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

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

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

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

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

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.

How about the Gretzky trade tree?

Fox said he wasn’t gonna sign with calgary

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

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

Fox refused to sign for Calgary.

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

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

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.

Hey Steve, 2022 calling. Kylington is great, Lindholm is great. Fox is doing great with NYR. Dougie is a Devil and out injured. Flames win.

Lindholm traded to the Canucks. The tree continues

Boston COULD have had Konecny, Boeser Barzal, Connor, Chabot, Aho, Larsson, or Samsonov at that 15th pick. So the flames dodged a bit of the bullet there, but to Bruins fans, you could have had three of any of them with those three straight 2015 first rounders.

Look back into this, the flames players have exploded since, all 3.

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

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.

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

Fun fact: I live two hours from where Glencross grew up

Wow you can look at this right now say the Flames won this one

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

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

Losing Adam Fox might of sucked for the Flames but he was never going to sign there anyways.

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

Watching this video now, you notice the Flames gave away the pick that ended up being Adin Hill. I didn't notice that last year.

Sad thing about Adam Fox is that it was common knowledge that he wasn’t going to any team outside of New York. That’s why Calgary traded him despite him being a great prospect.

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.

should of added adam fox didnt want to play anywhere but new york

The three picks after the 15th in 2015 Matthew Barzal Kyle Connor Tomas Chabot

Calgary was going to lose Fox as they had drafted him almost 2 drafts earlier and he told Calgary multiple times he was not going to sign. So much like Tim Erixon before him, Calgary HAD to trade him or they would have lost him for nothing. Unlike the Tim Erixon deal, however, the Flames made out like bandits on trading Fox. Hamilton was an odd duck who didn't fit in with either Boston OR Calgary. He's ok but the story I heard was while the Flames were on the road, while they going out to dinners together, team building, etc he preferred to go off and do his own thing alone. Not good for building chemistry with your team. Lindholm and Hanifin are good young players signed long term in Calgary. I don't care how good Fox will be, Calgary did VERY WELL getting rid of Glencross who they weren't bringing back anyway.

So uh… this one’s definitely grown since the 2024 deadline

This tree has a lot more legs to it now that both Lindholm and Hanifin were traded for big packages

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.

Flames won all of the deals. Glencross was terrible at the end of his tenure with Calgary, he was unplayable. Kylington shows a lot of promise, especially playing under a guy like Giordano. Hamilton had great offensive moments but his defensive lapses made me want to rip my hair out, he just didn't get it. Seemed like every goal that was scored against us, you'd watch the replay and Hamilton would be way out of position. Ferland was the same as Glencross/Brouwer/Neal/Lucic big body that should be in front of the net but the game is changing so much that he's not as valuable, so turning him into a 30 goal scorer is a MAJOR WIN. Hanifin is still young and he isn't on an insane contract that lots of young players are getting nowadays so if he can just continue to develop and bring a level of consistency, then you'd love that.

Do a Kent Nilsson trade tree. The Flames drafted Joe Nieuwendyk with the pick they got for trading Nilsson to the North Stars which eventually ended up with Nieuwendyk being traded to the Stars for Iginla in the 90s

The only Caps trade tree you do and it makes the Caps look terrible

This aged very well looking at the current season.

Can't wait to watch the Mantha-Vrana trade tree in a decade or so lol

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

To be fair Fox had absolutely no interest in playing for the flames and wasn't going to sign a contract with them. They got something nice for someone that was not going to play for them

JFK is a EA darling because he takes about 400 shoots in the AHL. Even at 10% that'll be a 40 goal season.

