TORONTO — To use an analogy, the trades left on the table after Wednesday’s 3 p.m. deadline would have been more than most standard kitchens could hold. No, you’d have to go into Thanksgiving mode and construct a Franken-table out of two or three tables to make room for all the players who ended up staying put.
Even then, some of the lesser names would have been relegated to the smaller kids’ table.
That’s how little movement there was this year.
Instead of helping a Stanley Cup contender, Colorado’s Matt Duchene and Gabriel Landeskog — the two biggest names on the market — will play out the final stretch of the regular season on the worst team in the NHL.