The Trade

Well, it happened.

The Atlanta Thrashers traded Ilya Kovalchuk to the New Jersey Devils.
I've watched Kovy play for years and the loss will hurt Atlanta deeply.

I wont even write about how one-sided the trade was-I'm now immune to the Thrashers making dumb decisions, trade after trade(Coburn,Heatley,Hossa) they seem to always get rid of good-to-great players. But I really can't disagree with the decision to trade, as he had already turned down a 10 year $102 million deal, and also a 7 year deal making $10 million dollars a year. Anytime you pay one player more than 1/6 of your salary cap, it is a bad decision. And to keep the young talent that they do have, Atlanta just can't deal with his demands.

The biggest question is what the Thrashers will do now. I can't see anyone actually wanting to come play for them now without a real star player, and I just hope that they can ice a good enough team next year to pull themselves out of relocation possibilities.