Endure what physicality?
I understand it would be an injury or 2 from a lot of AHL players in the lineup, but again thats how guys get shots and feel its worth being in the Org. Also, that's how you sometimes find your own Bunting or the like, which is always better than signing one from another team.
That can't be true because we were also doing plenty of hitting.
I thought it was proportional. For instance if he signed for 2mil and missed 3/4 of the season you only need 500K in cap space to reactivate.
They didn't get enough minutes with linemates who were not also young players also trying to find their NHL games, we are "developing" them in a really "odd" manner. They also didn't get power play minutes. I understand the team's situation, but the confidence a player gets by being able to add to their totals on the powerplay, and from being given that responsibility, shouldn't be discounted. Maybe you grip your stick a little less tight, knowing you're contributing more. You breathe easier, you relax, and it has a cascading effect on the rest of your game. Dominoes, in a good way. Pretty much very other team develops high picks this way. We sit here saying "they just aren't good" because they were "bad" picks somehow, that EVERY team would have made, when an OBVIOUS difference between other teams high picks and ours is the usage and responsibility and leash they are given in development.
If you think 35 year old Patrick Kane playing on a bad hip post surgery is the missing ingredient to get through the grind of the nhl playoffs for THIS team I really don’t know what to tell you. I mean have you watched any of the series beyond the Rangers Devils series? And yet you still walk away with the idea that a hobbled vet playing perimeter hockey is what the Rangers need to get through the grind of the playoffs, to recover pucks, to get inside the paint, to take and give contact? To play through additional injuries accrued during a run, I just don’t know what to tell you. I know Patrick Kane’s resume. By your logic Wayne Gretzky or Mark Messier should be brought out of retirement to get us over the hump.
I didn't say he was the missing ingredient. I don't think he makes or breaks the team either way. I'm just saying if he's a free asset, take the free asset.
I know you’re gonna keep mentioning it, but a move like this just isn’t easy. I’m all for it if it helps actually reshape the makeup of the roster for the better rather than just making a reactionary move. The main issue is the money and finding a fit for him that’s actually realistic. There’s also the potential for it to backfire and cause this team to take a big step back since he’s their top scorer.
Well the issue is cap and NMCs, so YEAH, the roster will essentially be the same next year, hopefully with a couple of youngsters earning spots. The DIFFERENCE will need to be Laf, Kakko, Chytil, Miller, and Schneider all growing, maturing and stepping up.
The most likely result of trading Panarin is that we just play the same and score way less.
It's not proportional then? It's either miss the entire season and use LTIR or play even a game and full year's salary is on the cap? I thought it WAS proportional. So if you sign him for 1 or 2 mil and he misses 3/4 of the season, the cap hit you need to have allocated for his return would be 250K or 500K...
He's not free. He demands top 6 minutes. He's not going to sit on your bench. He doesn't fit bottom 6 for any team based on style of play. He takes a spot and doesn't fit the needs of the team as constituted. If we had Barkov Tkachuk and Bennet in our top 6, he could possibly be the right compliment for them. But for Zib, Panarin and Kreider, hard pass. He's not a free asset. He has to be inserted in the HEART of the lineup. On the PP. He needs to produce at 5v5 and help cycle the puck and retrieve pucks. He is just not a fit. In the cap world, there's no such thing as a free asset. He takes up a spot, he costs at best 1m. We have so little space. We need to be far smarter about the makeup of the team and have a vision for how this team needs to play and be constructed to win games in the playoffs. If this were a fantasy team. If this were EA sports. Go for it. If this were a team of grinders and shooters who needed a playmaker. Not the worst option. Construct the rest fo the team and see if he fits. But he's not a fit on this team currently. I would use the 1-3 mil on a different asset.
No that doesn't apply when you are using LTIR to be cap compliant. There is no accumulating cap space in that situation.
I don't disagree that they need to diversify but I do disagree that they don't need another playmaker.
