Speculation: Roster Building Thread LXIV: Less than 24 hours till draft time

[GoAwayPanarin]

I’m so baffled by the Strome situation. Do they really think an arbitrator will reward him with less than 4.6 where they can’t walk away? In my mind I see him closer to 5-5.25. Idk just really odd.

Right on cue:

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Honestly very impressed that Lafreniere doesn’t have a Twitter account, although that would probably be a nightmare for someone with that much hype.

Eh, Twitter is more for politicians these days...all the celebrities and athletes are on IG, like him.

 

[Avery16]

That is not what I asked you. Or even close to it.

After you answer the actual question, please let me know how paying Strome prevents you form acquiring (trade or sign is same thing is it not?) a 70 point player.

Neither you nor I have any idea of what management believes. You clearly believe that he will not get that many. Fine. But even if he gets 50, who friggin' cares? There are extremely few second line centers that have that may points. And what money are they making?

My fantasy reconstruction? Was he or was he not trending to 70 points when the season got cut short? Should we look at what his points per game was?

Hope you can enjoy today. Take care.

 

[True Blue]

Gauthier just needs to learn how to play both ways. No one is going to trust him with any mins until he figures that out. Love everything I see from that kid as soon as he passes the redline but I can’t blame quinn for not giving him more mins when he could care less what happens in the d zone. He could be a Chris Kreider if he figures it out. Really could. Maybe even stronger. But he really doesn’t want to learn to play both ways it’s going to be an issue for him

I just think that in general, Gauthier needs to figure out the type of player he wants to be.

But as of right now, I agree with you that he has not shown Quinn what is needed to garner more playing time.

 

[Off Sides]

The only thing I think makes any sense concerning not qualifying Strome is I think his ~3.2M qualifier whether signed or not would count against the cap.

Even if they were afraid of arbitration they could always retain up to half of whatever he received and trade him for something then. Strome at even ~5M with enough retained to get that to ~3M gets them an asset.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

Just more signs pointing to Strome and (maybe) Tony being gone

 

[True Blue]

Hope you can enjoy today. Take care.

To you as well. Not being able to provide responses is your usual color.

 

[Avery16]

This seems like something to consider before committing 4+ million to a player like Strome.

 

[Adam Fox Time]

I don't think the Rangers should rush to get a 2C just to get a 2C.

Let things play out and wait for a great center to have a falling out with his team. Ryan O'Reilly would be perfect right now, but he was obviously traded while the Rangers were at the beginning of their rebuild.

 

[aufheben]

Eh, Twitter is more for politicians these days...all the celebrities and athletes are on IG, like him.

I’m cool with Instagram. Athletes still use Twitter but yeah Instagram seems more popular with them.

 

[NYRKING30]

Right on cue:

Yes I just saw Frank Seravalli’s tweet about this. Now I guess it makes sense.

 

[Anthony5967]

It's designed to be lol

The moguls who made it are yucking it up daily.

 

[True Blue]

Detroit won't move Larkin, right?

Not unless there's a king's ransom involved. I mean what would you possibly offer them for him that would get them thinking?

 

[Kovalev27]

Just more signs pointing to Strome and (maybe) Tony being gone

rangers could sign them both no problem. This is silly.

but they won’t at least one of these two guys is going to be gone just feels like it’s coming

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

 

[CTRanger]

Obscured by clouds is the chillest Floyd album imo

but I like the atom heart mother mention

the gold it’s in the...

 

[duhmetreE]

4th line physical presence that makes a team tougher to play against. Not sure how Grabner fills that need.

The only thing tough about that would be watching him play

 

[TheBloodyNine]

Lmfao what??? A 1st round pick for them

"Hey listen, we REALLY need to get rid of these guys, I mean like ASAP...give us a 1st rounder."

I guess it never hurts to ask?

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

thats not the competition we need. What role would he fill? Enforcer?

Grabner makes sense. Simmonds does not. Grabner can still skate and PK.

Would take Grabs over Simmonds in a heartbeat. However if we were guaranteed to get the Simmonds from 5 years ago I would gladly take that instead. But thats not the reality and you cant take that risk

 

[Kaapo Bustfreniere]

Rangers are on the clock. (...) And we have a trade! New York Rangers trade their 1st overall draft pick in 2020, Anthony DeAngelo and Ryan Strome to Colorado Avalanche for Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar.

Seriously, something needs to happen soon. You can already see I am losing my mind.

 

[nyr2k2]

I don’t see it with Brisson. At all. He can’t skate and I don’t like the factor with his dad being a mega agent within the sport.

Holloway is a fine pick at 22. He would not have been at the Rangers original slot though.

His skating is fine, bordering on good, and he'll do everything else well.

I don't know why his dad being an agent matters. Guys whose dads are coaches, GMs, and other team personnel are drafted all the time.

He'll come out of college in a few years and a lot of teams will be kicking themselves for passing on him.

 

[NYRangers0723]

Would be awesome if one of Jarvis, Holloway, Mercer, Brisson fell to 22

22

Absolutely. For whatever reason I feel we might trade up to ensure we have a couple choices at C.

 

[duhmetreE]

@GAGLine right now

 

[Off Sides]

That says they could send players to the minors to remove bonuses, I know the Rangers will not do it, yet some other team would probably just start a couple players who have large possible bonuses in the minors.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Go away LA