It's always interesting to look at a trade and see down the line how everything worked out. Especially in today's era, where it seems like more and more trades involve conditional picks. Something that might have seemed like a throw-in at the time, down the line might become a top player.
Sometimes though, the pick travels around the league like general managers are playing hot potato, and today we are going to look at one of those deals.
The Islanders surprised a lot of people by trading Andrey Pedan to the Canucks for Alexandre Mallet and a third-round pick in 2016.