Speculation: Roster Building Thread : Part XVIII ( TDL is March 7th)

[Jerkstore]

Dumb and physical can hurt you way more than smart and soft. Did you watch Trouba in the ECF?

Then there is the matter of price. Vaak will come in at close to a 1/5th the cap hit of Zadorov.




I get the intrigue with this player, he’s big, mobile and legitimately mean.

He’s also very, very dumb. If he were Canadian Ed wouldn’t care about him.

Good points for sure. Thoughts on oleksiak who someone recently brought up? I could just be too high on getting bigger on the backend.

 

[NYR Viper]

Also drury getting all of his must moves out of the way prior to tomorrow bascially means he’s looking to do something big right?

That would seem to be the case. He’s at least slowing himself time to concentrate on things. Whether they do anything or can finalize anything is another thing

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Also drury getting all of his must moves out of the way prior to tomorrow bascially means he’s looking to do something big right?

Nah he’s just setting himself up for a nice 3 day weekend

 

[NYR Viper]

Low key, I could see Drury trading a late pick for someone like Alec Martinez. No retention required and he’d be a small upgrade on what they have

 

[McRanger92]

Who has cap space for Kunin ?
Rangers for a late pick lol

Kunin sucks but at least he's not Ferraro

 

[Filip Chytil]

Drury will sign Alexei Semenov instead of acquiring Zadorov. Book it.

 

[McRanger92]

Movement!

May just be a matter of Robertson being eligible for the AHL playoffs

 

[bl02]

Movement!

May just be a matter of Robertson being eligible for the AHL playoffs

are the pack even making the playoffs? Sorry haven't followed as much this year.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Movement!

May just be a matter of Robertson being eligible for the AHL playoffs

Bye Jones.

 

[Filip Chytil]

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

Low key, I could see Drury trading a late pick for someone like Alec Martinez. No retention required and he’d be a small upgrade on what they have

Oh god that is literally my nightmare. I can’t stand him even looking at him. Has nothing to do with his current abilities as a player. I’m sure most rangers fans feel the same.

 

[will1066]

Movement!

May just be a matter of Robertson being eligible for the AHL playoffs

I honestly forgot that Robertson was up with the team.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Good points for sure. Thoughts on oleksiak who someone recently brought up? I could just be too high on getting bigger on the backend.

He’s okay. I trust him way more than Zadorov.

I feel like they really need to knock it out of the park with who ever they grab though. Of all the names mentioned here and have been mentioned publically, Power is the only one with the potential to do that and I wouldn’t trust this staff to be able to bring it out of him.

If there isn’t a name that we don’t know about available, probably smarter to just wait until the summer.

 

[will1066]

Oh god that is literally my nightmare. I can’t stand him even looking at him. Has nothing to do with his current abilities as a player. I’m sure most rangers fans feel the same.

f*** ALEC MARTINEZ!

But I can see why he'd be brought in to carry the team to a Cup along with Quick as restitution for 2014.

 

[NYR Viper]

Oh god that is literally my nightmare. I can’t stand him even looking at him. Has nothing to do with his current abilities as a player. I’m sure most rangers fans feel the same.

I don’t disagree, but they could use a decent NHL d-man and the cost for him would be minimal

 

[bl02]

Its amazing to me a team like buffalo hasn't made any moves.

 

[McRanger92]

Its amazing to me a team like buffalo hasn't made any moves.

They are building for the future

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

It definitely tells us he wants to do something big or unexpected. Pulling it off always another thing. But he cleared his docket and that isn’t an accident.

Yeah I think the Kreider stuff is pretty real.

 

[Jerkstore]

He’s okay. I trust him way more than Zadorov.

I feel like they really need to knock it out of the park with who ever they grab though. Of all the names mentioned here and have been mentioned publically, Power is the only one with the potential to do that and I wouldn’t trust this staff to be able to bring it out of him.

If there isn’t a name that we don’t know about available, probably smarter to just wait until the summer.

Good stuff. I agree. Power is my dream for sure. Appreciate the engagement!

 

[Guyute]

Its amazing to me a team like buffalo hasn't made any moves.

I just came here to write this. You beat me to it!

 

[bernmeister]

Now do Kreider

no

What about Zacha with Zadorov? Zadorovs best years were in Calgary where I think he was paired with Andersson. Might be wrong though.

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Would love Zadorov. Wanted him as a FA. I thought he was pretty good with van in the playoffs. Physical and good in front of the net where we have struggled - to put it nicely.

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Zadorov is one of the dumbest players in the league.

No thank you.

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Maybe you’re right but the way the team is at the moment I prefer dumb and physical over smart and soft (vaak)

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Zads has great size and is effective clearing the crease but is a pylon now
and it's not like he's expiring

25' 2nd + later 25' 4th for Zacha
Jones and later 25' 3rd for Ferraro
Kreider for Dallas for 26' 1st and 25' 2nd

I think it is true 50/50 odds Kreider gets moved. There is a lot more smoke than I expected.

Zacha seems very interesting and fits the team well.

Ferraro seems to fit like a glove and the good relationship with San Jose is prevalent.

pls no on youth for vets
also bold guys are mediocre at best

Bunch of shitty boring players on the move today.

tell us how you really feel!

 

[FoxysExpensiveNYDigs]

Yeah I think the Kreider stuff is pretty real.

I'd say 50/50 Kreider goes. Like 75/25 Jones goes.

 

[UnparalledPark]

No, I was saying that way back when this started coming out in November and December the media was framing it as big bad Drury is an a hole. I knew what happening during the summer and I knew it was coming to a head right before Thanksgiving, I shared as much here. Then as the media got ahold of it all the questions to the players were constantly like "do you think the way things were handled is part of an issue" "do you think management should have handled things differently" and questions that lead the players to speak a certain way. Almost everyone with a podcast that covers the rangers was bashing and blaming Drury for the mess for months and slowly that has stopped bc more came to light, especially when Larry wrote that one article in particular going after certain players. When that article came out it made everyone pause bc the way Larry wrote it was very direct and it highlighted big parts of what was going on that publicly people didn't know. That's when the other writers stopped trying to point all the issues at Drury and the reporting shifted. Larry was in a unique spot that he didn't NEED the players to maintain his job, he's already a hall of famer and if the players tried to shut him out after the article he has the cache to slam them again. I know Larry can be all over the place but most people here don't realize the good that Larry did for the franchise by writing that article and that he was one of the very few that could do it in the manner he did. He had the platform, cache, credibility, and has the relationships to do it. If he didn't write that then things here are probably still just being pointed at Drury as to why things went to hell. Drury tried to start this roster reshape during the summer and the players fought back. Then the gloves came off...

OK, well you seem to have some inside info and insight so I accept that Drury apparently is not a monster. I guess I’m one of the few who is tentatively siding with the old core, in that I believe all his moves could have waited one more year, and that perhaps we would be in a much better position to win the cup this year, seeing there doesn’t seem to be a super team, especially in the east. I appreciate your time.

 

[Fitzy]

I must hate Martinez less than the average Ranger fan because I had literally abandoned all hope after game 3 in that series. Those were the series clinching moments for me

 

[UnparalledPark]

Kreider, Schneider + is a the start of a package for a LHD that can actually make a difference.

Chabot...

I doubt any Canadien teams are on Chris’s list.