Rangers should have traded Zibanejad and used those assets plus some of their own to get Eichel. Eichel is just sooooo much better than him.
Yep you're the same NYR hater that always used to spout drivel over Eichel and NY. Guess what? It wasn't going to happen regardless of whether NYR put Laf or Kakko on the table because of BUF's ridiculous owners and GM. Heaven forbid Jack went to New York, oh the humanity. Besides you're talking about a situation before the season was really underway and nobody knew how Laf would do in this season.
while we are entitled to subjective opinions there, I don't like overrated Eichel --- good but overrated --- and med risk factor etc. Like even if everything is 111% good, this is the kind of condition that makes you more vulnerable than the average skater to a tough boarding, for example, or other rough outcome.
I don’t know about that. The Rangers are close, and their best players are right in their primes. Adding a ppg guy who plays centre and wing, who is a big guy that plays a heavy game might put them right up there with the best teams. And if it is Miller they go for, they’d have him for two play-off runs at a very good ca p cost. I’d try to give u Kappo first though.
Name the last Zibanejad level player that took less years and no NMC on their big payday contract.
Well there is risk involved in everything... I think taking a risk on a player like Eichel is exactly what the Rangers should have done. Zibanejad is not a championship level 1c imo and the contract he got also has a lot of risk. Rangers have so many young players that trading some of them for a player like Eichel would not have made much of a dent at all. If all these guys like Kakko, Kravtsov, Miller, Lundqvist, Schneider, etc. reach their potential, the Rangers aren't going to be able to afford them all anyways. Whereas Eichel would be locked in for 10m.
no on either, we need cheap quality youth going forward also cap does not allow us to add Miller or Hertln this yr
Not applicable b'c if we wanted to play hardball -- obv not the route we chose -- we would have instead done the nuclear option and dealt him for primo rental swag. IOW, we were not dependent on him capitulating to less term. What we did was good short term, prob not so good long term, but cap is a beeeatch until we can deal Trouba
respectful agree to disagree
NO, this is an inaccurate narrative for one reason. It ignores that the key, perhaps the only real reason LaF is underperforming, is his skating, which is slowly improving and may be NHL sufficient by next season. Unless NY gets offer based on that expectation of LaF development AND which is too good to turn down, they should keep him. LaF ranked [not verbatim but something like] the best non-generational 1OA since MacKinnon. That should not be thrown out the window.
this ^ is yr opinion. What I stated was factually true as an option for NY. Howev, it is all moot. We were thin at pivot so we took the instant gratification of Zib for a bit less with term, with the hope it doesn't bite us in the ass later. Which is fine. The killer is nmc.
Yes, and since we have identified skating as his prob, and since it is reasonable to think that gets upgraded near future, at which pt he busts out, best to hold barring massive overpay
He's not rated that highly right now which is why he's not going anywhere. His game is gradually improving. As a Ranger fan, he is untouchable. I don't know if Drury feels that way.
He really doesn't. The Rangers are pretenders for this year and maybe next. The real future is likely two years away and onward. Trading any of our guys with big upside would be simply stupid at this point. PATIENCE.
