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Only Lonely by ACTORS from the Artoffact Records compilation Misogyny is Not a Music Genre ♀
#music#canadian music#actors#kendall wooding#adam fink#jason corbett#shannon hemmett#artoffact records#artoffact#music video#wayne moreheart#corey macgregor#christian eichmann#video#justin hagberg#rachel rampage#laura may taylor#jason kilroe#elizabeth mcleod#candace harvey
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Février MMXXI
Films
Spy Game : Jeu d'espions (Spy Game) (2001) de Tony Scott avec Robert Redford et Brad Pitt
Jack Reacher (2012) de Christopher McQuarrie avec Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins et David Oyelowo
Ready Player One (2018) de Steven Spielberg avec Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T. J. Miller et Simon Pegg
Green Book : Sur les routes du Sud (Green Book) (2018) de Peter Farrelly avec Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali etLinda Cardellini
La Bonne Année (1973) de Claude Lelouch avec Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian et Charles Gérard
La Femme au tableau (Woman in Gold) (2015) de Simon Curtis avec Helen Mirren, Tatiana Maslany, Ryan Reynolds et Daniel Brühl
La mariée était en noir (1968) de François Truffaut avec Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Denner, Michael Lonsdale et Claude Rich
Batman Begins (2005) de Christopher Nolan avec Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman et Morgan Freeman
La Classe américaine (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec John Wayne, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford et Paul Newman
L'Héritier (1973) de Philippe Labro avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort, Charles Denner et Jean Desailly
The Dark Knight : Le Chevalier noir (The Dark Knight) (2008) de Christopher Nolan avec Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal et Morgan Freeman
Jumper (2008) de Doug Liman avec Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell et Rachel Bilson
On connaît la chanson (1997) de Alain Resnais avec Agnès Jaoui, André Dussollier, Lambert Wilson, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Pierre Arditi et Sabine Azéma
Raccrochez, c'est une erreur (Sorry, Wrong Number) (1948) de Anatole Litvak avec Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards et Wendell Corey
Spectacles
Potiche (1983) de Pierre Barillet et Jean-Pierre Gredy avec Jacqueline Maillan, Jacques Jouanneau, Pierre Maguelon, Patricia Karim, Marie Mignal France, Roland Oberlin et Christian Defleur
Sacrés Fantômes (1976) de Eduardo De Filippo avec Dominique Paturel, Monique Thierry, Pierre Hatet, Henri Jacques Huet, Odette Laure et Jacques Marin
Séries
Friends Saison 3, 4
Celui qui était prof et élève - Celui qui avait pris un coup sur la tête - Celui pour qui le foot c'est pas le pied - Celui qui fait démissionner Rachel - Celui qui ne s'y retrouvait plus - Celui qui était très jaloux - Celui qui persiste et signe - Celui que les prothèses ne gênaient pas - Celui qui vivait mal la rupture - Celui qui a survécu au lendemain - Celui qui était laissé pour compte - Celui qui s'auto-hypnotisait - Celui qui avait un tee-shirt trop petit - Celui qui courait deux lièvres - Celui qui avait un poussin - Celui qui s'énervait - Celui qui avait un truc dans le dos - Celui qui voulait être ultime champion - Celui qui allait à la plage - Celui qui soignait les piqûres de méduses - Celui qui ne voyait qu'un chat
Alexandra Ehle Saison 2, 1
Le miracle - L’hermaphrodite - Pilote
Top Gear Saison 18, 21
Spécial Patagonie : Partie 1 - Spécial Patagonie : Partie 2 - Spécial Journée Circuit - Destination Thaïlande - Un pont sur la rivière Kwaï
The Grand Tour Saison 3, 1, 4,
Aston, astronautes et les enfants d’Angelina - Passé contre futur - The Grand Tour présente : La Chasse Au Trésor - Tour de ferme - Eaux salées et eaux douces
Les Petits Meurtres d’Agatha Christie Saison 3
La Chambre Noire
