Quoting: RipNasty
And none of those teams moved stars to get the Manson's of the world.
Players traded out on their paths to the cup: Duchene, T. Barrie, Brannstrom, Cody Glass (6th overall pick), Nick Suzuki, Kerfoot, Drouin were the major pieces in their biggest trades; all soft, offensive perimeter players at the time with only Suzuki changing that narrative. At the end of the day there won't be a great comparable because we're the only team stupid enough to invest more than half our cap in 4 players, and a lot of our fans are the only people stupid enough to do it again after 7 years of failure.
We didn't trade our stars, we gave them away because we mismanaged the cap so badly.
JVR, Hyman, Kadri, Andersen...
and soon -
Knies, Woll, Cowan, Bertuzzi, Samsonov, Domi, Niemela.
Or we finally use some common sense and trade one of our core 4.