Penguins GM Ron Hextall discusses trade deadline plans

Penguins general manager Ron Hextall at the 2021 draft on July 23, 2021.With ten days left until the 2022 trade deadline, Hextall met with media members on Friday, March 11, to discuss what actions the Penguins might take to shore up the team at the deadline.

His apparent outlook might best be summed up from this quote about searching for depth scoring:

“I feel good. I don’t feel like I have to do anything, but if we can get better, we’re certainly going to try.”

As Seth Rorabaugh pointed out in the Tribune Review, that’s similar to what Hextall told media before the 2021 trade deadline. On April 7 of last year, five days before the Penguins acquired Jeff Carter from the L.A. Kings:

I like our…