How Trading Craig Rivet In 2007 Led To An Embarrassment of Riches For The Canadiens | Trade Trees 

Finally! Here it is, alright?!?

The Pacioretty trade gets even worse when you find out that Bergevin was targetting Cody Glass but McPhee insisted it be Suzuki in the trade

I’ve never seen this trade tree before as a Montreal fan and oh my God

I am so glad we bullied you into this tree, it was well worth it, very entertaining seeing it in detail. Thanks for featuring me as the first comment in your pile too!

I can literally hear Urinatingtrees voice when talking about the 1st round pick... "that 1st round pick you gave up for Rivet became Max Pacioretty... wait up I'm not finished the pick you gave up for Guerin became David Perron"

I had no idea DeBrincat was part of this tree. Makes it even crazier

The trade tree that I wanted for so long. Thank you Steve

Do a trade tree that starts with Trevor Linden being sent to the Islanders! Ended up bringing the Canucks so much value it’s insane

I remember seeing Rivet in the penalty box in front of me in Sept. 1995 when I attended a Montreal preseason game in Chicago while visiting family. I think he got 3 penalties that night. Little did I know I was watching the forever future of my Habs.

The best part about the end of this trade tree is that it means Dang-Its and "Steve's Paddle Save Emporium" are OPEN FOR BUSINESS as of tomorrow night!!!

So Rohrer (picked at 75) and Tourigny (picked at 216) are the players selected with those 2022 draft picks, both retained by Montreal, and so their part of this tree is over (until they trade one of the SIX assets they now own from this tree - Jacob Leguerrier signed with Rockford in the AHL last season, though he only spent 4 games there before going to the ECHL - but Suzuki, Allen, Myšák and Norlinder are all still under Habs control, plus the two players selected this summer). And yet it spreads laterally, now that Debrincat is a Senator!

I loved Rivet when he was on the Sharks, and was upset when they traded him to the Sabres. I also loved watching him to play when I had Sharks season tix.

Bergervin messed a couple things up but his ability to produce trades like this are unmatched. Trades where he takes an aging player(s) and creates solid future for the team.

Update: Norlinder is out this summer however the 3rd Round pick in 2022 is Adam Engstrom which is now a top prospect in the team Jan Mysak got traded for Jacob Perreault former 1st round pick by the Ducks (AHL guy at best) Jake Allen got traded for a conditional 3rd rounder in 2025 This tree will go on for a while

we should drafted lik mysak instead of jan mysak

these trade trees could benefit from a final summary list/diagram of "Total given" and Total received"

LeGuerrier left the Rocket and is with the IceHogs now. Habs relinquished his rights.

I had completely forgotten that the Habs left Price exposed in the expansion draft; Price going into Player Assitance could go a lot deeper than poeple think.

I'd love to see a tree for the Petr Sykora trade from the Devils to the Ducks in 2001

As a Sharks fan, I've been dreading this one since I first saw it suggested

I didn't even watch yet but I liked to say THANK YOU for finally doing it

I've been waiting years for this one.

Suzuki just became Captain too. Damn.

Man what a crazy tree! Riv is so awesome, he was on the radio here in buffalo for a quite a few years. Need to see him do a podcast next

Craig should come make those picks in Montreal

The Bruins Barry Pederson trade tree is my favorite as a Bruins fan. Not only did Boston win the trade straight up getting Neely AND the 3rd overall pick which turned into Glen Wesley, but the trade tree is STILL growing today. When Wesley left, Boston got 3 draft picks, Kyle McLaren, Jonathan Aitken, and Sergei Samsonov. McLaren was traded for Jeff Jilson and Hacket, and Jilson was traded for Brad Boyes, who was swapped for Denis Wideman, who was traded for Nathan Horton and Gregory Campbell who helped Boston with the 2011 Stanley Cup. Samsonov went to Edmonton for Marty Reasoner, Yan Stastny, a 2nd rounder that turned into Milan Lucic. Lucic. Boston got Martin Jones, Colin Miller, Sean Kuraly, and a 1st, and then traded Jones for another 1st round pick. Boston drafted Jacub Zboril and Trent Frederick with the picks.

Hopefully there will be some more of these in the future

Please show how acquiring Dan Boyle from Florida led to all 3 Tampa Cups.

As a Sharks fan, I still like this trade at the time, Rivet was what we needed and was a great player, I just wished he could have stuck around!

