Confirmed Trade: [SEA/NYR] Kaapo Kakko for Will Borgen, 2025 3rd, 2025 6th

[Quinning]

NYR turning a 2nd overall pick into magic beans.

 

[TheNumber4]

Yes, because Lundy turned out so well for Dallas...

They just pick shitty players

By then the development had already taken it's course. The early years are the formative years.

 

[OldCraig71]

Kakko's career high points in a season after playing 330 games is 40 with the 2nd highest being 23 - he is being overrated like crazy around these parts clearly.

The 300 game mark is a good indicator of what a player will be in the league, there are always exceptions I guess.

 

[gritdash60]

Yes, because Lundy turned out so well for Dallas...

They just pick shitty players

Or Pulerjornvi in Pitsmurgh

 

[Beau Knows]

Not what I'm saying although some players do take less so the team can garner other assets

What I am saying is that in a cap era, when you tie up cash and term and your team sucks, you can laugh all the way to the bank while people like me don't give a shit if your career is wasted

At the end of the day it's a business. The teams treat it as a business (like unceremoniously trading Kakko), I don't know why people are surprised that the players do the same.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

No sympathy for Igor. Just like his crosstown comrade sirchokin, they greedily took the money and term vs winning.

Cane's don't need him

They don't run their roster management on need. They run on value. Kakko's an upside play.

 

[Angry Little Elf]

lol rangers got fleeced.

Kakko is going to be a good player for the kraken. Borgen is good but he doesn’t have the same upside as Kakko

 

[Killem Dafoe]

This will surely help turn things around.

 

[Albatros]

A bit weird deal, for peanuts to a team that don't necessarily have a problem he would solve. There must have been something better on the table but alas.

 

[Zeeker]

The Rangers self-sabotaging and blowing up their gift-wrapped roster is hilarious

 

[broc]

Bern’s head boutta explode

 

[Oneiro]

The price on him was what you get for a depth third liner.

If the Holtz, Jiricek, etc. deals tell you anything, it's that draft pedigree only goes so far once the league has had a long look at a guy.

He's a likable player in some ways but with all the leverage on the other side of the table, this is about what you'd expect.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

No sympathy for Igor. Just like his crosstown comrade sirchokin, they greedily took the money and term vs winning.

Cane's don't need him

In what world is Sorokin for 8.25M AAVx8 him being greedy....? He would get 9-10M on the open market

 

[shello]

Drury handicapped the Rangers in the 2010’s with his overpayment of a contract and now he’s doing it as the GM

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

 

[UnSandvich]

Best of luck to him in Seattle. And hey, the trade made Zibadejad, Kreider, and Laviolette happy. That's gotta count for something, right...right?

 

[joestevens29]

It's not great to be honest.

Borgen is a decent middle d-man but he's taken a big step back this year. The picks being 3rd and 6th rounders are borderline moot.

Kakko is 5 years removed from being a 2nd overall pick. It's crazy to me that Drury couldn't fetch something more tangible than this. Kakko has done what's asked of him despite never being given a real chance to move up the roster in a meaningful way. He hasn't played over 18 minutes in nearly 2 calendar years.

I know Lav's not the best coach for developing young guys but he felt doomed from the start with the Rangers. I expect him to find some nice success in Seattle.

Go look at other top picks that were busting. Don’t exactly go for a lot

 

[Quinning]

The Rangers self-sabotaging and blowing up their gift-wrapped roster is hilarious

No sympathy for anyone who jumped a bunch of picks to draft in the top 3. It's a bullshit rule.

 

[SaltyElkHunter]

Ex players as GM’s < Buisness people without head injuries

 

[SeanAveryTheGreatOne]

 

[Zeeker]

No sympathy for anyone who jumped a bunch of picks to draft in the top 3. It's a bullshit rule.

Don’t forget Panarin and Fox forcing their way there. How they’re managing to fumble their absurd luck is mind-boggling

 

[Quinning]

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Holy f***, Zibanejad fell off a cliff.

 

[stl76]

Yeah this seems like a mistake for NY.

 

[NJDevils17]

Kakko never lived up to the 2nd pick expectations but he was rounding into a useful player. Seems short sighted by Drury but I don’t know what their MO is

 

[Mike C]

At the end of the day it's a business. The teams treat it as a business (like unceremoniously trading Kakko), I don't know why people are surprised that the players do the same.

you are 100 percent correct. harold ballard is the epitome of that concept back in the day.

i never begrudge players taking what they can get. i was just pontificating on the fact that the guy's career may be wasted

maybe deep down, i'm just bitter because once the nyi paid sirchokin, he got