‘“We have a lot of faith in this group,” Kekalainen said Friday in KeyBank Center following the 3 p.m. deadline. “The way they’ve been playing, the way they’re competing, the way they’re having fun, so we wanted to reward the group as well, to show them that we have that faith and we want to help them and bring in some players in different areas that we needed. I think we addressed those needs, and we’re a stronger team because of it.”’