Dating back to grade school, virtually everybody is familiar with trades. Back then, trades are used to optimize your lunch-time preferences – when your parents send you to school with a pudding cup, you try to wheel and deal to upgrade it to a Fruit by the Foot. A good trade is one that gives both sides what they want. A bad trade is one that sees items of unequal value swapped and leaves one side with carrot sticks and the other with pizza Lunchables – something that makes you wonder what they were even thinking.
Last week was the 30th anniversary of the Doug Gilmour trade, one of the worst trades in Calgary Flames history in terms of unequal value.