Welcome to the Day-Before-the-Trade-Deadline edition of Lighting the Lamp. When I realized the Blues would play the Oilers tonight, the day before the trading deadline, I knew that it would have made this column a lot easier to write if the deadline was yesterday rather than tomorrow. And that is because I finished the article Monday morning in order to get it to the editor/publisher in time for him to format it.
And then GM Doug Armstrong finally pulled the trigger on a Kevin Shattenkirk trade Monday night around 9 p.m., with the finalized transaction revealed around 10:30 p.