Roster Building Thread - Part XI (Off-season edition)

[NYR Viper]

Beyond Blueger, is there another decent but reasonable cost center available this offseason? With Chytil and his injury concerns, I’m sure Drury will look to backfill with at least a better 4C I would think. Brodzinski is really the ideal 13th forward based on cap hit and versatility.


If you told me that Drury traded Goodrow and signed Blueger at 2 years for $2.2m I’d be pretty happy with that.

 

[effen]

Max Domi is garbage as evidenced by him being available every year for the last 5 years in a league where teams keep everyone.

He has all the shit parts of being chippy with none of the good parts. He has good passing instincts I guess but is one of the worst goal scorers in the league. Just the what Rangers could use, more passes who can't finish.

 

[Savant]

Gotta look at other bad contracts
Laine and Gudbranson from CLB for example
Trouba , Goodrow

Would rather have Trouba and Goodrow

 

[Profet]

Rick Nash - would he make a good GM?

The Blue Jackets have Rick Nash in their front office. He is apparently being groomed to be a GM. Do you think he could eventually be a good GM candidate?

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Mas0764GPT

Those pressers would be terrifying...

He would look straight through the camera and into your soul.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Brodzinski is a perfectly acceptable 13F

Who becomes a bottom 6 forward for no other reason than they signed him, cut the umbilical cord like they did Hajek, if this team can't find a better player than a career ahl'er then maybe the job isn't for Drury.

 

[effen]

Who becomes a bottom 6 forward for no other reason than they signed him, cut the umbilical cord like they did Hajek, if this team can't find a better player than a career ahl'er then maybe the job isn't for Drury.

Same amount of points in less games than $2.4M Kaapo Kakko.

Kakko first.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Karl Henriksson left the organization.


Last vestige of that horrible horrible McDonagh / Miller trade

 

[Vitto79]

Karl Henriksson left the organization.


Last vestige of that horrible horrible McDonagh / Miller trade

Labba drafted with a pick for Howden

We are not counting Perrault for Lundkvist cause the Dallas pick was sent for a Tarasenko / Mikkola right ?

 

[effen]

Karl Henriksson left the organization.


Last vestige of that horrible horrible McDonagh / Miller trade

The entire league knew McDonagh was on the block all year and none of them even tried. That's a GM failure for the league.

Miller was visibly quitting shifts and was their 3rd best LW making $5M on a team about to tank. I think you trade him at the draft but he had to go at some point.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Same amount of points in less games than $2.4M Kaapo Kakko.

Kakko first.

This can't be a real thought in your head really is it? Kakko underperformed as a young player and is a possible solution to our problems, the epitome of low risk high reward signing. Brodzinski had a career year and isn't even close to being in our future plans, he's so far in the rearview you have to back up to see him

 

[effen]

This can't be a real thought in your head really is it? Kakko underperformed as a young player and is a possible solution to our problems, the epitome of low risk high reward signing. Brodzinski had a career year and isn't even close to being in our future plans, he's so far in the rearview you have to back up to see him

Brodz became a bottom six forward because he deserved it. One of the best organizational stories of the year.

He also makes one third of what Kakko makes with better production and better uptime (Kakko has one 82 game season in five years).

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Karl Henriksson left the organization.


Last vestige of that horrible horrible McDonagh / Miller trade

One of the worst trades in franchise history

 

[FUZfan]

Utah Latter-Day Saints

Utah Prohibitionists.

Have you ever tried to get a decent drink in Salt Lake City?

It's like pulling teeth.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Utah Prohibitionists.

Have you ever tried to get a decent drink in Salt Lake City?

It's like pulling teeth.

Only time I’ve ever been to SLC was a stopover from NY to Hawaii

 

[TominNC]

This can't be a real thought in your head really is it? Kakko underperformed as a young player and is a possible solution to our problems, the epitome of low risk high reward signing. Brodzinski had a career year and isn't even close to being in our future plans, he's so far in the rearview you have to back up to see him

Also, points isn’t the only way to determine value

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

Karl Henriksson left the organization.


Last vestige of that horrible horrible McDonagh / Miller trade

Still not over that one. Awful trade at the time and has only aged like milk.

 

[kovazub94]

Beyond Blueger, is there another decent but reasonable cost center available this offseason? With Chytil and his injury concerns, I’m sure Drury will look to backfill with at least a better 4C I would think. Brodzinski is really the ideal 13th forward based on cap hit and versatility.


If you told me that Drury traded Goodrow and signed Blueger at 2 years for $2.2m I’d be pretty happy with that.

Wenberg could be that 4C. I doubt he gets anything close to AAV from his last contract.

Who becomes a bottom 6 forward for no other reason than they signed him, cut the umbilical cord like they did Hajek, if this team can't find a better player than a career ahl'er then maybe the job isn't for Drury.

