Prompt 1

The worst trade that my team, the Boston Bruins, has made in my memory is the Joe Thornton trade back in 2005. The Bruins traded a peak Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks for Marco Sturm, Wayne Primeau, and Brad Stuart. The Bruins used Jumbo Joe as a total scapegoat because of his bad playoffs the year prior. But in the season they traded him, he was already better then a point per game. To add some more salt to the wound that season, in San Jose Thornton played at an almost 2 points per game pace. Of the three players the Bruins got in return, Marco Sturm was the only player to kind of maybe sort of have any sort of impact on the team. Those three players combined scored 1016 career points. Joe Thornton had 1539! Imagine what Joe could have done in Boston with the core they would eventually develop over the next couple years. What an absolute travesty.
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