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Think about how taxing it will be for a West team to get to the cup. Calgary, StL, Minn... even Nashville plays a heavy game.
 
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Big weekend for Trouba to get all of his University of Michigan/USNDT buddies back
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mas0764 said:
We have a lot of needs still. Our farm system is no longer stocked, it’s more like middle of the pack. It’s never good to overpay in trade. Igor is so young as is most of our core that it’s absolutely not “negligent,” to go light on renting, or even to sell if we wanted to.

Most of us are ok with this outcome but it’s not like it’s the only viable one.
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Why is it no longer stocked? Because we traded Morgan Barron? Drury hasn’t traded a single prospect from the organization since he took over. This narrative that he’s gut the farm needs to die
 
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mas0764 said:
Shoulda tested the market in Strome then.
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Not a chance. They’re saddling up for a (hopefully) long ride.
I appreciate what you’re saying but in a hard capped league the money that is freed up is a pretty big asset coming back, too.
 
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mas0764 said:
We have a lot of needs still. Our farm system is no longer stocked, it’s more like middle of the pack. It’s never good to overpay in trade. Igor is so young as is most of our core that it’s absolutely not “negligent,” to go light on renting, or even to sell if we wanted to.

Most of us are ok with this outcome but it’s not like it’s the only viable one.
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Of course they still have needs, Drury didn't fix everything with one trade deadline. But what I said is true, he addressed areas of need with his acquisitions. He didn't part with any premium assets to do it. Look how young the roster is, look at the players locked in to term. There are very limited opportunities for all of our prospects to make it here so we have a ton of organizational depth both at the NHL level and prospect level, tons of players who are all around the same age and timeline. A team in the position we're in can afford to lose draft picks more than a team that is on the comedown from a window or something. Drury did do relatively light renting like you suggest he should've, with the highest price paid for a player in Copp he probably tries to re-sign.
 
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The assets given up today can be recouped rather easily by trading back in the first if it’s available. They realistically will have given up two 2nds as the most significant assets traded this deadline.

Considering the balance it’s provided to the roster and the potential to solve a long-term C issue, it’s an overall win. They were simply never trading Strome this deadline, and if anyone thinks otherwise, then they’re not living in reality. He provides more value to them as an offensive piece going forward this year, and it shows confidence in this young group that management is putting them in a position to have a competitive advantage going into the playoffs.

We’re likely playing Pittsburgh in the first round, and that team is systematically perfect and built to wear you out with speed and structure. We’re in a much better spot to handle that than we were yesterday.
 
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mas0764 said:
We have a lot of needs still. Our farm system is no longer stocked, it’s more like middle of the pack. It’s never good to overpay in trade. Igor is so young as is most of our core that it’s absolutely not “negligent,” to go light on renting, or even to sell if we wanted to.

Most of us are ok with this outcome but it’s not like it’s the only viable one.
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The Rangers are still ranked top 3rd in every current ranking of prospect pools and are the 3rd youngest team in the league. The lowest ranking I have seen is No. 11. Drury did a great job at the deadline and their is a ton to be excited about now and in the future.
 
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McRanger92 said:
Why is it no longer stocked? Because we traded Morgan Barron? Drury hasn’t traded a single prospect from the organization since he took over. This narrative that he’s gut the farm needs to die
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No, our prospect pool is ranked like 18th.

We have some young talent on the roster but that’s not the prospect pool.

We actually would have been hard pressed to future needs had we given up too much for rentals this deadline; luckily, we mostly abstained.
 
mas0764 said:
No, our prospect pool is ranked like 18th.

We have some young talent on the roster but that’s not the prospect pool.

We actually would have been hard pressed to future needs had we given up too much for rentals this deadline; luckily, we mostly abstained.
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Arbitrary 18th when the Rangers had a top 5 youngest roster coming into deadline day
 
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Glen Sathers Cigar said:
People have a hard time understanding that the value you're trading away in a trade is not binary. If you have more assets you can afford to slightly overpay. A team that is coming out of a 4 year rebuild where they accumulated a boatload of assets and made a boat load of draft picks and have tons of good prospects who won't ever make the Rangers simply because of numbers and timelines, the more you can afford to give more in a trade. For example, a first round pick is way more expendable now to the Rangers than it was to the Rangers in 2017 after years of not having one.

A team at the end of their window after exhausting almost all of their asset ammunition trading their last few valuable draft picks is a hell of a lot different than what Drury did today. Also, the goal of this whole shebang is to win the cup, not have the prettiest farm system. So even if you don't think the Rangers are perfect, considering the timelines of some of their leaders, the season Igor is having, their place in the standings, their deep farm system and plentiful cupboard - it would've been negligent of Drury to not try and improve the team. You lose a few draft picks and a fringe prospect and for that cost you addressed multiple areas of need for this team as they head into the playoffs. That's exactly what Drury should've done in this situation and he did it without trading any of our top prospects. Job well done and anyone saying otherwise just doesn't understand what they're talking about.
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Couldn’t agree more
 
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