Take a look at the teams remaining in the playoffs, and you’ll notice one similarity: they bought. Nearly every team in the conference finals this year made significant acquisitions prior to or during the 2019-2020 regular season that are paying dividends at crunch time.
You simply only need to look back to the series that was against a Tampa Bay Lightning team that committed to winning by making meaningful moves this past season:
- Blake Coleman has been a hitting machine in these playoffs with 56 in 13 games, while scoring some very timely goals, and turned out to be a fancystats monster on a team designed to take advantage of it.