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

[offdacrossbar]

It's time to take our medicine and burn it down.

Although I believe a lot of this is due to how Drury has handled things and of course Lavi and his ice time decisions, this is really about the players who get paid to be professionals and go about their trade and play ice hockey. The vet leaders have all failed. Whining and "hurt feelings" have taken over. It's all a garbage smokescreen to cover up their failures.

To me, the players have stopped playing. Not all of course, but certainly those we all called "core" players and those we all saw fail against the Panthers. The old guard is toast. We waited too long. We know the names. Some are already gone.

We've extended Shesty. We have a defense that needs a left side. We have no centerman. We need some more size and snarl (some is down in Hartford) we need more Cools and Berard and less badDJs, anyone named Smith, broken down slow footed turnover machines and dyed blonde hair guys.

It's time to take a few steps back and eat some crow. The contracts have us hamstrung and Drury has some work to do.

This season is over. Let's begin changing the dynamic. Play the kids. Sit the vets until we can sell them off. Bring up REMPE.

The good news is there aren't going to be the roadblocks for the kids like the last 10 years. There's opportunity. Let's move forward.

 

[ThePeoplesPeople]

 

[DanielBrassard]

That’s a hell of a way to end his rangers tenure

 

[pld459666]

What a porn name

You do know that was a TV show, right?

 

[DanielBrassard]

Who are you lmao

 

[MrAlmost]

Ouch...

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

f*** man, this sucks. I wish Kakko all the success in the world.

 

[EpicDing]

Thanks I hate it

 

[mike14]

They were a good team but LA outplayed us by a solid margin that series. I don't remember the shot totals but they favored LA basically every game but one, some by quite a bit. Lundqvist definitely was instrumental in keeping those games close. IIRC the one game where he was "bad" was of course the only game we really outplayed LA. I will remember that series as being close because there were 3 OT games and a bounce here, a Rick Nash not blowing it there, it could have gone different, but LA for sure was the better team overall.

LA absolutely the better team, but it was our 3rd periods that cost us. That's when the bought the heat and we just couldn't go with them.
Game 1 - shots were 21/22 our way after 2. They out shot us 20-3 in the 3rd
Game 2 - 20/22 our way after 2. 12-7 in the 3rd, and then 6-1 in the 2nd OT (after we out shot them in OT1
Game 3 - we doubled their shot total (and somehow lost)
Game 4 - they doubled our shot total (and we somehow won)
Game 5 - 17/12 their way after 2, but then 12-3 in the 3rd

We had the lead in every game except game 3, including 3 x 2 goal leads (games 1, 2 and 4), but it seemed they knew that if they kept pushing we'd eventually break

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

So basically Kakko for 2 picks

 

[I Eat Crow]

Will Borgen? Oh my God.

 

[Machinehead]

So basically Kakko for 2 picks

Yes. Borgen sucks.

 

[Kords]

Hope Kakko takes off and makes this org look so dumb

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

This is the Buch trade 2.0

 

[mike14]

what on earth is a Will Borgen?

 

[McRanger92]

Don't hate it. Good luck proving your fanatics right, Cocko.

 

[pld459666]

That’s a hell of a way to end his rangers tenure

Rupp? Yupp

 

[MrAlmost]

Kakko has 2 points in his first game no doubt. Everything is on fire and now the realization hits that the trades are going to be lighter fluid, not water.

 

[McRanger92]

Keep it going Dreary. Lindgren is next.

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

This is a terrible start to his trading. This kid was not the issue.

 

[ThePeoplesPeople]

Would be nice to pull a similar deal (the other way). Lindgren for Quinn/Turcotte/Hayton/Dach/Cozens/etc... but that's asking way too much.

 

[GAGLine]

Hope Kakko takes off and makes this org look so dumb

This organization does that on its own, but yes, I hope Kakko turns into a point per game player and scores a hat trick against us every time they play us.

 

[McRanger92]

Would be nice to pull a similar deal (the other way). Lindgren for Quinn/Turcotte/Hayton/Dach/Cozens/etc... but that's asking way too much.

Id gladly take on Cozens money

 

[Alluckks]

If this is the only trade we get for a month it's all f***ed.

I'll let this go if it is a domino to move all the other dead ass weight.

I'm not gonna pretend like Kakko had any future here or that he contributed much well at all. He couldn't be relied upon for shit. This was his best year to date and it basically amounted to no one scores when his line was out there, but he wasn't going against top scoring lines so who cares.

 

[B17 Apricots]

Wtf is Drury doing? Why are you even making this trade at this point in the season? Sell as low as possible? Why not wait until the deadline. And for a guy that likely is gone in the summer...

I was on the fence about Drury, not a fan.