20 Ugly Breakups Between NHL Players and their Teams 

By the time Dubois career is over this video could be made solely about him

The Karlsson/ Hoffman mess that caused basically the whole team being traded out.

At this rate, in about 5 years, you could do an entire video on Vegas and ugly breakups with their players.

One of the funniest break ups was between Buffalo and Alex Mogilny . Mogilny said he HATED to fly and he wanted to be traded to a New York team or NJ or Philadelphia so he didnt have to fly a lot.

For Detroit I might have gone with Sergei Fedorov. The fact that his number still isn’t retired speaks volumes about how he is viewed by ownership still!

Nice video. Regarding Blue Jackets, you can’t call Panarin a bad breakup since he was a UFA.

this entire video could be just former Vegas players

I remember Gretzky's last game ever, with Messier coming on the ice and the entire crowd booing

Chris Pronger’s breakup with St. Louis was forced on because of ownership and they got hosed. It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that the relationship was repaired.

I remember a breakup-for-breakup trade. Let's go back to 1992...

As a jets fan the Dustin Byfuglien situation came out of nowhere and got really ugly. It’s too bad because I really loved his time as a jet.

Matt Duchene being traded worked wonders for the Avs, maybe Eichel being traded will do the same for Buffalo.

Love the video, part 2 needs to include Paul Kayria

I was playing chel while listening and as soon as I heard Messier the hate instantly came out . I was a huge fan of him back in the day being born and bred in Edmonton and a diehard Oilers fan but what he did to Linden and the Canucks was despicable, he gutted that team.

Jeff Carter for Columbus. That whole situation was ugly. Some Jacket fans would say Jack Johnson and Adam Foote too but I don't seem them as ugly because one went to his original team to retire and the other one was trying to increase his value because his parents screwed him.

The Kovalchuk situation was such a dumpster fire where everyone looked bad, and was one of the moments that caused me to sour on Lou Lamarello.

The Roy breakup was perhaps the most shocking bust up I'd seen in sports. Tremblay had spent years from the pundits desk saying Roy couldn't tie Dryden's skates. And then he deliberately set about trying to prove himself right. How management ever could have thought him a good idea still escapes me.

I don’t remember Panarin being a particularly ugly breakup. He just wanted to live and play in NYC and gave his all for the Jackets while under contract. Jeff Carter who apparently immediately treated the org, city, and teammates with contempt jumps out. It’s rare to have a player arrive and immediately make it clear he thinks he’s better than everyone else and won’t play for the team. Columbus lost Voracek, plus, plus to acquire Carter (the top center they’d never had) and his arrogance and unprofessionalism forced them to trade Carter for Jack Johnson who was at least from the Midwest and not so concerned about his 24/7 access to beaches. Adam Foote would be next. He’s notorious for bagging on the Jackets while captain and secretly instigating his acquisition back to Colorado - he had a private plane waiting to fly him to Denver. Columbus was so desperate for veteran leadership then and while one can understand Carter preferring to live on the beech and Foote wanting to go back to Colorado, it’s the way they handled it that was so low. Kristof Oliwa might be next. He got into a couple ugly fights with then captain Lyle Odelin and was apparently an unhinged unpleasant presence. As soon as he was shipped out, the Jackets new they needed a legit enforcer if nothing else to absorb some of his dirty play and get him off the ice. Thus, the NHL career of a very green Jody Shelley began.

The Roy thing was made all that much better because he went and immediately won a cup

I believe that Jagr leaving Pittsburgh had more to do with money than anything. The Penguins were struggling with cash and could not afford him anymore. There may have been some tension internally with him, but definitely money was a big player.