February 19 2011 Last updated at 03:30 PM ET
Saturday's trade involving former No. 1 overall pick Erik Johnson shocked the hockey world and could have a major impact on the short-term (and long-term) success of the two teams involved (the St. Louis Blues and Colorado Avalanche). The Blues, of course, sent Johnson and Jay McClement to the Avalanche in return for forward Chris Stewart and defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk, while the two clubs also swapped conditional draft picks.Johnson played just parts of three seasons with the Blues since being the top pick in the 2006 Entry Draft, suiting up in just 203 games with the club (he also missed an entire season due to a knee injury). If that seems like a short period of time for a top pick to spend with a team before getting traded, it is.
Since 1963, twenty-five No. 1 overall picks have been traded at some point in their career, while only eight of them played fewer games with the team that selected them than Johnson before being dealt.
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Johnson is just the fifth top pick to be traded since the 1995 draft, a list that includes Bryan Berard (shown on the chart above), Joe Thornton (455 games with Boston before being traded to San Jose), Patrik Stefan (414 games with Atlanta before being traded to Dallas) and Ilya Kovalchuk (594 games with Atlanta before being traded to New Jersey).
Three players were traded before ever suiting up with their original team, including Eric Lindros who was part of the epic 1991 deal that resulted in Quebec acquiring Peter Forsberg. Berard was traded as part of a package that landed the Senators Wade Redden, while Plasse was traded for cash to the St. Louis Blues where he played one game during the 1970-71 season, and was then traded back to Montreal for more cash in August of the following summer.
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