Around the NHL 2024-25 regular season

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

absolutely loving the Ducks fans on the trade board trying to rationalize this as anything but a terrible move on the Ducks part

 

[JK3]

Cmon Verbeek WTF?

 

[Unknown Caller]

absolutely loving the Ducks fans on the trade board trying to rationalize this as anything but a terrible move on the Ducks part

Honestly, who cares from their perspective? I thought he had like 3-4 years left after this one, but it's just one more season. Plus he will 1000% be flippable to a playoff team at an increased return since Anaheim has all of their retention slots. And they aren't even close to the cap.

 

[Goptor]

absolutely loving the Ducks fans on the trade board trying to rationalize this as anything but a terrible move on the Ducks part

Its actually not too bad. They need a bottom pair RD because they only have 2 and are rotating LD in the 3rd spot. It lets them put developing guys on their correct side of the ice.

(probably could have filled this spot with someone making $1m aav though)

 

[Unknown Caller]

Its actually not too bad. They need a bottom pair RD because they only have 2 and are rotating LD in the 3rd spot. It lets them put developing guys on their correct side of the ice.

(probably could have filled this spot with someone making $1m aav though)

He only has one year left after this year and Anaheim has like $20 mil in cap space, plus Fowler's $6.5 million coming off the books after this year and the cap going up. I don't think they remotely care about the aav.

 

[JK3]

Jeez, all it took was one game against the Devils for the Rangers to open shop. Weak mentality.

It’s funny, just tuned into NHL Network and the dude from Newsday they had on regarding the trade said the breaking point was the loss to the Devils.

 

[Incharge1976]

Why would anyone want to sign in NY? They will drag you through the mud and threaten to send you to Bangladesh if you don't meet their demands.

 

[OmNomNom]

rags have traded their last 3 captains in a row (Trouba, McD, Callahan).

captain before them? Drury

 

[HBK27]

I hate the fact that the Ducks let the Rangers off the hook and actually gave up something for Trouba, but it's not a move that's really gonna hurt them. They only gave up a 4th round pick and journeyman defenseman and get a vet that, even given his flaws, was named captain for a reason and could probably be flipped at next year's deadline if they're still not in the playoff hunt.

 

[Goptor]

Jonathan Kovacevic was cheaper to acquire than Jacob Trouba.

Pro scouting is vitally important.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

Who cares if the Ducks bailed out the Rangers terrible decisions?

1. Even if this does happen to the Rags benefit a lot, it hasn’t done them a hell of a lot of good in the last 30 years.
2. We don’t get to deal with his flying elbow attack anymore. Now that’s Vegas’s problem. He can start by attacking Mark Stone’s flashing weak point.
3. Their locker room is fragile enough as it is, this could very well hurt the egos in there.

Good riddance to shit. I’m gonna watch this video 50 times tonight in celebration.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Why would anyone want to sign in NY? They will drag you through the mud and threaten to send you to Bangladesh if you don't meet their demands.

This doesn't matter. If it did, guys like Panarin wouldn't be so eager to sign after what happened with Redden/Gomez/Drury.

 

[Triumph]

The Devils got to dump Vanecek for basically nothing last trade deadline.

I will say that players with malice are, I think, somewhat of a dying breed in the NHL. The generation of Trouba, Dillon, Gudas, and Gudbranson is aging out, and I'm not sure who is coming in to replace those guys - a player like Vaakanainen was looked at a possibility but now he's on the real fringes of the NHL. There's Xhekaj and Lauzon. There's Romanov who can lay some big hits. But this type of D man seems to be going away. I can see why Verbeek wants him, even though I think it's quite a stupid move overall - I don't think he will get very much back at the deadline next year for him.

 

[JimEIV]

This doesn't matter. If it did, guys like Panarin wouldn't be so eager to sign after what happened with Redden/Gomez/Drury.

The allure of the big city is mesmerizing for e lot of people.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

The allure of the big city is mesmerizing for e lot of people.

Yeah, they'll still get guys via UFA. The previous era of players don't care as many times as this argument is brought up. It's still NYC, it's still the NY Rangers as much as we despise them.

 

[Whaddagoal]

They re-signed /extended Shesterkin. 11-12m x 8 years Holy moly

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

They re-signed /extended Shesterkin. 11-12m x 8 years Holy moly

 

[TheBeerNerd]

They re-signed /extended Shesterkin. 11-12m x 8 years Holy moly

Let’s be real, he was never going to go somewhere else.

 

[The Wumpus]

Just remembered that I currently have a Ducks Selanne #8 jersey in my closet to give to my cousin for Xmas. Trouba's gonna have to choose a new number.

Please get a Trouba nameplate for it just for the look on his face

 

[Whaddagoal]

Let’s be real, he was never going to go somewhere else.

It's probably good for us, over time at least. But they blew up the goalie market bar now

 

[Better Call Sal]

Weekesy lol

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Their window is shut, mainly cause Shesterkin is not saving the centers they have and that deal just killed any good chance of fixing the blue line/forwards.

 

[Comparison Ford]

big day for rangers future today. don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing, but in the immediacy, they get the wake up call they needed by trading trouba and get the igor signing monkey off their back.

 

[Brodeur]

Please get a Trouba nameplate for it just for the look on his face

Unfortunately my cousin is a lapsed hockey fan from the Kariya era. I doubt he could name more than a few of the current Ducks. Trouba nameplate joke would probably go over his head.

 

[Hisch13r]

Someone check on Stan!