The New Jersey Devils made some cap space available by trading Ondrej Palat to the New York Islanders on Tuesday night. A rumor about how they could use that cap space would be by far the worst move of Tom Fitzgerald's front office career.
The New Jersey Devils needed to make a trade yesterday. Oh wait, they did make a trade yesterday! One day after they were officially the last team in the Metropolitan Division to make such a roster move, Tom Fitzgerald joined the party.