We are just out of October and the rumors are already starting to heat up on this young National Hockey League season.
With the New Jersey Devils off to the league's worst (and most surprising) start, it comes as no shock that many of these rumors focus on their players.
Everyone who follows the league knows of the Devils' salary cap woes. Luckily for them, Rolston went down early in the year. Could you imagine had the Devils needed to count his number against the cap? Yikes!
Let's backtrack to the summer months. So much was being made about Ilya Kovalchuk and his desire for a big contract. Make no mistake, the Kings tried desperately to sign this guy. It just wasn't in the cards.
In retrospect, general manager Dean Lombardi appears to have made the right choice. His team is off to a great start with a line-up that is firing on all cylinders.
There is no doubt that the Kings would love to add a top tier scorer to their forward lines. In the summer it looked as though Ilya Kovalchuk was going to be that guy.
If you read one of my earlier articles here on Bleacher Report, you will notice that I really think that ...
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