Says who? Jones was fine in the limited role this season. At the same time Gustafsson doesn't have a contract for next year. Same's for Lindgren (RFA with one more year who has underperformed for his role). That's potentially TWO open spots on LW with no shoe-in options including from Hartford.
Terrible? Did they pass on better options - were they forced make in-Conference trade for lesser value?
If Drury wants to test Shesterkin mental fortitude he doesn't approach him for the whole year keeping him in suspension till the last moment. Better yet - send an insulting offer using Georgiev as comparable lol.
Respectfully disagree on that. Dont think it passes the eye test or the fancy stats test too me. Giving up way too many SOG too. I think you can get some term bandaids at forward but the defense, especially long term; does not inspire me with confidence
That means Vatrano or Henrique offers are not as lucrative as have been suggested.
Igor is the contract I wait on. Kk and Schneider come first. We survived with Igor being mid.
Sooner the better. The price will only go up.
They should have waited another few days.
Not you, obviously
Zegras is signed for 5.75 for the next 2 years.For bolded I think you meat to write "while significantly weakening the team". Also taking into account uncertainty about Chytil's recovery you'd potentially be looking at Trocheck - Zegras - Brodzinski - Goodrow center position (where's throw-up emoji when you need one). Found it
Good, I hope Anaheim keeps Frank, that would be excellent.
This team would take a significant step back all around flipping Mika for Zegras.
Don't mean to split hairs, but Mika has 6 years left after this one. Six short years.
Rangers are 20th in 5v5 GF/60. So yeah they could use more scoring. Plus they are 22nd in xG/60 so it's not that they have been unlucky.
Not sure but since the outcome of the game is determined by GPG, not EV or 5v5 GPG, I'm not sure how that impacts my point. I'd love the team to score more goals, and give up fewer of course, at ALL strengths, but my point is that this team does in fact score goals. Vali was remarking how we have 5 players with 15+ goals... that ain't bad. Two at 30 or better.
I’m also kind of nervous about a Shesterkin contract considering this team’s luck with goalies.
They could use more 5v5 scoring, sure. But they don't count any more than any other goals. And this team scores them. To the tune of eighth highest in the league.
What happens if we play a series against a team that doesn’t take a lot of penalties?