Ideas: Buffalo trading Dominik Hasek to Detroit Toronto trading Lanny McDonald to the then-Colorado Rockies (Now New Jersey Devils), and the story behind that Toronto trading Felix Potvin to Vancouver Mathieu Schnieder-Pierre Turgeon trade at the 94-95 Deadline Chicago flipping 2 players and a 2nd to Tampa Bay for a player and a 2nd at the 95-96 Deadline Chicago flipping Steve Sullivan to Nashville for 2 2nd rd. picks Bryan McCabe 1 (or I should say the Todd Bertuzzi trade from the Islanders to the Canucks) Bryan McCabe 2 (or I should say Brian Burke trading a 2000 1st rounder and McCabe to Chicago so he could draft the Sedin twins back to back) Bryan McCabe 3 (Okay this is for fun, but the dude got traded to Toronto on my birthday 1 year before I was born) Detroit trading for Wendel Clark from Tampa Bay Chicago trading Chris Chelios to Detroit for 2 1sts

One trade tree that seemed to peak a little interest for me: Dale Hawerchuk from Winnipeg to Buffalo in 1990. I think that tree lasted until 2016 (even after the original Jets franchise moved to Arizona in 1996) on the Jets/Coyotes side of the tree. The trade was: Dale Hawerchuk + WPG's 1st round pick in 1990 (which became Brad May) to Buffalo for Phil Housley, Scott Arniel, Jeff Parker, and BUF's 1st round pick in 1990 (which became Keith Tkachuk).

Great analysis of trade. Calgary didn't "pass" on fox. He didn't want to play there. Kylington had great year last yr. This yr AOL for whatever reason. Hamilton? Didn't want to be here. We got 2 very very good players from canes. BTW that one playoff series we won in 2015 was only one from 2003 until 2022. Yeah!

Great video. It should be noted that Adam Fox was never going to sign in Calgary, so I almost consider this a freebie.

Steve: "None of the players the Bruins got with those picks in 2015 are bad, just..." Me: "1st round pick in 2015 OH NOOOOOOO"

Hey, I’m sure you receive a lot of suggestions and they are all good but listen to this one. In 2007 the Montreal Canadiens traded Craig Rivet for Josh Georges and a 1st round pick, that ended up being Max Pacioretty, who then got traded for Nick Suzuki, Tomas Tatar and a 2nd round pick.

Marian Gaborik trade tree Rangers to the Blue Jackets

Do the griffin Reinhart trade where the isles got the pick that was barzal

Adam Fox wouldn't sign with Calgary, and then wouldn't sign with Carolina. He only wanted to play for the Rangers.

Why is fox with the New York rangers? Shouldn't you have included that part?

Yeah I hate to tell you Steve, but Carolina and Calgary didn’t pass on Fox, his agent came out and said he only wanted to be in New York, so the Canes got the best deal they could from the Rangers

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Adin Hill worked out pretty well…

Let’s revisit it. Fox was best player, Lindholm though 🙌🏽

Yeah come on guys you need to do a bit more research on things. Fox was not willing to sign with Calgary or Carolina. He wanted to be traded to the Rangers or he was going to stay the 4 years at Harvard and become a UFA.

Flames fan here from the summer of 2022, yeah Kylington, and Lindholm have been huge

And the tree continues with the Flames trading both Lindholm and Hanifin

Glencross was a solid power-forward and great veteran leader for the Flames, until he became a whiney baby and demanded a trade because Giordano was named captain instead of him.

Can’t blame cgy for moving Fox he wasn’t gonna sign and they would have lost him for nothing

What a solid swindle by Brad back in the day. That trade is still doing wonders for the Flames franchise.

Adam Fox winning Norris….even if he didnt wanna sign st CGY. Damnnnnn that hurts

Jeremy Lauzon got selected by seattle in the expansion draft

Who's the best player in the deal.... The answer is Adam Fox

you guys didnt do your research on this one, could have uncovered THE single biggest trade tree ever. Now you have to wait and see when I release the tree

You clearly didn’t do ur research on the fox trade. He passed on Calgary and Carolina not the other way around.

Us Flames didn't pass on Fox, he refused to sign with us. So as good as he was, whatever

We should revisit this soon now that both Hanifin and Lindholm got traded

I literally thought that said Glenn Close...

Cam Neely trade tree please. 34 years later, it's still active.

Forgot about Glencross with Caps. Great trade tree 🌲!

Brad Treliving was fleecing teams 7 years ago! What a gm

...and explode it did! Still aging well for the Flames.

Fox also only wanted to play for the Rangers also 😑😑😑

Ron francis to Pittsburgh from Hartford trade

It shows how trading, picking at the draft is not an exact science.

