Maybe it was over at the NHL trade deadline at 3 p.m. -- some four hours earlier -- when the parent club Los Angeles Kings did not answer a desperate S.O.S. for veteran help here.
In a role reversal, the last-place Lowell Devils played like the team fighting for the last spot in the Atlantic Division playoffs, embarrassing the Monarchs from start to finish, 7-3, last night.
Verizon Wireless Arena was filled with boos from 7,116 disgruntled fans. At the end of the first period Lowell was up, 3-0, on a pair of power play goals by little known Ben Mondou, a first-year AHL skater who soon earned his first career hat trick in the second period.
