Him going to the draft with the hope that Montreal would trade for him was hilarious.
If I was anyone else, I wouldn't give up shit for him. He's not motivated to win. He wants to do one thing, which is play for Montreal.
That comes with playing better teams with better PK's. Both Carolina and Pitt had top PK's.
You may be right but with the cap going up we can probably afford 5x5 for a 3C and thats probably what chytil commands. So maybe you try to get him on another bridge type of deal and if he doesnt accept then you head to arbitration and see how that plays out.
I didn’t know Bernmeister had a YouTube channel
Farm isnt stocked with high end talent at forward but othmann and cuylle have a chance to turn into top 6 players. Plethora of bottom 6 forwards though. Reality is our top 6 is loaded and kind of doesnt need farm talent there. Panarin, kreider, zib, laff, trocheck are all gonna be with us for at minimum the next 4 seasons, that leaves one spot open in the top 6 and its not like kakko cant progress and take that last spot.
Not many others to move to gain space, and LD might be a position of strenght in a year if Jones and Robertsson continue to progress. Lindgren should give a good return, but if we are able to get Trouba to waive his NMC instead that is a much better trade option, just a small issue that Trouba can nix any deal and we might need the space to sign Laf & Miller. Could of course trade laf or Miller instead and keep Lindgren that the season after will need a new contract.
See and this is exactly why I can't help but laugh at the fans in this forum that turn around and kill the rangers for going out and signing and trading for bread and trouba. Sitting here killing New Jersey for being a Mickey Mouse franchise because they're stuck in the purgatory of having all these elite draft picks but not being able to actually be in a position to compute for a playoff position. We would be in the same exact position. That's why I can't help but laugh when everybody starts trying to criticize what the rangers have done. If we look at this more objectively, the rangers would be absolutely fine cap wise if one of two things that happened: either the cap kept rising the way it was supposed to without COVID, or Adam Fox doesn't turn into a top 10 defenseman in the league and gets paid like one. You can't do anything about the first one and are you really going to bitch about the second one? And I don't really want to hear anything anymore about guys being overpaid by a million dollars because in the grand scheme of things those salaries were budgeted based on projections for the cap rising. He can't do anything about it after COVID hits
The Rangers need cap space for 23-24 and 24-25.
Would you rather buyout Goodrow or move Chytil for decent assets, assuming Chytil's next contract is similar to Goodrow's (it might even would be a little bit more unless Chytil has a bad year)?
Could you imagine the disaster and shitshow here if we traded Chytil + 1st + ? for him and then he comes here and immediately we know even more about the Montreal obsession. Now it is a 2 year rental basically where he may end up even pulling the same lazy shift crap he did in Columbus. He'd be a time bomb.
I was saying this for about a week that you couldn't take the chance with this kid doing his pouting nonsense again since he's already done it once openly and he doesn't want to be in Winnipeg already. It's just a matter of time before the same thing happens. It's like enabling a child, it worked from the first time in Columbus, of course he's going to think it's going to work for him this time as well. But hey, apparently to some character doesn't really matter anymore when you're putting real life teams together...
