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The NHL trade deadline is a worrying time for NHL fans. You’ve likely spent the past few days regularly refreshing Twitter to see if your team has mortgaged the future to win now only to disappoint you in the spring. Relax. The worst deals tend to happen around the draft, but that’s a story for another day.
With that, let’s take a look at the worst deadline deals by each NHL team since the 2004-05 lockout. And if you’re wondering why your team’s worst trade ever isn’t included, it’s because we’re only including deals that occurred within a week and a half of the trade deadline during the post-lockout era.