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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Thornton is up there. Middleton for Hodge, Chara plus a first for Yashin, Dionne to the Kings, Luongo to Florida (the first time), Pens: Naslund for an unknown, Jagr for nothing much.
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Luongo and Jokinen for Kvasha and Parrish is particularly insane.
3OA (C) and 4OA (G) from 1997 draft for #65 (LW) and #79 (RW) in the 1996 draft. (trade happened around 2000 draft).
Parrish had managed 50 goals across his first two seasons, but Jokinen's underwhelming numbers were still better than Kvashas at the time. Parrish did score at a reasonable clip for the Isles, but was ultimately traded WITH Sopel for: Jeff Tambellini and Dennis Grebeshkov.
Kvasha ended up traded for a 3rd rd pick (Brad Marchand), but NYI traded it down for a 4th and 5th who managed 1 NHL game between them.
Amazingly, the Panthers still missed the playoffs for 10 years...the Isles missed in 2001, but went to game 7 in 2002 and made 3/4 next years playoffs.
Jokinen didn't really bloom until 02-03, and the Isles of course acquired him from the Kings, but with a few different choices NYI could have entered the cap era with the following guys in their teens/early 20s:
Luongo
Spezza and Chara (instead of Yashin)
Heatley or Gaborik (instead of Dipietro)
Jokinen (or keep Palffy and Smolinski)
HOF Goalie; 1-2 punch at C, scoring winger and a cornerstone D...coulda been a dynasty.