This one is sufficiently non-convoluted that you can see what the total trade was for Calgary. Curtis Glencross (rental), Michael Ferland, Adam Fox, 1st rounder, 2nd rounder, 3rd rounder for Oliver Kylington, Elias Lindholm, Noah Hanifin and 3 years of Dougie Hamilton production.

Fox refused to sign with the flames and canes not a bad part of a trade

Calgary did well for themselves

I hope there will be a trade tree episode that will put the Capitals in the better light. Every team makes at least one bad trade in their history, but as a fan, I feel the Glencross and Erat trades should not define our team identity. The Capitals have made excellent trades in their history. Trading for Langway saved our team from leaving DC, while acquiring Oshie helped lead us to our very first Cup win. Yet when casual fans (and Yinzer Penguins fans) think of a trade the Capitals made, it's always one of those awful trades, and I absolutely hate it when Yinzers use that to crack "Ha Ha, Cleveland Browns" low hanging fruit jokes at us. Context: the Cleveland Browns are a football team based in Cleveland, Ohio, and since their return to the NFL in 1999, have been a laughing stock cause of how inept the front office is at building a team, which in turn contributes to losses, draft busts, and a lot of jokes. Everyone and their grandmother makes Browns jokes, but some Yinzers (residents of Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located) have a hard-on for laughing at the Browns at every turn, since their hometown Steelers are rivals of the Browns, and until recently, have been the Steelers' favorite punching bag.

I think you should do the Jordon Stall trade from Pittsburgh to Carolina. Odd trade. Jordan wanted to play in Carolina in his bother. He was 1 year away from UFA and he didn't want to sign the 10 year $60 million dollar extension with the Pens, so they traded him with 1 year left to the Canes. Where he signed the same contract. Pittsburgh got back Dumolin and the parts that ended up helping Pittsburgh trade for 2/3 of the HBK (Haglin-Bonino-Kessel) line.

Fox said he wasn't signing in Calgary....or anywhere but NY for that matter. NCAA loophole. Canes couldn't sign him either

This will probably get lost in the comments, but I attempted to make my own Mike Richards trade tree and discovered that it involves guys like Schenn, Simmonds, Guentzel, Pitlick, Grant, Morrow, and smaller pieces in the Seguin and Taylor Hall deals. I have the whole tree written down as accurate as I could make it if Steve or anyone from Sportsnet wants to take a look at it.

Fox is killing it in New York and just got Norris.

Trade trees are intriguing. Good presentation

trade tree continues as cgy traded both again

Not the Phil Kessel deal. Steve that trade was a Dang It.

Oliver kylington never gets ice time in Calgary. They play guys like Michael stone and Derek forbort over him. He’s never had the chance to get going and is worried about every mistake he makes because he’ll get scratched the next game if he doesn’t play perfect. He is also clearly too good for the AHL as he went down for 3 games last year and was a point per game. And scored 7 goals 7 assist for 14 points in 18 games the year before.

This does put a smile on my face

Calgary easily won the Glencross trade since it basically turned into Kylington, and Glencross did jackshit for Capitals. Their stanley cup win was not as a result of this trade at all, and hindered their future technically though its not likely either of the picks turns into a star or anything. And Calgary in my opinion won the Canes-Flames trade, since they got two possible stars and Canes got one. Hamilton is imo a better player than Lindholm and Hanifin, at least this past season, but I'd rather have Hanifin and Lindholm.

Seems a little rough to completely overlook Adin Hill being the draft pick that went to Arizona. He's still young, but looks like he could have a bright future as a 3rd Round Goalie

Not bad given Curtis Glencross retired after that season. He was a great Calgary Flames player for most of his time in Calgary.

How about Larry Murphy from Minnesota to Pittsburgh? Especially with those teams playing for the cup that season in an unlikely scenario

who's here after adam fox won the norris?

This trade tree is still alive

Lindholm, Hanifin, and Kylington who is now his defense partner, are all lights out for the Flames now. This was a really good trade for the Flames and I didn't realize it started with the Glencross trade

Oooooo Adam Fox has made this so, so much worse

For what it's worth, Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson would always hit 60+ goals in NHL 17