Whether it was Lou Lamoriello with the Bo Horvat trade or Doug Armstrong with the Vladimir Tarasenko trade or who knows what else, I want to give a big round of applause to NHL GMs this (last) month for getting all their trade deadline spending sprees off and running well before tomorrow’s official deadline.
After enduring another fall of “it’s just too hard to make trades” stories, it’s cool to see some actual “We have a trade to announce...” action — and spread out over days and weeks, rather than condensed into one wholly unfulfilling day of mainlining Girl Scout cookies while refreshing TSN-dot-CA or enduring their terrible “But Gord, how does THIS exchange of Pacific Division 6th-round picks affect the Leafs?