“No matter the time of year, we try to function in a way that we’re prepared to move quickly when an opportunity presents itself,” Hahn said Dec. 1, hours before the lockout began. “We have an idea, whether it’s on the trade or free-agent front, what we feel is appropriate from a cost standpoint, and when those opportunities arise, we’re prepared to move. If it happens to be that things are on pause for a little bit, when we come back, we’ll be ready to go.”
