Joe Smith: Lightning GM Steve Yzerman: “We feel we’ve accomplished what we wanted, that was to give us a better chance to win in the playoffs.”
Joe Smith: Yzerman: “I don’t know that we overpaid. You look at what’s been going on the last couple days, that’s the nature of the trade deadline.”
Joe Smith: Yzerman admitted that he paid a premium to the get the defenseman he wanted (Braydon Coburn), but said it’s the cost of doing business with the asking prices.
