The 2015 NHL trade deadline has—mercifully—come and gone, leaving some contenders in better shape, others in the same shape and others worse off than they were 24 hours ago.
Last season, it was the bigger trades that helped most. The Los Angeles Kings (Marian Gaborik), New York Rangers (Martin St. Louis) and Montreal Canadiens (Thomas Vanek) added big names who helped get those teams to conference finals and beyond.
Will it be the same story this year, or will some of the more subtle moves be the ones that push the league's best teams over the top?
We will look at which contenders helped and hurt themselves most with their moves at or near the deadline, take a crack at determining how it affects the playoff races and identify which move was better than all others.
Since impact trades have been happening for a few weeks, for the sake of defining "deadline deals," we'll consider the transaction between the Buffalo Sabres and Winnipeg Jets on Feb. 11 that sent Evander Kane to Buffalo and Tyler Myers to Winnipeg the start of the deadline trades.
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