Lamoriello on trade deadline: Devils are buyers, not sellers

Fire & Ice has a number of quotes from New Jersey Devils GM Lou Lamoriello concerning the trade deadline.

“You have the whole year to try to make a trade and you’re always doing it,” Lamoriello said. “Yet, no one focuses in on it the way you’d like to see until the end when you know you can’t do it anymore. So, sometimes the games appear to be more important, but they shouldn’t really be. It’s just the appearance of it.

“You know your team and you know what you need to do. You know what your assets and liabilities are and four games doesn’t change that.”

Lamoriello says 'it's not even a question' that he views himself as a buyer right now.

“If we can get better, that’s absolutely what we’ll do,” he said. “I’m really happy with this team. You’re not going to do anything for the sake of doing it, but this team has overcome a lot through a difficult period of time right now and we have some things going in our favor: we have a favorable schedule, we have a sort of healthy team and the new players who we brought in are really comfortable within the system. They’re comfortable in their own skin. They’re comfortable with the coaches. So, there’s a lot of things that have been overcome and throughout that we weathered the storm (such as) injuries to key players.

“I’m not saying it’s going to be (easy) by any means. We’ve got to go out and play. But I think we have the ingredients to have success is what I’m saying.”

Source: Tom Gulitti, Fire & Ice