What happened to a player on another team is complety irrelevant. The Kings weren't a serious playoff contender and they had much better offensive support (8 players over 40 points to Winnipeg's 4) so they could afford to give ice time to a player in a slump. Winnipeg was trying to win the conference and was struggling offensively and had to grab some offensive pickups around trade deadline.
Last year in the regular season Winnipeg had 259 goals for and LA had 256 goals for.
Jets didn’t need to trade for offense at the deadline. We had a plus 60 goal differential last season which was 4th best in the NHL so we had plenty of goals for considering how committed we were to defense. We got to the dance with Team defense and goaltending giving up a league low 199 goals against. We should have stuck with that. Instead we gave up a draft class to “hopefully” insert more goalscoring into our top 6, f***ing with the team chemistry. The results were a disaster in the playoffs as we seemingly abandoned team defense and went T2T with Colorado??? Can’t blame that all on the rentals but we did change out 40% of our top 6 assets.
Adding at the deadline has only worked for us once and that wasn’t even a 1st round pick we gave up. The process has failed for us the rest of the time. We don’t do deadlines well at all.
Fools gold.
Hey I have no problem trading quality draft capital for assets that can improve our roster for years to come, but not for rentals on expiring deals that we walk out the door after our annual playoff sweep in the last 4 games.
End rant