Let me try this, it's fun.
6OA Zadina + Hronek + LD Wallinder (who can play either side and is well regarded but as Edvinsson lite is gonna get traded eventually) + Bertuzzi retained + Ned + McIsaac + two 2022 4ths (COL+VGK)
for
Adam Fox + NYR 2023 3rd
Deal?
If roles were
truly reversed and DET was really like NYR and did not need to upgrade overall roster, and not withstanding you are also ignoring Fox would never play anywhere else other than Rangers, it is something that should at least entertain discussion.
But you elect to ignore pertinent facts as to how things are...
i know you live in a fantasy world. just for the rest of us:
edmonton wasn't willing to go there. you had an agreement from ONE edmonton fan here on hfboards.
Not too much revisionist history pls
I saw that Broberg had size and speed and projected he would be good.
I was willing to fair->overpay while he was green/raw.
There were like a dozen variations on that theme, incl w/Buch, w'o Buch, taking cap dump, not taking cap dump, assets from both sides coming and going.
Had an agreement w/one guy for 1 specific deal.
Others had some interest in some variation of something.
Then the picture entirely changed b'c Klef got career injured, so at that pt he was worth more kept than what he returned.
Rangers also added signif D.
Final straw is it is believed that Oil would have gone there had Rangers not been so effin greedy and self rented Buch. Should have realized last yr was a development yr, not taken a misguided effort to go for playoffs, and had Buch been sold [particularly early] last yr when there was term and Oil could have used him justifying paying to acquire, that woud have been enough.
There is nothing official b'c you don't tamper and officially release statements about players under contract to other clubs.
We are not good trade partners b'c what each wants from the other is unavailable/unavailable at acceptable cost.
This exercise in hypothetical value is not something peeps need to get worked up over.
And the elite bust that is Kratsov.
Krav is not a bust.
Your effort to control that narrative with false assertion is rejected.
Maybe Quinn and Drury actually had a good reason. We'll probably never know. Maybe Quinn, Drury and the coaching staff think he did have a legit chance to play, but failed to make the team. Maybe their hockey assessment is that he isn't good enough for the team. Maybe their assessment is he wouldn't be good for the team. The only thing we know for certain is Kravtsov has played in 20 NHL games, the fewest of any of the top 14 picks in his draft. He has scored 2 goals with 2 assists. He may be a star one day. Or, he may be a bust. Only time will tell.
We can agree time will tell.
Your maybes are fine as conjecture, but you selectively overlook the eye test, which says based on camp he made the team.
He only did not b'c Drury failed to move Hajek and Strome earlier and there was no additional room.
It is NOT a matter of some one unqualified being told no.
It is a matter of a qualified player being told to take it for poliitcal reasons prob from Drury, they wanted to break him.
The kid is not as pure as the driven snow, but in this instance I view him as less to blame than NY mgmt, which should have handled this better, if for no other reason than the overall interests of the team.