I love to see mark messier from oilers to NY Rangers trade tree if not done needs to be done. This one is great keep them coming

This trade tree should be updated now lol

Wow, I wasn't expecting such a deep tree. Kinda crazy, especially when you're a Habs fan :)

You might be able to do a continuance on that trade tree! The 3rd became Vincenz Rohrer, The 7th got traded for Erik Gustafsson Jake Allen got traded for a 3rd rounder (possibly 2nd) in 2025 Mysak got traded for Jacob Perreault. Still ongoing, for your all-in-all pleasure!

You should do the Hossa,Heatley trade

The tree when the Whalers acquired the pick for Pronger is one of the most ground breaking trees ever and definitely needs a video. It defined 5-6 franchises for a decade each, 4 of which acquired/drafted a future captain for multiple years! Please do it Steve 😁😁

My Brain: "Dang-Its are coming back, I wonder what we'll see in the first episode of it" The first goal of the season: "Here ya go."

FINALLY. I was looking forward to this trade tree! Thanks guys

another banger love the cheeky JJ reference also, algorithm thanks so much for these trade trees!

The 2010 2nd round pick to select Mark Alt was used by the Canes, not by San Jose. So the trade was that 2nd round pick for Wallin and a 5th. Doesn't change the tree in any way, but for accuracy, this was the trade, the Sharks didn't select Alt. I would have recognized him as a Sharks prospect at one point if he was. Funnily enough, he's now on the Barracuda, the Sharks' AHL team.

Ive been waiting forever to see this trade tree on your channel. Thank you so much!

Steve, please do the Chris Pronger-Brendan Shanahan 1 for 1 trade tree in 1995.

So I suppose that 2022 7th round pick was Miguel Tourigny and the 2022 3rd pick ended up being Vinzenz Rohrer? Not bad at all!

Talking about trading for a captain. Suzuki just became their captain.

I am hoping to see in the future the trade that started the downfall of the Calgary Flames of the late 80’s/early 90’s. That trade of Doug Gilmour to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

The season is over I don't watch hockey that much but your trade tree videos are easily one of my favorite videos on RU-vid no idea I would like them so much but their so interesting even tho I don't watch hockey please bring them back

That 7th round pick that the Habs got in the Allen trade was shuffled around a few times before being reacquired by Montreal. First they sent it to Philidelphia in exchange for Erik Gustafsson, then the Flyers sent it to Arizona as part of the Shayne Gostisbehere trade, then Arizona sent it back to Montreal at the draft in exchange for Montreal's 2021 7th round pick.

14:00 DeBrincat got traded 👀

It's like at one point Buffalo looked at this original trade and said we need them both, and make one captain.

Watching this trade tree when Dangle is praising N. Suzuki and an alert came up about his resigning lol

Habs literally traded their current captain, Max Pacioretty, for their future captain, Nick Suzuki, AND Tomas Tatar

When you trade a captain and get a future captain IN THE SAME DEAL....you did pretty good in the trade

Trade tree continues after the debrincat trade

So glad this trade tree was made!! I’ve been waiting awhile for it! Great work! Go Habs Go!

I’m unsure how it would go, but I’d love Steve to discuss the Kirk Muller to MTL trade. Richer bounced back and forth between the Canadiens, Muller eventually went to Long Island…maybe not the longest trade tree, but lots of moving parts that resulted in Stanley Cups for BOTH teams involved within a few seasons of each other.

one of the best trades ever made - I've asked for this as well - tks Steve

Trade Tree request- how the Flyers trading Patrick Sharp to Chicago cost them the 2010 Stanley Cup

Do the bill guerin trade tree between the bruins and the oilers that got them ales hemsky

Awesome Work on this. Nice edit and content. Thumbs up

do the Rivet trade again!!!

Please do the Sharks-Lightning Dan Boyle trade tree! The Sharks got Dan Boyle and Erik Karlsson, while the Lightning got Matt Carle, Steve Downie, and the draft pick for Andrei Vasilevskiy. EK65 and Vasilevskiy are one of their best players currently on each team, so it might be interesting!

I loved Craig. He was quite of a tough customer. He was a true habs

Ah yes, the Rivet trade, also known as the best trade in nhl history

Thank you Chicago. And thank you also for danault and Romanov in exchange of fleischman and weise…

Here's a proposal for a trade tree video, the 1999 draft lunacy that involved FIVE teams, and the first four picks of the draft.

