It's the quintessential question that every NHL team is asking right now: Did we improve enough at the deadline to achieve our goals? For the Pittsburgh Penguins, the finish line is where it has been since the third year of Sidney Crosby's career—winning the Stanley Cup.
Those expectations were in place during the 2007-08 campaign, when the team charged all the way to the Stanley Cup Final against the Detroit Red Wings, and they haven't gone away. General manager Ray Shero has become something of a trade deadline master, and while the results haven't always been perfect, Pittsburgh is always a stronger team after the trade cutoff.
The 2013-14 deadline was no exception, as Shero ran the phone lines with grace and poise. He didn't overpay in the race for Ryan Kesler, opting to address the scoring depth issues in other ways once the Vancouver Canucks upped their price on the center.
Marcel Goc and Lee Stempniak aren't the hottest names around, but at one point people viewed Jussi Jokinen and Pascal Dupuis the same way. Shero and the Penguins in general have a remarkable knack for finding the correct players ...
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Did The Pittsburgh Penguins Improve at the NHL Trade Deadline?
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