It's bringing up 2OA when it's convenient. I think we're unanimous in our analysis that he was never a fit here because of the team's personnel makeup and play style. But we can't change what happened, which is his performance here was more like a second-rounder or late first if we're being generous. It's market value, what the market determined for a player with that type of performance. No one saw 2OA plastered on his forehead when considering a trade with the Rangers.
As for Will Borgen, the Rangers are not a team that chases available and easy-to-acquire players to make them the 2RD. They would've gone after a big-name but square-peg player to fill a round 2RD hole here. A guy like Borgen coming here and becoming 2RD only happens via a semi-desperate trade to get rid of benign cyst/potential malcontent that was Kakko, part fortunate happenstance, and part Drury's claim that he eyed Borgen for a while to fill 2RD left by jettisoning actively malignant Jacob Trouba,
No one can tell me that Borgen and Vaakanainen haven't helped the team more than Trouba and Kakko. So far, they have shown that Drury has won on those trades.
