Nobody does controversial trades quite the Toronto Maple Leafs do. Sometimes they work out. The acquisitions of the likes of Jake Gardiner, Dion Phaneuf, Joffrey Lupul and others have all paid dividends for the Leafs in recent memory.
Others, such as those that saw Tuukka Rask, Dougie Hamilton and Tyler Seguin in another organization's mix are more widely contested.
Recently, the trade of Phil Kessel and co. for Kasperi Kapanen, Scott Harrington, Nick Spalling and a couple of a picks (a first rounder among them) created instant disappointment among fans who believed the return for one of the two or three highest scoring right wingers in the world could have been larger -- or have been facilitated without lengthy salary retention.