The trade deadline has come and gone with not much happening for the Nashville Predators, who traded a third-pairing defender and a late-round draft pick two years from this June for a worse, yet larger, third-pairing defender. The Ottawa Senators, in contrast, were extremely busy—so busy that they weren’t able to ice a full roster at the start of last night’s loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets. In fairness, they did have warm bodies, they just didn’t have warm bodies in the right city with NHL gear.
Gary, we need to talk about scheduling games for a few hours after the trade deadline.