Hi, today I am going to do write about the Eric Lindros trade, which won the Colorado Avalanche/Quebec Nordiques 2 Stanley Cups. I did this post  because of a video I watched from Sportsnet. There was a lot of branches in the tree and so I will only cover two of the branches and show you a picture of the rest of the tree.

The trade went down one year after the Nordiques drafted him 1st overall in the 1991 draft. The Flyers received Eric Lindros, and the Nordiques/Avalanche received Steve Duchesne, Peter Forsberg, Ron Hextall, Kerry Huffman, Mike Ricci, Chris Simon, a first round draft pick in ’93 and a first in ’94, and 15 million dollars. At the time, the best player in the sport, Wayne Gretzky was getting 3 million, so you could literally get the best player in the history of the game ever five times. The two draft picks turned into Nolan Baumgartner and Jocelyn Thibault.

The Draft Pick branch of the Trade tree: Jocelyn Thibault, packaged with Martin Rucinsky and Andre Kovalenko, for  Mike Keane, and Patrick Roy. Keane was the Habs captain at the time, and Roy was obviously the best goalie at that time and is the best goalie ever. That alone was probably enough for the Avs to win a cup, but  that was a very small branch in the tree.

The next tree I am going to cover is the Chris Simon branch. Simon, packaged with Leschyshin were sent to Washington for Keith Jones, and a first and a fourth in ’98. The first became Scott Parker, and the fourth became Krys Barch. Then the Avs traded Parker for an ’03 5th, which turned into Brad Richardson. Then they traded two fourths and a fifth in ’98 for a third in ’98 which was Evgeny Lazarev. The Avalanche traded Keith Jones for Sjon Podein and then traded Podein to acquire Mike Keane. The last part of the trade branch was in 2008 when the Avalanche traded Brad Richardson to the Kings for an ’08 second round pick, who turned into Peter Delmas.

Here is a picture of the full trade tree

Thanks for reading. Here is a link to Steve Dangle talking about the full trade tree.

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