How did trading Trevor Linden in 1998 help the Canucks acquire Jacob Markstrom? imacSportsnet explores that and other fascinating trades in Canucks history.
Their teams that went to the Stanley Cup Final in 1982, 1994 and 2011 all featured impact players acquired in trades or National Hockey League free agency to surround those who were drafted by the Canucks.
As subjective as they were arbitrarily chosen, here are five fascinating trades that helped shape the Canucks.Mention a blockbuster trade between the Canucks and St. Louis Blues and those old enough to remember will immediately cite former general manager Pat Quinn’s massive haul of Cliff Ronning, Geoff Courtnall, Sergio Momesso and Robert Dirk at the deadline in 1991. But Quinn made a deal with the same team the previous year that felt, at the deadline in 1990, to be nearly as big.
Stump your friends and family with this trivia question: Who was the player acquired then traded away by the Canucks on each side of the Roberto Luongo trade in 2014? OK, we gave away the answer in Diaz, the Swiss defenceman who played on five teams in five seasons during his mid-career foray into the NHL.fell out of favour with Canucks coach John Tortorella during the 2013-14 season, he was dealt on Feb. 3 to Montreal in exchange for Diaz.
Toronto GM Kyle Dubas did the honourable thing by sending Leivo, who spent five-and-a-half seasons in the Leafs organization, to a place where he would get a real opportunity: Vancouver. Leivo was immediately deployed on the Canucks’ first line and this season became a valuable and versatile middle-six forward before shattering his knee cap in December. The Canucks still need to sign Leivo after this season, but the power forward sure looks like an NHL player.
But this trade makes our list not because Bertuzzi developed in Vancouver into, albeit briefly, one of the best power forwards in the NHL, but because the Trevor Linden Trade Tree belongs in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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