Kaamelott Livre II, III
La Délégation Maure - La Cassette - Le Message Codé - Le Poème - Les Classes de Bohort - Perceval et le Contre-Sirop - Le Jeu du Caillou - Les Pigeons - Le Passage Secret - Le complot - Trois Cent Soixante Degrés - La Frange Romaine - Les Comptes - L’Orateur - Le Chevalier Errant - Morituri - L’Aveu de Bohort - Le Renfort Magique - Le Dialogue de Paix II - Silbury Hill II - Le Repos du Guerrier II - La Poétique Partie I - La Poétique Partie II - Cryda de Tintagel - Le Déserteur - Les Clous de la Sainte Croix - Guenièvre Et Euripide - Dream On - La Menace Fantôme - La Parade - La Cassette II - Arthur Sensei - La Pythie - Poltergeist - La Révolte II - Les Paris II
James May : Oh Cook Saison 1
Un Air D'Asie - Comme Au Pub - Pasta Delisioza - Festin Italien - Desserts et Gourmandises - Petit Déjeuner des Champions - Roti de Famille
Castle Saison 5
Protection rapprochée
L’agence tous risques Saison 3, 1, 2
Nouvelle cuisine - Racket - Bataille rangée - Pour le meilleur et pour le pire - Détournement - Une si jolie petite ville - Vacances dans les collines - Poussière de diamants - Otages à l'orphelinat - Immigration clandestine
Crimes parfaits Saison 2
Comme un froid entre nous - Au théâtre ce soir
Livres
Indiana Jones et la dernière croisade de Rob MacGregor
La serpe d'or de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo
Colère ardente de Richard Castle
Mad Love de Paul Dini et Bruce Timm
Astérix en Corse de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo
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List of Efrika Riders (Axel’s Gang) Members (A-Z, ranks)
President (1): Armstrong, Axel “Chief”
Road Captain (1): Schafter, Tony “Patriot”
Sgt. At Arms (1): Kaviz, Sophia
Secretary (1): Grau, Fulvey “Fufu”
Treasurers (2): Gryll, Anthony | Hart, Katherine
Enforcers (12): Arlington, Demeter “Acid” | Aniy, Reid “Chino” | Chitzky, Jane “Jewels” | Colter, Troy “Colt” | Ducatti, Maurice “Maul” | Eastwood, Jonathan “Johnny” | Fujimori, Aki “Fuji” | Le Mans, Yamille “Spagonia Yam” | Oberwich, Hunter | Prince, Anatoliy | Ramirez, Harley | Sokolov, Tuma “Eagle” |
Members/Patched (62): Ach, Tamara “Tammy” | Ackermann, Thomas “Tack” | Acrey, Wesley “Acres” | Ahrendt, Lynn | Amarov, Randall | Bohan, Suro “Trophy” | Bohan, Boro “Tarmac” | Bohan, Taro | Bojanowski, Jack | Boomgarden, Tanya “Boomer” | Bramante, Daniel “Bram” | Brazelton, Tom “Tabby” | Cliffe, Sanford | Corvette, Salvador “Sal” | Corwood, Nigel | Czechowicz, Jakob “Czech” | Davis, Pam | Eisenhardt, Faust | Elk, Moore | Eyre, Jayna “Darling” | Featherstone, Trevor “Tiny” | Fehl, Wellington “Wellie” | Finelli, Pat | Furlong, Jason | Gadberry, Ron “Fancy” | Gallo, Logan | Gilgreath, Martin “Ivy” | Ginyard, Keanu | Gorringe, Terry | Grau, Fibi “Racer” | Grohman, Rat | Hashimoto, Tokage | Hatt, Phil | Hendershott, Sterling | Jackowski, Neil | Jackowski, Gerry | Jonassen, Hadvar “Jon” | Kahr, Boris | Kerrick, Stanley “Mad Dog” | Kozlovsky, Yov “Crazy” | MacGregor, Willy | Marine, Ryker | McClinton, Steve “Cueball” | Na, Xiao “Grim” | Niewiarowski, Aleksander “Polski” | Notch, Bonnie “Smiley Face” | O’Neil, Charles “Charlie” | Racki, Pablo | Redmont, Harry | Remington, William | Renninger, Rosaline “Rose” | Repkovi, Kalari “Viper” | Scarff, Allen “Scarf” | Tackett, Sierra | Tierney, Scott | Trask, Colin | Tomkiewicz, William “Bill” | Vacca, Milo “Farmhand” | Van Liere, Treyard | Vee, Joey | Wesley, Kevin | West, Yanni “Northwest”
Prospects (24): Abernathy, Roland | Akridge, Sven | Arey, Richie | Backe, Corey | Cooke, Francis | Eavey, Sally | Eis, Wyatt | Danley, Owen | Desmond, Monik | Durich, Jakson | Durn, Noah | Dwight, Austin | Emmerson, Patti | Escalante, Patrick | Fann, TJ | Ferris, Alex | Ferris, Dana | Fritz, Michael | Gresley, Evan | Grestin, June | Takashi, Kenji | Thorpe, Catherine | Vienna, Marc | Zentorno, Oliver
* note that numbers and names are sometimes subject to change owing to deaths, expulsions and/or egressions from the gang.
