Trade Deadline ’09: Want any freebies? Now’s the time

Satan

One day before the trade deadline, the waiver wire has filled up faster than Copley Square on New Year’s Eve.

The question is: are there any players worth claiming? And I’d say yes. Pierre Lebrun at ESPN.com posted a completed list earlier this afternoon.

The two names that jump out at me are are both left-handed shots — Brendan Morrison from Anaheim and Pittsburgh’s Miroslav Satan. To me, it’d be worth a chance for the Boston Bruins to claim either player. Satan carries a cap hit of about $3.5 million and Morrison comes  in at $2.75 million, so they both fit. They could both come to Boston and aid the power play. More important, neither would be asked to carry too heavy a load as far as ice time or production. As a winger, Satan might be the better get, but Morrison is a speedy, versatile player that’d help as well. Best of all, none of the players on the waiver wire would cost Boston anything but money.