The bazaar that was NHL trade deadline day on Monday has passed; Time to add up the winners and the losers and assess the ramifications of the deals to their respective teams going forward.
No better place to start than the Kevin Montgomery-Shawn Belle swap between Colorado and Edmonton, and let's start off by saying that when teams add players like a Montgomery and a Belle to the roster at the deadline, this is no less a proclamation of Stanley Cup desires than.
.....wait a minute, who are Kevin Montgomery and Shawn Belle?
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