Speculation: Roster Building Thread : Part XVI (Playoffs or Retool?)

[McRanger92]

Would a team trade a player with term for Kreider? Matheson from Habs? Hampus Lindholm from the B's? Just a couple I thought of but if Drury can swing a trade like that it would be huge. We need a player like that, like we needed a JT Miller.

 

[bleedblue94]

Would a team trade a player with term for Kreider? Matheson from Habs? Hampus Lindholm from the B's? Just a couple I thought of but if Drury can swing a trade like that it would be huge. We need a player like that, like we needed a JT Miller.

I think the question though is does nyr want to swap pending cap space for a player with term. Hampus is a wild bird if people don't know. He is a complete wildcard. Is that who nyr wants to commit their pending cap space to?

 

[McRanger92]

I think the question though is does nyr want to swap pending cap space for a player with term. Hampus is a wild bird if people don't know. He is a complete wildcard. Is that who nyr wants to commit their pending cap space to?

I've always like Matheson. 2 years left in the 4s. He can move the puck. He always scores against us with Montreal but he also had a very good series against us with Pittsburgh in 2022. Idk if Gorton and Drury will deal (i bet they would) but we obviously have players Gorton is familiar with.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Who can be better than this? A lot.

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#WS55.

U realize lindy is on a 1 year deal right? You want 35 year old tanev on 6 X $4.5? LOL. Thank god drury is gm and not you

You asked for the list but hilarious how thats the one you picked out. I'd rather have an old ass Tanev than current Lindgren yeah.

How about the others? Or how about the fact that it's not about a #6, it's about finding someone who is actually top 4 quality (which Lindgren, even at his very best, barely was) and playing him with Fox.

Finding a 6 is easy. Vaak can be a 6, Jones can be a 6. Gustafsson can be a 6. All of those guys can fill that role and do it better than Ryan Lindgren can for a fraction of the price. Thats the point that has been reiterated and re-hashed multiple times by multiple people but you're either playing dumb for the sake of it or can't read. Neither is really a good look.

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

It's been 2 games but is JT Miller the captain of this hockey team?

 

[McRanger92]

It's been 2 games but is JT Miller the captain of this hockey team?

Fairly obvious, yeah. Right player at the right time.

 

[mas0764]

“Best” scenario for you being the worst one for the organization is par for the course haha.

It’s fun to come in here an see the victory laps and sky is falling people. The team is in an on the fly transition. There are still moves to make. I have to acknowledge that the playoffs are going to be a scratch and claw situation so people may get their wish if they come up short, but The team has made huge strides forward in the roster construction standpoint.

Kreider, Lindgren, Jones, Smith should still go. Berard and Othmann need to get the call. Get a top 4 D for the assets we move and the team is golden.

Golden for being a quick out.

What "Lesson" do you think Drury needs to be taught? He's already traded Trouba, *Goodrow, Kakko, Chytil this year. Obviously he wants to make changes. Did you think he was going to be able to realistically trade like 10 guys in one season? Obviously not.

Stop acquiring 32 year olds and build a long term contender.

 

[gump116]

I’m honestly at the point where I’d try Vaak there

Vaak is a solid #6, which is a significant improvement on this version of Lindgren. Big reason why Fox has regressed from a Norris caliber dman is he’s been playing with an AHL’er all year. Look at how much better Quinn Hughes got when he got Hronek as his partner. Don’t even need that level of player, just a solid middle pair NHL defenseman would turn Fox back into a top 3 dman and give the Rangers a great top pair.

 

[LaffyTaffy13]

#WS55.


You asked for the list but hilarious how thats the one you picked out. I'd rather have an old ass Tanev than current Lindgren yeah.

How about the others? Or how about the fact that it's not about a #6, it's about finding someone who is actually top 4 quality (which Lindgren, even at his very best, barely was) and playing him with Fox.

Finding a 6 is easy. Vaak can be a 6, Jones can be a 6. Gustafsson can be a 6. All of those guys can fill that role and do it better than Ryan Lindgren can for a fraction of the price. Thats the point that has been reiterated and re-hashed multiple times by multiple people but you're either playing dumb for the sake of it or can't read. Neither is really a good look.

