Omg how did Theodore ever get away?

That is the best part....they literally GAVE HIM AWAY LMAO!

We traded him to Vegas to protect Sami Vaatanen in the expansion draft back when we were a perennial playoff team. Vaatanen later got traded to NJ and we got Adam Henrique out of it.

At the time he was a prospect and behind Lindholm and Fowler, while Vaatanen and Manson rounded out our top 4.

Omg bone head move lol

Interestingly, Andersen was also drafted by the Canes!

Yeah, happens all the time, case in point when Toronto gave up John Gibson and Ricard Rakell to take Tyler Biggs. Might explain why Toronto held such a fetish for ex Ducks goalies.

Wasn't Theodore a throw in after the Expansion draft? I thought Vegas had taken Stoner in the expansion draft.

I miss Theodore in a Thunderbirds jersey. Kid was awesome in his days here.

That's wild lol easily a playoff team (obviously hard to keep every single person) but could have a very very good lineup there.

He was payment to Vegas to protect Sami Vaatanan, who at the time was still a very good top 4 RHD. Thankfully we turned him into Adam Henrique before the wheels fell off two years later.

Some were late bloomers (Montour, Pettersson), some were excess goods at the time (Theodore, Anderssen) but yeah, interesting to think about what could have been, but then again, we wouldn't have been bad enough to get guys like Drysdale, Zegras, McTavish, Carlsson, etc if we had kept everyone, butterfly effect and all.

Butterfly effect always the case.

Similar with penguins fans that contemplate what Mario's career would've looked like if he never was sick. Probably very close to Gretz, but also probably means Sidney Crosby doesn't become a penguin.

Freddie was re-drafted into the Ducks organization. He was originally drafted by the Canes.

Who never signed him, thus his official draft team was the Ducks.