Kitchener Rangers 2024-25 Season Thread, Part III

[Petes1987]

It will be an interesting 3 in 3, Friday vs Rehkopf and one of the preseason fav in Brampton (but underpreforming so far), then visiting one of the OHL top teams in Barrie then back home vs the Saginaw Spirit who are sellers but still are very dangerous with some highly thought of players.
Great measuring stick for all teams involved, I suspect Schaubel also gets the Sunday game but won't be shocked he starts at home in Barrie.

Barrie did not look that impressive against Peterborough tonight. The Petes outplayed them and won 5-2.

 

[Krangers08]

With the addition of Humphreys the rangers have used 27 player cards.

*not including Scaubel, Xu, Cameron

 

[beastintheeast]

If that is the case and Kit gets 2 players then I think OTT is going to be very disappointed with the return from KIT. I can’t see MM going hard after players this year. He has said he will keep the future in mind lots of times. Pinelli and Foster doesn’t make KIT the favs over London…they are still the heavy underdogs.

I think that is the problem with many teams. People are looking at London and realizing how much power they have and are saying, "Let's build for the future."

Also, all these players with NTC are gumming up the work.

 

[GeoBlue]

Don’t believe that’s how it works. I could be wrong. The games don’t count only if you have a player at the world juniors in that position. So like an Arquette call up last year to play for Mesar those games don’t count. We did not lose a goalie to WJ so his games count towards the 10 games. Could be wrong but don’t think I am.

i'm not 100% either but I believe you are correct.

 

[GeoBlue]

especially if MM knows Valentini is going to report at some point which would essentially replace (and upgrade) Headrick at zero cost

Lately I have been wondering if Valentini may be a trade piece. Has it been confirmed that Kitchener is a choice landing spot for him?

 

[bobber]

Lately I have been wondering if Valentini may be a trade piece. Has it been confirmed that Kitchener is a choice landing spot for him?

Rangers just hold the rights to Valentini. Trading those rights wouldn't garner much in the way of assets usually. Wonder if he is on the same path as Hage. He never had a cup of coffee in the OHL.

 

[Gondrex]

Knowing that their are posters onboard here that are a heck of a lot smarter than me, a question.

If Valentini and / or Hextal were at all interested in coming to Kitchener do we know if these high fees that are apparently being demanded south of the border disappear at the end of the season?

Just curious.

 

[Jives]

Knowing that their are posters onboard here that are a heck of a lot smarter than me, a question.

If Valentini and / or Hextal were at all interested in coming to Kitchener do we know if these high fees that are apparently being demanded south of the border disappear at the end of the season?

Just curious.

Great question that I don’t know the answer to. I would assume they do and at the end of the year they can go wherever they want. Which maybe with Valetini MM has just said we don’t pay 100k for players and it would be best if you came next year as we will easily have a place in the top 6 for you. Hextall I think is way less likely to show up then Valentini imo.

 

[East Avenue Bully]

Yes, but it can’t be nothing. I believe there is a fallback offer from a team Pinelli is willing to go to. So, any deal is going to have to get at least close to that deal. That team has a lot of picks. So, this is not a discount situation. I could see Boyd accept a little less if it made Pinelli happy but not half.

The fallback, Oshawa, doesn't have very many picks left after the deals they've done already.

MM has the hammer, he better use it.