Yeah im taking lindy on a 1 year deal over a

- 35 year old tanev on a 6 year deal
- 34 year old brendan dillon a 3 year deal
- gustafsson (LOL)
- sean walker is a righty btw

Good effort though

 

[bernmeister]

I think a trade for Gus makes a ton of sense. He was good when paired with Fox at times Last year

No
because...

You're remember what you want about gusto. He was absolutely horrible after the luster wore off. People here were acting like nyr was smarter than everyone else and ignored his history of bouncing around. He's not good. Lindgren is not good, but one is not good as a 1 pair guy that your top d wants to play with. The other is not good as a 3rd pair guy that really can't play defense even against 3rd liners. Gusto still can't find an org that wants to keep him multiple years at this point.

9 teams in 6 years, figure it out...

... because of this^

He was great for first half season, THEN LITERALLY RAN OUT OF GAS

And would now be a year older
No

 

[17futurecap]

People wanting to trade Fox instead of just giving him a new partner are delusional.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Yeah im taking lindy on a 1 year deal over a

- 35 year old tanev on a 6 year deal
- 34 year old brendan dillon a 3 year deal
- gustafsson (LOL)
- sean walker is a righty btw

Good effort though

Yeah you could have just said you don't know puck and saved us all the nonsense over the last few pages.

I don't know if you're aware, but righties can play on the left side and vice versa. We tinkered with this this year with Schenider and Walker has done it before.

I already told you that my preferred route would have been to move Lindgren and open up the extra space to sign Roy because he's actually good. You wanted better options than Lindgren, I gave them to you. You can't move the goal posts because you feel like it.

Because what you're doing is saying that you're okay with this

Or that you were okay with this in the playoffs last year

-13.6% Rel is f***ing special when your partner is 5.5% in the green.

And yes Gus is better. Lindgren is a special flavor of terrible and gets crushed on lower pairings because he doesn't have Fox to drag him up to just really bad.

 

[IDvsEGO]

I've always like Matheson. 2 years left in the 4s. He can move the puck. He always scores against us with Montreal but he also had a very good series against us with Pittsburgh in 2022. Idk if Gorton and Drury will deal (i bet they would) but we obviously have players Gorton is familiar with.

Matheson is this season and next. not 2 years.

 

[LaffyTaffy13]

Yeah you could have just said you don't know puck and saved us all the nonsense over the last few pages.

I don't know if you're aware, but righties can play on the left side and vice versa. We tinkered with this this year with Schenider and Walker has done it before.

I already told you that my preferred route would have been to move Lindgren and open up the extra space to sign Roy because he's actually good. You wanted better options than Lindgren, I gave them to you. You can't move the goal posts because you feel like it.

Because what you're doing is saying that you're okay with this
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Or that you were okay with this in the playoffs last year
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-13.6% Rel is f***ing special when your partner is 5.5% in the green.

And yes Gus is better. Lindgren is a special flavor of terrible and gets crushed on lower pairings because he doesn't have Fox to drag him up to just really bad.

1) lindy was hurt last postseason
2) how many teams deploy a top 4 pair comprising of two lhd or two rhd?

You are trying hard to save yourself from saying youd want tanev on a 6 X $4.5 at age 35 though LOL

 

[DanielBrassard]

They could also just play Jones and re-arrange the pairs they have.

I'm not saying that they should play him with Fox (though he'd be a better option than Lindgren because he can at least push the puck forward and before anyone hits me with the DURR defense Lindgren sucks at defense too) but they have in house options that while far from ideal, would be better than what they're running right now/.

Or just play him with Schneider since Schneider has only ever gotten decent results with him or Gus.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

1) lindy was hurt last postseason
2) how many teams deploy a top 4 pair comprising of two lhd or two rhd?

