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Islanders history: 20 years mistake of trading Roberto Luongo to Florida

“(Mike) Milbury’s on a rampage,” they warned of New York's general manager and coach. “You better get up there before he does something stupid.” That's a warning Bryan Berard received (subscription required) from a few New York Islanders assistant coaches moments before he was told that he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

That was January of 1999.

Some 18 months later, Milbury would be at it again when he traded Roberto Luongo and Olli Jokinen to the Florida Panthers for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha.