There’s frustration on both sides of the equation, so the NHL trade deadline must be getting closer. You’ve got your sellers who won’t budge off their prices. When you ask one why there haven’t been any deals, this answer from a selling general manager sums it up.



“Give me what I want for a player and I’ll do it today,” he said.



Until then, we wait.



And then there are the buyers. First of all, there aren’t many of them. There will be plenty of teams looking to add depth for midrange prospects or draft picks. There always is. The expectation is that the Tampa Bay Lightning first-rounder is very much in play. The Pittsburgh Penguins’ win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday moved them into first place in the Metro, a development that will make an already-eager-to-deal Jim Rutherford even more emboldened.



But the ratio appears to be very much in favor of those looking to...