out, we could be talking about a spectacularly good trade for the Sens, especially considering the form Karlsson has been in since the trade and the contract he is currently on.

Do a Shattenkirk for Johnson trade tree. Intrigues me since I didn't know how EJ got on the Avs since he was the Blues #1 pick. Plus Shattenkirk was used as a rental and those are always fun to do trade trees with, right Montreal

I really want to know Milbury’s thought process through all of the trades he made. The guy traded Luongo, Chara, McCabe, Bertuzzi, Spezza and drafted a goalie and signed him for about 50 years

I posted it on Twitter...but I want to see the Gretzky to LA trade tree...I think that would be pretty fun.

Steve you forgot one thing to add to the injury for Isles. Alex was also playing in the KH:L while getting paid by the Isles. The point that you did not add about Alex was that the only good players they had on forward were Mike Peca and Alex they had not wingers.

Trade Tree Ideas: - Alexander Mogilny to Vancouver - Dominik Hasek to Detroit

Also, the devils have now traded Joey Anderson who was the third in 2016 in the sens-devils deal (I’m assuming he’s Joseph Anderson) to the leafs for Johnsson so this trade tree needs to be updated

Absolutely incredible trade for the Senators

Steve can you do the Mike Fisher trade tree Nashville??? Please pretty please. I'm interested in what they all got for him

Been waiting for this one. Best thing the Sens have ever done

Adam Deadmarsh, Jason Allison, Sergei Samsanov & Sergei Gonchar are others for the NHL Trade Tree

Chet Pickard and Taylor Beck For Erik Karlsson(or the pick that became EK) Karlsson For DeMelo Tierney Balcers Norris 2020 1st round pick that is 3rd OA 2021 2nd round pick 2019 2nd round pick (Mads Sogaard) Demelo was traded for a 3rd round pick in 2020 All that from Chet Pickard and Taylor Beck Karlsson by himself rivals Spezza's greatness and then some in my opinion. Something tells me whoever they take at #3 OA this year will be worth a Chara I'm a MTL fan and i always thought this was your Danault and Romanov for Weise and Fleischman level win. Literally Something for nothing fleecing .

Its ironic that Ottawa is now the feeder club for the league after going through all that. But dumping Yashin was the best move they ever made.

My fav sens trade ever is Alex Auld for Mark Stone lmao

Im way to late for this but Rick Depietro was offered that contract before i was born and now its going to be done with when i turn 22 lol

Here we are in 2021 and Nick Paul is looking like a pretty decent player. Not sure what his ceiling is, but he’s like Mark Stone light. I’m having fun watching him play!

Nick paul was actually a really good two way forward last year for the sens even wore an A in preseason

Depends on what the Karlsson trade looks like in the future... Sens got 3rd OA this year, Norris, Balcers, another pick in the 2nd IIRC and a few more pieces

You forgot to mention that the 3rd in 2016 the Devils got in the deal became Joey Anderson who is a decent young middle 6 forward for the Devils.

This was a win-win for the Ottawa Senators. You severed ties with a problem child in Alexei Yashin and acquired two superstars in Jason Spezza and Zdeno Chara. Unfortunately, it also further cemented Milke Milbury ad the worst GM in league history. In fact, they should charge the Senators for grand theft. They fleeced the Islanders badly.

Have you thought about doing a David Perron trade tree? A pick forfeited for hiring a new head coach, a pick that turns into Mathew Barzal, and a trade for Carl Hagelin?? I know these are solely trades, but going back to St. Louis only to be left unprotected and helping Vegas to the Stanely Cup Finals... and then resigning with St. Louis again! And winning a cup! He's had quite the NHL experience.

I swear to god, Mike Milbury makes Peter Chiarelli look like a genius

3:07 Who's Patrick Burke?

Doug Gilmour!!! I really wanna see Doug Gilmour from the Blues to Calgary in the 80’s. I will do it myself for you if I have to

It took a million years, but Nick Paul is finally looking like a player. He's pretty much the ideal modern 4th liner. Big, fast, and plays hard. You guys should do the Gaborik to CBJ trade. It spider webs like crazy.

So they could've had Luongo, Chara and Spezza instead of DiPietro and Yashin. Hmm...

Congrats on your kid Steve. Hope you consider the Phaneuf trade from CGY to TOR. I still don't know who won that one. I would also like to see the collateral damage on the Sedin trades.

Given that the Sens got two possible Hall of Famers in exchange for a guy who sat out an entire season in his prime because he didn't want to play for them, yeah, this is the greatest trade in team history.

Millbury wasn't much of a manager but he was a phenomenal carnage artist.

You need to do a Mats Sundin trade to Toronto and how it helped/hurt the Avs

Did Dangle get an Ayres Young Guns? I did. Best Zamboni driver to walk the Earth.

You need to do the Patrick Roy 5 person deal

Chara was never going to resign in Ottawa, he was pissed with how the team treated hossa.

3:50 - at the time, in defense of RICK DIPIETRO... the scouting reports were he'd be the next Roberto Luongo. It was Marc-Andre Fleury who took the mantle, and Dipietro went the way of JIM CARREY... anyone 'member the GOALKEEPER of the washington Capitals who also happend to be named JIM CAREY ?

If the Karlsson trade pans out in the way that that the sens hope it will, it might up their as one of the best

11:55 not quite, it was actually 10 years for $87.5 million :'( it would be reduced to around 66 million as a result of the 2005 CBA but they were still paying him almost 9 mil a season for awhile.

The real question Steve is the Karlsson deal history repeating itself? Do the senators get over the hump this time? I’m really interested in there future. (So long as the owner shuts up)

Let's be honest. Even if it didn't end up fantastic in the end in terms of assets coming back, the trade still would have been excellent for Ottawa because they got rid of talented but major headache. The guy was a locker room cancer and a PR nightmare, almost exclusively by his own design. He was the exact opposite of Pavel Bure. While Pavel's issues stemmed from Canucks management at the time mistreating and disrespecting him at every turn, with Yashin it was the exact opposite. I'm a Canucks fan, but I usually root for the Sens when they're in the playoffs and have since 1992-93. I remember watching their first game on Hockey Night in Canada in that tiny arena. I always hoped they'd do well, but it hasn't worked out for them or any Canadian team since 1993. If you're looking for the background story on this, The Hockey Guy did a great synopsis a while back on his channel. Shannon has been on Steve's podcast once or twice.

I was about to say the best ottawa trade was either Demitra vs Christer Olsson or Daigle vs Falloon, but the Daigle/Falloon trade also include Vaclav Prospal and a 2nd round pick (who became Chris Bala ...) so i'm thinking : wow the daigle trade isn't as bad as i tought

“....and a defenseman that I won’t name just yet” Me, literally wearing his jersey: ehehehehehehe