History Who is the Kings player traded that hurt the most?

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Dirtweazle

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Really bored and want to think hockey. So to keep the depression high...

What Kings player got traded away that hurt you the most? This can be mid season, off season, trade results good or bad, bad years and too expensive player, whatever. Just your fave player that the Kings for whatever reason just had to move on from and TRADED.

Me: Lubo. The trade would eventually get us the players (Green and Stoll) that contributed to a Cup.. But that still hurt.
 
I still hate how Quick was handled, but the trade that hurt me the most was O’Sullivan. Some of this is due to my naïveté as a fan back then, but I can still feel what a gut punch that was.

Timeline context. Game 3 vs. DET in 2001 was the night I became a fan. I was a sophomore in high school.

So in 2009, bought into the rebuild and excited about the emerging young core, I thought Patty O was going to be a big part of that. I still wasn’t as observant about the details of the game. I didn’t take into account the way he was a perimeter kind of player, or worry as much about his production drop-off from the previous season. I knew he had overcome some real brutality from his abusive dad, and that he gave a good interview. And that when he did play well, it was pretty good. I was also shocked at the Demitra trade, so seeing this kid develop made it feel more than worth it. Patty O was a feel-good story.

On trade deadline day, I read on my then girlfriend’s blackberry that he had been involved in a three-way trade for Justin Williams, who I had never heard of. I was shocked, saddened, and became repetitive. I kept saying “I can’t believe they traded Patrick O’Sullivan.” We had been out, and when got back to her place I immediately went onto her desktop and read about the oft-injured Williams. I didn’t get it, and my repetitions continued.

At this point she was so tired of hearing about the trade from me that I had a choice, either drop it and spend quality time together or get the hell out. We were supposed to go to dinner together. I went home and she went out by herself.
 
Luc getting traded in 94 was definitely my coming of age "This organization is BS" moment. I blamed everyone for that one, Gretzky, McMaster and McNall. It didn't help I was a teenager and going through that teenage time. The funny part is after sticking with the Kings through that it made the whole bankruptcy so much easier to handle as like some sick joke. My sister and I definitely felt camaraderie around the whole "this is why we can't have nice things" lifestyle then. By the time Gretzky got traded away it was full on good riddance teenage angst in full bloom.

We still have McNall's and Gretzky's autographs from Hollywood park when they were there in the paddock saddling one of their horses on the back of betting tickets we found on the ground. Ah those formative life moments....

The only other trade that even registered on the outbound at all was Wayne Simmonds, I really had to have an adult moment to consider just who the club was getting back on that one. Thankfully that seems to have worked out for everyone.
 
For me it was Zhitnik. I followed him when I heard he was a prospect. Saw him win a gold medal in the Olympics. Collected his game used jerseys including Olympic and rookie.

Of course Luc and Gretz too.
 
Paul Coffey was my favorite defenseman back in the day. I was so happy when he became a King. Then so disappointed when he was traded away the very next season. The Cup run took some sting off the trade until they measured McSorley's stick....
 
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I was probably equally as crushed by the Luc trade in 94 and just don't remember, but losing JW after 2015 was just brutal even though I knew it was coming. But it signaled the end of an era - the BEST era - of Kings hockey. (I know this was not a trade, but, I really, really thought/hoped the Kings were gonna try to keep him that summer and they let it drag out until the last minute)

As far as players that I was far less emotionally invested in, I thought the Simmonds trade was terrible, but worked out really well for us in the long run.

And....I'm really sad about losing Durzi. He was my favorite current King.
 
jammer06 said:
Luc getting traded in 94 was definitely my coming of age "This organization is BS" moment. I blamed everyone for that one, Gretzky, McMaster and McNall. It didn't help I was a teenager and going through that teenage time. The funny part is after sticking with the Kings through that it made the whole bankruptcy so much easier to handle as like some sick joke. My sister and I definitely felt camaraderie around the whole "this is why we can't have nice things" lifestyle then. By the time Gretzky got traded away it was full on good riddance teenage angst in full bloom.

We still have McNall's and Gretzky's autographs from Hollywood park when they were there in the paddock saddling one of their horses on the back of betting tickets we found on the ground. Ah those formative life moments....

The only other trade that even registered on the outbound at all was Wayne Simmonds, I really had to have an adult moment to consider just who the club was getting back on that one. Thankfully that seems to have worked out for everyone.
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Similar for me. I became a Kings fan the day Gretzky got traded and this started me down the road to - I'm a Kings fan, not a Gretzky fan. Blamed him 100% for this trade. There was bad blood between them for a while after this.
 
rinkrat said:
For me it was Zhitnik. I followed him when I heard he was a prospect. Saw him win a gold medal in the Olympics. Collected his game used jerseys including Olympic and rookie.

Of course Luc and Gretz too.
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Hated that one too, especially what he was traded for.
 
DRice said:
Paul Coffey was my favorite defenseman back in the day. I was so happy when he became a King. Then so disappointed when he was traded away the very next season. The Cup run took some sting off the trade until they measured McSorley's stick....
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Always wonder how we would've done against Montreal with Coffey. I know Carson had a couple big goals that playoff year, but hard to believe we wouldn't have been better with Coffey.
 
It might be an unpopular opinion but I really don't like how the whole Quick trade went down. I envisioned him finishing out his contract with the Kings, retiring as a King and then maybe being a goal tending coach in some capacity.
 
Butch Goring without a doubt. He was the fan favorite in Los Angeles from the moment he stepped on the ice and was just simply a joy to watch. When they traded him to the Islanders at the trade deadline in 1980, I was crushed…..Billy Harris a nd Dave Lewis, what the F? The even harder part was watching Goring and the Islanders take out the Kings in the first round of the playoffs that year. But good for Butchie, he won four straight Cups, went to five and won the Conn Smythe in his second year with the Islanders.
 
Trading Jimmy Carson, even though we got Gretzky, was also a hard one to swallow.
 
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