Confirmed with Link: JT Miller traded to NYR for Chytil, Mancini, 1st round pick (protected)

[Nickmo82]

Watch him become what he was when he was here the first time, and Chytil become what he was in Vancouver.

 

[DutchNYR]

Canucks fan here.
Enjoy Jt. Miller.... guy is a BEAST..two-way, hits, awsome shot, above average hands, good hockey iq.
He'll score 100 pts with Panarin no doubt.

What's the deal with this Mancini guy? he's 230 pounds lol, can he even skate?

Mancini is a good skater for his size.

 

[RangerBoy]

We cornering the market on d-men under 6’?

Brannstrom is on his 4th team since the end of last season. Ottawa. Colorado. Vancouver. Rangers. He cleared waivers a few weeks ago. AHL player. In a league where D are gold, Brannstrom has been passed around more than a girl at a Jeffrey Epstein party.

My feelings on the trade

We still have 93 and 20 hugging it out and that's unacceptable.

Plus miller and Lindgren remain. Although we have a good miller now so that's something I guess.

Not seeing this as anything more than chasing rainbows. Miller is an oldish 31 in my book. However, if I were Canuck fan, I would be sick. The return is very um... below average.

End of the day, we're even older than before.

Lindgren will get a contract extension. Watch. Fox will demand it.

 

[eco's bones]

Canucks fan here.
Enjoy Jt. Miller.... guy is a BEAST..two-way, hits, awsome shot, above average hands, good hockey iq.
He'll score 100 pts with Panarin no doubt.

What's the deal with this Mancini guy? he's 230 pounds lol, can he even skate?

Mancini moves really well. He played at Northern Michigan on their top pair as a stay at home D. Played 3 years there and signed with the Rangers at the conclusion of their season last year. He finished the season in Hartford and was getting raves from former Oilers defenseman Stanley Cup champion Steve Smith (then the Hartford coach) pretty much from his first game and was solid right throughout the AHL playoffs and they went into the third round.

He had a great training camp and kind of shocked me in that he was bringing the puck up the ice and attacking the goal so much. I think going on the attack is a new wrinkle to his game and it's one reason his season has been so up and down. He's still finding his way with that. He made the team out of his first training camp and deserved to but he started to struggle and went back to the minors though he was recalled briefly as an injury call up.

I think he's going to be a solid NHL defenseman....possibly top 4. He's got to figure out how to pick his spots if he's going to be a two way defenseman but if he sticks to just defending he knows how to do that. I like him a lot.

 

[egelband]

I don’t think this team is anywhere near a cup, but you just don’t get star centers for that kind of value any more, especially under contract with a skyrocketing cap.

Team is still 3-4 major moves away from being a competitor, but on paper it’s a no brainer.

We knew they weren’t going to rebuild so in for a penny now I suppose. Get rid of The dead weight and get a blueliner

This. Think that’s about all that needs to be said. Well put.

 

[LOFIN]

I wonder if Chytil and Kakko hook up at some point, they were pretty close and now play next to eachother

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Guys dont usually pop at his age. In a vaccum the value is good but the makeup on this center corps is really a disaster waiting g to happen now

If he is our top center and getting pp1 time he'll be point a game til end of year and it will likely get us to the playoffs, that's my prediction. Getting the weight off him from Vancouver is gonna set him free.

 

[RGY]

Soooo i guess it happened after all….

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Watch him become what he was when he was here the first time, and Chytil become what he was in Vancouver.

I mean, really even if Fil was healthy a full year whats the peak amount of points he's gonna get? Miller will still outperform that.

 

[Vitto79]

So is JT always going to be a C or do they get a 3rd line C free agent and move him to RW?

I’d trade Kreider in the offseason for a 1st and younger player

 

[Shesterkybomb]

So is JT always going to be a C or do they get a 3rd line C free agent and move him to RW?

I’d trade Kreider in the offseason for a 1st and younger player

He'll be a C imo. This may be the pressure Mika needs to accept a trade in the offseason, he's essentially a 3rd line center now,pp2 and pk guy now.

 

[Vitto79]

He'll be a C imo. This may be the pressure Mika needs to accept a trade in the offseason, he's essentially a 3rd line center now,pp2 and pk guy now.

True but you wanna bet we see Kreider, Zib, Miller at some point ?

 

[AlaBlueShirt]

True but you wanna bet we see Kreider, Zib, Miller at some point ?

Master plan to run a swedish center away from the city.

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

I wonder if Chytil and Kakko hook up at some point, they were pretty close and now play next to eachother

I’m pretty sure Kakko has a girlfriend, but you never know.

