This is not a rumour but didn't know where else to put it and definitely not worth it's own thread. I love looking back at old trades, and tonight looked up Craig Janney. Remarkable how the trade returns for him diminished steadily over his career (although I'm sure true for a lot of players).
1992-Feb-07 Traded from Boston Bruins with
Stephane Quintal to St. Louis Blues for
Adam Oates
1994-Mar-14 Traded from St. Louis Blues with round 2 pick in the 1994 draft (
Scott Cherrey) to Vancouver Canucks for signing
Petr Nedved
1994-Mar-21 Traded from Vancouver Canucks to St. Louis Blues for
Jeff Brown,
Bret Hedican and
Nathan LaFayette
1995-Mar-06 Traded from St. Louis Blues with cash to San Jose Sharks for
Jeff Norton and conditional pick in the 1997 draft
1996-Mar-18 Traded from San Jose Sharks to Winnipeg Jets for
Darren Turcotte and round 2 pick in the 1996 draft
1998-Jun-11 Traded from Phoenix Coyotes to Tampa Bay Lightning for
Louie DeBrusk and round 5 pick in the 1998 draft (
Jay Leach)
1999-Jan-18 Traded from Tampa Bay Lightning to New York Islanders for round 6 pick in the 1999 draft (
Fedor Fedorov)
Hilariously, Janney was awarded as compensation to Vancouver instead of Brendan Shanahan, refused to report, was traded back to St Louis, and was gone from St Louis anyway at the beginning of the next season.
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/...y.php?pid=2505