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NHL history: Worst trade in each team’s history

By Nick Villano

Matt Duchene #95 of the Ottawa Senators gets set for a faceoff against the Toronto Maple Leafs during an NHL game at Scotiabank Arena on February 6, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Maple Leafs defeated the Senators 5-4. (Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images)
Matt Duchene #95 of the Ottawa Senators gets set for a faceoff against the Toronto Maple Leafs during an NHL game at Scotiabank Arena on February 6, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Maple Leafs defeated the Senators 5-4. (Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images) /
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Ryan Whitney of the Anaheim Ducks. (Photo by Victor Decolongon/Getty Images) /

NHL history: Worst trade in each team’s history: Anaheim Ducks

The Anaheim Ducks were trying to hold on to their glory days in 2009 when they traded away two young assets to bring Ryan Whitney into the fold. He came at a trade deadline deal with the Pittsburgh Penguins, who weirdly were trying to fighting for a Stanley Cup with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin directly in their primes.

They sent Chris Kunitz to the Penguins, who because one of the best wingers to play with Crosby. They had unreal chemistry, and it came immediately. He had 14 points in 24 playoff games as the Penguins became Stanley Cup Champions that very season.

Meanwhile, Whitney was fine in Anaheim, but he wasn’t anything to go home about. In the final 20 games of the 2008-09 season, Whitney scored exactly zero goals and had 10 assists. In the playoffs, he had six points in 13 games and the Ducks were out in the second round. Whitney wasn’t even close to as good as Kunitz in the deal that season, let alone for the next 10 seasons.

Whitney was traded the very next season to the Edmonton Oilers for Lubomir Visnovsky. They gave up a future four-time Stanley Cup Champion for someone who only spent 82 games with the franchise. This one hurt.

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