Speculation: Roster Building Thread LII: Countdown to Free Agency

[Machinehead]

Did you see the **** eating grin on his face after they chose Kakko?

I did not

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

Panarin also has a condo in Florida.

That’s a Russian obligation once you have 5 mil in the bank

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

Glad you guys represented well!

Where’s Booger, Lamar, Lewis, and Gilbert?

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

I did not

 

[Machinehead]

This is the wholesome content I signed up for

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

Had an awesome time at draft weekend with @Amazing Kreiderman @Inferno & James!!!

 

[BobMarleyNYR]

What do you mean by "When"

I get what he's saying...

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

Nut punch defense in effect

 

[Uncle Dru]

Had an awesome time at draft weekend with @Amazing Kreiderman @Inferno & James!!!

Nice to put a face to the man/legend who made bozo one of the most popular terms on HF!

 

[Bob Richards]

Nut punch defense in effect

JD must have iron balls

 

[QJL]

Panarin also has a condo in Florida.

And a girlfriend in NYC.

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

JD must have iron balls

Hé started off in the no mask era, of course!

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

And a girlfriend in NYC.

And an unspecified in Brooklyn

 

[kovazub94]

One of my main arguments to pursue Panarin is that if Kreider is moved then after Zibanejad and Buchnevich there’s a huge drop in talent to Strome, Namestnikov and Fast among the team’s vets. I’m so not intrigued by the likes of Brassard, Spezza or Fippula to provide appropriate support for our prospects. If Panarin is not signed then what? Here’s where I’m going: how much more expensive would be Pavelsky for 3 years if he was willing to come over? The Rangers would lose some cap flexibility but I’d love to have him on so many levels based on everything that he could bring.

 

[NYR Viper]

Pavelski wants a Cup. He’s not signing in NY

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

It's always interesting to see how foreign players respond. You can see Kakko keeps inhaling before he answers. Zuccarello always exhales before answering.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

I have two requests:


A) I want to see a picture of Kakko, Kravtsov, K'Andre and Shesterkin together to put as my background
B) I want to see a conversation between Kakko and Buchnevich

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Had an awesome time at draft weekend with @Amazing Kreiderman @Inferno & James!!!

This needs to be photoshopped into the first one pronto

 

[kovazub94]

Pavelski wants a Cup. He’s not signing in NY

Ergo, “if he was willing to come over”, also it hasn’t stopped us from discussing Panarin for months straight and I haven’t heard a definitive that the Rangers were off Pavelski’s list.

 

[wafflepadsave]

I will post this in the draft thread as well. Certainly reassuring for someone like me who wanted other choices.

 

[bobbop]

What do you mean by "When"

I don’t think it’s the done deal everyone thinks it is.

Bob doesn’t have a lot of options. Panarin does.

 

[LORDE]

I said this a little while back but I’ll repeat because it’s more appropriate now.

Starting a rebuild is easy. Trading away vet players for picks is a no brainer (obv making those picks is harder)

We are now entering that REALLY hard phase tho... where a little mistake can be magnified. We have already traded a few picks for players (Fox, Trouba). Do those moves work out? We are getting to the point where we have to make decisions on prospects and kids and that’s really where the rubber meets the road.

I have zero complaints so far. But this is where we either turn water to wine or we spin our wheels in the mud.

 

[Good Intentions]

Bumping a few of my thoughts from the p.5 post in the thread and adding prospect ranking/19-20 lineup -

...To land one of the ‘safest picks’ (Robertson) at 49 is an ‘A level’ swing. This pick feels like a Gorton/old Sather-Clark connects with the old-school Alberta trust. As I mentioned prior, the TSN best case comp for Trouba is no mistake - have to love the continuity in pointing to a vet to model after.

while we were all (myself included) having an aneurysm over DAL1 and that Game 7 vs St. Louis, I would bet you a good sum that Robertson would have been the pick at #30 too. It’s a good reminder that every team has their list, we were lucky he fell to 49 but the bottom line is we got our guy without moving up etc

How deep have we become? Lias is barely making my top 10 ranking - and 9 of those 12 are in this year’s lineup to some extent (1 Kakko, 2 Kravtsov, 3 Shesterkin, 4 Chytil, 5 Fox, 6 K’Andre, 7 Hajek, 8 Lundkvist, 9 Howden, 10 Lias, 11 Georgiev, 12 Lindgren

 

[Rangerfan4life90]

Bumping a few of my thought from the p.5 post in the thread and adding prospect ranking/19-20 lineup -

...To land one of the ‘safest picks’ (Robertson) at 49 is an ‘A level’ swing. This pick feels like a Gorton/old Sather-Clark connects with the old-school Alberta trust. As I mentioned prior, the TSN best case comp for Trouba is no mistake - have to love the continuity in pointing to a vet to model after.

while we were all (myself included) having an aneurysm over DAL1 and that Game 7 vs St. Louis, I would bet you a good sum that Robertson would have been the pick at #30 too. It’s a good reminder that every team has their list, we were lucky he fell to 49 but the bottom line is we got our guy without moving up etc

How deep have we become? Lias is barely making my top 10 ranking - and 9 of those 12 are in this year’s lineup to some extent (1 Kakko, 2 Kravtsov, 3 Shesterkin, 4 Chytil, 5 Fox, 6 K’Andre, 7 Hajek, 8 Lundkvist, 9 Howden, 10 Lias, 11 Georgiev, 12 Lindgren

Do you think Robertson could have even been drafted with the #20 pick if we kept it, or too high for him there?