Looking at those deals, it seems like they were all taking advantage of expansion teams that needed to fill out their rosters.
Free agency didn't really exist back then, and the Original Six teams controlled anyone who was good enough to play in the NHL, so the expansion teams had to make trades to acquire players from the Original Six teams. Because they were expansion teams, they didn't really have any valuable players to send back, so a lot of the trades they made were either for cash or future draft picks.
It doesn't seem like it's a set of circumstances that apply to the NHL in 2015.
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