The Ever-Frustrating Marek Zidlicky  Maddie Meyer  All hockey
players have good days and bad days, but it feels like no one
can bounce between extremes quite as quickly or as often as
Marek Zidlicky. So is he worth the aggravation?  Of all of the
players on the Devils, no one else can alternate between "Wow,
what an awesome play!" and "Holy [expletive], get that
[expletive] off the ice!" quite like veteran Czech defenseman
Marek Zidlicky. He is a special kind of frustrating. Once you
are ready to board him onto the proverbial rocket into the Sun,
he will go ahead and hammer home a huge goal. But then the
moment you start to feel good about his presence, he'll follow
it up with a brutal turnover and/or a lazy hooking penalty to
get your blood boiling all over again. Hockey fans (and sports
fans in general) can be a very fickle bunch, but few play into
those emotions quite like Zidlicky.  So is Zidlicky worth the
headaches that he causes? He's undeniably a talented hockey
player, particularly in the offensive e