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Originally Posted by TheChief
This trade was before my time as a Flames Fan. To me though (correct me if I'm wrong ) it signaled the end of a era of dominance and the beginning of a lengthy dark time for a franchise. Not long after many of the other cup heroes had left and the young guns were born.
Its funny looking back on the worst trades of all time and arguably you could say we have had 3 of the top 5.
Older Flames and NHL watchers will tell you that the flames were gifted a cup by St.Louis by fleecing their GM. (Mullen/Gilmour/Nattress), but in same token we traded away to them one of the best goalscorers in history in Hull. Some of my older friends will claim we wouldn't have won the cup without Ramage but I digress
Gilmour/Hull/Phaneuf, in my opinion 3 of the worst 5 trades in NHL history.
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Gilmour trade one of the worst ever no doubt. It was bad at the time and it as it aged, it got even worse.
Phaneuf looked almost as bad at the time, but got better with age. Still, should have been able to get more for him. Not an all time bad trade though IMO.
The Hull trade is different. Do they win the Cup without Ramage who was a solid addition? Who knows but I think you can argue that Hull should have fetched more, even at the time.