Rangers do not need another winger. They need a center. Especially with Kakko back. They cannot take a wing only like Kaliyev. Also doubt Kaliyev can play in bottom six effectively so think he is the wrong target
I think you just move Lindgren in a hockey trade for another dman that is better at moving the puck around. Skillset swap deal. Also maybe you can trade him to a team that will want his RFA control for a guy they are about to lose in FA.
Agree with the theory, but not with the suggestions. Not that I have any better ones. I assume either way the piece acquired back would come extended, otherwise it's essentially a cap dump.
I mean, the Rangers need to dump cap so I am okay with it at this stage. Don't really care if the guy back is extended or not. You probably aren't getting a guy on an ELC and you probably around getting a guy with term making less than Lindgren; so you need to get the best guy back as possible and kind of worry about the rest later. They 100% need to trade Lindgren, but what they need back is a better LHD than Lindgren; so you make a hockey trade for a guy with a different skill set. Rangers don't have a Dman internally that they can slot in if they move Lindgren for a forward
You won't get that back and I don't want to move Chytil [want to reform kid line w/Cuylle at LW]
The issue becomes who slots in next year? I was hopeful that could be Zac Jones but his development has stalled big time in the past year. I'm not paying Gryzelyk or however you spell his name $4 million. This defensive corps needs a Ryan McDonagh like player really badly.
Certainly a fair question. Think you can try and do a couple of more one year type deals to see if you get lightning in a bottle. By that point you may have to trade a guy to make room for Othmann, so maybe you can find a forward to swap out. At this point you may as well float prospects and/or draft picks for that guy but those answers are not coming from within. Even so, you cannot double down on that mistake by extending Lindgren and locking into this roster. Have to look around though. Think you will have more options by the offseason. I mean I am on the record that I would try and trade Igor, so maybe you can get a Dman or two back from that. Either way going to have to get creative.
Do you agree that Miller and Trouba, both have been horrible defensively this year? Everybody else on here pretty much agrees with that. Fox, Gus and Jones are offense first defensemen. And you want to trade Lindgren for a guy with a different skill set? Who the hell is supposed to play defense on this team, just Schneider? Drury caused this problem by the way he built this defense. I guess he expected Trouba to be better and Miller to grow his defensive ability. You can't fix it until the summer unless you want to trade Miller now. I'm all for trading Lindgren in the off season when the whole D can be overhauled.
I think Trouba is bad this year and he is dragging Miller down. I don't really care to talk about who is offense first/who is defense first. Trouba and Lindgren and nothing first. You can say they are supposedly to be the defensive guys but they haven't done that well either. Schneider is weird to me. I look at him and somehow I think he is better offensive and worse defensive than he is supposed to be, but unlike the other guys he has gotten better this year because Gus is helping him out. Its a shame that Jones doesn't get any burn because he helps the teams biggest problem in that they cannot move the puck. Thought this was pretty apparent when they were streaking when Fox was out. But if they aren't going to play Jones, my theory is you replace Lindgren with a better version of Jones (like Gositisbehere) the team uplevels.
I'm the biggest Fox fan going but he's not a great defensive player defending the rush. He's slow and small. He's very good in our end and on the PK because he's so smart and instinctive. But he's offense first which he's supposed to be. All I hear in the game threads is about how bad are defenseman play defense. So everybody wants to trade for another offensive defenseman. Yea, that's the answer.
Again, I'm not looking to extend Lindgren but like I said weeks ago when I started arguing with guys about this, trade him in the summer because at this point, Drury has made him a necessary evil by having Jones and Gus as our 6 and 7. You have to have balance. And Trouba, who is supposed to be the lockdown guy, playing like crap certainly isn't helping the situation.
But Lindgren isn't giving that balance either because he is cratering. His value isn’t getting higher at this point. It’s only going down.
According to who? I know the coaches are aware that he sucks offensively. You can tell by the usage. He doesn't play 4 on 4 with Fox. Gus does. He never sees the ice in OT. And when we are behind in the 3rd period, he misses shifts. And yet, he's out there every time we are defending when the other team has an empty net and on the PK. He's a role player. The coaches don't trust the other guys in that role. Which is my point. Drury caused this by his roster composition. He didn't give the coaches many options. Jones is a waste of a roster spot and there is nobody in Hartford.
He thinks Trouba is better than Fox. Neither pair of good right now, but the idea of it annoys me more than the results.
Agree with you that Drury “caused” the situation due to roster construction but:
