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

[Whitesnake]

Wow...what the actual f*** Drury? And again....imagine a deal like that being suggested on this HF boards....and being ridiculed that it would never happen...lol

 

[Devilsfan118]

Drury is gonna make a huge mess of the Rangers and get fired. I’m going to have fun watching it happen.

I'm already having fun watching him fumble around and destroy his team.

 

[Romang67]

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

It's like golf. You want the number to be close to 100.

 

[Lunatik]

Holy f***

Forget everything I said in previous threads about player values. Drury is a f***ing disgrace and literally giving everything away for scraps.

I thought he would learn from the Buch trade but I guess not. f*** this guy.

I also think it's a shit return, but if that's all he got, it also means no one was offering more... so either they think Kakko ill be no more than a 3rd liner, or they think he might be problematic.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

someone wasnt willing to pay a 2nd and a 3rd or 4th for Kakko?

Is the return low because nobody called? Does the whole league value him the same? Feels like Drury could have gotten more here surely. Maybe he didn't wanna deal him to certain teams

 

[miscs75]

So now they get Borgen, maybe they should trade Fox for cheap before his NMC kicks in.

Fox is going to refuse to report since it seems like he doesn’t want to play anywhere else. It’s like Tavares with Toronto.

 

[Ghost of Murph]

NYR front office needs to be drug tested ASAP.

 

[Stive Morgan]

I'd never believe you 5 years ago if you told me the Rangers would turn Lafreniere and Kakko into a .70 PPG player, Borgen and two mid-round picks.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Yowza. Seems light but KK kinda sucks.

If they're Finnish and have "KK" as their initials, don't draft them?

 

[Turin]

Lmao.

Pretty clear Drury didn’t go for the best offer here

 

[Maliks PlusMinus]

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.

No.

Drury for whatever reason thinks the best way of taking us to the next level is by dismantling a team that won the president’s trophy. His actions over the last few months are exactly the opposite of what you’d want from a GM even if the players he has got rid of aren’t great. He has destroyed all leadership in the room, he has made the players feel totally lacking in value and he has sent our season spiralling into pure shit.

Fortunately for him this has led to the fans hating on the same players who were playing far above their level last season (and in some cases for many years) because they are ‘selfish millionaires’ .
So Drury’s wet dream of replacing everyone with Patrick Nemeth and Sammy Blais level players might just play out.

Kakko is just ok. I won’t miss him much, but won’t be surprised if he is good in Seattle.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Quick. Every GM trade with Drury before the players execute their coup.

 

[Rschmitz]

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.

Would have easily, easily beat this price for Kakko for him to produce what he's doing on our third line. Not every team is desperate for offense.

 

[Prettyisland]

No one offered more? as habs fan my low ball trade offer would have been better then this

 

[PAZ]

Any player that hits automatically becomes 5x more valuable in Drury's eyes.

Awful, but isn't as awful as the Buchnevich trade.

 

[WarriorofTime]

What a brutal return for the Rangers, but I predicted it given where he is in relation to UFA.

An expiring contract pending UFA right handed 3rd pair defenseman, a 3rd and a 6th, lol.



Lmao, groupthink sure is a you know what

 

[goonybird]

I was told he'd get a first rounder

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

You know it's bad when you think Sean Avery can do a better job

 

[RoyIsALegend]

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.

The Rangers traded a 3rd line player for a 3rd round pick.

 

[Forsbergaura21]

Not great return. The only way this would make any sense is if NyR plans to move a D like Lindgren for forward help. Otherwise it’s horrible again from Drury.,,

 

[Davo Ikinzom]

Would have easily, easily beat this price for Kakko for him to produce what he's doing on our third line. Not every team is desperate for offense.

What would you have given up for him?

 

[Blitzkrug]

They traded him because he had the gall to speak up about how he was being treated rather than anything to do with team fit. Guarantee it.

Seattle knew this and thus were able to get him for pennies. No other reason why Kakko, despite underachieving goes so low.

 

[CupofOil]

What exactly did people expect in a return. Kakko is in his 6th season and has 4 goals, 14 points in 30 games in his 6th season with a career high of 40 points and 2nd best season of 23 points. He's Jesse Puljujarvi essentially.

 

[oilers4life5]

Wow that seems cheap