Prompt 1

Oh man trades. To be honest I would love to pick one from the site itself, but I can't remember a specific trade with full details, and digging the 3 firsts for McZ isn't really interesting for me since it would take a long time to find. I think the easy one that kind of goes under the radar for my favorite NHL team is when the Ottawa Senators traded for Bobby Ryan in 2013. The trade itself looks pretty tame in the history books. The Sens gave the ducks Jakob Silfverberg, who has been in Anaheim ever since and put up a respectable but not outstanding career really, and added in Stefan Noesen who never did anything in Anaheim and was lost for nothing a few seasons later, as well as a first in 2014, which the ducks used to pick Nick Ritchie who also kind of fizzled out in Anaheim. The irony of the trade is that both teams kind of lost... The Ducks didn't really end up with anything other than a single middle-NHL forward who did have some good performances in the post season at least, wasting the rest of the assets, while the Sens ended up with a few good seasons from probably the best player in the trade (by a narrow margin really when you look at the raw stats), but are STILL PAYING HIM for the pleasure after he has gone through numerous challenges both physical and mental throughout his career and ended up being a cap liability by the end of his career. I think this might be one trade where I would prefer it had never happened, not because I hate Bobby Ryan, but just because it never really worked out for anyone at all.