Outside of Gilmour for Leeman, the most disappointing trade in Flames history

[FBI]

Phaneuf.

[Flashpoint]

Originally Posted by Dion

Trading Brett Hull to the Blues for d man Rob Ramage and goaltender Rick Walmsley. I thought we were giving away a player who would score a lot of goals in the league. Even the GM at the time Cliff Fletcher expected that Hull would be scoring 50+ goals a season and said as much during the trade press conference. Turns out we were both right.

The explanation at the time was the players we traded for would boster our chances of winning the Cup. It did work in our favour but I have wondered how that trade would been looked upon had we not won the Cup in 89.

Bad.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix

Chaisson was for Vernon. Which I was actually happy about because I thought Kidd was going to be a superstar

MacInnis signed an OS with St.Louis and we got Housley. I remember being pissed about that one. I think both moves happened in same fateful off season that pretty much sealed our fate for the next 10 years as an also-ran. Stupid Riseborough.

What makes it worse is we traded down to get Kidd and Jersey got Marty Broduer later in the first round. Ohhh how Broduer would have looked great in a Flames uniform

[edn88]

Iginla trade is the one for me, thought we should have gotten more (and probably should have made trade sooner).

[BigRed]

Savard is a stinker. Had he not been traded and concussed by Cooke he might still be playing. Even without those goggles on, he was clearly a big talent and we just gave him away. Brutal.


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[JiriHrdina]

You know who for Jim Kyte

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under

Jarome Iginla for Hanowski, Klimchuk and Agostino. That is a horrible trade. I should add that Iginla is the guy solely responsible for rekindling my passion for the Flames. That was a tough trade for me to handle. That return is so bogus.

Horrible trade.
But the trading of Iginla reignited my passion for the Flames because the team finally played with passion again

[tvp2003]

Timely topic.

On March 4, 2009, the Flames traded Prust, Lombardi, and a conditional 1st round pick to Phoenix for Olli Jokinen and a third round pick. Disappointing in that Olli Jokinen started off looking like the savior for the Flames -- the first line centre that Iginla never had all those years. Two weeks later, he goes ice cold and the rest is history.

To add insult to injury, according to Wikipedia the conditional 1st was for 2009 or 2010 (Flames choice). They elected to keep the 2009 1st rounder, and picked up some whiny brat named Tom Erixon at #23 (traded down from #20). The following year, Calgary missed the playoffs and Phoenix ended up with the 13th overall pick. They picked Brandon Gormley, but could have selected some Russian named Vladamir Tarasenko who went three spots later (yeah, the same guy that just signed a contract for $7.5M x 8 years -- today).

[Dion]

The low Canadian dollar that forced the Flames to trade or not be able to sign some of their best players in the 90's.

[HOWITZER]

In retrospect, Marty St. Louis for nothing.

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc

The Jokinen/Prust for Higgins/Kotalik was disappointing because it was so obviously a terrible trade and it signified my complete loss of faith in Sutter as GM.

Yeah, a relatively minor trade in the grand scheme of exchanges where we repeatedly took it in the pooper, but it definitely was exceptionally "WTF", as there was nothing redeemable about it. With the rest you could at least say "Leeman scored 50" or "Housley was the American Paul Coffey". That was a brutal run basically from the end of Fletcher to the end of Feaster (with some exceptions). Ironically enough, the 2 trades which we hit the jackpot on (Iginla and Kiprusoff) were accidental where the other team would not give up the player we wanted (Harvey and Toskala)...

[Fire of the Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Dion

The low Canadian dollar that forced the Flames to trade or not be able to sign some of their best players in the 90's.

While this was true, no one was forcing them to make terrible trades for lesser players. Over and over and over again.

1992-2003 was an awful, terrible, horrendous time to be a fan of this team.

[Ozy_Flame]

Calgary trading Robert Svehla and Magnus Svensson really bothered me back in the day. I think it was because Svehla went on to become a really useful defenseman for Florida at a time when we were entering the nightmare Young Guns era, and he wasn't exactly expensive to keep if I recall correctly. I know he didn't play a game with Calgary, but we got absolutely nothing that turned into value for him. He was certainly closer to ready than Dmitri Vlasnekov and Ryan Ready, that's for sure.

[Fire of the Phoenix]

Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler

Yeah, a relatively minor trade in the grand scheme of exchanges where we repeatedly took it in the pooper, but it definitely was exceptionally "WTF", as there was nothing redeemable about it. With the rest you could at least say "Leeman scored 50" or "Housley was the American Paul Coffey".

Lol, remember when everyone was convinced it was the first domino to fall and it was just the beginning of a bigger plan? Turns out, Darryl just went insane with desperation. Good times.

[N-E-B]

Dion for me. Iginla was just sad because it was Iggy, but the return wasn't as bad at the time as Phaneuf.

I'm only 21 so a lot of these old trades never impacted me personally but yikes there are some bad ones out there...

[drewtastic]

Titov (with Hlusko) for Wreggett (and Roche).

I loved German Titov and was underwhelmed when it was determined Wreggett (career backup) was to become our new starting goaltender.

Probably not a good representation of the thread's title, but certainly a disappointing one.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

Bad.

Suter got hurt in the first round and Ramage filled in quite well. Not so sure we would have won the Cup without the services of Ramage. Just think we gave up too much in the trade.

[FBI]

Arg this thread got me thinking of Todd Simpson.. Going to go find out what happened to our once captain.

[Vinny01]

The 48hrs of madness in 2010. Phaneuf, Jokinen, Prust, Sjostrom, Auile for Stajan, Hagman, White, Mayers, Higgins, Kotalik

[Trojan97]

The Phaneuf trade was disappointing in the sense that it was so unexpected and due diligence wasn't done to get the best value for him at the time. With that said, there hasn't been a single moment outside of that season that I have missed having him. He was destined to be run out of town, it just happened sooner than we all expected.