Trades are a common occurrence in the NHL; players and draft picks get shuffled by general managers looking to either shake up their team, bolster a contending roster, or plan for the future. Sometimes they work out; other times they don’t. Hindsight is a wonderful gift when assessing these moves, and today we take a Pepe Silvia-level look at a series of events that began nearly 25 years ago, before the Carolina Hurricanes even existed.
We start on the twenty-seventh of July, 1995. Brendan Shanahan, a two-time 50 goal scorer at the time, is traded from the St.