I love how this trade keep going in 2024

Steve: “I wasn’t smart! I’m not smart” Me: “yeah……. Same”

Suzuki resigns a day after this upload. Thanks MB

I miss this series.

Aight now do the Max Pacioretty tree!! 🙃 just kidding..! But WAOW that one was worth the wait!! Gotta say that at the time, Josh Gorges was one heckuva underrated defenseman. Often led the league in blocked shots. About that time, Jake Allen was playing in Montreal in the QMJHL, where he was basically a superstar. He was compared a lot to Carey Price, as a matter of fact. Never dreamt of seeing him in a Habs jersey back then! And finally, having Debrincat in Montreal would have been awesome, sure, but given all the rest, I don't know if I mind all that much. Just an additional pointer, thank you for this awesome trade tree, and of course all of the others. If you need to brush up on some french, I would love to watch a game around a beer if ever you drop by Québec City. Awesome content buddy!!

LETS GOOO THIS TRADE TREE STILL CONTINUES 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Do the daymond langkow trade from the flyers. It can technically start back with Gratton. It still goes on for the flyers now. And I know you don’t normally do it, but if you branch out to a third team, it does lead to the blue jackets recent success too.

I miss trade trees so much

Fondly remembering when Josh Gorges tried to fight Frazer McLaren while getting blown out by the Leafs, got laughed at by McLaren during the fight, and then cried in the dressing room afterward. Good stuff.

Let’s go finnaly ! Needed this as a habs fan after all out injury news lol

Do the Trevor Linden Trade to the Islanders!!! It had huge impacts on both teams!!

8:31 me in my head everytime I see “Tomas Tatar” 😂 Nice work stevie

In the end, Montreal got two captains in this trade. Pacioretty and Suzuki.

I would like to see him do a video on The Rick Martin Trade Tree that one was pretty extensive

I love that that 7th round pick in 2022 got traded an additional 3 times... only to end up back in the hands of the Habs

Steve, you're great, love all of your content, these vids always bring a smile to my face and remind me of my lve of hockey. However, as a Sharks fan... PLEASE stop making us sad it's hard enough to be a Sharks fan in 2021 this isn't helping!

Do the Ilya Sorokin trade tree

The curse ended with the Blues when a Bookaboom retired. Brewer and Pronger.

And Chicago has already given up Debrincat. Unbelievable lol

As a Sharks fan who also remembers the Rivet trade, I did not like this trade tree as it just reminds me how pedestrian it is that Doug Wilson has been as a GM outside of a very select few monster trades.

Craig comes from my hometown north bay Ontario. Classy guy

_I love your exhaustive trade trees.🎯_

A bit of a random comment. But I wanted to say that I appreciate you saying thank you in ASL by the end of every video ❤️

The Habs don’t own Leguerrier anymore, we didn’t sign him off our reserve list and his right side expired

Steve! Do the Craig Rivet Trade! Right now! OR ELSE...wait. it's here?! Yes!

And the Habs JUST extended Suzuki for 8 years at $7.875MM per...so there's that!

I have a trade tree idea!!!! This one is already becoming crazy and only happened 3 years ago. The Adam fox trade tree.

I never thought I'd be featured in a Steve Dangle video! WAOW!

We need a update in 5 years for new branch

Thought this would be the Linden to NYI trade. Have to wait until next year for it. Steve, LINDEN TO THE ISLES IN '98! As others have said, it is nuts the star power in the trade.

The Leafs could have had Matthews and Debrincat in the same draft. Pretty sure Dubas wanted to pick him.

Do a trade tree starts with the trade of Randy Carlyle Tor-Pit in 1978 . A lot of good players was acquired directly or no directly with this trade( K. Stevens, Kasparaitis, Barasso, Coffey, Tocchet, Robitaille, Nedved, Zubov, Fleury)

The first tree with a former Kelowna Rocket in it !! Love these videos ! Keep planting trees

Do the Trevor Linden trade tree. It directly led the Canucks to pick Both Sedins and aquire Luongo. Plus there's the islanders side and Montreal side. I feel like this tree could be massive.

We need new Trade Trees!!!!!!!

If you’re bored (hah!) and want a trade tree suggestion, do the tree that sent Paul Coffey to the Penguins from the Oilers. Both teams made some serious hay from that one.