Grading the Eastern Conference Contender’s Trade Deadline Additions

Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty ImagesThe NHL’s trade deadline has come and gone with a new level of activity. There were 33 trades completed on the deadline day as contenders load up and push the limits of the salary cap and their imaginations to make the best team they can for the playoffs.

Now that the dust has settled a bit with a few days to see the picture developing, let’s take a scan around the Metropolitan Division and the Eastern Conference. Which teams added the right pieces? Who might not have done enough?

We’ll judge everything in the week leading up to the deadline for this purpose. And this is a look focused is on the stretch run of the regular season and 2022 playoffs, the cost of…