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

[ACLEVERNAME]

Kaapo Krakko

 

[nickdawg95]

borgen is like marc methot. good young defensive d-man.

 

[Master Bill]

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Yikes

 

[Fataldogg]

Can't wait for Kakko to suddenly become a 30g two way forward getting Selke recognition. Its almost guaranteed after this.

 

[KrakenSabresMike]

borgen is like marc methot. good young defensive d-man.

He’s 28 going on 29 - he is a bottom pair defensive D - not sure there is any more major development there

 

[Legend123]

kaaka krako

 

[The Devilish Buffoon]

Maybe I am underrating Borgen or misreading the Rangers situation but this really doesn't make much sense to me from the Rangers perspective

 

[Casey Jones]

Boomer is gonna be upset tomorrow morning

 

[Mike C]

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

yeah, maybe greedy wasn't the right terminology. maybe i should have said undeserving based on results

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

That's a steal, Borgen is overrated too.

 

[Hisch13r]

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.

Jiricek got back quite a bit

 

[BB79]

The Rangers going into fire sale mode? Odd

Boomer is gonna be upset tomorrow morning

The dog from Farcry 5?

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

yeah, maybe greedy wasn't the right terminology. maybe i should have said undeserving based on results

No, he's still deserving of that contract. The Islanders are the Cory Schneider 2013-2017 Devils, the skaters blow for the majority of the roster. No goalie is saving them.

 

[Chainshot]

Maybe I am underrating Borgen or misreading the Rangers situation but this really doesn't make much sense to me from the Rangers perspective

Moved him quickly to move him quickly.

 

[Realgud]

Kakko will do well in Seattle

 

[Mike C]

No, he's still deserving of that contract. The Islanders are the Cory Schneider 2013-2017 Devils, the skaters blow for the majority of the roster. No goalie is saving them.

true that my brother!

 

[MikeK]

Rangers basically giving him away.

 

[hockey20000]

bahahah i am loving drury

 

[Oneiro]

Jiricek got back quite a bit

Forgot about the low 1st.

But if he was the player he was supposed to be, Columbus would've done better. He's not that good and probably tops out as a 4/5 with his skating.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

He was becoming a distraction. Team was having a hard enough time off the ice without him whining.

I don't see how he was. His comments weren't even that bad. People making a lot of very little. Not as if he started naming teammates and trashing their play. He just said he thought he wasn't playing the worst, which is a generic type of comment with nothing behind it. And he even added that he needed to play better. I get how they were slightly newsworthy comments, but they should've gotten a lot less attention.

 

[Hodes42]

Kaako will probably light it up for a few games with Seattle, then settle down to his usual self.

Don’t know much about Borgen, hopefully he brings a heavy game.

 

[Khelandros]

Rangers may be a shit org again

Always have been, they just hid it with a few playoff appearances.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

At some point you have to call a spade a spade. Draft pedigree last ~2 years…maybe. The guy is basically just a 3rd liner. He can get better but he is probably what he is. I doubt he’ll have fond memories of the Rangers.

 

[BB88]

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

That’s what Drury has build

He’s created a complete mess and is trying to trade from that position.

I don’t understand why and how some expect fair value when you are dealing from a position of weakness and not strenght

 

[Schennanigans]

You can’t even talk or your traded. They didn’t even care what the return was. Just wanted him to gtfo.