Down Goes Brown · Feb 26, 2025
Should your team make a big bold move at the deadline? Yes, and here's why
The trade deadline is just over a week away. Is your team going to make a blockbuster move?
No, because this is the NHL, where all the GMs are whiny babies and making trades is too hard. There will be trades over the next few days, maybe even lots of them. But they’ll be by-the-numbers stuff, a pick here for a rental there, not anything big and bold. Given the extremely middling talent expected to be available, that’s all anyone can do. Your team will play it safe.
But should they? That’s a different question. And for just about every team in the league, we could at least make the case that they should be aiming much higher than they inevitably will.