Lafreniere, Kakko, Trouba for Kaprizov.
Who says no?
Rangers free up $3m and get a star for 2 seasons to compete. The Wild get a very good young winger, a guy that needs a change but could still thrive and Trouba who could be flipped to elsewhere as someone would take him, especially with retention.
It won't happen but still.
It’s not enough. And no reason for NYR to trade Laf right now.
If you’re NYR, you take your chances of him going to Free Agency and trying to sign him that way. Otherwise, you’re going to wind up giving a kings ransom to get him in a trade…. It defeats the purpose of weakening the team in other places to strengthen it with Kaprizov.
You def take the gamble of him going the FA route like Panarin did. I’m sure that’s what him and his agent want, otherwise he’d be signed long term already.
Then you go to him on the first day of FA with a truck load of cash and hope to get him that way….
These guys that have their hearts set on becoming UFAs usually have 3-4 teams in mind where they want to go anyway, and they leverage that to get the best deal they can.