Confirmed with Link: [ANA/NYR] Jacob Trouba for Urho Vaakanainen and 2025 4th round pick

[FiveTacos]

If it was just a move to save money, and the team is no better, which is leading to a locker room issue, then trading Trouba/Krieder wasn't "justifiable". It's hard to see the NYR path forward right now, but if these moves were done ramshackle, then certainly not justified.

I don't think it's to save money, it's to gain cap flexibility. They really had zero room to maneuver, with really no way out ... The worst contracts like Zibanejad are immovable. The young guys and the pipeline aren't impactful enough.

They really had no good way forward, besides minor moves that would not avert a slow bleed over several seasons. They gotta take some steps back, to avoid a bottoming out.