Cliff Fletcher, the famed executive who won a Stanley Cup with the Flames in 1989 and then turned around a flailing Maple Leafs franchise throughout the 1990s, has died.

When you think of the term 'hockey lifer,' there is nobody who embodies that moniker more than Hall of Fame general manager Cliff Fletcher, who died Friday morning at the age of 90.

On Jan. 2, 1992, the man known as Trader Cliff proved that he came by that moniker honestly, completing a 10-player deal that remains the largest swap, in terms of the number of bodies moved, in NHL h...