Proposal: NYR - COL off season Blockbuster

[MackAttack71]

This is purely hypothetical and mostly for fun but…


To Colorado
Igor Shesterkin


To New York
Mikko Rantanen

Both are around same age and upcoming UFAs. If somehow their clubs can’t agree with them on the new contracts terms, the Avs solve their goalie problem once and for all while Nichushkin and Landeskog return will make Rantanen departure less painful and the Rangers solidify their top 6 with a proven play off warrior.

Who says yes?

 

[UnSandvich]

Can Rantanen continue his high level of play and live up to that contract if he’s the only player on a line? Bc chances are he’d be put with the wonder twins as the latest in a long list of attempts to fix them. And we’ve all seen how that ends up

Can’t see this being worth it for NY, and I’m someone not interested in re-signing Shesterkin.

 

[Muffin]

Can Rantanen continue his high level of play and live up to that contract if he’s the only player on a line? Bc chances are he’d be put with the wonder twins as the latest in a long list of attempts to fix them. And we’ve all seen how that ends up

Can’t see this being worth it for NY, and I’m someone not interested in re-signing Shesterkin.

Rantanen put up his best numbers when MacKinnon out was out a couple years ago.

I'm going to say Rantanen has more value than Shesterkin, goalies just don't return much in a trade compared to skaters.

 

[TS Quint]

Igor’s contract demands are ludicrous. No chance I’d give in to him. I wouldn’t take him as a UFA.

 

[HabzSauce]

As an Avs fan, no…

Shesterkin is a great goalie, but Avs don’t really need a great, elite goalie to win as they proved it in 22, so giving up Mikko for Shesterkin and signing him to 11 or 12 mill contract won’t make sense for them.

I think you guys do. Avs aren't the same team from 2022. Can't just stick a plug in there and expect to win.

If Avs are serious about winning, they need at least a good goalie, preferably elite goalie

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Clearly the move here is for the Avs to dump any semblance of depth and just run with several 10+ million dollar contracts. Just have a superstar in each position and nothing else.

 

[tmg]

Yes, the assumption is they sign with their new teams after the trade

That’s not really what I was asking. I was asking about whether the *8th year* (for the players who will then be a 29 year old goalie and a 28 year old forward) is something that’s crucially important to both players and both teams.

If either player thinks the best 7 year offer on the open market might be better than an 8 year offer without open-market competition … or if either team is skittish about committing to eight years and into the back half of their thirties … then this would go nowhere.

So this is all making an assumption a little more specific than “they sign with their new teams” - it’s that 8 year contracts are the ideals for both teams and both players, and so much so that the players will forego the open market opportunity they will then be only weeks from tasting. It’s putting a monumental value on the teams’ eagerness to lock in a mid-late-30s year at top dollar for these guys, and the players to think that 8th year security is more valuable than the chance to test the open market for the biggest 7 year opportunity.

That’s a mammoth assumption.

 

[TGWL]

Rantanen put up his best numbers when MacKinnon out was out a couple years ago.

I'm going to say Rantanen has more value than Shesterkin, goalies just don't return much in a trade compared to skaters.

I think the poster was insulting Kreider/Zibanejad's play rather than trying to make it sound like Rantanen is a product of anybody.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

As much as I like Rantanen as a player and am very wary of giving big money to a goalie, this deal does make the Rangers worse. They already have a better all-offense winger in Panarin

Rantanen put up his best numbers when MacKinnon out was out a couple years ago.

I'm going to say Rantanen has more value than Shesterkin, goalies just don't return much in a trade compared to skaters.

Trade value , no. But contribution to wins , it’s not even close