[JackZap]

Originally Posted by Partisan du CH

I think too much emphasis is put on the Patrick Roy trade to explain the downfall of this team in the mid-90's. I think there has been a serie of mistakes made, and it started under Serge Savard (even if I think Savard is the best GM we've had this past 25 years)

- June 1988 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : Éric Charron

- June 1989 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : Lindsay Vallis

- June 1991 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : Brent Bilodeau

- June 1992 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : David Wilkie

- June 1994 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : Brad Brown

- August 1994 : Montreal trades Guy Carbonneau to Dallas for Jim Montgomery

- February 1995 : Montreal trades John LeClair, Éric Desjardins and Gilbert Dionne to Philadelphia for Mark Recchi & 3rd round pick in 1995 (Martin Hohenberger)

- June 1995 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : Terry Ryan

- December 1995 : Montreal trades Patrick Roy and Mike Keane to Colorado for Jocelyn Thibault, Martin Rucinsky & Andrei Kovalenko

- June 1996 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : Matt Higgins

- August 1996 : Montreal trades Lyle Odelein to New Jersey for Stéphane Richer

- October 1996 : Montreal trades Pierre Turgeon, Craig Conroy and Rory Fitzpatrick to St. Louis for Shayne Corson, Murray Baron and a 5th round pick in 1997 (Genady Razin)

- November 1996 : Montreal trades Donald Brashear to Vancouver for Jassen Cullimore

- June 1997 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : Jason Ward

- January 1998 (during the ice storm!) : Montreal trades Darcy Tucker, Stéphane Richer & David Wilkie to Tampa Bay for Patrick Poulin, Mick Vukota & Igor Ulanov

- June 1998 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : Éric Chouinard

- March 1999 : Montreal trades Mark Recchi to Philadelphia for Dainius Zubrus, Flyers' 2nd round pick in 1999 (Matt Carkner), and a 4th round pick or a 6th round pick in 2000 (6th round, Scott Selig)

- March 1999 : Montreal trades Vincent Damphousse to San Jose for the 5th round pick (previously acquired from the Phoenix Coyotes - Marc-Andre Thinel) in 1999, 2nd round pick (later traded to Columbus - Kiel McLeod) in 2001 and a 1st round pick (Marcel Hossa) in 2000

- January 2000 : Montreal trades Scott Thornton to Dallas for Juha Lind

- June 2000 : Montreal 1st round draft pick : Marcel Hossa

Remove half of these mistakes, and this team would have been competitive no matter if Roy had been traded or not.

jesus christ thats bad