Huh? He missed all but one playoff game once the roster got full with TDL trades and injury recoveries. Stop making shit up.

 

[jay from jersey]

Edstrom should replace Goodrow

This is obviously the way to go. Even if Goodrow is still here for another season, it should be Edstrom centering the 4th line…
He has to many qualities that indicate him being extremely successful in that role.
He got the size, reach, skating, he’s physical but not a bruiser, and he doesn’t need to be.. he’s also got a smart head on his shoulders and plays the game well.
He’s also already showed he can take a 4th line shift and be effective in the NHL with his cup of coffee this season…there’s not really much else you can ask for tbh…. Maybe get better at faceoffs, but that will come.
At this point in time, the only thing he doesn’t have is experience and you don’t get that without playing…. If it’s not edstrom time now then when??
He’s also on a cheap contract which is what we need and he’s an ideal candidate to be worked in to the PK rotation.

I don’t think Lavi wants an all rookie 4th line… not many coaches do… so if Edstrom is getting the nod and rangers manage to trade Goodrow, I expect them to add another cheap vet for the 4th line rotation with vesey/rempe.
You can get 1 for about 2 mill per or cheaper and reallocate the rest of Goodrow cap hit elsewhere in the line up

 

[kovazub94]

This is obviously the way to go. Even if Goodrow is still here for another season, it should be Edstrom centering the 4th line…
He has to many qualities that indicate him being extremely successful in that role.
He got the size, reach, skating, he’s physical but not a bruiser, and he doesn’t need to be.. he’s also got a smart head on his shoulders and plays the game well.
He’s also already showed he can take a 4th line shift and be effective in the NHL with his cup of coffee this season…there’s not really much else you can ask for tbh…. Maybe get better at faceoffs, but that will come.
At this point in time, the only thing he doesn’t have is experience and you don’t get that without playing…. If it’s not edstrom time now then when??
He’s also on a cheap contract which is what we need and he’s an ideal candidate to be worked in to the PK rotation.

I don’t think Lavi wants an all rookie 4th line… not many coaches do… so if Edstrom is getting the nod and rangers manage to trade Goodrow, I expect them to add another cheap vet for the 4th line rotation with vesey/rempe.
You can get 1 for about 2 mill per or cheaper and reallocate the rest of Goodrow cap hit elsewhere in the line up

Where did you get all-rookie 4th line - Vesey’s got another year and he’s not going anywhere.

Re. Edstrom - he hasn’t earned 4C role, possible but FAR from certain, more on the unlikely side at this point (but not impossible obviously). A big factor is Chytil uncertainty. I think they need someone who can step into 3C role if needed and obviously it’s way too much to ask from Edstrom.

 

[Fitzy]

Where did you get all-rookie 4th line - Vesey’s got another year and he’s not going anywhere.

Re. Edstrom - he hasn’t earned 4C role, possible but FAR from certain, more on the unlikely side at this point (but not impossible obviously). A big factor is Chytil uncertainty. I think they need someone who can step into 3C role if needed and obviously it’s way too much to ask from Edstrom.

I can’t speak for him but a few of us have Vesey as the 13th forward in our ideal lineups

 

[UnSandvich]

Brodz became a bottom six forward because he deserved it. One of the best organizational stories of the year.

He also makes one third of what Kakko makes with better production and better uptime (Kakko has one 82 game season in five years).

ah, i see we've gotten to the blaming Kakko for not playing 82 games during COVID-shortened seasons phase of the offseason. cool.

 

[bernmeister]

Wenberg could be that 4C. I doubt he gets anything close to AAV from his last contract.
....

hell to the NO
Wenn was another effin win now rental disaster
I get we needed depth/insur for injury
BUT
IF we listened to bern and had played youth earlier
instead of bonino etc
we would not have backed ourselves into that corner

 

[Charlie Conway]

Beyond Blueger, is there another decent but reasonable cost center available this offseason? With Chytil and his injury concerns, I’m sure Drury will look to backfill with at least a better 4C I would think. Brodzinski is really the ideal 13th forward based on cap hit and versatility.


If you told me that Drury traded Goodrow and signed Blueger at 2 years for $2.2m I’d be pretty happy with that.

Looks like a whole lot of not much.

Couple RWs out there that can play or have played center, but not exactly the guys I'd want to hitch a horse to. If Chytil goes down, it's an issue.

Maybe Yakov Trenin? He was always an under-the-radar guy with Nashville, but I don't know how he's done with Colorado.

 

[effen]

ah, i see we've gotten to the blaming Kakko for not playing 82 games during COVID-shortened seasons phase of the offseason. cool.

That's correct, he shoulda showed more gumption those two years.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Ship out Out this summer:

Trouba
Lindgren
Vesey
Wennberg
Roslovic
Goodrow
Brodzinksi
Gustafsson


Backfill with Edstrom, Othmann, Berard


A couple of UFAs and hopefully a big juicy trade