Just one day after Danny Boy cleared waivers, New Jersey decided to sign fan-favorite Jersey native Jim Dowd to a one-year contract today. Let me tell you, there’s at least one Devils fan who is beaming right now! *cough*Joe*cough*

So, for those of you who don’t remember, Dowd, 37, started his career with the Devils in ‘91, even winning a Stanley Cup in ‘95. Just one year later, when the Devils decided they sucked and didn’t want to make the playoffs, Dowd was traded to the Hartford Whalers, thus starting his career as a Journey Man in the NHL. Such is life.

Oh, by the way…we acquired Jocelyn Lemieux for Dowd in that trade. What a blockbuster, eh?

Isn’t the saying supposed to be “in with the new, out with the old?”