As promised in my last post, I’ve gone back and compiled a hopefully complete record of all Leaf trades going back to the Pat Quinn era, summarizing the picks and players moved by each of the GMs. So join me for a fun/ interesting/ painful walk down memory lane! A word of warning though– the factual and fancy chart content of this post is very high. Proceed with caution.
Despite my best efforts, I’m sure there’s a trade or 2 that I’ve missed somewhere. If you can think of any, please let me know and I’ll update this. Special thanks to Bitter Leaf Fan who had previously compiled a list of Quinn and JFJ transactions, which saved me a few of hours of info-gathering at least. And to Hockey-reference.com and hockeydb.com. How did people remember stuff before the internet? Oh, that's right, they didn't. They just made it up.
And I'm not trying to be dramatic with a 2-part series here. There seems to be a maximum words/charts per post, which I clearly hit.
UPDATE: I attempted to update this post, reflecting the 4 or 5 trades that I missed in my initial one, but the additional transactions have proven too much for the sbnation platform to handle, and I'm too lazy to try to figure it out. If you're interested in the truth, you can download the full file here:
http://www.4shared.com/file/81197713/faae6d67/Toronto_Trade_History_99-present_v2.html
The chart below shows the details of every Leaf trade beginning with the Pat Quinn era, including the picks involved and who was later chosen with those picks. (If there's a different team than the one involved in the trade listed besides a drafted player, that means the pick was subsequently traded). It’s only in approximate chronolgical order, my apologies. Take a moment to soak it all in, and then read on for some further analysis...
| GM | Toronto traded | to | Toronto Received |
| Quinn | Felix Potvin, 1999 6th (Fedor Fedorov - TBay) | NYI | Bryan Berard, 1999 6th (Jan Sochor) |
| Quinn | Sylvain Cote | CHI | 2001 2nd (Karel Pilar) |
| Quinn | Jason Podollan, 1999 3rd (Cory Campbell) | LA | Yanic Perreault |
| Quinn | 2000 2nd (Ivan Huml) | BOS | Dimitri Khristich |
| Quinn | Alexander Karpovtsev, 2001 4th (Vladimir Gusev) | CHI | Bryan McCabe |
| Quinn | Dany Markov | PHX | Robert Reichel, Travis Green, Craig Mills |
| Quinn | Mike Johnson, Marek Pomsyk, 2000 5th (Pavel Sedov) and 6th (Aaron Gionet) | MON | Darcy Tucker, 2000 4th (Miguel Delisle) |
| Quinn | Frederik Modin | TB | Cory Cross, 2001 7th (Ivan Kolozvary) |
| Quinn | Adam Mair, 2001 2nd (Mike Cammaleri) | LA | Aki Berg |
| Quinn | Todd Warriner | TB | 2000 3rd (Mikael Tellqvist) |
| Quinn | Igor Korolev | CHI | 2001 3rd (Nicolas Corbeil) |
| Quinn | 2003 4th (Kevin Nastiuk) | CAR | Tom Barrasso |
| Quinn | Dimitri Yuskevich | FLA | Robert Svehla |
| Quinn | Alyn McCauley, Brad Boyes, 2003 1st (Mark Stuart - Boston) | SJ | Owen Nolan |
| Quinn | 2003 6th (Mark Flood) | MON | Doug Gilmour |
| Quinn | 2004 2nd (Kyle Wharton - Columbus) | CAR | Glen Wesley |
| Quinn | Rights to Kris Vernarsky | BOS | Ric Jackman |
| JFJ | Ric Jackman | PIT | Drake Berehowsky |
| JFJ | Tukka Rask | BOS | Andrew Raycroft |
| JFJ | Ken Klee | NJ | Alexander Suglobov |
| JFJ | Nathan Perrot | DAL | 2006 6th (Leo Komarov) |
| JFJ | 2006 5th (Nick Sucharski) | CLB | Luke Richardson |
| JFJ | 2006 4th (Reto Berra - St Louis) | CAR | Jeff O'Neill |
| JFJ | Maxim Kondratiev, Jarko Immonen, 2004 1st (Kris Chucko - Calgary), 2005 2nd (Michael Sauer) | NYR | Bryan Leetch, 2004 4th (Roman Kukumberg) |
| JFJ | 2005 4th (Jared Boll - Columbus) | CAR | Ron Francis |
| JFJ | Mikael Tellqvist | PHX | Tyson Nash, 2007 4th (Matt Frattin) |
| JFJ | Brendan Bell, 2008 2nd (Roman Josi - NSH) | PHX | Yanic Perreault, 2008 5th (Joel Champagne) |
| JFJ | 2007 1st (Lars Eller) and 2nd (Aaron Palushaj), 2009 4th | SJ | Vesa Toskala, Mark Bell |
| Cliff | Hal Gill | PIT | 2008 2nd (Jimmy Hayes); 2009 5th (traded) |
| Cliff | Wade Belak | FLA | 2008 5th (Jerome Flaake) |
| Cliff | Chad Kilger | FLA | 2008 3rd (traded) |
| Cliff | 2008 3rd (from fla - James Livingston) | STL | Jamal Mayers |
| Cliff | 2009 5th (from pitt) | NYR | Ryan Hollweg |
| Cliff | 2008 1st (Colin Wilson) and 3rd (Shawn Lalonde), 2009 2nd | NYI | 2008 1st (Luke Schenn) |
| Cliff | Bryan McCabe; 2010 4th | FLA | Mike VanRyn |
| Cliff | Greg Pateryn; 2010 2nd | MON | Mikhail Grabovski |
| Cliff | Carlo Colaiccovo, Alex Steen | STL | Lee Stempniak |
| Burke | Conditional 2010 6th | ANA | Brad May |
So those are the sordid details, here’s a quick summary of each GM's +/- in terms of traded draft picks during their tenure:
| GM | Picks in | Picks Out | Net Loss |
| Quinn | 6 | 11 | -5 |
| JFJ | 4 | 9 | -5 |
| Cliff | 5 | 7 | -2 |
| Burke | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| TOTAL | 15 | 28 | -13 |
So that’s 15 in and 28 out, for a net loss of 13 draft picks over the last 4 GMs / 9 years. Jesus, that does sound like a lot, doesn’t it? In any event, the chart below shows how many picks were moved in each draft year by each GM:
| In.. | Out… | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GM | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | TOT | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | TOT |
| Quinn | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | |||||||||||||||
| JFJ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||||||
| Cliff | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Burke | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTAL | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 28 |
OK...It would appear that I've hit the fancy chart per post max, so I'll be continuing this analysis in a second post. Stay tuned...
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