The One NHL Trade Every Fan Wishes They Could Erase—And Why It Still Haunts Their Team
Montreal Canadiens
Patrick Roy and Mike Keane for Andrei Kovalenko, Martin Rucinsky and Jocelyn Thibault (1995)
This is not a particularly hard choice. The Roy trade set the franchise back for at least a decade, and perhaps even more. This was always seen as a side effect of then-team president Ronald Corey’s decision to fire coach Jacques Demers and general manager Serge Savard and replace them with Mario Tremblay and Réjean Houle, but the reality is that Savard was already contemplating trading Roy. The Canadiens simply had to get a higher-quality return. — Arpon Basu
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