“I never knew them before this and I just see them on TV, and it’s a little star-striking right away,” Jensen said. Jensen isn’t a star, but he and winger Carl Hagelin sure fit the mould of low key trade-deadline acquisitions who can pay big dividends during a long playoff run. Vegas paid a big price to land winger Mark Stone, Winnipeg gave up its first-rounder for centre Kevin Hayes and both teams are better for those pickups. Yet recent history shows contenders who tinkered rather than made a splash at the deadline got it right. While Columbus went all in to get forwards Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel even with pending free agents Artemi Panarin and Sergei Bobrovsky, other playoff teams tweaked to fill existing holes.

Source: National Post March 06, 2019 07:18 UTC