Pierre LeBrun/ESPN - Steve Yzerman is not yet giving up hope that the Lightning can salvage their season.
"Our team is winning," Yzerman told ESPN.com. "My approach is that if there's any deal that potentially can be done which makes our team better now or a better team in the future that's worth doing, I'm prepared to do it. But at this point, nothing has made sense from my point of view."
There are 11 games between now and the trade deadline.
"It's still a bit early for that in light of the fact that our team is playing reasonably well," Yzerman said. "The timing isn't right to look at it that way. We have to keep seeing if we can keep climbing into this. ...
"We'll see how we do in the next few games. We'll see how it all plays out. There's no rush to do anything. There haven't been any difficult decisions to make at this point because any potential [trade] opportunities really haven't made sense for us, short-term and long-term."
