Man, the prospect of paying Kaako $6 mill a year to be, what, a 2nd/3rd liner putting up 0.5 PPG? 0.6? What's Kaako's ceiling? I don't know, boys. I'm for a package deal to get someone of Kane's ability. The problem, of course, is that Kane specifically is a no-go, too old, and too suspect off the ice. But if there's a disgruntled star in their prime out there, I'm pulling the trigger, without hesitation. Kaako is going to get better, but it's hard to imagine him a game changing star. Kaako might be most valuable as a what-if chip, then when the jury is decided what he actually is.
Speculation: Roster Building Thread - Part XXX
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Amazing Kreiderman
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Kakko's ELC expiring takes 2.65m off the PB cushion. I doubt we'll be over that any time soon. The only big crunch was the season we had Kakko, Laf and Shestyorkin on their ELCs, combining for 8.1m between them already, not including others like Fox and Lindgren at the time.
The PB cushion is $6,112,500 with the current cap.
BBKers
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I said this before. We should have targeted Mcdermid (cost was a 4th) in the offseason. Similar cap Hit, one Year less term and a considerably better player than pylon Tinordi. With him and Reaves both on the team there would be retribution to Pay for anyone taking liberties.
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He is a terrible hockey player. He wasn’t even tjat effective gooning it up last night. No need for him.
The Rangers have been a very physical team. You haven’t seen any of the players get run. Goalies a bit, yes. But I think some of it has been exaggerated by Igor as a sell job, which I am fine with. Brodeur was king of that. I think the team has gotten better responding to players crashing the net. Trouba jumped in immediately last night.
They need a little more experience in their forward group past the first 2 lines, specifically the 3rd line. The 3rd line is almost 2 young. Too much running around in their own end and not responsible enough. I think the experience could be Goodrow if you add someone to the 2nd line C or RW, bumping Hunt to the 4th line.
We need an upgrade on Georgiev. If Igor is going to be back sunday or Tuesday then we can wait. If its 2 more weeks I would look now. We cannot run Huska out there again. I know Rask was practicing with the Bruins but are they going to sign him? They seem pretty set on having Swayman and Ullmark. What about MAF with money retained, UFA rental. Jump in on that before Colorado calls about him.
This org fed Huska to the wolves in order to preserve the scintilla of trade value Georgiev regained this week. Awful. I don’t know how Georgiev looks at himself in the mirror after what Huska went through last night.
NYR Viper
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The CEILING for any negotiation with Strome needs to be in the $5's. Not $6's. Definitely not $7's.
The trend has clearly been to give term to lower the cap hit. The players get the dollars they seek and the teams get to keep the cap hit down, knowing the salary cap will be going up towards the end of the deals.
RNH = $5.125m
Coyle = $5.25m
Danault = $5.5m
This is my expectation for Strome, Hertl, Kadri, Trochek (maybe slightly less than the others on him).
Strome is not as good defensively as RNH or Danault so I would expect him to come in right around $5.25m on a 5-7 year deal.
The trend has clearly been to give term to lower the cap hit. The players get the dollars they seek and the teams get to keep the cap hit down, knowing the salary cap will be going up towards the end of the deals.
RNH = $5.125m
Coyle = $5.25m
Danault = $5.5m
This is my expectation for Strome, Hertl, Kadri, Trochek (maybe slightly less than the others on him).
Strome is not as good defensively as RNH or Danault so I would expect him to come in right around $5.25m on a 5-7 year deal.
D: Chiarot/Giordano/DeHaan - a guy who can play both sides and rotate with Nils and a Jones call up
G: we need an upgrade - there are several but Rask/Halak?
F: R Smith/F Forsberg/Tierney
G: we need an upgrade - there are several but Rask/Halak?
F: R Smith/F Forsberg/Tierney
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BBKers
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Comparing McDermid - who admitadly is no stalwart at icehockey - with an utterly useless traffic cone like Tinordi is a blasphemous travesty. To find a NYR Defender as bad as Tinordi one must venture into murky past catacombs to dig up corpses like Stu Bickel, Christian Bäckman and Sandis Ozoliņš.
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NYR Viper
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Guys who I could see the team acquiring at the deadline:
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Nick Holden - last year of his deal @ $1.7m
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Max Domi - last year of his deal @ $5.3m
Vlad Namestnikov - last year of his deal @ $2m
Antoine Roussel - last year of his deal @ $3m
Johan Larsson - last year of his deal @ $1.4m
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Thomas Greiss - last year of his deal @ $3.6m
Jaroslav Halak - last year of his deal @ $1.5m
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Nick Holden - last year of his deal @ $1.7m
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Max Domi - last year of his deal @ $5.3m
Vlad Namestnikov - last year of his deal @ $2m
Antoine Roussel - last year of his deal @ $3m
Johan Larsson - last year of his deal @ $1.4m
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Thomas Greiss - last year of his deal @ $3.6m
Jaroslav Halak - last year of his deal @ $1.5m
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Daves a mess
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NYR Viper
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Count me in the group that would be okay adding a couple of depth pieces, rather than going after a high profile guy this season. That's kind of where my head was at with Vlad and Nick
HatTrick Swayze
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You have to keep in mind his lack of PP time when evaluating his production. He is on PP2 now, but on the whole for the season he is 10th in PP TOI and actually has 8 less min that Chytil and 20 less min that Lafreniere on the man advantage. This is partially driven by missed games (1 less than Chytil, 4 less than Lafreniere) but also because Kakko has played more PK min than either.
If Kakko was in Strome's spot in PP1, he could easily be on a ~50-70 point pace and we'd be talking up how many Selke's he's going to win over his career.
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Yes, let's take the leagues 7th ranked PP and start messing with personal to appease fans. Brilliant!
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Think Colorado would love to have that 4th back. Last night was a blowout and he played 3:07. That's with two defensemen on the IR.
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Crease
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At the 1/3rd mark of the season, we have a pretty good sense of what the Rangers are: an above-average team that should win more games than they lose. Are they built to win a championship? No. Do they have holes? Yes. But they're a good team and should get some quality playoff experience this year. You take that to the bank and hope they build on the experience next season. Right on schedule IMO.
E-Train
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Rangers don’t need MacDermid or Tinordi
Spend on a quality vet D by the deadline. No one will fight Reaves, pointless to add another enforcer.
Spend on a quality vet D by the deadline. No one will fight Reaves, pointless to add another enforcer.
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