GDT: 2024 TDL thread. Post all trades, rumors, and etc around the league. (TDL, Friday 3/8 @ 3pm ET)

[McRanger92]

I think it further bonded Buch & Shesty despite what anyone else says.

The org definitely didn’t like it. Veteran Buch with the prized rookie driving around deep in Brooklyn doing God knows what? Bad optics

 

[AirGut]

Remember last year when the Rangers played a week with like 12 guys to bank cap space for the hipless corpse of Patrick Kane.

I member, from the start it never felt like it was the needle mover though. Drury has been big game hunting since the Eichel talks, and we've only gotten deeper since then. I think it's time for something big

 

[will1066]

I don't even know what I'm reading anymore.

 

[Kovalev27]

They dodged a bullet not getting Guentzel and I don't care what anybody says and how much they cry. Not a fit, no Crosby, would cost a lot in assets, turning 30, and wants 9 million per. No thanks.

I have to admit I was never that big on this one. A natural left wing glued to Crosby of all people never moved from one team? That’s a tough one.

Again Buch is like this blaring no brainer to me other than pride getting in the way

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

Any interesting depth on waivers, maybe like Bjornfot? - means we won’t have to spend a 4th on a depth D

 

[Crease]

Buch has a 12 team NTC. Have to wonder if Drury is on it.

 

[Avery16]

Incorrect.

Kreider signed long term
Zibby contract looming
Kakko and LaF drafted in back to back seasons
Panarin signed long term


All huge factors. Buch has his best season on a shortened schedule…
They weren’t going to commit big $$ to another wing long term based on the body of work.

To buchs credit, he continued to develop and make himself into a solid PPG guy over the last few seasons.

But not recognizing all these things that affect others is just lying to yourself

@80shockeywasbuns did the math so you wouldn't have to. All that was already baked in. Drury made other choices.

Reaves (1.75) + Goodrow (3.64) + Nemeth (2.5) = 7.9 million

Buchnevich (5.8) + League minimum bum (750k) + league minimum bum (750k)= 7.3 million

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Was Emily texting with @will1066 ?

 

[Clark Kellogg]

We thought Drury was shopping at Saks yet all along he’s been in TJ Maxx?’

 

[Machinehead]

How’d he score 40 last year?
Legit question about how that squares. I feel like this year has been a huge disappointment obviously

Because league scoring is a stone's throw from the 80's.

Kakko's 40 points that we keep hearing about placed him 226th in the NHL among forwards that year in p/60 AT EVEN STRENGTH.

By the crude method of 6 times 32, that's not a top six player.

Hell, it's not close. 9 times 32 is 288. 40 points is a middling third liner today.

 

[duhmetreE]

My uncles brothers friend just saw Shesterkin on the NJ Turnpike... he said he's going to go pick up Buch

 

[Cmox]

They should grab Raanta off waivers.

 

[Boris Zubov]

My uncles brothers friend just saw Shesterkin on the NJ Turnpike... he said he's going to go pick up Buch

Did he also see Ferris at 31 flavors?

 

[New York RKY]

My uncles brothers friend just saw Shesterkin on the NJ Turnpike... he said he's going to go pick up Buch

Ewww, tell him to get out of that shithole.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

My uncles brothers friend just saw Shesterkin on the NJ Turnpike... he said he's going to go pick up Buch

Tell them to wear seatbelts.

Because league scoring is a stone's throw from the 80's.

Kakko's 40 points that we keep hearing about placed him 226th in the NHL among forwards that year in p/60 AT EVEN STRENGTH.

By the crude method of 6 times 32, that's not a top six player.

Hell, it's not close. 9 times 32 is 288. 40 points is a middling third liner today.

Is having a 3rd liner than can score 40-50 points and play defense a bad thing?

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Tell them to wear seatbelts.


Is having a 3rd liner than can score 40-50 points and play defense a bad thing?

Damn beat me to it

 

[McRanger92]

Just watched Emily at 2nd intermission. Nothing specific but mentioned Rangers and Vatrano, Buch, Zucker Reilly Smith in chronological order.

 

[17futurecap]

Kaplan just mentioned Vatrano, Reilly Smith, Buch and Zucker for us.

Again, just felt like she was throwing out names.

 

[Machinehead]

Tell them to wear seatbelts.


Is having a 3rd liner than can score 40-50 points and play defense a bad thing?

No but then we're getting into how I think his overall game is underwhelming, and how he manages the puck like Magic Johnson managed safe sex.

That's a bit separate from the issue of just points.

The puck management is huge. If Kakko didn't give the puck away if you look at him funny I'd be a lot more forgiving.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Kaplan just mentioned Vatrano, Reilly Smith, Buch and Zucker for us.

Again, just felt like she was throwing out names.

She was. She knows nothing.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Just watched Emily at 2nd intermission. Nothing specific but mentioned Rangers and Vatrano, Buch, Zucker Reilly Smith in chronological order.

Reilly Smith for a 3rd would be my preference.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

She was. She knows nothing.

She was the first one who had Wennberg.

I wouldn’t say she knows nothing.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

She was the first one who had Wennberg.

I wouldn’t say she knows nothing.

She was the one who broke the official trade bit plenty of people were taking Wennberg to the Rangers all day yesterday

 

[Machinehead]

It's the same thing with Zibanejad.

"Oh he sucks but 80 points tho."

A center scoring 70+ points in the NHL in 2024 is like a guard shooting 40% from three in the NBA in 2024.

It sounds hard but every modicum of a good player does it. It's totally JAG.

 

[McRanger92]

Reilly Smith for a 3rd would be my preference.

Yeah baby