Confirmed with Link: Rangers acquire Patrick Kane, Cooper Zech for 2023 2nd (Becomes 1st in 2024 or 2025 if NYR Make ECF), 2025 4th, A. Welinski; Condt'l 2025 3rd to AZ

[mrhockey193195]

Fair. I guess you can claim the "mortgaging the future" portion on the opportunity cost of investing in those players versus building an organization from the ground up. Good points either way though.

Totally agreed. A bit of a pedantic argument on my side. My main point is, I totally understand why some folks (myself included) are worried about injecting Kane into the lineup even though we got him for very little. Metrics show that the last three years, he's been a FAR cry from the player he was in his prime. Plus, it's always hard to quantify what effect this might have on other players who get pushed down the lineup.

I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic about this.

 

[Boris Zubov]

I hate that Drury blinked. No reason to give into the conditional 1st....especially if not expressly for winning the Cup.

 

[New York RKY]

I wonder what the condition is for it to become either 2024 OR 2025.

I wouldn’t be surprised if CHI has the choice of years but I’m just speculating.

 

[RangerBoy]

the conditional pick conditions suck. No games played? Don't leak this shit without all of the details. ECF nonsense again.

where is the 4h round pick coming from? they don’t have a 4th in this draft.

 

[Lion Hound]

Welcome to NY Pat Kane!

USA...USA...USA!!!!!

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

One of my favorite players of all time. So excited to watch him.

Situation well played by Drury. Got a good deal.

Hate the ECF conditions mostly for fan/emotional reasons (giving up so many extra picks over the years and still not having Cups) but it’s obviously fair and not surprising. 2024/25 will give them the chance to recoup picks in other ways.

Let’s go to battle. Pressure is on.

 

[New York RKY]

I hate that Drury blinked. No reason to give into the conditional 1st....especially if not expressly for winning the Cup.

C’mon man give it a break already. You’re not going to completely bend them over the barrel. You may need to deal with this team in the future, you need to make the deal have some semblance of fairness to it.

 

[EdJovanovski]

We're now the only team in the NHL with a Hart, Art Ross, Norris, Calder, Vezina, Ted Lindsay, Conn Smythe, and Jack Adams winner on it.

 

[Circus86]

Good job Drury!

 

[Boris Zubov]

the conditional pick conditions suck. No games played? Don't leak this shit without all of the details. ECF nonsense again.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[Brother Mouzone]

IMHO in order to win a cup you need players that know what it takes , have the clutch gene and are proven PO performers Kane checks all the boxes ,

 

[Vinny]

Anybody crying about this deal just wants attention lol

 

[Boris Zubov]

C’mon man give it a break already. You’re not going to completely bend them over the barrel. You may need to deal with this team in the future, you need to make the deal have some semblance of fairness to it.

Already? I said one thing....I'm entitled to an opinion.

 

[bubba5]

I hope this is not the old we look awesome on paper then it does not translate on the ice like in years past. We have an overaged Tarasenko and Kane and Tarasenko has been less than stellar so far.

 

[Raspewtin]

I hate to tell you all this but, this is it. This is the year to win. The Rangers will not ice a better team than this for years, perhaps even decades.

The clock started ticking when we signed Panarin and Fox walked on water at the NHL level. The clock started ticking much faster when Laf and Kakko disappointed and every other pick besides Chytil and Miller busted. The clock is ticking alarmingly fast as Igor's deal is 2 years from expiry.

This is our shot whether you like it or not, suggest getting with the program because you're in for a long and miserable next few years if this don't work out. The difference is that we're in for that long and miserable next few years whether we traded for Tara/Kane or not.

And I say all this as someone who adamantly didn't want him before.

 

[nyr2k2]

Yeah that's right we traded our 4th for Motte (the first time). Where does that pick come from?

 

[Kaapo Cabana]

condition is doo doo but were still getting him for pennies on the dollar.

we also still have a good pipeline.

This is like a way better version of the MSL deal in 2014

 

[GAGLine]

Yeah that's right we traded our 4th for Motte. Where does that pick come from?

Gotta be 2025.

 

[EdJovanovski]

f*** it, go get Chycrun too why not

 

[RangerBoy]

Yeah that's right we traded our 4th for Motte (the first time). Where does that pick come from?

Maybe Frank or Emily know?

 

[Machinehead]

I look at it like this. For years we chased this idea that "well if we finally get high picks, we'll finally have stars."

We got the high picks and we got two decent players who might be really good down the road. That's what we always had. It's not worth the hassle, it turns out, imo.

I just want to have enough draft capital to sustain ourselves. Beyond that, our elite players (besides Kane now) are a 6OA sort of reach that we didn't pick, a 66OA that didn't we didn't pick, a 118OA, and an undrafted free agent that we didn't sign. If you count Tarasenko as elite, a 16OA that we passed up on. Pretty diverse crew.

We should build our team with the best tools available and forget blueprints. Need be, we'll just buy stars. We're the f***ing Rangers.

 

[Machinehead]

f*** it, go get Chycrun too why not

We had to look for pennies in Drury's couch just to do this

 

[nyr2k2]

Gotta be 2025.

Right because the conditional 4th in the Tarasenko deal was in 2024, so 2025 is the earliest we're guaranteed to have a 4th.

 

[New York RKY]

Already? I said one thing....I'm entitled to an opinion.

Maybe I was confusing you with the other guy that was incessantly bitching but the point still stands, you aren’t going to get a player for nothing, you need to give up a least something of value. A 2024 or 2025 is about as low value as you can get in this situation.

 

[Crease]

Team is so loaded now that we can finally call them chokers if they lose.