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Drury had a boatload of accrued cap space at the deadline last March.
Drury had no money this summer.
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Drury had a boatload of accrued cap space at the deadline last March.
Drury had no money this summer.
The Rangers had $3.5M this summer for Zacha?
The Rangers had no money. The Rangers still have no money. The Rangers are having issues with injuries. Kravtsov can't stay healthy. Sending him to the AHL on a conditioning assignment isn't alleviating the Rangers salary cap issues. Lindgren has an upper body injury. If he misses a few weeks, Hajek will play and the Rangers will be hoping they don't lose another D because they don't have space for a call up from the AHL.
pld459666
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Then he'd be equally fine with another season w/o a cup
I take your point, but Jersey took back Haula for Zacha. A deal for Zacha could have been structured to work with our cap constraints.
irishlaxburger2
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He’s also doing himself no favors in trying to increase cap space.
Get rid of Reaves, Goodrow, Blais, or Hajek? Nope!
Play Rydahl - who you can paper transact at no cost to him and no waivers - instead of Carpenter? Nope!
There are fairly small yet important decisions that could open up space without making our team worse that Drury isn’t even trying.
pld459666
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If we had the cap space we should be giving Cuylle a look on the 4th line in place of Reaves. We need more movement on that 4th line right now. Reaves should be playing sparingly
Who is taking those players? The Rangers need to have more 6 D on the roster. Hajek makes $50,000 more than the NHL minimum.
Teams needed to attach assets to move players.
Why don’t we call up Dominique and send down Halek. That will give us some cap space. Carpenter send down he is useless then bring up someone that can be a paper transaction. I really doubt Halek gets picked up. What team wants a goalie at 1.5 million who is terrible and can’t be trusted to play bottom teams like Arizona. Dominique will give us a better effort than Halek.
irishlaxburger2
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Hajek can be waived and we can find someone better at the same salary.
Carpenter can be waived and Rydahl can be called up (and also "sent down" on off days).
I wouldn't hate attaching a Draft pick to drop Goodrow on someone. Even late 2nd round picks have less than a 25% of becoming NHLers. That's not a big price to pay to open up that amount of salary. Same could be said for Blais.
There are far cheaper alternatives out there that can actually improve this roster *and* increase our cap space pretty considerably.
This team has a 3 year window while Shesterkin still has a relatively low % of overall cap hit. The fact we're just wasting salary at the bottom of the lineup while many other contenders have $5M+ projected for the deadline means we're just making non-competitive decisions along the fringes. All because making these moves would necessitate Chris Drury to actually fall on the sword and admit these were bad acquisitions in the first place.
It's one thing to make bad acquisitions. It's quite another to hold them longer than needed simply out of spite. He needs to learn to cut his losses and face the music.
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Halak has a NMC. If you think Domingue is better than Halak I have a 50 foot wrister with 5 minutes left in a tied game to show you.
Halak is so terrible yet the Rangers could never score on him...Ullmark must be bad too.
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It cost us 2 picks (a 2nd in 2025 and Arizona's choice of a 3rd in 2024 or a 2nd in 2026) to dump 2 years of Nemeth @ 2.5 mil.
Goodrow has actual value, but that doesn't mean other teams are looking to take on his contract for the next 4 1/2 years. He also has a 15 team NTC, so he could block a trade to any team that actually has cap space.
Next summer we have options, especially if the cap goes up significantly.
Glen Sathers Cigar
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An upgrade for the 3rd pair is the most pressing need on this team right now. We all want to love Jones but he really hasn't been good. Schneider has struggled as well and Hajek is Hajek.
I think we need to add a veteran who can anchor that pair and then rotate the kids in. I just don't know who or how we add anyone who would fit the mould considering the cap situation.
It's a shame Giordano signed his cheap deal in Toronto, he would've been perfect.
I think we need to add a veteran who can anchor that pair and then rotate the kids in. I just don't know who or how we add anyone who would fit the mould considering the cap situation.
It's a shame Giordano signed his cheap deal in Toronto, he would've been perfect.
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Boston isn't as good as their first 10 games have shown. They've started out hot and have a great top 6.
Their team is old. I just don't see them keeping this up through March and April of next year.
Florida may miss this year if your Atlantic teams are Boston, Toronto, Buffalo, and Tampa.
Their team is old. I just don't see them keeping this up through March and April of next year.
Florida may miss this year if your Atlantic teams are Boston, Toronto, Buffalo, and Tampa.
irishlaxburger2
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It doesn't necessarily have to be because of Jones or Schneider's poor play either. A dependable veteran 7th defenseman can help mentor them and also provides depth for a potential injury somewhere (ie. Lindgren). It also holds the top 4 accountable because that player could ideally slot in if one of them has a rough stretch.
It's what we need for multiple reasons, not just because of potential Schneider/Jones development lapses.
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irishlaxburger2
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It's not just competing with Boston alone. Boston is simply a team that's on a hot streak currently that also happens to match our top end talent level *and* have much better depth.
Whether it's Boston or another team built similarly, we're going to run into someone like that come playoff time who also happens to be hot. And if those types of teams also have additional space at the deadline too, the gap widens further.
It's not about closing the gap with just Boston. It's about closing the gap with the true contenders because others will also exist elsewhere(see also - Tampa and Colorado last year). We're not built for it currently and we're also not accruing the cap space for it either. We're going to continue to be a middle of the road playoff team unless some restructuring takes place. And I don't think the restructuring needs to happen at the top of the lineup either. It's fixing the cheap areas.
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PuckLuck3043
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And we are screwed if Lindgren is out for an extended period. Hopefully he's ok.
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Boston has great depth though.up front and on the back end.great special teams too. If they get average goaltending in the playoffs,they will be a tough out for anyone
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Agreed.
I just wonder who the potential target could even be. I wonder if they could trade Hajek and a low pick for someone.
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We needed Carpenter.
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the problem is that the bottom 6, especially without Chytil, are literally incapable of scoring.
At a minimum Reaves and Carpenter and probably Blais too have to be upgraded to useful players. Reaves is useless. Carpenter isn't as bad and I'd probably keep him as a 13F. Blais f***ing sucks. Both sides of the ice he has absolutely no ability. I'm sure he's still trying to recover from not playing for almost a year but holy shit he adds NOTHING. No skill, no puck control, sucks ass on the boards, doesn't shoot, all he does is hit. And he's on a line full of players that are just as bad at those things.
At a minimum Reaves and Carpenter and probably Blais too have to be upgraded to useful players. Reaves is useless. Carpenter isn't as bad and I'd probably keep him as a 13F. Blais f***ing sucks. Both sides of the ice he has absolutely no ability. I'm sure he's still trying to recover from not playing for almost a year but holy shit he adds NOTHING. No skill, no puck control, sucks ass on the boards, doesn't shoot, all he does is hit. And he's on a line full of players that are just as bad at those things.
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