Trade deadline day, once the NHL's version of the all-day college kegger, now carries all the excitement of a life insurance seminar.
Trades will still happen by the 3 p.m. ET deadline on Monday, but chances are even some of the most seasoned hockey reporters will scramble to Hockeydb.com to figure out just who some of the transacted names are. Some of the trades on last year's deadline day included such blockbusters as Mark Louis from the Arizona Coyotes to the New York Islanders for David Leggio and Karl Stollery from the Colorado Avalanche to the San Jose Sharks for Freddie Hamilton.
Arguably, the biggest name traded on deadline day last year was...drum roll please...Braydon Coburn from the Philadelphia Flyers to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Radko Gudas and first- and third-round picks. Coburn is a nice player and helped the Lightning get to the Stanley Cup Finals, but we're not talking about a household name here.
In all, 24 trades happened on March 2 last year. That was more than years prior, when deadline day was more exciting. For instance, there were only a combined 29 trades on the deadline days of 2000 ...
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