You are trying hard to save yourself from saying youd want tanev on a 6 X $4.5 at age 35 though LOL

1. Lindgren got hurt in Game 6 of the Carolina series. If you want to roll with that excuse, how does that explain the 9 games that preceded it? At best that absolves him for the Panthers series but if he's that hurt, he shouldn't be playing because he was bad enough when he was healthy (the regular season stats were also bad.)

2. Teams have done it before lol. Did you just start watching the sport?

This is worse than when you tried to convince everyone that you had first hand knowledge that Drury drove Deangelo out of NY when Gorton was the GM LOL.

Same source feeding you this nonsense?

f*** out of here lmao.

 

[DanielBrassard]

Yeah im taking lindy on a 1 year deal over a

- 35 year old tanev on a 6 year deal
- 34 year old brendan dillon a 3 year deal
- gustafsson (LOL)
- sean walker is a righty btw

Good effort though

Tanev having one eye would be better than Lindgren. 6 years at 4.5 is nothing for him.

 

[Savant]

Don’t think Hurricanes are moving Walker. Have a weird feeling they could move Orlov though so I would keep an eye on that. I’d certainly do Kreider for Orlov but feel like they’d more so want a center.

Hurricanes are about to call Scott Morrow up. Doubt they are calling him up to sit in the press box.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Don’t think Hurricanes are moving Walker. Have a weird feeling they could move Orlov though so I would keep an eye on that. I’d certainly do Kreider for Orlov but feel like they’d more so want a center.

Hurricanes are about to call Scott Morrow up. Doubt they are calling him up to sit in the press box.

UFA at seasons end too so it'd sort of be like just giving Kreider away.

 

[Savant]

UFA at seasons end too so it'd sort of be like just giving Kreider away.

Which is a good thing - get the cap off the books. And honestly if he works out keeping him wouldn’t be the worst idea. Think Orlov has history with Lavy as well?

But Canes are so in deep with analytics I can’t imagine they’d want a part of that.

 

[lakeshirts37]

Basically every single UFA defenseman who has signed the last 3 years if you want someone who is better than the current Lindgren.

If you want just strictly last year? here are the guys with an AAV equal to (or lower, I'm not throwing guys like Skjei Roy and Montour into this mix though I would have ditched Lindgren and made the extra room for Roy, he's good.)

Walker
Dillon
Schmidt
Gustafsson (who we had)
Tanev (Who is signed to an EQUAL AAV.)


In the past few years we've seen guys like Ekholm, Sergachev and Chychrun (twice) get traded. I'm sure I'm blanking on someone else (EK too, but thats a massive salary.)

The point isn't getting a #6, those guys are EASY to find.

The point is to stop having someone who is a 8 on a contender playing next to Fox. That was something that should have been solved when Lindgren was still top 6 worthy. It's absurd that it's still a sore spot when he isn't worthy of being in an every game rotation, let alone in the top 4.

This exercise holds if you want to go back to the last 2 seasons as well.

Not acquiring Chychrun was mind boggling

 

[MrAlmost]

Olli Maata. Cheap easy. Resign him and Vaak and you could then look for an even better upgrade for next season.

TBD-Fox
Miller-Borgen
Maata-Schneider
Vaak

I'd go for Gavrikov. That would be a defense that can actually move the puck and defend correctly. And everyone can skate. What a concept.

 

[egelband]

Lindgren as the #6 defenseman is whatever. The problem is that Lindgren is stapled to Fox.

 

[BlueGoose27]

Olli Maata. Cheap easy. Resign him and Vaak and you could then look for an even better upgrade for next season.

TBD-Fox
Miller-Borgen
Maata-Schneider
Vaak

I'd go for Gavrikov. That would be a defense that can actually move the puck and defend correctly. And everyone can skate. What a concept.

Chychrun, if he test the market

 

[BlueGoose27]

Brannstrom wasnt acquired by accident. Lindgren's days are numbered imo. They still do need to eventually upgrade that top 4 position next to Fox.

If Brannstrom ends up starting for this team, that’s a major major problem. He’s on his 4th team in two years…third this season. There’s a reason the Sens let him go. He was the “prize” in the Stone trade. Let’s just say the “prize” wasn’t a pleasant one.