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

[NYR Viper]

Brendan Smith on the block for the Debbies? Smitty would be a really good #7.

I was thinking the same thing. Price should be minimal. He wouldn't need to move physically, likely. As a depth d-man he would be solid

 

[mandiblesofdoom]

I'm conflicted on his leadership ability, but bigger picture I think the two of them are huge reasons why we're not a great 5v5 team. And that's been the limiting factor for this organization for quite awhile - 5v5 play.

Yeah, agreed. If Trouba were viewed as the 4th or 5th D - if they played him like that - it would be different.

 

[DanielBrassard]

Swallow your pride you dumb bastard. He’s the best player available and the best fit.

 

[I Eat Crow]

Pacioretty or Reilly Smith for two day 2 picks.

If Drury goes big game hunting it'll be the 2025 1st dealt, 2024 1st will be kept.

Those are my only predictions for today.

 

[McRanger92]

Swallow your pride you dumb bastard. He’s the best player available and the best fit.

I've always been on Drury's side but he is losing me with this deadline.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Swallow all your pride and bring back Buch Krav Tony D & King Lemieux

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Amazing, we trade the least valuable player in the trade for 2 players (one with 50% retention) who are more valuable! lol

Canadian team’s not based in Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal are/have been having problems retaining U.S. hockey players.

Also disagree with your assessment that Schneider is the least valuable player in the trade.

Value is relative.
Talent is not.

Trades aren’t purely made on talent, if they were there would be hardly any trades ever made.

Trades are based on needs.

a broken old man, just what we need

ever since Wheeler went down we’re short one broken down player.

 

[NYR Viper]

Pacioretty or Reilly Smith for two day 2 picks.

If Drury goes big game hunting it'll be the 2025 1st dealt, 2024 1st will be kept.

Those are my only predictions for today.

I can see those guys for sure.

Not to be discounted, but if Drury could add Smith to play with Kreider and Zibanejad and then add someone like Pacioretty fort cheap, it would push Cuylle down to the 4th line. Cuylle-Goodrow/Brodz-Vesey

 

[Mac n Gs]

Pacioretty is step 1. Tomasino is step 2. Dru it.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Agree. That 1st for Vatrano is whats scaring me.

I believe Drury can wait and find someone for Mikas right for cheap, and also get another piece on D if hes patient

The one good thing about Vatrano is that he has term and it deepens the team for next year as well, but thats like the one thing we would have to tell ourselves not to barf

The cost is obviously bad but the fit is worse. Vatrano is not a good player and trying to remedy the Kreider-Zibanejad duo is the wrong approach.

Guentzel was a shit fit too but if the Rangers cannot go out and pay 85 cents for Vatrano after passing on Guentzel for a dollar.

Bargain bin this bitch.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

I’m still upset we didn’t get guentzel

Drury needs to go out and trade for tuch or buch

f*** it go get me keller

Tuch has been reported to be unavailable. Just because we like a guy it doesn't mean we can get him.

 

[Gardner McKay]

Tuch has literally never been an option. Ever. And yet I am sure Drury will be lambasted for not going out and acquiring a player that isn't available.

The amount he would have to offer... it would decimate this team for years to come. Tuch is not that player.

 

[savebyrichter94]

Not the only guy on the wake and bake crew I see

 

[chosen]

There is no such thing as a team that is capable of making the ECF but incapable of winning the Stanley Cup.

The guy who posted that thinks he can exactly slot where a team can end up. He must be the world's greatest at betting hockey.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Would anyone take Zucc at 50%? Just curious

No

 

[GAGLine]

Let's see,. I'll be curious what happens because given that we are supposedly in for cups now, it just seems strange we either were outbid or uninterested in almost everybody.

Also, why hold back your top assets for what's left now?

Because there needs to be a reasonable return on investment. No matter how good the player is, they are only going to move the needle so much. What we are getting has to justify the cost.

There is an argument to be had about where the line is, but there should be no argument that there is a line. Every move we make is a risk and every move we don't make is a risk. Obviously in the case of Guentzel, Drury decided that the risk outweighed the reward.

The same is true for the players who are left. We aren't going to just throw assets at them in a desperate attempt to fill our 1RW spot. If those teams want more than those players are worth to us, then we shouldn't make those deals.

 

[Gardner McKay]

Not the only guy on the wake and bake crew I see

Fischler is an absolute legend.

 

[New York RKY]

I have a gut feeling that today is going to be very anticlimactic. Maybe a 7th dman and another bottom 6 forward. I think that’s it and it’s pretty disappointing given all the hype going into this.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

Not the only guy on the wake and bake crew I see

Lmao. The maven from the top rope. I thought we agreed the only 80 year olds who can tweet are politicians.

 

[Boris Zubov]

How much is that ownership over Dubas/Hextall (who was an awful GM)? They want to keep selling tickets/be competitive over the betterment of the long term of the roster. They should've traded Malkin a few years ago; they haven't won a playoff series since 2018 after their back-to-back Cups (2016-2017).

They can't "rebuild" as long as Crosby is still around, and he doesn't want to go anywhere. Crosby wanted Malkin/Letang resigned, which was a mistake. Traded for Erik Karlsson, which made little if any sense. They are going to be awful next year and for a few years after that, and it was of their own making.

 

[NYR Viper]

 

[dshea19]

Doesn't Guentzel have bones made of glass and skin made of paper?

 

[Reijo29]

I've always been on Drury's side but he is losing me with this deadline.

How’s he losing you, we have all today

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Patches grew up a huge Rangers fan. I'd be shocked if he didn't want to come here.

 

[New York RKY]

Not the only guy on the wake and bake crew I see

This isn’t directed at you specifically but if anyone thinks that Crosby would be willing to come to the Rangers then you must be out yo damn mind and I’d like to have whatever it is you’re smoking.