How expensive a cap hit can the Rangers take on? They have around $10 mill available for next season but need a backup goalie and like 6 forwards. D seems set. So that’s 7 more players to fit in at $10 mill.
maybe Nemeth at $2.5 and Reeves at $1.75 can be moved but I think they like everyone else.
Rangers ok this season and next but have no cushion at all
due to Fox 9.5 extension starting
we sell Strome + Geo for picks, McKegg + Boczinski not reupped, a little finesse here and there and we are good
but as I have said repeatedly
we can not add anybody until Trouba's 8m per is moved.
Monahan will be a Ranger. It is inevitable.
nope he's all yours
I don’t blame you for not wanting to move Schneider but you can’t expect to land a player like Miller or Horvat and not give up a valuable piece that the other team needs.
fine
we don't expect to add Miller, Horvat, Hertl, etc
we will make due internally by promoting Barron
Could find a forward for cheaper than Buchnevich's 6-7m (I forget which it is)
Also Kravtsov stinks
May be the issue
bold is totally wrong
he set KHL record and has obvious talent
We traded him for no reason, well, future cap casualty. But they could've just traded him at the deadline or after the season, there was no reason to rush that trade (which was lackluster, and I like Blais). I guess Drury thought he'd get Eichel or he's just a dummy. I'm leaning towards dummy.
He signed Nemeth for 3 years at a pretty high caphit when we got Zac Jones who's literally NHL ready. Just because we were going to pair him with a Swedish rookie (Lundkvist) which is dumb AF. Lundkvist speaks English and Zibanejad is a fellow swede on the team.
Buch - I like Blais but if EDM was prior willing to go 10OA ish we should have gone there coupla seasons ago instead of holding him, esp since it was clear as day we would eventually have to yield to cap reality and deal him.
Nemeth is generally playing well and is a good short term fit for Nils L.
We can move him in like 2 years.
Jones is close enuf to ready but his value will be upped if we wait and develop before showcasing.
Nils is still adjusting to NHL size rink and is the keeper here.
He is the only one of the bunch with a laser of a shot.
The Avs have a slightly used Tyson Jost for Drury.
nope, he's all yours
That’s a fair assessment of Lindgren at this point. Chance he becomes a #2 in his own right, but he’s really solid on the top pair because of how well he complements Fox. He’s also only 23 and on a pretty good deal with 2 years left after this. Don’t see the rangers looking to move him. Even if they were, is Vilardi worth that type of d-man right now?
Most would be opposed to moving Lindy due to effectiveness and chemistry w/Fox and a good price for the next 3 seasons.
I would say it depends on the return, and it would have to be a solid 1st.
Vilardi is no guarantee, but at 11OA he is a prudent risk.
Of worth noting, Rangers have a larger version of Lindgren in Robertson, who could prob step in now if needed.
LA has an abundance of picks and prospects to give out if Vilardi wasn't enough to get the job done.
You can slide Lindgren alongside Doughty and he's young enough to mentor a guy like Clarke when he gets called up.
Also I don't follow the Rangers close enough but with the loss of Lindgren couldn't someone like Hajek come in and take his spot? Or does he suck.
Hajek on his best day is not Lindgren.
H is not as bad as he is being maligned.
Howev, there is no denying that after looking 111% like the real deal his first 4 games, he injured his shoulder, and NY mgmt screwed it up big time.
I could understand a drop off, but the guy went from an eye opener to what he is now.
That said, if a team wanted him at buy how, if he could turn the switch back on, he's worth a cheap play.
Hajek should be moved in any event b'c NY has several guys ahead of him on depth chart so we should be moved
Doing Lindgren for Villardi in some form enables NY to give exposure to Jones/Reunanen while Robertson gets top LD mins in the A
Bern post 58 was interesting and only your opinion that the rangers will not trade youth for vets and i respect your opinion but the op was asking for vets so this thread is based on the opinion If you have a issue its with him not me for proposing the vets.
If u recall i have suported ur free speech in other thread even defending it at one point. I am the same we can disagree and be civil to each other as i think i have always been to u.
Vilardi is not have issues making the team He was on covid protocall which he was sent down to get back in shape from. So no issues making the team. Its actually because of him I am offering AA so he can have a top 6 spot when he comes back. AA is not a big salary add hes only 2.7 Kempe is even cheaper at 2 Let not pretend either is a big salary add my friend ur better then that
@KingTech you and I are totally good and I have no issue with y0u whatsoever; I gather that is the same.
As to the OP.
my assertion is not just based on/to OP.
If we trade cheaper youth for vets, once the crush hits next year, we are effed. We would have to pay more to vets than elc/rfas
We do not have a surplus of elc blue chips, other than maybe Jones [because we have Fox as high end QB D].
This ^^^ is true across the board regardless of what deal is proposed and who the poster is.
As to "Vilardi is not have issues making the team" I apologize and retract, but pls do know I was misinformed.
As I said, the source was Yardbarker, I think quoting Larry Brooks, an established, senior NYR beat writer.
The wording of the article was to that effect.
As to something very small for something very small, that is not a problem, as long as, noting the upcoming issue next year that I identified, it is an expiring contract coming back b'c we can't take on more salary next season.
That being the case, we are talking about an inexpensive rental.
I am open to developing AA or similar for similar, and welcome your further thoughts.
It would be a good time for the Leafs to unload Kerfoot and his 3.5 million dollar salary.
Kerfoot is not of interest to NYR, unless they want to upgrade to Strome who, being he is a favorite son from TOR who grew up a Leafs fan and may give them a break and extend now at 5ish, all of which can be worked out in advance, they can do Strome at half for a 1st and something like Kerfoot for Hajek.
Rangers then flip Kerfoot for pick or prospect.
