eco's bones
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Why would Rangers want Fowler if they already have a better version in McIlrath?
On a serious note, gosh i really don`t want Rick Nash. Most of it has to do with his huge salary and the fact that the Ducks are a budget team. We are looking to unload someone on our blueline due to money reasons and the upcoming expansion draft. If we could afford to pay 8+M to R.Nash then there would be no reason to trade Fowler who will earn 8M on the next 2 years COMBINED. And then resign him for less or around the same 8M.
How Rangers fans see McIlrath and how AV and his coaching staff saw and used McIlrath last year are almost polar opposites. If you were to go over and ask on the Rangers board somewhere around 90% of it will have a very positive and supportive viewpoint on Dylan and his game. He would sit for a while--then play a couple games---then sit for a while again but when he played he usually played very well and the couple longer stretches (due to injuries) he played he was improving game to game. He's an NHL level player.
His main issues a couple years ago were balance and puck movement issues and getting past some serious injuries. Once past those injury issues he made serious steps forward on the other issues. It's called development. The Rangers have worked very hard on that and he's worked very hard with them.