Speculation: Roster Building Thread - Part XIII (Nanaki edition)

[bernmeister]

Kreider for Zigger plus?

why would ana do that even straight up?
they are greatly improved -> right direction, but not contending...

keep Kreider
ditch the drek

 

[Tob]

why would ana do that even straight up?
they are greatly improved -> right direction, but not contending...

keep Kreider
ditch the drek

Zegras is overpaid, a punk, underperforming, losing value by the day and Anaheim's management doesn't see him as a core piece.

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

Rempe is Doug Glatt. Laffy is Xavier LaFlamme. Give Rempe the C and Laffy the A

 

[effen]

Kreider for Zigger plus?

pls

 

[cheech70]

 

[Gordon Bombay]

Nedved Traded to Rangers

Petr Nedved, so determined not to play again for the Pittsburgh Penguins that he held out for a year and a half, returned to the New York Rangers in a five-player trade Wednesday that sent Alexei Kovalev to the Penguins.

www.latimes.com

I like the bottom article in that. The FOX glowing puck. Nothing like having neon streams all over your TV.

 

[LionsHeart]

I still love that Joe Thornton had the guts to call anyone else “soft.” I lived in the Bay Area during their heyday, and to this day I have no respect for Thornton purely because of how awful he was in the playoffs. It pissed me off to watch that Sharks team.

That being said, the next iteration of the Rangers does need to be tougher, especially mentally. There are way too many headcases on this team.

 

[RangerBoy]

Does Drury sell Lindgren the deadline? The Rangers are in a playoff spot/third in Metro or WC(we will see) but it will take a miracle for them to win a championship. Colorado traded a first round pick in 2026 to Philadelphia to rent Sean Walker.

The Rangers played better without Lindgren. You can make the argument the team sets up better without Lindgren.

Miller-Fox
Schneider-Trouba
Jones-Mancini

Drury acquires a better bottom pair D than Ruhwedel to rotate with Jones. Scan the waiver wire. It should not be hard. Trouba gets moved in the summer. He would be more amendable to a summer trade. His wife's hospital residence ends next year. Trouba doesn't have a say with the 15 team NTC to every team. This guy may not report or he would be miserable having to report to another team. The Rangers retain 25% and make Trouba a $6M player. One year remaining. Becomes a 12 team list in July.

First round pick for Lindgren. Every team is looking for D at the deadline. The rental market is very thin. The Rangers acquire another first round pick to rebuild their prospect pool.

 

[GAGLine]

What about the bad players with locker room cred who don’t have a ton of value?

Seems to be that they'd be the optimal ones to move.

Ideally, we would trade those players and bring in much better players, but we have the unfortunate reality that other teams are trying to win too. They aren't going to just take our crap and give us back gold in return. Dumping our bad players isn't going to magically fix this team.

I like Kreider and would love for him to stay and set all kinds of records, but we have to consider what's best for the team. Kreider turns 34 in April and has 2 years remaining on his contract. His best value to the Rangers, right now, might be as a trade piece.

 

[Harbour Dog]

Does Drury sell Lindgren the deadline? The Rangers are in a playoff spot/third in Metro or WC(we will see) but it will take a miracle for them to win a championship. Colorado traded a first round pick in 2026 to Philadelphia to rent Sean Walker.

The Rangers played better without Lindgren. You can make the argument the team sets up better without Lindgren.

Miller-Fox
Schneider-Trouba
Jones-Mancini

Drury acquires a better bottom pair D than Ruhwedel to rotate with Jones. Scan the waiver wire. It should not be hard. Trouba gets moved in the summer. He would be more amendable to a summer trade. His wife's hospital residence ends next year. Trouba doesn't have a say with the 15 team NTC to every team. This guy may not report or he would be miserable having to report to another team. The Rangers retain 25% and make Trouba a $6M player. One year remaining. Becomes a 12 team list in July.

