Every year we get all kinds of heated up for the NHL trade deadline and it's always a mystery as to how it'll play out and whether it's going to be hectic. If anything, we should start calling it trade deadline week so we can appreciate all the moves that happen leading up to the end of the trade window.
But this year's deadline, while not totally overflowing with moves on the final day, still had some doozies, and that's both a compliment and a put-down.
Like all trade deadlines, we're going to take a hard look at the winners and losers of the annual transaction party and, luckily for us, those who came out on top and those who stepped on a multitude of rakes were rather apparent.