im very upset about the deal….hes gonna humiliate us in the what…next 2 or 3 meetings between us and them?

there goes the atlantic division…

and even like someone else had posted a couple weeks back about Kovalchuk and the rangers…he wouldn’t fit in here to be totally honest..hes lazy, he doesn’t hustle back, hes great player/goal scorer, but his biggest impact is in the offensive zone, and as much as the rangers need that, they need a player that can be all over the ice…ie gaborik

but they also need defensemen that dont suck..ie Rozi and Redden..i say we trade both of them to buffalo for tyler meyers, solve 4 problems with one trade, meyers can skate, score and defend. all of which rozi and redden cant do..

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

lets be happy that Sather did not give up anything. He seemed to go cheaply to NJ,
I thought they would have given up more. if that is the best they could do, i guess nobody was really in it at all. And Olie scores

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.

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

I say wow on this, especially what was apparently offered by LA. Oduya is decent…but mostly a filler, Bergfors, who has some upside but…meh. Cormier should never be allowed to play professional hockey ever again…tainted goods IMO. And a 1st rounder that will most likely be in the low 20s.

If that’s all Waddell could get, then he’s either trying to land the NYR GM job or the other trade offers like those of LA were completely fake. Atl got jobbed.

Can’t wait to be at the game Saturday night vs. the Devils….. are they going to be handing out complimentary razor blades at the door that say the usual “Thank You Fans!” on it

and honestly, when you have elias and langenbrunner on the 3rd line…you got a good team, as much as i hate them, they get depth..

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