Or maybe he did notice, and this is the new Adam Deadmarsh. Yes, Feb. 21 rocked his world. He cried that night at the hospital, the emotions from a life seeming to splinter apart. But he's smiling now. Almost every professional athlete gets traded at least once.
Trades are just job transfers, really.
But they come without warning, and they come without choice. Deadmarsh, a hard-working winger for Colorado, scored twice. Deadmarsh and Miller had spent parts of 14 combined seasons with the organization. But the Avs thought their chances of winning the Stanley Cup were better without them, and with Blake, an all-star defenseman, and a rookie named Steven Reinprecht. Deadmarsh went straight to Rose Medical Center that night.