How The 2015 Glencross Deal Turned Into An Embarrassment Of Riches For Calgary | NHL Trade Trees

Steve Dangle takes a look back at how the 2015 trade deadline deal that sent Curtis Glencross to the Washington Capitals turned out to be a huge deal for the Calgary Flames in retrospect.

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[drofpaos]

Calgary and Carolina didn't pass on Fox by any means. He refused to sign with either team.

[braydenfletcher]

Adam Fox wasn't signing with Calgary no matter what so Calgary made out like bandits

[AndrewJDJepson]

Watching this again when all three of Lindholm, Hanifin and Kyllington popping off this season makes this even better

[Jameman]

Do the Craig Rivet-Josh Gorges trade tree. It’s pretty uneventful on the Sharks end of things but boy does it get interesting on the Habs end. Pacioretty, Tatar, Suzuki, Shaw, Debrincat, Krys and Jake Allen are all involved in it

[Kmanca]

Lindholm is such an underrated player. Great defensively, and a great shot!

[alifaizanvirji]

1 year later, this has aged like fine wine.

Hanifin has 43 pts in 75 games and is a top pairing 2 way dman.

Kylington is a top 4 dman with 29 pts in 67 games in his first full season with strong defensive metrics

Lindholm is getting Selke discussions and has 39 goals and 78 pts in 76 games.

Flames now have a 27 year old 1C and 25 year old 1D and top 4 D from this trade tree, and all three are only getting better.

[kaprizovis]

Fox said he wasn’t gonna sign with calgary

[NStube]

Kevin Shattenkirk-Erik Johnson deal. Maybe third times the charm. Plus Shattenkirk to the Caps as a rental should expand the tree, right?

[godzillagaming]

Pretty sure the reason fox was traded is he said he wouldn’t sign with Calgary and then said he wouldn’t sign with Carolina

[brandyndaigneault]

The Mark Recchi trade tree (in the 90's) is a big one, would be cool to see it in one slide

Edit: I looked it up and pieces involved in Pittsburgh's side of the whole tree are still being moved today, over 20 years later.

[ezramcduffie]

I've got another "little deal" that eventually resulted in the Bruins winning the cup in 2011.

-Bruins traded Kyle McLaren and a 4th to Sharks for Jeff Hackett and Jeff Jillson

- Bruins trade Jeff Jillson in 3 way trade, get Brad Boyes

- Bruins trade Brad Boyes to Blues for Dennis Wideman

- Bruins trade Dennis Wideman with 1st and 3rd to Panthers for Nathan Horton and Gregory Campbell


In case you dont know, Horton and Campbell were both on the Bruins cup winning team, and Horton especially was a huge contributor. He scored 17 points in the 2011 postseason, including OT goals in games 5 and 7 of the Montreal series.

[mgunter]

I think we can agree that the Caps came out on the losing end.

[MafiaGuido]

Do the Rick Nash to NYR trade tree. Just an insane amount of names involved when it starts growing

[trsniffy]

The T.J. Oshie trade between the Caps and Blues. It's a fun, weird trade tree with interlocking branches, and shows how trading Oshie became the seed for the Blues to add some important players to their own Cup win.

[mcj]

8:00 - Trading a guy because he's _not_ a partying clubber but instead a quiet, reserved nerd is probably about the dumbest, most hockey move I can imagine; and _of course_ it's my Flames (allegedly) trading a guy for such an immature reason. Explains a lot, honestly.

[neiltobey]

still want t o see a saad trade tree! great job btw!

[willdog]

Trading Fox for young stud NHL players was a win for Calgary. He refused to sign there and he also refused to sign in Carolina, who was only able to get a second rounder for him in comparison

[CraftsWithCrafts]

Note: Red on blue is REALLY hard to read...

[nicholasbozec]

Ron Francis and Ulf Samulesson trade to Pittsburgh would be interesting.
Love your trade trees keep doing a great job

It should be noted that Lindholm has one of the best contracts in the NHL. That's where the real value comes from.