Gonna go after myself for this trade, but it would be any of Edmonton’s obsession with trading first-round picks for one-year experiments. First was the Gabe Johnson trade, in which we traded a first and Johnny Shuffleboard (who was himself my first-ever draft pick as VAN co) for Gabe. This trade worked out in a season where we were just waiting for the prospects to come up and we made the West final, and in that offseason after we traded another first for Liam Slate. The team didn’t have the depth to compete past the first round and he was also gone after a year and a half. After another early exit in S63 (in which we had the one-year signing experiment of Senji Seteki), we traded another first and Zerg for Valor right after the Izzy incident, with which the team went nowhere. I’ll freely admit now that trying to add through trades when the team wasn’t at the stage of being a contender was probably a mistake trying to build off S61 and forced them to rebuild.