Speculation: Roster Building/Rumor Thread XVIII

[NYblades]

Better than signing Danault for 6x6 or I guess we can role with Strome for another year and deal with the 2c/3c next year

Who knows maybe Gallant could elevate Chytil's game.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Danault is looking for something like $6M per. The Rangers have $6M for a checking center?

He's a shutdown checking center that can score 50 points and win faceoffs.

 

[Ola]

The issue with swimming through content here is that a fair amount of HF minds would support DeAngelo and Virtanen, it’s just a video game world.

Anyone who wants Virtanen is an idiot for multiple reasons. This organization just bought out a player who had locker room issues, now you wanna bring in a guy who allegedly raped a woman? Seriously? And number 2, Virtanen sucks.

I think the situations are different though. Virtanen in all likelihood will be back playing hockey sooner rather than later and his problems will more or less be forgotten just like Pat Kane’s and many others were.

We really do not know if he has done anything wrong. It’s unfortunate that if he has done something wrong — there is like a 90% that he wouldn’t have been convicted. But you cannot just black list someone forever just because he has become subject to an accusation that may or may not be true.

If an accusation is made several years after something supposedly happen it’s more or less impossible to get any further than word against word. In all liklihood he will be cleared and that is that.

I also think it’s a bit distasteful that Virtanen is somewhat sentenced beforehand in Vancouver due him not being popular in Vancouver. Maybe that is incorrect, but it is the feeling I got. Would Elias Petersson have been threated the same way if he became subject to an accusation that he claimed to be 100% incorrect? This doesn’t matter in any relevant context, but it just annoyed me a little.

 

[LaffyTaffyNYR]

I'm kinda expecting Strome to still be the 2C at this point when the season starts.. Then again we could trade him for Deslauriers

 

[Machinehead]

I'm kinda expecting Strome to still be the 2C at this point when the season starts..

I'm afraid they're going to "he has chemistry with Panarin" themselves into a contract extension.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

Makar just got 9 he can take 9 as well. To remain home and play for the team he loves. I’m sure he will

Hoping for even less.

Fox's skating is a tad bit weaker than Makar's.

 

[bl02]

Who knows maybe Gallant could elevate Chytil's game.

I think he can and Chytil still has promise no doubt but if we all want Strome gone we need another center and at decent cost

 

[LaffyTaffyNYR]

I'm afraid they're going to "he has chemistry with Panarin" themselves into a contract extension.

well at this point they dont have many options.

 

[bl02]

Hoping for even less.

Fox's skating is a tad bit weaker than Makar's.

True and Fox does some things better than Makar can’t go wrong with either so around same deal makes sense

 

[Fitzy]

I'm afraid they're going to "he has chemistry with Panarin" themselves into a contract extension.

If it's a reasonable extension like 5x5 It's not a big deal.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Yes. Yes we do.

No. No we don't. 9 mil for 7-8 years would be fair.

 

[TheKing30]

Would love Danault just worried about those last couple years on his contract assuming he gets 6

 

[LaffyTaffyNYR]

If we give Zibanejad 10.

Fox should get 15

McDavid should get 22

When does it stop?

 

[Machinehead]

well at this point they dont have many options.

Promoting Chytil or trading Chytil for a 2c is an option. And they should do one or the other.

 

[LOFIN]

Makar just got 9 he can take 9 as well. To remain home and play for the team he loves. I’m sure he will

Makar also took 6 years. I'm pretty sure both Fox and the Rangers are looking for max term, 8 years. That drives up the AAV.

 

[bl02]

Would love Danault just worried about those last couple years on his contract assuming he gets 6

You should be worried

 

[Machinehead]

Stop lowballing Fox!

 

[Mac n Gs]

Dvorak again?

I have never seen this board so obsessed with such an irrelevant player.

I think people love the idea of what he is rather than you know…what he actually is. He’s not this magical two-way player that people think he is, and if he didn’t ride shotgun to Tkachuk and Marner in London, he wouldn’t even be half as relevant as he is today.
He’s like a fine 3C that has way too much term and doesn’t produce anywhere near where his contract warrants. Given what people are proposing to trade for him, it’s an absolutely terrible move.

 

[bl02]

Promoting Chytil or trading Chytil for a 2c is an option. And they should do one or the other.

Man that hurts. I would like some names of who would be coming back to fill that 2c slot preferable cost controlled and early to mid 20s

 

[Fitzy]

No. No we don't. 9 mil for 7-8 years would be fair.

With the kind of borderline UFA level deals young dmen are signing right now, they'd have to play serious hardball with Fox to keep the number down.

It's aggravating because it feels like teams aren't hardly saving a penny from RFA protection any more. The next CBA needs to address this because it's making good drafting less and less important.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

Lafrenière-Zibanejad-Kakko
Panarin-Strome-Kravtsov
Kreider-Chytil-Goodrow
Barron-Rooney-Blais
Gauthier

Lindgren-Fox
Miller-Trouba
Reunanen-Lundkvist
Hajek

Shestyorkin
Georgiev

This can go either way really ... either it clicks and we make the playoffs or this a top 10 pick in the making.

We have to trade Strome for a 2022 first, somehow. xD Let Chytil and Barron slide up.

 

[Machinehead]

Man that hurts. I would like some names of who would be coming back to fill that 2c slot preferable cost controlled and early to mid 20s

Chytil is a 2C who's cost controlled and in his early the mid 20's. If you want somebody better, you pay $6+ for it.

We're always after imaginary players.

 

[NYblades]

Promoting Chytil or trading Chytil for a 2c is an option. And they should do one or the other.

What's the rush, why not see how Chytil performs under Gallant's system, and then look to the trade deadline if need be.

 

[Machinehead]

What's the rush, why not see how Chytil performs under Gallant's system, and then look to the trade deadline if need be.

There's no rush.

Just don't extend Strome. Not even 5x5. If we're doing that, we could give Danault the 6x6 he wants. He's better at everything.

 

[bl02]

Chytil is a 2C who's cost controlled and in his early the mid 20's. If you want somebody better, you pay $6+ for it.

We're always after imaginary players.

And we can't do that. That is my point. We can not sign a 29/30 year old center 6X6.