The Milbury Scale: Your primer for NHL trade deadline ratings

Every trade deadline has trades that work, trades that could work and trades that fail the sniff test nearly immediately.

How does one suss out the good from the bad from the potentially horrendous?

Let The Milbury Scale be your guide!

Once again, Puck Daddy (and the Sportsnet Trade Deadline extravaganza) will unleash The Milbury Scale on every trade made through 3 p.m. EST. In case you need a refresher:

One Milbury: A fair trade that helps both teams, both in the short term and in the long run. No winner, no loser: Just a solid deal founded on smart financial and hockey needs.

Two Milburys: A trade that could, down the road, burn one team in a big way. We’re talking a trade of blue-chip prospects for a rental, if the team that’s renting clearly isn’t going to win it all this season.

Three Milburys: There’s a clear winner in a deal at the time of the trade. Someone got a little too desperate, or someone just got hosed.

Four Milburys! Bertuzzi, McCabe and eventually Jarkko Ruutu for Trevor Linden! Roberto Luongo and Olli Jokinen for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha! YASHIN! DISASTER!