We are going to spend our Monday morning hopping back in the time machine to take another look at the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Patric Hornqvist-for-Mike Matheson trade. Because, why not?
It was one of the last moves former general manager Jim Rutherford made for the Penguins, and it was one that was not well received from the very beginning.
Hornqvist was a popular player (in the locker room and among fans), had been a key part of two Stanley Cup winning teams, and was still at the time a very, very productive player and important part of the team’s forward depth and power play unit.