Do you remember where you were and what you were doing exactly 10 years ago?If you were a hockey fan back then, there’s a decent chance that you do. But it depends on what time you’re reading this.If it’s early in the morning, then you probably have no idea. Exactly ten years ago, the hockey world was waking up to what felt like a typical Wednesday. We’d just had the draft, with Auston Matthews going first overall, and the Detroit Red Wings had traded Pavel Datsyuk to the Arizona Coyotes, because that’s just what we did with Hall-of-Fame players back then. And we were still a few days from free agency, a crop loaded with wingers like Milan Lucic, Kyle Okposo and Loui Eriksson who’d surely sign reasonable deals.Exactly 10 years ago, on that pleasant summer morning, your hockey fan brain was probably taking a nice deep breath and enjoying the calm between the storms.If you’re reading this a few hours later, maybe over your lunch break, then maybe you’re thinking back to where you were when you heard the news: Mason Raymond and Eric Nystrom had just been placed on waivers for the purpose of a buyout, while Brad Stuart had just cleared. No? You say you don’t quite recall that particular bit of major news? Maybe not, you were probably still processing the big Alex Chiasson for Patrick Sieloff trade from a few days earlier.But there’s at least a chance that you spent that particular lunch break back in 2016 wondering about some potential moves still to come. There was lots of talk out of Edmonton about Taylor Hall being traded, ideally for blue-line help, but we weren’t sure which team would offer enough to pry away a recent No. 1 pick in his prime. There were some P.K. Subban rumors coming out of Montreal, even though Marc Bergevin kept saying he wouldn’t move his young Norris winner. And of course, there was the Steven Stamkos situation, with the Tampa Bay Lightning’s captain looking likely to get to July 1 as the biggest UFA name to hit the market in years.Maybe you were even chewing on some of the really wild speculation. Should the Oilers have flipped the No. 4 pick and prospect Leon Draisaitl to Montreal for Subban, if that had indeed been on the table?Maybe you spent your lunch hour arguing with friends about who should do what. Maybe the conversation even went long, and you almost missed the news of Tomáš Hertl signing a two-year extension with the San Jose Sharks, or Seth Jones re-upping with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Maybe you were still chewing on Pierre LeBrun’s latest rumblings column, which featured big names like Jason Demers, Dale Weise and Vladimir Sobotka.And then … well, then things went a little bit off the rails.If you’re reading this around 3:00 ET, then you probably do remember what comes next: quite possibly the wildest hour of off-ice news in the modern history of the NHL.It was the absolute best. And a big part of that is because this was during the brief window when social media had changed the reporting landscape but wasn’t completely worthless yet, meaning this may have been the last time the whole hockey world got to process news together. We weren’t worried about getting fooled by AI slop, or missing the news altogether because some algorithm decided we wanted to be mad about politics instead. It was just a fun day of hockey, with most of us working our way through the same basic reactions.Gather around, children; the olds have some reminiscing to do.3:17 pmThe first sign that something big was happening — not just being spitballed by bored fans, but actually happening — came the way it always did back then: in a Bob McKenzie tweet.“EDM and NJD appear to be edging closer to completion of a trade involving Taylor Hall,” the Bobfather tweeted. And then, an even more tantalizing detail: “Could be imminent.”And we all thought: Wow, the Oilers are really doing this. What are they going to get in return?To be clear, the Taylor Hall rumors had been percolating for weeks. The basic thinking was the Oilers and second-year GM Peter Chiarelli had seen enough from rookie Connor McDavid to know that he was the real deal. They could build around McDavid, but that meant being willing to move on from the past that Hall represented. If they could do that while improving the blue line and maybe freeing up some cap space for free agency, then a deal could make sense.But it had to be a blockbuster, right?3:25 p.m.“The Oilers have traded Taylor Hall” — that was Oilers reporter Ryan Rishaug, keeping it short and sweet.So now we knew the deal was done, and we knew Hall was headed to the New Jersey Devils. The question was what kind of haul the Oilers would get.Adam Larsson had been mentioned in rumors, so he seemed like a decent starting point. He was a five-year veteran but still just 23, and had a well-rounded game that was especially strong in his own end. He had only 69 points in his career so far, so you weren’t getting a superstar. But as the first piece in a bigger package? You could see what the Oilers were thinking.And we all thought: Surely, the trade is not one-for-one.3:34 p.m.Ah. Well. Nevertheless.