NHL News: Atlanta Thrashers trade Ilya Kovalchuk to New Jersey Devils

Not that I wanted the Rangers to morgage the farm for Kovalchuk, but now that he has been traded to NJ, and with the way the Rangers blew it Thursday night, the playoffs are only a dream. Fire Sather and have Mess or whomever gets the job trade off the worthless and start building for 2010/11.

That’s epic.

Waddell knew Kovalchuk was on the way out, and had no choice. I’m just glad he won’t be wearing a Rangers jersey this season. One step closer to tanking for Seguin :)

Kovalchuk is money hungry. I’m glad we don’t have him. We already have Gaborik, now we need more support players to score 20-30 goals.

but who cares.. we have no chance anyway and he will only be there for 2-3 months.. big deal and he will be gone so im fine with it

Atl could have gotten sooooo much more for him then an under-performing roster rookie, an arguable 2 or 3 d-man, a suspended prospect and a 1st rounder

La offered up Frolov and Purcell I believe

this was an awful deal by waddell especially when i wake up to that brooks article this morning talking about a package like staal, dubi, grachev and a 1 and end it with the devs getting him and a d-man for a mediocre d-man, a rookie, a convict and a 1 and swapping 2’s

Even though they didn’t give up any stars, I think the Devils will probably regret this, esp. the 1st round pick. They are not going to win the Eastern Conference, even with him, though they have a really good shot of making the Conference Finals now. I doubt he resigns with them. I’m relieved the Rangers didn’t make this mistake. Play out the season, and spend the money we saved on Kotalik on a young, shutdown d-man, like Dan Hamhuis.

The next Steve Yzerman!!!!! Damn he would look awesome in red white and blue!!!!

I hope Phaneuf takes Kovy’s head off tomorrow night in NJ. Devils suck.

So how much will the Devils need to re-up Kovy or is this a rental?

that was the best offer they got? Oduya, picks, & the guy who just got suspended for being a cheapshot artist?
wow thats surprising

Moving Max Afinogenov, because of his contract 800,000, his monster year… 44 points in 55 games and the fact that his deal is a one year in and out special. So since he’s unrestricted after this year. I think Waddell should look for another young prospect or early 2nd/late 1st for Max. Another reason i say this is because beware my ranger brethren, I think Slats could try and make a move for him before the deadline. Low contract, plus big numbers x 2 stupid GM’s = a scary deal that might occur in our favor or to our dismay. Remember i wrote this, it may be speculation but it might happen.

Kovy is allergic to playing a two way game and thats all that jersey plays these days…sure it gives them some more fire power but overall i could really see this deal blowing up Lou’s face…big time

The Devils are the Rangers biggest rivals, bigger than the Islanders, bigger than the Flyers and now they have one of the most feared weapons in all the NHL and they got him for nothing. You’re telling me there was no better offer on the table?

Sather pulled off something like this back in 2002 when he got Bure, who at the time was still one of the game’s top players, for Igor Ulanov and a couple of draft picks. And it worked out with Bure getting 50 points in 51 games but thanks to Curtis Brown, Bure was put on the shelf forever. We will never know what would have happened if Pavel Bure had stayed healthy and still breaks pains me that we didn’t get a chance to see more of the Russian Rocket

Dougee those videos are classic