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

[DanielBrassard]

Let’s be honest, if your best young players are Lafreniere, Chytil, Cuylle, and Schneider, your team is not going anywhere in the future. Another rebuild is probably the Rangers only recourse.

 

[DuneGoon84]

Some of us saw this coming when we couldn't score 5v5 last 3 years. Age caught up to this core and pp died finally. Management didn't see this coming? They just couldn't let go of this core...

 

[RangerBoy]

No trades are necessary. Don't mess with a winning formula.

 

[McRanger92]

They’re not rebuilding lol

 

[Synergy27]

I must admit, I am entertained at least. This is like watching a reality TV show. Can’t wait to see who gets voted off the island next!

 

[DanielBrassard]

They’re not rebuilding lol

They won’t really have much of a choice.

 

[McRanger92]

They won’t really have much of a choice.

Just get rid of the vets over the next year

 

[jerseyjinx94]

Just get rid of the vets over the next year

Isn’t that a rebuild?

 

[Draft Guru]

 

[McRanger92]

Isn’t that a rebuild?

Labeling it means nothing. The Rangers have every intention of making the playoffs next year. They didn’t sign Igor, Fox and Laf forever to trade everyone. Changes will be good for this team, idk why everyone acts like the sky is falling.

 

[Rangers in 7]

 

[toNYRico]

More sick and tired of Kreider than I was yesterday.
Less sick and tired of Kreider than I will be tomorrow.

 

[jerseyjinx94]

Labeling it means nothing. The Rangers have every intention of making the playoffs next year. They didn’t sign Igor, Fox and Laf forever to trade everyone. Changes will be good for this team, idk why everyone acts like the sky is falling.

Got it, I’m just saying they’re rebuilding or retooling, they can’t keep this group together. At this point I want changes of some kind I can’t keep doing this to myself

 

[McRanger92]

Got it, I’m just saying they’re rebuilding or retooling, they can’t keep this group together. At this point I want changes of some kind I can’t keep doing this to myself

Kreider Mika Kakko Lindgren smith. Get some big D and veteran forwards with speed who play the right way and the Rangers will be every bit the cup contender.

The heavy lift is Zibanejad but Drury is already playing mind games with him by mentioning Kreider in a trade. Soon it will be reality and Mika will need to decide if he wants to play hockey or leave

 

[jerseyjinx94]

Kreider Mika Kakko Lindgren smith. Get some big D and veteran forwards with speed who play the right way and the Rangers will be every bit the cup contender.

The heavy lift is Zibanejad but Drury is already playing mind games with him by mentioning Kreider in a trade. Soon it will be reality and Mika will need to decide if he wants to play hockey or leave

Sad to see Kreider go out like this. Never should have got his jersey

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Honestly if they really want to close the door on this era the big moves need to be Kreider and Panarin. Their big money rebuild nuking moves were those 2 and Trouba. Trouba is gone.

The obvious moves are obvious (Lindgren, Smith, Kakko) but those are minor.

If you want to make wholesale changes, you need to move wholesale names.

Im also 90000% sure Kreider will go back to being Kreider if he's moved.

 

[McRanger92]

Sad to see Kreider go out like this. Never should have got his jersey

It kills me. Great Ranger but the team needs to get younger. Poor leadership at the end.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

get rid of the losers, now. Not after xmas

 

[McRanger92]

Kakko is gonna go in a trade for a defenseman hopefully soon, but I appreciate him saying the quiet part out loud on his way out. “It’s easy to punish the young guy” shots fired at the vets and the coach’s who catered to them.

 

[bhamill]

Rupp's saying that Drury's mail to the other GMs that put Kreider on the open for trade list was the bomb that set off this whole thing because it was seen as manipulative. It was the cherry on the cake on top of other questionable moves made by Drury. He then goes on to say that Lavi and the coaches have no handle on the situation and are making bad things worse. With management and coaches lacking in ability the players will not be able to bootstrap themselves out of this situation, especially not with the constant downward flow of BS coming their way.

This is basically what I've been (more or less) manically posting over and over again.

Drury apparently said he would listen on both Trouba and Kreider. Trouba is gone. On what Rupp is basing his assumption that Drury won’t trade Kreider is anybody’s guess because he is pulling that straight out of his ass. He has no more idea than any of us. It’s pure speculation. And since he’s basing the rest of his assumptions and logic on that being manipulative… basically the whole thing is pulled out of his ass.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Kakko is gonna go in a trade for a defenseman hopefully soon, but I appreciate him saying the quiet part out loud on his way out. “It’s easy to punish the young guy” shots fired at the vets and the coach’s who catered to them.

we shall never forget his sacrifice

 

[17futurecap]

Sad to see Kreider go out like this. Never should have got his jersey

Most players don’t finish with one team, CK will get warm welcomes when he comes back as a retired player. Guy gave us a lot of great moments, literally saved us from embarrassment last year.

Time to move on, and that’s okay.

 

[McRanger92]

Trade Kreider Kakko Lindgren for a few defenseman who don’t suck, and get Othmann healthy and maybe the new faces spark them. The league is as mediocre as it’s been in years.

 

[ThePeoplesPeople]

@ Dallas
Carolina
@ New Jersey
@ Tampa
@ Florida
Boston
@ Washington
@ Chicago
Dallas
New Jersey
@ Vegas
@ Colorado

There is a real chance we are in the bottom ~5 in the league in a month.

 

[mike14]

I know we can't keep harping on about it it, but not getting a game breaking talent with #1OA pick, plus barely getting an average NHLer out of picks 2, 7 and 9 really hurts anything you are trying to build