Edmonton Oilers, Dmitry Kulikov (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
When it comes to the Edmonton Oilers, there’s always a lot of pundits that work for media organizations, TV stations, radio stations, websites that have an opinion to give about trade deadline day. I differentiate them from me because I’m just a blogger more interested in providing a fan’s perspective than a professional “sports jock” opinion.
Anyway, likely due to said deadlines there seems to be a lazy formula applied by the media machine when it comes to the NHL trade deadline: “Team needs + GM’s moves = label of success or failure”
This is, of course, an oversimplification in the extreme.