Who looks like the 2013 Trade Geniuses; 1st Day on the New Job

It's always important to judge a trade by the very first game that the recent victims/rental players participate in with their new team. After all, they don't know anybody yet, nobody has tried to hit on their girlfriends and reporters are madly trying to get their first angle for a news story on the 'new guy'. So here's the immediate winners from the NHL trade deadline day;

Tampa Bay Lightning;

the O on his jersey could be called 'fore-shadowing'or 
amount of Lightning fans who had heard of Ben Bishop.

Ben Bishop earns a shut out with his first game of the Bolts, the first in new Coach Cooper's career with a 5-0 rout over the always dangerous Carolina Hurricanes, champion of both North and South Carolina.
Bishop stopped 45 shots for his first win for Tampa Bay which unfortunately means that unless he continues to post a 1000 save % for the rest of the season, there is nowhere to go but down.

I am extremely happy with you guys right now,
don't confuse this with my mad face.

New York Rangers

This team looks like geniuses right now (yes, tortorella is still their coach). Ryan Clowe gets 2 goals and an assist, Derek Brassard formerly of Columbus gets 1G 3A and John Moore also scores a goal in their first showing in Rangers uniforms. Clowe gets calls from Mark Messier asking to be in on the next photo op, but Clowe wisely declines.

Jaromir Hair-gar. Get it?
Has anbody used that joke yet? dibs!

Boston Bruins

Jaromir Jagr gets a standing ovation upon appearing, gets another jersey and his 15th goal of the season in his first game as a Bruin which is pretty much what everybody was expecting. He is also able to translate Czech grunting for the benefit of the reporters when trying to interview Zdeno Chara but will only do so in Czech.

St. Louis Blues

Jay skating drills at his first Blues practice

Jay Bouwmeester gets an assist in his first game as a Blue and then nearly faints after they beat the Blackhawks 4-3 when he realizes he is actually on a team with a chance to make the play-offs, a first in his career. After the game, everybody from St. Louis was asking when Jay was due to arrive.

This picture will soon be the equivalent of the
 Quebec Nordiques playing the Hartford Whalers 
in the 80's. 

Columbus Blue Jackets

Marian Gaborik gets the game-winning goal and also picks up an assist in his first game as a Blue Jacket, thanks to a private jet that flew him to Columbus because no public airline knew a route there from New York. Throw-in defensemen Steven Delisle and Blake Parlett were forced to hitchhike to Columbus and were still not at the rink by blog time.

Minnesota Wild

Jason Pommenville was -1 on his first appearance with the Wild in a 3-0 loss to the Los Angeles Kings.

Los Angeles Kings

Robyn Regehr had an assist and was +1 for the Kings in the same game in a game so boring, i forget who they were playing.

Vancouver Canucks

Derek Roy was +1 with 1 assist as the Canucks beat the Oilers 4-0. The best pick up at the trade deadline in my opinion, Jerrod Smithson, did not play. The Canuck media immediately declare that Roy may very well be the 'final piece of the puzzle' as they do every year since Mats Sundin joined the team to lead them to the buffet line at the local sushi hut once they are out of the playoffs.

Pittsburgh Penquins

WWMD? (what would mario do?)
-get injured, miss season. Check!

Jerome Iginla, Brendan Morrow, and Douglas Murray were all on the bench when Sidney Crosby got hit in the face by a wayward slap-shot, putting his career on hold indefinitely, once again. This also caused mass groaning from Pittsburgh front office who will have to inform bored reporters every day of Sid's status and whether or not it is now considered a concussion. Then their 100 game win streak was snapped. They haven't won since. Nobody will sit with Morrow on the airplane. Not a great start for the 3 Amigos.