The Worst NHL Trades of the Twenty First Century

The Worst NHL Trades of the Twenty First Century August 9, Nineteen Eighty-Nine. A 23-year-old Canadian hockey player rents a snowboard at an Austrian ski resort, waves goodbye to a resort employee, and heads up the mountain alone. He is never seen alive again. His name is Duncan MacPherson. He was a first-round NHL draft pick. He had his whole career in front of him. And for fourteen years, no one knew what happened to him. Until a glacier started melting — and the truth began to surface. This is one of the most haunting, most mysterious, and most deeply unsettling stories in the entire history of professional hockey. Duncan MacPherson's story doesn't start on a glacier in Austria. It starts on the frozen outdoor rinks of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan — where a kid from the Canadian prairies was turning into something special. Today, we're going to tell that story in full. The rise. The setbacks. The disappearance. The fourteen years of silence. And the deeply disturbing truth that finally emerged from the ice.