Marek Zidlicky trade... Oh and that game last night against the Canucks

The trade of a lifetime! THE END ALL MOVES IN DEVILS HISTORY! COME READ ABOUT THE TRADE THAT ALL DEVILS' FANS ARE CALLING... "eh OK". On paper this trade looks one sided and it seems comments from Devil fans all over NHL.com are questioning Lou's intoxication levels for the past 24 hours. But let's honestly look at this: a strong vet D-man with offensive capabilities without risking defense for the leader in the minus category, a career 3rd liner with no real quality, an career AHLer, and a few picks. Honestly not a bad deal for Jersey, nor the Wild either. Zidlicky was doomed to leave Minnesota anyway based on his personal vendetta with the coaching staff.

Seems the three main problems I have with this trade are gaining a guy with history of bad rep with coaches and losing Nick Palmeiri. Yes, Nicky-P wasn't the best he could be this year. But history has shown that the sophomore year for NHLers is usually the worst. I personally liked Palmeiri. Losing Foster didn't sit well with me either until I saw what Zid will bring to our blue-line. Veilleux, eh, who cares? If anything this is good for him, he'll have a full time role there. He spent six seasons in Minnesota why not a few more?

When I said I have three problems with this trade I lied. I have a bunch more. 4,000,000 of them in fact. This guy better produce or this is going to be a major cap hit that WILL effect the Parise (and perhaps even the... ahem... dare i say it?... Marty) contract deal this summer.

But all in all nothing can be said until we see him in the red and black tomorrow afternoon. Speaking of games, last night's game was interesting. It seemed offensively we outplayed Vancouver. However, while our offense was better than theirs, their DEFENSE was better than our offense. Great game by the Devils and Vancouver.