Confirmed Trade: Kaapo Kakko to SEA for D Will Borgen and 3rd and 6th round picks in the 2025 draft

[Alluckks]

This isn’t as bad at Rangers fans are making it out to be

Kakko is indeed kinda ass. It's his best year of his career 5 years in and really what it has amounted to is neither he nor the opponents score much with him out there - but he isn't even going against top lines. So he doesn't really have any great value. He is in line for that tough grey area of contract negotiating because of his draft pedigree as well.

Rangers fans are making it out to be much worse because the team is in dire straits and this also just sucks

 

[Breakers]

Im sorry WTF is going on in NY

Is this a joke

 

[Beau Knows]

Is this really because of what he said in reaction to being scratched?

I don't think he crossed the line with those comments, seems like an overreaction.

 

[LionsHeart]

I think he’s going to do really well in Seattle.

The Rangers are just lost as an organization right now.

 

[Rschmitz]

Watch Kakko turn into a perennial Selke candidate in Seattle

 

[New Jerseys Devil]

Damn I wish the devils had gotten him for that.

Maybe we up the price now, since the Rags wouldnt have traded him to us anyhow!

 

[phillyb]

Borgen is 4 years older than Kakko and makes 300k more than Kakko. His max is 25 points in 82 games. He's UFA at the end of the season.
I don't really understand this trade from NYR's perspective.

Edit - didn't realize Borgen was D.

 

[EXTRAS]

Taking advantage of an arrogant asshole like Chris Drury shouldn't be a feather in anyone's cap

Of course it should be. Good gms target weak gms.

 

[wintersej]

They are in the deal. They are just secrets though

Multiple future considerations on each side

 

[The Great Weal]

Even as a 3rd liner that's a great price for Seattle

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Holy hell do some Rangers fans have some MAJOR crow to eat over the value of Kakko

This is the same GM who traded our PPG RW for a used condom.

 

[GreatSaveLuongo]

either dman become more expensive or Kappo's worth is peanuts...

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Kakko wasn't on the table for a Jake Guentzel rental when they were the best team in hockey standings wise but he gets traded for scraps, Drury f***ing blows beyond belief, my lord

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

I would have done a 3rd, 4th and Pezzetta from the Habs.

 

[Your Boy Troy]

Borgen > Kakko. Although Borgen's stats this season don't look very good. Kaapo Kakko hasn't shown any consistency in the league. Who cares about his draft position. Where were the results? All flash and no substance.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Was this really all Kakko was worth? Or was it a F you to him over his comments made.

I think Drury doesn't know how to negotiate trades and gets bent over backwards in every trade he makes (Trouba dump notwithstanding, though we know how he originally bungled that too)

 

[Mrfenn92]

Multiple future considerations on each side

Secretly triggered and no one will see it coming besides servelli

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Kinda mad my team didn't take a flyer

 

[Aashir Mallik]

so a decent bottom pairing dman and two mid round picks?

Rangers are so cooked

 

[Fatass]

Im sorry WTF is going on in NY

Is this a joke
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What does this all mean? He’s a 5 out of what?

 

[pld459666]

Watch Kakko turn into a perennial Selke candidate in Seattle

I hope he does.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Im sorry WTF is going on in NY

Is this a joke
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We've been Drury'd

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Kakko stinks, so this seems about right.

A warm body along with a 3rd and 6th.

People who don’t watch him think he’s got all this potential. He’s bad at hockey.

 

[dgibb10]

Damn I wish the devils had gotten him for that.

Offer seattle slightly more than what they just paid NYR to make rangers fans even more upset

 

[Pancakes]

Kakko wasn't on the table for a Jake Guentzel rental when they were the best team in hockey standings wise but he gets traded for scraps, Drury f***ing blows beyond belief, my lord

Yeah as a Pens fan I'm rather surprised at that. Considering the package Dubas got back for Jake I bet he would have been pretty happy with KK as the centerpiece of a Jake trade.