As days progress, the likelihood of the 2019-20 season resuming becomes less of a reality. While this sorrowing reality becomes more apparent, it is fair to ask what is going to happen with all of the trades made at the Trade Deadline.
While this may seem like a weird question, one has to wonder whether it is fair to those teams who gave up future draft picks for rental players guided towards a long playoff run in the postseason.
Firsts, seconds and more draft picks were forfeited for a few months of players in many cases, and now, it seems as if those months will never be played. 
The 2020 NHL Draft is regarded as one of the more promising drafts in recent years. This high praise from scouts and analysts alike made it hard for draft picks to be tossed around without significant pieces coming back the other way.
While no team outside of the playoffs gave up a first, aside from the Islanders who have recently fallen out of a playoff spot, it is not as if a superstar player will be lost. Regardless, this is an issue that will face the NHL. Many teams, while understanding why such games should be postponed, will still be furious to have given up valuable assets for virtually nothing towards the current state of their franchise. 
Take your New York Islanders as an example. The Islanders went big game fishing at the deadline, swiping Jean-Gabriel Pageau from the bottom-feeding Ottawa Senators. In the middle of a career year, this addition made sense for the Islanders who lacked a potent punch offensively.
Future sacrifices had to be made, however, as a first, second, and third were all forfeited. While this scenario won’t hurt the Islanders as much, as they locked Pageau up to a six-year deal following this season, it still hurts not to have Pageau at his best for the rest of the year. 
One other question is the draft lottery. Currently, the Islanders sit outside a playoff spot, and if the NHL were to commit to ending the season and have a traditional draft lottery, the Islanders could lose a lottery pick.
This is just one big question plaguing the NHL, as while everyone works together to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, the technical side of the NHL still has to be questioned once in a while. The NHL may resume, solving all of these questions, but if it were to forfeit this season and prepare for next year, this is a big problem that they will soon have to fix.

John Smark