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4 Historic Ducks Deadline Deals
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4 Historic Ducks Deadline Deals
Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
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4 Historic Ducks Deadline Deals
New Post has been published on https://nhlrumormill.com/4-historic-ducks-deadline-deals/
4 Historic Ducks Deadline Deals
Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
Enjoy more great hockey history and ‘Best of’ posts in the THW Archives
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4 Historic Ducks Deadline Deals
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4 Historic Ducks Deadline Deals
Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
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Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
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Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
Enjoy more great hockey history and ‘Best of’ posts in the THW Archives
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Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
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Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
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Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
Enjoy more great hockey history and ‘Best of’ posts in the THW Archives
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Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
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Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
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Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
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Every season, hockey fans tune into NHL trade deadline coverage eager with anticipation. If their team is a contender, they hope to hear news that they’ve acquired a difference maker. If their team has surrendered hope of making the playoffs, the trade deadline brings hope to fans that the general manager of their favorite team can squeeze future assets out of current talent. The Anaheim Ducks have made several influential trades on or near the NHL trade deadline in their history. Not all of them have been “eye-openers” at first glance, but they have had important and lasting impacts on the Ducks’ legacy.
4. March 3, 2009: Ducks Trade for Nick Bonino
On the day before the 2008-09 NHL trade deadline, the Ducks sent Kent Huskins and Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks for goaltender Timo Pielmeier and center Nick Bonino. While this trade got them a strong player in Bonino — he played five seasons for the Ducks scoring a career-high 22 goals in 2013-14 — it’s the trade that this move enabled which is the important part.
Five years after the trade for Bonino, they sent him to the Vancouver Canucks along with a first and third-round draft pick in 2014 and Luca Sbisa for Ryan Kesler and a 2015 third-round pick. Shortly after the trade, Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the media, “Bonino was an important piece. Ryan scored 25 goals for us last year. [Bonino] scored 22 goals last year, so being able to replace [Kesler’s] goal production for our team next year and he can play the power play and he’s a playmaking center iceman, I thought that was important.”
The Ryan Kesler trade was possible because the Ducks offered Vancouver Nick Bonino (Amy Irvin/ The Hockey Writers)
Kesler was a vital piece to the Ducks until 2017. Recovery from hip surgery has proven difficult and limited his availability and performance. At 34 years old, Kesler has six points through 42 games this season, but it’s always easier to criticize a trade in hindsight. At the time, the Ducks were looking for a strong, physical second-line center who could counter their rival, the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings had just won their second Stanley Cup in three seasons and had taken out Anaheim along the way. The Ducks got their man in Kesler.
3. March 11, 2003: Mighty Ducks Acquire Rob Niedermayer
On trade deadline day 2003, the then-Mighty Ducks acquired Rob Niedermayer in exchange for sending Mike Commodore and Jean-Francois Damphousse to the Calgary Flames. The trade landed them an important piece in their success from 2002-03 to their Stanley Cup title in 2006-07 and beyond.
In Damphousse, Bryan Murray, Anaheim’s GM at the time, gave up a goalie who had been a former first-round pick but only played in six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils in 2001-02. In Commodore, they gave up a big physical defenseman who had played 57 NHL games but none for the Mighty Ducks.
In Niedermayer, the Mighty Ducks received a player who had once notched 26 goals and would become one-third of their “shutdown line” along with Travis Moen and Samuel Pahlsson. By the time the team dropped the “Mighty” and became just “the Ducks,” Niedermayer and his shutdown line played a key role in the Ducks’ Stanley Cup title. Niedermayer’s 10 points in 21 playoff games tied his career high in playoff points.
It wasn’t just his on-ice presence that helped the Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup, he also helped bring his Norris Trophy-winning brother Scott Niedermayer to the Ducks. At the time of Scott Niedermayer’s signing in 2005, his agent Kevin Epp told the press, “I think it was a big factor. Playing with Rob, the West Coast, closer to family. A little bit of everything.”
One year and 10 months later, the Ducks won the Stanley Cup and Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe.
In more ways than one, they have Rob Niedermayer to thank.
2. March 5, 2001: Mighty Ducks Trade Teemu Selanne
It’s the day die-hard Ducks fans choose to forget. Just over a week before the 2001 trade deadline, the Mighty Ducks dealt franchise legend Teemu Selanne to the San Jose Sharks. During his first stint with the Mighty Ducks, Selanne scored 234 goals. Along with Paul Kariya, Selanne helped lead Anaheim to its first-ever playoff appearance.
After a disappointing first half of the 2000-01 season, the Mighty Ducks tried to get something in return for Selanne who was to become a free agent after the following season.
In return for Selanne, Anaheim received left winger Jeff Friesen and goalie Steve Shields from the Sharks. More importantly, they received a 2003 second-round draft pick. On draft day in 2003, Murray packaged that pick with their other second-round pick in that same draft and sent it to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Corey Perry.
