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Speculation: Roster Building Thread: Part XIV (To trade or not to trade is the question)

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Ruggs225 said:
And yet he is outplaying Kreider and Zibs at even strength.

Must be more fun watching 0 pts 2 powder puff shots and a -2 instead
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Not in december he isnt. Mika has been playing better than him since november 29th.

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oh my god more graphs and charts

TBH I like Kakko but I don't have an argument against the people who complain about his offense. He's been very hit or miss...at times his offense looks pretty good..he makes some really nice passes and finds ways to get to scoring spots, but other times he loses the thread and struggles to do those things and stays to the outside.
My biggst complaint really is focusing on him so much as someone who needs to be traded or as some sort of big issue with the team, and that includes the coaches. yeah at this point it's time to move on because the team doesn't value him and he's done with being made the scapegoat, but I feel like it didn't have to be this way either
 
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Traded before the deadline:
Lindgren
Smith
Kakko
Kreider

Traded in the offseason:
Zibanejad
Miller

Fired before the deadline:
Laviolette

The veteran leadership sucks, the coach has become a joke, and the weak minded younger guys that had big potential but can't get on with it suck ass too

I've never felt like a team was as pathetic as this team is right here and right now this season. I've been fans of plenty of worse teams, but this team takes the cake for pathetic.
 
Ruggs225 said:
Brooks should pay me to read his drivel
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JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK said:
no thanks i’d rather not
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The Rangers need to grow up and stop playing the victims​

Since the Rangers’ conference final Game 6 elimination in Sunrise on June 1, general manager Chris Drury:

• Was able to get the final three seasons of Barclay Goodrow’s contract with an annual $3.641.667 million cap hit off the books by waiving the winger to San Jose.

• Signed Alexis Lafreniere to a seven-year, $52.15 million extension that kicks in next season for an annual average of $7.45 million per, about $1 million per below anticipated.

• Traded Jacob Trouba to Anaheim without retaining a cent of the money or the $8 million cap charge due to the defenseman through the end of the 2025-26 season.

• Signed Igor Shesterkin to an eight-year, $92 million extension that kicks in next season with an NHL-record goaltending cap hit of $11.5 million per that was $500,000-$2 million under projections on the open market.


• [Stage whisper] There was also a memo.

The narrative that has been circulating for weeks is that the Rangers players do not like the way Drury does business and as a result have gone into some sort of a sit-down strike, apparently hoping to influence ownership to change the passcode for the executive suite.

Of course there is no indication that any change to the organizational directory is being contemplated.

That also applies to head coach Peter Laviolette and his staff, even as baseless reports circulate that the team is looking to make a change behind the bench.

I doubt there was a particularly kind way for Drury to advise Goodrow that the only way the club could move him without retaining a large portion of his contract was to place him on waivers, but maybe the GM could have found a way.

And I have no idea how the players believe Trouba was wronged when the club tried to trade him on July 1 after his no-move became a partial no-trade, but I’m all ears on that one. Trouba had always been the one to knock throughout his 12-year career, but not this time. He was on the other end of it, and apparently did not like it at all.


Time’s a wastin’​

The Rangers’ body language has been dreadful.

Once Drury’s Substack message became public, the club’s leadership group shriveled like Costanza in the pool. There are exceptions, but the Blueshirts seem to feel they are somehow victims and that folks should feel sorry for them.

I have said this before, but if the Rangers think they are quitting on Drury or Laviolette or both, the fact is that they are quitting on themselves, their teammates (who are supposed be family) and the customers who pay big money to watch them play.

Drury has the obligation to address the team. An open, honest dialogue is imperative. If players feel they have been disrespected and want out, they have the obligation to speak up.

Reilly Smith is the only player on the team to win the Stanley Cup. Are you telling me this veteran core is throwing away a season they will never get back because their feelings were hurt over the summer? How many chances do they think they’re going to have?

The teams of the past decade that fell short are remembered fondly and with respect. The clubs of Emile Francis that fell short are beloved.

It is never quite Cup-or-Bust for generations of the faithful who have seen the club win one (is the loneliest number) Stanley Cup championship and keep coming back for more because they don’t want 1994 to last a lifetime.

And I don’t know if these Rangers particularly care, but this group putting on a collective sulk over perceived grievances is not only destroying the season. It is destroying their reputation, both as a group and one by one as individuals.

They are not going to be remembered for two conference finals and a Presidents’ Trophy within three seasons. They are going to be remembered for this.

You’d think that would count for something.


Down, not out​

Coming up with six points out of a possible 26, as the Rangers have done by going 3-10 since Nov. 21, is almost impossible in a league where teams get a point if they are tied after 60 minutes.

The last time the Rangers collected as few as six points over a 13-game stretch in the first half of a season came 35 years ago, when the 1989-90 club went 1-11-4 over a 16-game span from Dec. 9 to Jan. 10 bridging the new year.

That club recovered, though, going 7-1-2 over the next 10 and 20-10-5 the rest of the way to finish 36-31-13 before advancing to the second round of the playoffs.

This is a different year, a different team and different era.

But it is still December. The season is not lost. Laviolette must demand and enforce accountability across the board. Thirty games of giving benefit of the doubt is enough. Jersey numbers and not paycheck numbers must determine ice time. The Rangers must embrace structure. They must defend. The Rangers haven’t defended since Day 1.

But in order to regain any semblance of identity and any sense of self, the Rangers have to lose their entitlement. They have to stop embracing victimhood. They have to grow up.
They are professional athletes.
It is time for them to act that way.
 
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Why does this site always just try to throw every single topic into one thread? Like the Kakko comments should be their own thread and own discussion. Weird how mods always try to keep it all in one thread imo
 
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