Trade-deadline players aim to provide boost in NHL's restart

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2020, file photo, Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper yells instructions during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh. When Todd Reirden and Jon Cooper spent four months looking over video of the teams they coached this season, they saw almost polar opposites. Reirden's Washington Capitals started hot before their defensive game slipped. Cooper's Tampa Bay Lightning took a while to warm up, then won 14 of 21 games before the NHL season was halted in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2019, file photo, Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour stands behind players during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Colorado Avalanche in Denver. The Hurricanes are determined to make a second straight deep run in the Stanley Cup playoffs. That can only happen if they do something they have rarely done over the past decade: defeat the New York Rangers. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)