Part of a series looking at the legacy of the trade deadlines since the lockout. For the purposes of making the exercise more interesting, we consider any trade after the calendar changed years and don't just limit the discussion to the actual deadline day.

The evidence for 2010 is overwhelming: deadline day was a dud. Just about all of the most impactful trades were made in late January and February, not on the March 3rd deadline day.

What the eventual champs did

TO CHICAGO	TO MINNESOTA
Kim Johnsson D, Nick Leddy D	Cam Barker D

TO CHICAGO	TO ANAHEIM
Nick Boynton, D	Future considerations

The first was a good deal for the Blackhawks as Leddy outlasted Barker as far as their new addresses, but not impactful as far as the 2010 playoffs were concerned.

The Boynton deal was a nice story for a veteran who had endured injury and the minors to get his name on the Stanley Cup, but again, not critical.

Impactful trades

Clear verdict:

TO DALLAS	TO ATLANTA
Kari Lehtonen	Ivan Vishnevskiy, 2010 (4th)

Goalie Lehtonen was a pending restricted free agent who was losing his mojo in Atlanta after injury and inconsistency. But Vishnevskiy didn't blossom and is now playing in Russia, while the player from the pick, centre Ivan Telegin, is still in the OHL.

TO TORONTO	TO CALGARY
Dion Phaneuf D, Fredrik Sjostrom F, Keith Aulie D	Niklas Hagman F, Jamal Mayers F, Matt Stajan F, Ian White D

The Flames have Stajan and no one else just two years later, although White was packaged in a deal that garnered two journeymen. Phaneuf is Toronto's captain and more closely resembling the form that had so many predicting great things during his rookie year while Aulie could either be a long-term fixture or a chip in a deal for a proven NHLer.

Mutually beneficial:

TO NEW JERSEY	TO ATLANTA
Ilya Kovalchuk F, Anssi Salmela F, 2010 (2nd)	Johnny Oduya D, Niclas Bergfors F, Patrice Cormier F, 2010 (1st), 2010 (2nd)

Can you separate assessing the deal on its terms from the decision by the Devils weeks later to sign Kovalchuk to a mammoth contract?

The Jets still have Oduya and Cormier (on the farm, mostly), and the two picks they gained — who haven't yet developed into NHLers — were sent to Chicago in the big Dustin Byfuglien trade.

TO EDMONTON	TO ANAHEIM
Ryan Whitney, D	Lubomir Visnovsky, D

The edge so far goes to the Ducks because, as of Feb. 19, Whitney had suited up in just over 50 per cent of Edmonton's regular season games since the deal. Visnovsky had a Norris Trophy calibre season in 2010-11. But he's 36, has suffered a fallback in points this season, and could conceivably be dealt again. Whitney has another year left on his deal to try and bolster the other side of the ledger.

Much ado about nothing

TO CALGARY	TO NEW YORK RANGERS
Ales Kotalik F, Chris Higgins F	Olli Jokinen F, Brandon Prust F

Yes, Prust has done yeoman duty for the Rangers, but that's about all she wrote for this deal.

Higgins and Kotalik provided nine goals in 61 games for Calgary, with the latter often waived during his tenure to get money off the books.

Jokinen finished with four goals and 11 assists in 26 games with the Rangers, finishing his time in Broadway with a shootout miss that saw New York eliminated on the final game of the season.