Reviewing Another Lone Move

First, let me apologize as I intended to post this write up a few days earlier. With another trade deadline past us and a whole quarter season to go, I feel obliged to share my thoughts on what moves (in this year’s case “move” if you don’t count the Kovalchuk trade) Devils GM Lou Lamoriello made…and didn’t make to prepare his team for the upcoming playoff run. As of 3 pm this past Wednesday, the big question stands: Are the Devils a better team? My readers may know I tend to answer most questions indirectly through implying my opinions and dancing around what was asked. My input as to whether or not the Devils are now a truly better team may be explained no differently. Before Wednesday morning’s eleven o’clock hour, the Devils acquired 30-year old defenseman Martin Skoula from the Toronto Maple Leafs after he was dealt there by the Pittsburgh Penguins the day before. In exchange for Skoula, the Devils sacrificed a 2010 fifth round pi...