Ten Best Penguins Trades of All-Time

Perhaps it was the recent expose of my sorely lacking talent-evaluation chops. My literary rambling appears to have shaken loose some cobwebs from the grey matter region, causing a few nuggets to drop into my brain pan.

A convoluted way of saying I got an idea for an article.

In keeping with the managerial theme, I decided to list the ten best Penguin trades of all-time. Purely subjective, of course, although the ones that led, directly or indirectly, to Stanley Cups received the most weight.

Feel free to chime in with your thoughts and opinions.

1. Paul Coffey (d), Dave Hunter (lw) and Wayne Van Dorp (lw) from Edmonton for Dave Hannan (c), Chris Joseph (d), Moe Mantha (d) and Craig Simpson (lw), Nov. 24, 1987

Penguins fans had much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving Day. The arrival of the swift-skating Coffey at long last gave the Pens a superstar to team with Mario Lemieux, who immediately zoomed to his first scoring title. Although the Pens didn’t transform overnight, the trade trumpeted a turning point in the team’s sorry history and paved the way for the Stanley Cups to come.

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