TAMPA, Fla. — When your team is still playing hockey in late June, no one questions your methods.
Trade draft picks? No problem. Trade prospects, too? It’s gotta be done. Push the salary cap, sign older players, spend millions on long-term injured reserve cases, take risks on rental players? All included in the price of success.
But, eventually, July arrives and so do the questions, doubts and dilemmas.
