It wasn’t quite the equivalent of the time Geraldo Rivera went on live TV on a heavily promoted show to reveal what was inside Al Capone’s vault – a whole lot of dust, it turned out – but to Colorado Avalanche fans hoping for big revelations Wednesday, it might have been close.
The woeful, last-place Avalanche – most of whose players have been festooned with “For Sale” signs for a while now – did a whole lot of, well, um…not much on NHL trade deadline day.
General manager Joe Sakic’s final tally for moves Wednesday was two: The dealing of Jarome Iginla to Los Angeles for a conditional fourth-round pick that probably won’t get the conditions met to actually get the pick, and the export of fourth-liner Andreas Martinsen to Montreal for depth forward Sven Andrighetto.