Three Trades the Detroit Red Wings Wish Were April Fools Jokes

Bad trades are unavoidable; they’re going to happen especially when draft picks are involved. That’s why the criteria for judging these trades as bad cannot be rigid because of how many factors contribute to how you judge the trade.

All-in-all, the Red Wings, have done a great job of making trades that are not harming the organization at least from scrolling through the transaction log, it was not easy to just find bad trade, after bad trade, after a bad trade.

If you look back, not getting Mike Green is something to wish the Red Wings didn’t have to happen but seriously, if our worst trade isn’t sending three draft picks to the Bruins for Phil Kessel like the Toronto Maple Leafs did… in case you didn’t know those three draft picks were Tyler Seguin, Jared Knight, and Dougie Hamilton.

Bad trades are destined to happen in an organization, but having less of them is always better, there was only one glaringly obvious bad trade since 2004 in the Red Wings trade log, and that’s something to note.

Don’t get me wrong, trading a first round pick that later became Tampa Bay’s Vezina candidate goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy for Kyle Quincey is not a good thing by any means, but there is not a whole lot of trades that are terrible, and that’s something to look at. Two of the three trades are pretty bad, but there are teams where you could find more than just two, and as much as Holland has been on the hook lately that’s something to note.