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Speculation: Roster Building Thread - Off-season Part I

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NYR2007 said:
This is what a lot of people aren’t talking about. I know the rangers were tired at the end there but they got completely shut down after game 2. I don’t know if it’s coaching or players.

We also are gonna need more speed, it was a issue during the season.
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Improved off-seasons with our kids getting faster should help. Kravtsov, too. The intensity and motor is what guys need.
 
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NYR2007 said:
This is what a lot of people aren’t talking about. I know the rangers were tired at the end there but they got completely shut down after game 2. I don’t know if it’s coaching or players.

We also are gonna need more speed, it was a issue during the season.
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Injuries and playing game 7's played a large role. I think we also had an emotional dump at times. You are right we need more speed. We also need more physical players and an ability to win faceoffs. Winning faceoffs plays a large role in PP and PK. The bottom line is our guys played their hearts out but ran in to a better team. People want to say we made the ECF we are almost there and that is true but we also got dominated by Pitt in some games and could easily have went out in the first round.
 
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Revenue will approach $6B soon.

What are the latest estimations for the debt to be paid off? 2024-2025? is that the season the cap takes off and approaches $100M?
 
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Anthony5967 said:
Improved off-seasons with our kids getting faster should help. Kravtsov, too. The intensity and motor is what guys need.
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I think we have just as many guys that could decline as get better. Looking at our forwards, Krav will be a rookie. Laf will improve. Will Chytil and KK? I do not know yet. Will CK get better or decline? Will Bread get better or decline? Are we re-signing Copp, Strome, Valtrano and Motte? I do not know if they have much room to grow.
 
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I think we have just as many guys that could decline as get better. Looking at our forwards, Krav will be a rookie. Laf will improve. Will Chytil and KK? I do not know yet. Will CK get better or decline? Will Bread get better or decline? Are we re-signing Copp, Strome, Valtrano and Motte? I do not know if they have much room to grow.
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Krav will improve
Laf will improve
Kakko will improve
Chytil will minimally improve
Kreider will decline
Panarin will decline
Copp, Strome, Vatrano are gone
Small chance Motte resigns
 
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QJL said:
Krav will improve
Laf will improve
Kakko will improve
Chytil will minimally improve
Kreider will decline
Panarin will decline
Copp, Strome, Vatrano are gone
Small chance Motte resigns
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Hopefully Krav is better than someone on the top 3 lines. Cant say improve because we really havent seen him play enough yet.
 
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It's not the usual for a team to miss the playoffs 4 years in a row--all the while doing a lot of turnover and then go all the way and win a championship. This was good really and IMO it's a little whacky to be griping about falling short. It really never works like out of the playoffs for several years and then win the Cup in one go. Winning the game 7's is great but also 20 hard games in 40 nights and no team is going to have some stinkers sometimes doing in that way.....because for one thing some of the games you'll be chasing. By the time we hit Tampa we were also playing injured players and no way Strome should have been playing at the end and his injury certainly played a part in making Panarin and Copp less effective. How couldn't it? Strome must have been in agony the last 3 games anyway.

The best way to look at these playoffs was a learning experience particularly for Shesterkin, Fox, Lindgren, Miller, Schneider, Chytil, Lafreniere and Kakko who either had the 3 games against Carolina a couple years back or no playoff experience at all.

Looking at the Rangers power play. No reason to think that it won't score a lot of goals again next year at least if the main actors stay healthy. Maybe Kreider will score less goals but really the ones he scored this year were more often than not because of the playmaking by Fox, Panarin and Mika and Kreider just was the beneficiary of all that. Tap ins, deflections, rebounds. Mostly he just needed to get his stick on the puck after the other guys twisted the D and G into pretzels. Maybe he will score less but if that's the case it's because Mika is scoring more. The playmaking of Panarin and Fox is not likely going to get worse....if anything those two will be better because it's what Panarin does best of everything and because Fox is just getting better anyway.
 
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Monahan is just a short term Strome with a massive injury history.

Why? For real its not an upgrade and theres a solid chance that he sits on his ass and does nothing for most of the season because he wont be healthy enough.
 
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I think since the Rangers are awful at faceoffs Brian Boyle back on a 1 year deal would be useful to this team. He can still play
 
Monahan was way better than Strome ever was before he got injured. not a bad buy low idea.
 
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