Confirmed with Link: Buch traded to STL for Blais + 2nd (2022)

[Platano King]

That’s it?

What the f***?

 

[Crease]

Rangers are clearly focused on building out their bottom six and shifting to a north-south game. I like Blais but I hate the asset management. Really hope Laf, Kakko, and Kravtsov take their play to the next level this season, because the Rangers just lost their second best winger.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

Hate it

 

[Uglybstrd]

Wtf..... thats horrible. Even a 1st and Blais would have been a disappointing return for Buch. Wtf....

 

[Vitto79]

Suddenly Kravtsov and Kakko must produce. 25 point season is not gonna cut it don't care how good your analytics are.

plus Chytil could move to RW
But likely another move coming

 

[East Coast Bias]

I assumed Blais was one of STL top couple prospects. Went to go read up on him and nope.

 

[egelband]

I can understand overpaying for “your guy” but just dumping Buch…could have held him until the trade deadline, at least. No?

 

[CLW]

Buchnevich was such a great teammate here. Homegrown talent, that was drafted and developed here. Paced 72 points at 26 years old. Versatile forward, PP, PK...By all accounts a really good guy in the room, and an asset on the ice.

So, to trade him, for a 2nd round pick and Blais? What the F^$* am I missing? This one sucks. Pavel was a RFA. It's not like he was an expiring asset. I give Drury an F on this.

Yeah, this trade is tone deaf. Another grit guy with rings but blatant overpay. Not a great start to the Drury & Sather era but also very expected (if not wanted). And let's not kid ourselves Sather is firmly in the background of this with rookie President and rookie GM Drury in the front for the microphones. Choppy waters ahead.

 

[Luger]

THIS better have been the Amonte for Noonan trade.

We also got Matteau who played on the second line for the Rangers. And it was an awful trade. Very, very bad for the Rangers.

 

[JiricekSaveUs]

Not likening Drury so far tbh

 

[DanielBrassard]

Lafraniere to the RW a thing after all? They have no top line RW *yet* allows Kreider to play in the top six.

i.. I have no idea

Between nfl mlb and now nhl **** all my teams

No, we are gonna count on a guy who's scored like a 4th liner to produce like a 1st liner, a rookie, a scrub who can't score and Ryan Reaves. That's the RW depth.

 

[LaffyTaffyNYR]

We don’t need a late 1st. Doesn’t help us

its more valuable to a team for trade than a 2nd is

 

[RangersFan]

Dog shit trade. Weekend ruined. It makes no sense unless there is a deal in place for a larger piece coming in.

 

[Platano King]

I hate when my skepticism gets proven right. f*** you Drury, and f*** you Dolan.

 

[NYRangers0723]

Rangers are clearly focused on building out their bottom six and shifting to a north-south game. I like Blais but I hate the asset management. Really hope Laf, Kakko, and Kravtsov take their game to the next level this season, because the Rangers just lost their second best winger

.

. They’re certainly overpaying fir their bottom six

 

[EdJovanovski]

Well now we got two gritty, tough, sandpaper types, great locker room guys, checkers with stanley cups on resume and they know how to win…..

Could've signed Perry for 1 year, league minimum instead of trading a 72pt player with the best PK analytics in the NHL & offering a 6 year deal with NMC.

 

[Machinehead]

It's ironic because I'm sort of defending him, and I'm the one who won't like it, but a lot of you will like Blais.

He's very, very noticeable. There's going to be a "Blais effect" and he's going to get credit for things he had nothing to do with. People will claim "the team plays an inch taller" and there's going to be a game this season that he misses which we lose because the other team's goalie posts a .985 and people will say "see, this is the team without Blais!"

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Suddenly Kravtsov and Kakko must produce. 25 point season is not gonna cut it don't care how good your analytics are.

Well not plying on the 4th line should help re: Kravtsov

 

[mas0764]

We don’t need a late 1st. Doesn’t help us

We need it more than this garbage.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

I really wonder what Gorts would've gotten for Buch

 

[smoneil]

Blais has posted 14 goals and 28 points in his last 76 games. Let's assume for a second that the Rangers see a guy who can score 15-18 goals and net 30-35 points. Let's assume they see him as a third line wing who plays with Goodrow. That's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. Both guys fit that role and have some vluable playoff experience.

There's nothing wrong with that. The challenge is that Blais is ideally the complementary component of a deal for Buch, not the main component.

In other words, he's the Brendan Lemieux or Brandon Prust of the deal. That's what is missing here, the main component for him to compliment.

But, Drury is assembling his bottom six. So that's where the mindset is coming from.

But it's a dumb mindset. You can find Blais's for free or for lower round picks. It's like Drury decided that his burger was too bland, so he traded the beef patty to someone for some ketchup (and never stopped to realize that there was free ketchup over by the counter). That's how stupid this is. Our GM is basically eating a ketchup burger and he did it to himself.

(apologies for the tortured metaphor. Rage and what not).

 

[Hitch16]

Kreider can be next.

Interesting.

 

[NoQuitInNewMexico]

Kreider can be next.

You think they can move that contract? I thought the Bruins were a possibility but they're signing Hall.

 

[NYRangers0723]

Dog shit year. Weekend ruined. It makes no sense unless there is a deal in place for a larger piece coming in.

. That’s what worries me. If this is about Eichel it may mean that Drury has decided to bend over for Buffalo which is terrifying

 

[Tob]

Drury can join Sather when Slats either dies or really retires in 3 years when this team is back to mid-2000s era Rangers.