Buffdog
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One could argue that the reason the recent cup winners largely stood pat was because they already had great teams with fewer holes to try to fillI think it's interesting that the last 3 Stanley Cup winners only used secondary assets or prospects to get players at the deadline. Colorado giving up a 2nd and Barron for Lekhonen is the biggest deal out of those 3. If you skip the main Covid years, St. Louis and Washington also only fine tuned. There is something to be said for messing with chemistry you build up all year. Stastny is the only real hit the Jets ever got in a deadline trade. To a lesser extent Stempniak. And it's worth considering that one non playoff year and the Copp trade is what improved the Jets prospect capital, which otherwise would have been in the quite mediocre range with Heinola, Mc Groarty, Chibrikov and Barlow leading it, with some hopeful gems in the later rounds.
Too early to get a read on whether Chevy should be swinging for the fences or playing it conservative.