I will be discussing my real life favourite team in this PT, and forego the SHL for a moment. On top of my head, there aren't many trades that the Los Angeles Kings made that are egregiously bad, or that set back the franchise several years. But there is one that broke my young heart back in the 90s, and that was when the Kings decided to part ways with a face of the franchise, when they traded away Luc Robitaille to the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1994, in exchange for an aging Rick Tocchet and a 2nd round pick in the 1995 draft - which turned into a complete unknown player, Czechian winger Pavel Rosa, who played a grand total of 36 games at the NHL level. Thankfully, Robitaille eventually made his way back to Los Angeles twice more during his career, but this trade started his road as an NHL journeyman, when he could have stayed with our team and helped us through some difficult years at the turn of the century.

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