The decision to stay conservative throughout the deadline was the right one. Spending future assets on Chychrun isn't worth it knowing that the holes on the bottom-six still wouldn't have been addressed and in the grand scheme of things, this team would still be inferior to the Bruins or the Lightning.
That being said, acquiring Granlund is such a short-sighted and asinine move considering that his contract could potentially prohibit what management could do during free agency and the future. It gives a lot less wiggle room to look at potential UFAs in J.T. Compher, Tyler Bertuzzi, Miles Wood, Vladislav Gavrikov, Ryan Graves, and Ivan Barbashev. Trading away 2nd rounders on a year-to-year basis is not necessarily something to look past.
This team desperately needed some energy/toughness along with secondary scoring and Hextall didn't address the former at all. Instead, he got slower cerebral forwards who are past their prime. I cannot think of a team that is as soft as this one both mentally and physically. How many leads have they blown this season? Does anyone honestly believe that the acquisitions made will tackle these significant problems?