Honestly, given the prices for a top 6 upgrade, I'm really pleased with our TDL. We gave up a 7th for Stewart and Shore.
Shore is a solid possession guy and should work well on the 4th line under GGs system. He's also another RHS and he'll be a solid pker for us. I bet he's an upgrade on Stajan.
Stewart is someone I always wanted on the cheap and we got him for free, awesome! He addresses a few needs if he comes in motivated. He's got size, grit, and a cannon of a shot. Nobody is gonna mess with this team when he's in the lineup (I can't wait till we play ANA). I would also like to see him on the PP with his RHS, I'm betting he'll help an already improving power play.
If everything clicks, this really upgrades our bottom six, which as I mentioned earlier, was our 2nd greatest hole. We were not able to upgrade our top six at a reasonable cost, so we take zero risk in trying to upgrade our bottom six. Great TDL day for us imo.
My lines once Ferland returns:
Gaudreau-Monahan-Bennett
Tkachuk-Backlund-Frolik
Ferland-Janko-Stewart
Lazar-Shore-Brouwer
The bad news of the day is that Tre was looking for a goalie at the right price. This leads me to believe Smith may be done...If that is the case, our season may be short lived unless Gillies/Rittich catch fire. So the fact we didn't do anything major at the deadline to bring in a rental is likely a smart move given the risk of potentially not having our team MVP for the rest of the season.