Confirmed with Link: Nils Lundkvist to DAL for 2023 1st (Top-10 Protected) and 2025 4th (Conditional)

[nyr2k2]

Really.

Probably not a big difference between a third and fourth (although if Dallas sucks, who knows), but still a nice little kicker.

 

[RangerBoy]

 

[NYR Viper]

Drury finally wins a trade

Georgiev?

 

[17futurecap]

He was on pace for 13 points here barely playing on the third pair, feel like he should get to 55 total over two seasons, guessing Stars have big plans to use him with what they gave up.

Great job by Drury.

 

[Crease]

Trade board considers this a home run for the Rangers.

 

[SickNice]

Great deal given situation. What does Dallas farm system look like? Any prospects that could've gotten instead of the pick?

 

[RangerBoy]

Probably not a big difference between a third and fourth (although if Dallas sucks, who knows), but still a nice little kicker.

First unit PP with Robertson. Lundkvist could have 55 points.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

That's awesome

 

[RangerBoy]

 

[NYR Viper]

I’m going to get out ahead of this now, NO ONE should be saying that this opens up the possibility of trading the Rangers 1st this year. This years draft is going to be VERY deep. Keep both picks. If Drury wants to extend this window, this is a good opportunity to do so. Make a couple of good picks in next years draft and get a couple of nice ELC skilled players entering the NHL at a good time when they will be sorely needed.

Also makes up for not having a 1st this year as next years draft is significantly better.

 

[Circus86]

Could see Dallas being garbage 2024 like someone already mentioned. Imagine picking top 5. Anything between 11-15 in next year's draft should be great as well.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Trade board considers this a home run for the Rangers.

remember the last time we traded a player for a first. No Lias Andersson type draft picks please. Hope they use this 1st on a good young player.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

That deal is a home run. Its these 1st rounders that will keep us competitive and cap compliant for years to come.

 

[GAGLine]

Unprotected pick on 2024 is kinda big, Dallas could be garbage in two years.

Yeah, but they have to end up with a top 10 pick in 2023 for us to get that pick. Not impossible, but if Oettinger players like he did in the playoffs, they probably make the playoffs again this year.

Trade board considers this a home run for the Rangers.

Because the mob mentality rules there, and trolls feed into it. One year where he didn't set the world on fire somehow erases everything else he has done since being drafted.

remember the last time we traded a player for a first. No Lias Andersson type draft picks please. Hope they use this 1st on a good young player.

We got Cuylle for that pick. That's a win in my book. The odds are pretty high that Cuylle will be a more impactful player than Lias.

 

[will1066]

Highway robbery. Im not convinced Lundkvist is an NHL-calibre Dman at least for the next couple of years.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Trade board considers this a home run for the Rangers.

I have to actually agree with that. Getting a guaranteed first round pick and either a 3rd or 4th for a player who really had no place on the Rangers for the foreseeable future is absolutely a home run.

 

[ElLeetch]

remember the last time we traded a player for a first. No Lias Andersson type draft picks please. Hope they use this 1st on a good young player.

"talent isn't everything, gotta take the guy with the edge in personality"

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Great deal given situation. What does Dallas farm system look like? Any prospects that could've gotten instead of the pick?

None that they would have given up or else we probably would have made that deal.

Johnston wasn't happening, Stankhoven wasn't happening not matter how much I tried to wish it into existence, Bourque probably wasn't happening.

Dellandrea was kind of a realistic "best case" and honestly, the pick is probably of equal value with it being potentially more value in a few months. We've seen these conditional picks turn into gold for teams (Colorado in the Duchene deal, Ottawa in the Karlsson one) and I don't think its out of the question that Dallas takes a similar turn to those teams. Even if they don't and the pick ends up being a mid-ish to late 1st, it essentially gives us a re-do on the Nils pick in a better draft year.

I would have rather had the 3 prospects names above for sure, but this is about as good as you could have realistically hoped for. IF the rumors of them only receiving offers of a high 2nd at the draft were true, getting a 1st in a much better draft is a huge win, especially for a player who has major hurdles that he needs to clear to become a quality NHL player.

remember the last time we traded a player for a first. No Lias Andersson type draft picks please. Hope they use this 1st on a good young player.

Brady Skjei?

He got us Braden Schneider.

 

[Barnaby]

Good return under the circumstances, but it sucks the Rangers now have one less capable warm body in the organization for this season. There will be injuries. Do the Rangers now sign another AAAA defenseman for Hartford?

 

[ElLeetch]

Its nice to have two 1sts in 2023.

Here's hoping for 11th and 32nd overall!

 

[The Crypto Guy]

What a f***ing steal!!!!!!

 

[mas0764]

Can’t hate the return. On one hand, too many posters on here completely misevaluated Nils and said he was terrible which was false, and obviously Dallas agreed with me.

On the other hand his value shouldn’t have been significantly worse than Schneider’s as he’s roughly equivalent as a prospect.

That being said, after the trade request and the obvious fact that we had decided he wasn’t in our future (which I don’t agree with), you can’t hate getting an additional first in a draft loaded with forwards and centers and a fourth to boot.

I wanted Nils here on the left side but the divorce is on him too. B+ to Drury for salvaging this.

I always said I’m fine with Nils being part of a package for a young center. Now maybe he will end up being that.

Better not trade this pick at the deadline for a rental or a non long term piece.

 

[Machinehead]

Isn't this draft supposed to be insane?

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Isn't this draft supposed to be insane?

Yes its supposed to be on par with 2003.

It probably won't be, but thats the word.

 

[GAGLine]

Its nice to have two 1sts in 2023.

Here's hoping for 11th and 32nd overall!

Be careful what you wish for.