As a fan of the Tampa Bay Lightning there haven't been many disaster level trades in recent memory. There have been a couple of "meh" trades, and a couple of low risk, high reward trades that didn't pan out, but it's tough any of them as outright disasters. The one trade that comes to mind as one that approaches that level is the Anders Lindback trade back in 2012. The Lightning had been struggling to find a #1 option in net since cup winner Khabibulin left. They had recently drafted Andrei Vasilevskiy as the goalie of the future, but that future was still several seasons away and the Lightning were a playoff team right now and in desperate need of an upgrade in net to have a realistic shot at making a run. Lindback was a young goalie who had seen limited NHL time as a backup to Pekka Rinne, but seemed to be oozing with potential. Standing at 6'6", he'd been fairly strong in the small number of games he'd played in and it took two 2nds and a 3rd to pry him away from Nashville. The results were.... not good. Lindback was an absolute sieve in the Lightning's playoff series against Montreal, getting absolutely shelled and frequently failing to stop even the most routine shots. Ultimately, he would be pulled for Kristers Gudlevskis, a goalie who probably would be little more than an afterthought if it weren't for a legendary performance for Latvia against Canada. Gudlevskis was a vast improvement over Lindback, but he never really was pegged as a NHL starter and the Lightning's search for a starter continued. The reason this trade isn't considered by most to be a total disaster is the fact that the Lightning did find their answer in goal the next season when they traded for Ben Bishop. Bishop would mind the net admirably until Vasilevskiy was ready to take over, and even better he cost very little: Cory Conacher, an undrafted, undersized rookie forward who had been having surprising production through 30 games or so, but would never maintain those numbers, and a fourth round draft pick. In the end, Lindback's poor goaltending only hurt them for one postseason, and the Lightning found their answer in net by the next season.