Claimed off Waivers: [NYR] Rangers claim F Arthur Kaliyev off waivers from the Kings

[TheBeard]

Honestly, it says a lot about his reputation around the league when so many bottom feeding, offensively starved teams saw him available for free and say, "nah. We're good with Pat Maroon"

 

[FSL KINGS]

I didn't say claiming him off waivers isn't good, I said he's probably not a good player like how I don't consider Daniel Sprong a "good" player.

An offense-only guy needs to be producing more than 40 points with PP time to be someone I'd call a "good" player. Even in his good year where he had 28 points in 56 game, pretty much half of his production (8 goals and 12 points) were PP points.

I'd also like to point out the King's have a bottom 1/3rd PP currently.

 

[OysterForever]

So basically Drury traded 2019 top pick for a lesser one.

 

[EXTRAS]

Got assets for kakko and then got kaliyev for free. Is Drury the smartest gm in the whole NHL?

 

[57special]

I'm sure this will go great with Laviolette "coaching".

Only thing worse would be to stick him with Torts.

 

[King'sPawn]

Good luck, Kaliyev. No hard feelings. Hope you succeed as you're more skilled than the stats suggest.

 

[FlyguyOX]

I'm sure this will go great with Laviolette "coaching".

Yes, I'm sure he will get 12min of bottom 6 time and not a single look on any PP

 

[Kingspiracy]

Good for Kaliyev. Hopefully he can show something with another organisation.

 

[Forsbergaura21]

There is nothing wrong with this move. If it doesn’t pan out NYR can send him to minors.

I like Kaliev and think he still has some upside actually…

 

[WarriorofTime]

A little surprising that LA put him on waivers, when he was almost certain to be claimed, feels like they could have gotten *something* for him if they were going to cut bait.. and this late in the year it's pretty easy to just keep him around for the remainder which will make all rights for him permanently gone.

 

[Reddawg]

Bet your house on USA winning gold at the world juniors.

“Which year?”

“Yes.”

 

[FoxysExpensiveNYDigs]

Maybe a precursor to placing Kreider on LTIR?

 

[OVO16]

Going from Los Angeles to New York. Bro living the dream

 

[archanfelnsx]

Would’ve given up a mid to late round pick for Kaliyev. Getting him for free is a win.

 

[GbgRanger]

Good, now trade him to Van for Miller

 

[bland]

A little surprising that LA put him on waivers, when he was almost certain to be claimed, feels like they could have gotten *something* for him if they were going to cut bait.. and this late in the year it's pretty easy to just keep him around for the remainder which will make all rights for him permanently gone.

There is more to hockey than stats.

Kaliyev doesn't have the mentality to succeed. It haunted him his the draft and it's why nobody was willing to give a 5th for him at this years draft.

He quit on his team last year, and that is a worse sin than most. He doesn't want to consistently put in the work and he doesn't accept criticism well. Its hilarious that a team in such dire culture straits would be the one to put in a claim.

What's another headcase in NY?

 

[bringbacktheskate604]

Now Drury can trade Laf+ for Miller.

Personally I think all this EP JT drama, is complete media spun bullshit but even if it isn't any return would have to include a Centre as part of a bigger package.

This has been an absolute gut punch of a season where everything has gone wrong yet we are in a playoff spot. barring any more injuries we are not far off from being fully healthy, likely gonna improve the Dcorp with at least one trade along with Willander signing and likely already better than Juulson or any other option from Abby.

I'm confident the team will start winning a lot more just based off the top end talent, goaltending and it's forward depth but if I'm being honest Im starting to wonder if we wouldn't win more convincingly under a different system?
I appreciate the fact we can win boring low event hockey but our forwards have become so boring and 2010ish Minnesota wild Esq. It's depressing.

 

[Jericho111091]

So naturally Rob Blake and the LA FO must be imbeciles as well for giving up a quality forward for free.

Kings management are in fact imbeciles, their management of Kaliyev is only one of the reasons.

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Free player with upside, we'll take that all day



....and completely destroy his development

 

[Gardner McKay]

they just want to ruin his development like kakko

According to Kings fans, LA already did that.

 

[periferal]

I'm sure this will go great with Laviolette "coaching".

How can it go worse?

 

[JoeSakic13]

Kappo Kaliyev.

Best of luck to you sir.

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

This is what the waivers are for, Kaliyev needed a fresh start and maybe the Rangers find something in him.

He was a goal scoring machine in juniors and had a decent start to his pro career as well. Last couple years went off rails with the Kings but there's definitely something there.

I'd like this more if this was in camp. But with his lack of games lately, and the Rangers needing every point they can get, there's probably not much of a leash to get him going.

 

[SaltyElkHunter]

Good for Arty! I bet quickie gets him fired up and ready to go in the f*** rob blake club !

 

[qc14]

He was benched/banished for half of that.

And in the time that he actually played he was at best slightly above average despite playing almost 2 minutes a game on the powerplay and getting pretty favorable deployments. There certainly could still be something there but at the same time there's been enough a sample size that he's not an "I can't believe he's on waivers" guy.