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by Paul on 03/05/10 at 11:56 AM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
There are two ways to look at the 2010 NHL trading deadline, which entered the history books this past Wednesday.
One is to think that NHL general managers actually reviewed recent history and came to an astonishing conclusion: All that jockeying, all those moves, all that frantic action in the past rarely translated into playoff success; and that the winners were usually the sellers, who took advantage of the frenzy in order to exact big-time prices for marginal merchandise.
For years, the trading deadline has been the opposite of a clearance sale – the one day a year when prices are marked up and still, the shoppers line up madly for the chance to bid on a Nathan Paetsch here or an Alexandre Picard there.
That’s the kinder assessment and one which proved to be true in a number of important precincts, such as Chicago and San Jose, where the respective general managers Stan Bowman and Doug Wilson did their work early and essentially told their teams that they were good enough, as constructed, to win a championship without last-minute reinforcement.
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