Montreal Canadiens: Five Worst Trades Since 2000

The Montreal Canadiens, like all teams, have made some great trades that make you wonder what the other team was thinking and have also been guilty of some poor swaps. Take a look at their five worst trades since 2000.

The Montreal Canadiens, like much of the rest of the world, are on pause at the moment. Their season came to a screeching halt after 71 games and we still don’t know when, or if, we will see the 2019-20 version of the Habs again.

The team was not exactly dominating on the ice this season. They were ten points out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, and a perfect 11 game finish to their season likely would not have been enough to get them into the playoffs.

As we await an announcement of when the NHL calendar will start up again, and what it is going to look like when it does, we have been looking back at some of the best and worst decisions the Habs have made this century. We started by looking at the five best draft picks since the 2000 NHL Draft and the five worst decisions on the draft floor since then.

Yesterday, we took a look at the five best trades the Canadiens have made since the year 2000. There were some great ones for sure, with the Habs stealing Phillip Danault and Alexander Romanov away from the Blackhawks for a couple of aging veterans and selling P.K. Subban and Alex Galchenyuk at precisely the right moment.

So, today we will look at the other side of the coin. While the Habs have pulled off some great trades lately, they have made some questionable decisions as well. Let’s take a look at the five worst trades the Habs have made since 2000.