PROMPT 1

I do cheer for Florida Panthers, and from the time that I've been following them more closely, there really is no other candidate for the worst trade than the Reilly Smith trade. The trade was Reilly Smith (and his $5M cap hit contract) for a 4th round pick and expansion draft considerations. But losing Reilly Smith basically for free isn't even the worst part of this, which makes it even more miserable. The worst part is that the "expansion draft considerations" meant a deal that Vegas would pick Jonathan Marchessault, allowing Panthers to keep both Mark Pysyk and Alex Petrovic. Pysyk and Petrovic had always been and always remained replacement-level players. Marchessault was still playing his cheap rookie deal and had already scored 30 goals in the previous season, and he turned out to be an actually useful, very good NHLer. Panthers lost him AND Reilly Smith in that trade and gained absolutely nothing. It felt incredibly dumb at the time, and it still does. Thanks, Dale Tallon.