Without the Teemu Selanne trade in 2001, Corey Perry might never have been drafted by the Ducks. (Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
The icing on the cake is that Selanne returned in 2005 to team up with Perry and the rest of the Ducks to win a Stanley Cup title and played alongside Perry on the Ducks’ first line later in his career.
1. March 5, 2002: Third-Round Pick for Marty McInnis
This trade, made two weeks before the deadline, also doesn’t have the immediate impact you might expect for an important deadline trade, but it led to one of the biggest trades in Ducks history. The process that led to its eventual payoff lasted over four seasons and spanned the tenures of four Ducks GMs.
On March 5, 2002, then-Mighty Ducks GM Pierre Gauthier traded winger Marty McInnis to his hometown Boston Bruins. In return, Anaheim received a third-round pick in the 2002 draft.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Mighty Ducks fired Gauthier and hired Bryan Murray. On draft day in 2002, Murray traded the third-round pick Gauthier had acquired for McInnis to the Nashville Predators in exchange for them agreeing not to select Joffrey Lupul in that same draft.
The Mighty Ducks drafted Lupul, who played 172 games in his first stint with the team and scored 41 goals. He added nine goals and two assists for 11 total points in the 2005-06 NHL playoffs, but it was after that season where he had his biggest impact.
The Final Step To Pronger and the Cup
On July 3, 2006, Sean Burke, who had just started his second year as Anaheim’s GM, packaged Lupul in a massive trade to the Edmonton Oilers to land star defenseman Chris Pronger. Along with Pronger, the trade included Ladislav Smid, the Ducks’ 2007 first-round pick, along with their 2008 second-round pick. It also included a conditional first-round pick if the Ducks made the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, which they not only made, but won, thanks, in part, to Pronger.
Joffrey Lupul was an important young piece that helped enable the Ducks to acquire Pronger(Photo courtesy of Bridget Samuels/ Flikr)
Pronger had forced Oilers’ GM Kevin Lowe’s hand by demanding a trade because his wife struggled with the prospects of life in Edmonton, even after the Oilers had made it to the Stanley Cup Final.
Lowe needed a big return for Pronger, who was still under contract for five more seasons. In Lupul, the Oilers received a young and promising player who had led the then, Mighty Ducks in playoff goals and tied for third in points with 11. The Oilers had seen Lupul up close when they defeated the Mighty Ducks in the 2005-06 Western Conference Final.
In a piece for the Edmonton Journal David Staples explained Lupul’s value in the trade.
“Pronger had been a long-term fix for the Oilers, so Lowe needed something long-term in return — players who appeared to be on the brink of NHL stardom, but were far from their unrestricted free agency years, which kick in after a player’s seventh pro season.” (from ‘The Kevin Lowe Reader, Part 3: Lowe and his struggle with Chris Pronger’ The Edmonton Journal — 6/12/14)
Lupul fit that description.
Pronger teamed up with Scott Niedermayer as the Ducks’ first defense pairing. During the 2006-07 cup run, Pronger ranked first among Anaheim defensemen with 15 points and tied for third overall on the team in playoff scoring.
While the original trade wasn’t made as a conscious decision to eventually land Pronger, it was a “butterfly effect trade.” When a third-round pick flapped its wings out of Boston in 2002, it blew a Stanley Cup hurricane into Anaheim four seasons later.
Honorable Mention: Acquiring a Pick Sets up Ducks Future
On Feb. 28, 2011, trade deadline day, Ducks GM Bob Murray traded Maxim Lapierre and MacGregor Sharp to the Canucks for Joel Perrault and a 2012 third-round pick. Perrault never played a game for Anaheim but at the 2012 draft, Murray used the third-round pick to select Frederik Andersen.
Anderson played well in three seasons and 153 games with the Ducks, but thanks to the emergence of John Gibson, who had been drafted a year before Andersen, Anaheim could use him as an asset. So, four days before the 2016 NHL draft, Murray traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In return for Andersen, the Ducks received a 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick.
With the 2016 pick, Murray selected Sam Steel and with the 2017 pick, he chose Maxime Comtois. While it’s obviously far too early to judge the impact of Comtois and Steel, fans hope early signs of success blossom into stardom for Anaheim’s next Stanley Cup run.
Max Comtois could be the Ducks’ next franchise winger (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)
While not all of these trades were startling when they happened, they had major implications for the Ducks’ future success. It goes to show that even a minor transaction near the trade deadline can snowball into a historical moment and that a devastating one can have a silver lining. It’s part of the reason fans love trade deadline day so much.
All stats and trade history from nhltradetracker.com and hockey-reference.com
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