If you're not moving ahead, you're falling behind.
That's life in the National Hockey League, where the passage of time is an enemy that challenges every club.
Every player has a window of peak performance. The task of each team's general manager is to try to find a way to assemble a group that peaks together in order to ultimately take a run at the Stanley Cup.
In a salary-cap world, that task is harder than ever. This summer, the challenge of improving a team was made even more difficult by the twists and turns that accompanied the expansion draft.