WRITTEN TASK: Tell me about your favorite trade tree! This can either be in the SHL or in real professional hockey, and does not have to involve your team.

Trades can be very devestating for teams if they give up too many different assets and the player they may have overpaid for doesn't work out and leads to the team having a very rough time for many, many, many years to come. My favorite National Hockey League team is located in Columbus, Ohio and are called the Columbus Blue Jackets. They became a team at the turn of the millenium in the year 2000. They struggled to field a good team for very many years and went through a multitude of coaches. My favorite trade they ever made was when they traded for Vezina Award winner Sergei Bobrovsky from the Philadelphia Flyers for what was looking back now, a bunch of nobodies. Bobrovsky won a lot of games for the organization and turned around what had been a bad franchise for years almost immediately. He also won a Vezina as a member of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

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