To this day it’s still hard to believe it was one for one.



In the previous five seasons, only 11 other players scored more points per game and just two played his position. Only five of those players drove play better. Only 13 players shot the puck more often than he did.



And somehow that player was traded. Not for a premium package of assets, not for a player of equal quality, but for a one-dimensional defensive defenseman. One for one.



It was difficult at the time to see what could’ve possibly possessed a tenured hockey man to trade Taylor Hall, one of the best wingers in hockey, for Adam Larsson, a second pairing defensemen, and the decision only looks worse and worse by the day as Hall singlehandedly carries a surprising New Jersey Devils team into the playoffs.



That he’s been able to shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. There are only a handful of players in the league with the ability to do so and Hall is one of...