First round pick for Lindgren. Every team is looking for D at the deadline. The rental market is very thin. The Rangers acquire another first round pick to rebuild their prospect pool.

I think you're over-valuing Lindgren quite a bit. It would be a monumental misstep for a GM to trade a 1st to rent him.

We would very likely improve the team immediately just by scratching him; the start we had to the season when we had three capable D pairs was no mirage. He's cooked.

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

What happens when a GM bluffs a big trade rumor to get the boys going, then it doesn't get the boys going?

 

[Mike in Houston]

I like the bottom article in that. The FOX glowing puck. Nothing like having neon streams all over your TV.

I enjoyed it when we got games down here that used it. It was normally on the Emrick/Davidson games only and we didn't always get games in which they were commentators.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

What happens when a GM bluffs a big trade rumor to get the boys going, then it doesn't get the boys going?

That's not what happened here, Stevie wonder could see this isn't getting fixed with this current core. There will be trades if something worth while comes imo.

 

[LORDE]

This sums it all up for me and it’s not even hard to admit.

Many of us said going into camp that there was an uninterested malaise hanging over the entire season before they even dropped the puck.

No new faces really, no exciting rookies breaking the lineup. We knew what 95% of the lineup would be and what to expect.

It’s a foregone season with manufactured Cup expectations that the casual fan may fall for but the diehards know it’s not worth the investment.

But we watch. We’ll always watch.

I hate to say it but I've barely watched.

Have been barely on this board also.

It's exactly what @Machinehead mentioned.

There's no reason to be interested when the outcome is already obv

 

[Matt Rentfree]

Nedved is my #1 most hated new york ranger and its not even remotely close. That guy was beyond maddening.

I never really disliked him until one day I saw him walking in SoHo with a cigarette sticking out of his face.

 

[apoptygma]

Well, looks like the bottom is falling out for this core. Was a year or two earlier then I (and most others) believed it would. It was a trade off by keeping Z, Kreider and getting Trouba and Panarin to buildt around (lindgren looking done already at age 26 is just the cherry on the top).

A shorter rebuild often ends with a shorter window. We are at a crossroad now, we can try for a couple more runs (that will most likely be short and bitter), or do a retool.

Trade away Igor, Vesey, Lindgren & Smith during this season, trade Trouba (50% retained), Kreider & Panarin (if he wants, 50% retained) in the summer of 25.

Go into next season with something like

Laf - Trocheck - Berard
Cuylle - Chytil - Kakko
Othman - Zinbadejad - Perrault
Edstrom - Carrick - Rempe
Brodz

Miller - Fox
Jones - Schneider
xxx - Mancini

UFA Goalie
Garand

Might not be pretty at all, but the aformentioned trades gives us ammo for trading for younger talent, and a ton of capspace to get a UFA more inline age-wise with Laf, Fox & co.

Compared to the standard "burn it to the ground" rebuilds we have a number of young players and decent prospects already in the system. 3 foeward rookies and 1 defence rookie might be atleast 1 to many, but might be able to get a ok player one 1 year deal or take a decent player on a short contract from a team with cap issues.

 

[UnparalledPark]

I’m going to the game in Raleigh tonite and Kreider is my favorite player. This all couldn’t wait another week to unfold?

Anyway, CK deserves to be traded, but I think Housley is the biggest problem.

 

[gump116]

Kreider+ for Leonard

Caps would be on crack to do that.

They might. He would make Ovechkin more effective on the powerplay with his goalie screens, which might make it worth it for the caps. That franchise’s number 1 objective for the next couple years is to get Ovy the goals record.

 

[Profet]

I like the bottom article in that. The FOX glowing puck. Nothing like having neon streams all over your TV.

It was amazing watching a glowing overlay that had no depth perception.

Did the puck go wide left? In? Wide right? Who cares? Thats not an important part of the game or anything.

I did appreciate it when the puck was a long the near camera boards and wasn't visible without it.