 

[haohmaru]

How does Zac Jones feel about not 1 but 2 dmen coming back in this trade? Oof.

Zac Jones was given permission to seek a trade weeks ago and... crickets. He's a player that every team in this league already has a better version of and doesn't want another one on their team and that's just the sad reality for him.

 

[94leetch]

The fan fiction that people have in their heads about Miller's "leadership" is really something to behold.

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Eh, this was a trade to make. They should be a bit more fun to watch now, at this point I'll take.
I couldn't feel worse about FIL, finally an exciting to watch young guy with a big heart.
Wish him well.
Being a Ranger fan, it aint easy.

 

[haohmaru]

Every single player is one headshot away from retirement. Look at Sauer for example. There is a legitimately good chance that in a year or two we have an entire center group that is quickly fading or faded and not one young player who can play that position.

Come on. Chytil's much more susceptible to it and much more likely to be out long term than the average NHL player because he's already had FOUR concussions that we know of.

He's clearly a much more elevated risk than a guy like, let's say, JT Miller and a whole lot less accomplished.

The Rangers won this trade with a slam dunk. It's not close.

Laf and Cuyle are now the only players in our top 9 under 30.

Feels like just a few years ago we started a rebuild, and in one season we skipped to the retirement home stage of it.

Kaliyev is on line 3.

 

[Guyute]

He'll be a C imo. This may be the pressure Mika needs to accept a trade in the offseason, he's essentially a 3rd line center now,pp2 and pk guy now.

I’m going to be pissed when Laviolette keeps Mika and Kreider on PP1 instead of Miller today.

 

[Synergy27]

Whats the right way though?

I watched a team basically push the buy button every season (and they continue to do so and Im sure will find a way to do it again) and they won the cup 2 years ago.

Panthers won with just 3 (technically 4 if you want to count a 2nd tour of duty guy in Kulikov) of their own draft picks on their roster last year.

They need to really commit to weeding out the old core and ridding themselves of their detriments, but I don't think the old school "build through the draft" really holds water anymore. Once can be called a fluke, 2 in a row is a pattern.

Cap is about to inflate like a mother f***er too. It's going to change things.

I still believe that the right way is to build through the draft and then augment homegrown core talent with trades and FAs.

 

[egelband]

Canucks fan here.
Enjoy Jt. Miller.... guy is a BEAST..two-way, hits, awsome shot, above average hands, good hockey iq.
He'll score 100 pts with Panarin no doubt.

What's the deal with this Mancini guy? he's 230 pounds lol, can he even skate?

Mancini reminds me of a pre-eye-injury Marc Staal. Small sample size. And I’m no expert. But big mobile and while not an offensive defenseman, he can do some things with the puck.

 

[Chytilmania]

Only thing I don’t like about the deal is wtf do I do with my name and avatar?

 

[DialUp]

Watch him become what he was when he was here the first time, and Chytil become what he was in Vancouver.

I mean, that is exactly what I hope for Fil, seems like a good guy.

We really shouldn't have much expectations for JT. I don't. He is a good player, and should be better than who Fil is now. He should be better than f'ing Mika.

What is hilarious to me (probably not to anyone else) is that I have a bud who every now and then spam texts me at 11 pm going on and on about how the Rangers should have claimed Brannstrom, or traded for Brannstrom. He was doing that for months. My friend is the happiest person in NY right now. Weird.

 

[GAGLine]

Only thing I don’t like about the deal is wtf do I do with my name and avatar?

I don't know about the name, but here's your new avatar:

 

[mas0764]

Whats the right way though?

I watched a team basically push the buy button every season (and they continue to do so and Im sure will find a way to do it again) and they won the cup 2 years ago.

Panthers won with just 3 (technically 4 if you want to count a 2nd tour of duty guy in Kulikov) of their own draft picks on their roster last year.

They need to really commit to weeding out the old core and ridding themselves of their detriments, but I don't think the old school "build through the draft" really holds water anymore. Once can be called a fluke, 2 in a row is a pattern.

Cap is about to inflate like a mother f***er too. It's going to change things.

Panthers acquired a core of young stars though, whose talent far superseded ours (Barkov way better than Mika for example).

Drafting that talent just tends to be the cheapest way to do it in terms of assets.

 

[haohmaru]

Panthers acquired a core of young stars though, whose talent far superseded ours (Barkov way better than Mika for example).

Drafting that talent just tends to be the cheapest way to do it in terms of assets.

A bunch of teams (lately) have been successful in remaking their teams via means other than the draft. Washington, Vegas, Panthers, etc...

Equally, teams that have perennially drafted at the top haven't been - Buffalo, Columbus, etc...

Not an easy thing to build a Cup winner