How did the Hurricanes, Jets, Avalanche and Golden Knights pull off their gold-medal deadlines? Their GMs take us behind the scenes.
Winning the trade deadline is not a guarantee of anything in the . Not with the randomness of the Stanley Cup playoffs in the most parity-filled era in the history of the sport. The and were among the busier teams a year ago ahead of the deadline. I liked their all-in approaches at the time. Both teams were knocked out by the No. 8 , the one playoff team that did nothing at the deadline. Go figure.
” And back to our template above, the Jets could have made a different forward pickup earlier and then lost out on a Toffoli opportunity. It’s an interesting gamble. Advertisement “That’s where the nerves side of it comes into play,” Cheveldayoff said. “It’s not that you’re trying to keep up. It’s that you want to do what you want to do or you want to do the next thing.” And let’s be real: It’s harder to lure players to Winnipeg.