NEWARK, NJ - Both the New Jersey Devils and Washington Capitals got their first look at their teams that included their trade deadline acquisitions on Friday night, and the Capitals new starting goaltender made a big push for more playing time. Cristobal Huet only faced 18 shots, but he stopped all of them shutting out the Devils 4-0 at the Prudential Center. The Devils had three days off after Tuesday’s overtime loss to Carolina, but you wouldn’t have known it by the way they played. The Devils lacked energy and creativity and they made life very easy for the Capitals new netminder.

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It's not often that ice hockey is elevated to a Shakespearean stratum; the closest the NHL comes to that literally loftiness is the comedy of errors that are the Maple Leafs and the VERSUS studio show, which is typically much ado about nothing. But a few years ago - to the utter amazement and dismay of the dedicated puckheads within ear-shot - Rose Solari, senior editor emeritus of SportsFan Magazine, likened the lamentable Eric Lindros to Hamlet, the tragic prince in the Bard's most celebrated work. She later wrote about it in SFM:

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