This deadline...I'm satisfied with. Yeah, I'd like to see Sakic land a big fish but there just wasn't a big fish worth blowing the load on at the deadline. Such a weird freaking year, with the compressed schedule, expansion draft concerns, corono virus still rearing it's ugly head...I'm sure everyone will be glad to get back to what ever the new normal looks like in the the fall.
That being said, Joe basically told his team, I have faith in you. I'm buttressing the depth but you guys have got it.
PL didn't have to worry about a cap, so he was pretty much all in for what 10 years it seemed like? Joe can't keep his core together AND have that mentality to go out and snap up everything he can at the deadline.
He fixed the team in the off-season and then basically just plugged the holes that needed to be plugged by the deadline. With this team in 1st place, he really had no need to waste assets for much more than that. If there was a difference maker actually available he might've been willing to spend a bit more, but I don't think at the end of the year anyone is going to say Foligno, Palmieri, Zajac, Bennett or any of the others were a difference maker for the cup champs (that will belong to us) but seriously, I hope you know what I'm trying to say.