October 11, 2009.
The Ottawa Citizen is reporting that a trade that would have seen Wayne Gretzky and the rest of the Edmonton Oilers dealt to Toronto for the Leafs lackluster, going nowhere roster of players almost happened......
Behind the boards, away from the lights, two of the NHL's most infamous owners concocted a deal to alter the fabric of the hockey cosmos.
No deal had ever equalled it. None has approached its audacity since.
The Leafs for the Oilers. Almost. In the 1980s.
Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Jari Kurri and the rest of the young Edmonton Oilers nearly ended up in Toronto in a $50-million blockbuster swap of the two entire teams hatched by Harold Ballard, then-owner of the Maple Leafs, and Peter Pocklington, then-owner of the Edmonton Oilers, a new book claims. Read more.....
No deal had ever equalled it. None has approached its audacity since.
The Leafs for the Oilers. Almost. In the 1980s.
Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Jari Kurri and the rest of the young Edmonton Oilers nearly ended up in Toronto in a $50-million blockbuster swap of the two entire teams hatched by Harold Ballard, then-owner of the Maple Leafs, and Peter Pocklington, then-owner of the Edmonton Oilers, a new book claims. Read more.....
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