The trade deadline is an exciting time. Is your team going to acquire the players they need to become truly elite competitors? Will they get an extra first rounder, or a high profile prospect? Trades!!
The trade deadline can also be a very scary time. Is your team going to do something mindblowingly stupid? Filip Forsberg for Martin Erat stupid? Or a more mundane kind of stupid, but still the kind of stupid that puts you back for at least the rest of the season, if not years to come?
You always hope it's the former, not the latter.