Deadline Day – Deal 1: Derek Morris to Phoenix

Trade:

Boston sends Derek Morris to Phoenix for a 2011 4th round pick.

Analysis:

This deal clears out salary space for Boston to make more moves later today.  Depending on how the rest of the day and season goes for Boston, the signing of Morris at the beginning of the year will call into question the wisdom of Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli signing Morris (and others) to such fat contracts while letting the team’s only goal scorer twist in the wind and eventually get traded.

We’ll see how this pans out the rest of the day for Boston, clearly they’re angling to just get into the playoffs and hope to get hot. Of course they could be setting up to face either Pittsburgh or Washington so picking one’s poison might not be so awesome here.