Sens at Land’s End

The NHL trade deadline approaches and the Sens made a deal today! The trade:

To Carolina: Joe Corvo and Patrick Eaves
To Ottawa: Mike Commodore and Cory Stillman

I am fully okay with losing Eaves. He’s been injured so much over the last year that I barely remember he exists most of the time. Corvo is a bit more of a loss at the moment. I’d have liked to keep him, but he and Wade Redden are very similar players and I think having both of them was actually hurting the team. Keeping Corvo would very much have been my preference especially given that Redden will most likely leave Ottawa at the end of this season, but Redden wouldn’t waive his no trade clause; therefore, Corvo was the odd man out. Too bad, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles when you give Wade Redden a no trade clause.

I don’t know too much about Stillman, but he might provide the secondary scoring the Sens have been looking for. Commodore I’m a little more familiar with, and I think he’s a good addition. He’s a defensive defenceman, which means that this trade has filled two of the three needs — scoring forward, defensive defenceman, and goalie — that the Sens had identified. Stillman and Commodore both also have lots of playoff experience, and have both won the Cup. Plus, look at Commodore’s hair:

You can’t go wrong when you’ve got Red Afro Guy on yout team. I hope.