[Devils-list] More trading on the wrong side of the river

[Don Whiting]

>Rangers send Adam Graves to San Jose for Mikael Samuelsson and
>Christian Gosselin.  Neither are rated among SJ's top prospects but
>Samuelsson did have 32 goald and 78 pts in 66 games in the AHL last year.
>Two young guys seems like a lot to give up for a guy that is old and
>declining rapidly. Especially a guy the Rangers were likely going to buy
>out of his contract anyway.

Hrm. Are the Rangers learning? I hope not, but this is a surprise.... 
trading a high-priced aging player for prospects? I thought the 
Rangers would be on the opposite side of this kind of trade. (-:

Maybe the Islanders have decided to take the Rangers role?

                                                 Don Whiting