Speculation: Roster Building Thread XXXIII: 33rd thread twds the line of dead

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

so more than half of the guys on your list are expensive old guys that aren’t very good anymore and you think teams want to replace them with another expensive old guy that isn’t any good anymore?


I don’t

I didn't say they'd want to replace old guys with another old guy.

I was pointing out playoff teams with worse goaltending than Lundqvist would give them. Whether the teams want him or not is irrelevant to the point I'm making. I'm just saying he would be an improvement in all of those scenarios.

My point overall is that he's still good. He's not elite or anything but he could still be a good goalie on a good team.

 

[JimmyG89]

Columbus just lost Bjorkstrand for 8-10 weeks with a fractured ankle. Brutal

torts hockey just isn’t conducive to long term health. Freak accident totally but that team has been gutted with injuries. No way they stay in this thing. Have lost 7 straight.

I'll keep saying it, Columbus is beat up beyond belief, the Islanders can't score goals right now and we have Carolina sitting in front of us tonight. If tonight is a win, why not us? I don't see anything from those teams that tell me the points can't be made up.

Tough schedule? Yes, but we've beaten good teams this year too. We're not beating the bad teams enough, but the skill level and the goaltending level that we're getting now with Shesterkin is prime for a streak.

The top 3 in the Metro is likely the three teams there now.

Florida isn't inspiring me and Toronto putting it together for 1 game doesn't make me think they are past the defensive issues.

On top of all those other things: the Rangers are the one team that doesn't really have to make it. Columbus is probably the other exception due to their injuries at this point. All these other teams have made moves to get in and expected it when the year began. They have the pressure, the Rangers were supposed to miss. The most dangerous team is the one that has nothing to lose and that team is the Rangers.

 

[mas0764]

I want to win. Let’s get into the playoffs!!!

No thanks.

 

[wafflepadsave]

Kreider is a good player, he is far from irreplaceable.

And the idea we can’t win without Kreider is crazy. If you look back through the years, none of the teams that have won the cup, did it without Kreider.

 

[bobbop]

No thanks.

Go root for another team. This is our team!

 

[NYROrtsFan]

Should never say no thanks to the playoffs.

 

[Kovalev27]

I didn't say they'd want to replace old guys with another old guy.

I was pointing out playoff teams with worse goaltending than Lundqvist would give them. Whether the teams want him or not is irrelevant to the point I'm making. I'm just saying he would be an improvement in all of those scenarios.

Well no it’s absolutely relevant because that’s what my post you replied to was saying.

That Nobody wants him even if he wanted to go.

and frankly I don’t think he’s an improvement over any of those guys. More a wash than anything. Bobrovsky has been downright bad I’ll say that.

 

[Kovalev27]

Another thing on Kreider I promise you it hurts Mika’s game to lose him as well. There’s a real chemistry there that has made Mika a better player as well. It hurts our powerplay BADLY as well. Maybe even more than anything.

it’s not just losing the individual talent it’s that he actually does make the players around him better

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

Bruins just traded for Ondrej Kase

I think they have to be out on Kreider

 

[Ghost of jas]

Once again, hard to replace is not the same as irreplaceable.

 

[Ghost of jas]

Bruins just traded for Ondrej Kase

I think they have to be out on Kreider

Oh, darn.

 

[NYRangers0723]

Bruins just traded for Ondrej Kase

I think they have to be out on Kreider

Good because they had shit to offer. The bad news is that Colorado knows they can get Kreider for maybe less since other than maybe the Blues they are the front runners

 

[Richard Banger]

Bruins just traded for Ondrej Kase

I think they have to be out on Kreider

Or maybe they got word Kreider is staying.

 

[NYRangers0723]

Another thing on Kreider I promise you it hurts Mika’s game to lose him as well. There’s a real chemistry there that has made Mika a better player as well. It hurts our powerplay BADLY as well. Maybe even more than anything.

it’s not just losing the individual talent it’s that he actually does make the players around him better

Very True

 

[JimmyG89]

1st is in the package too, so I think that takes Boston out of the running and I'm fine with that. Their system isn't as enticing as others.

 

[RangersFan1994]

 

[NYRangers0723]

Or maybe they got word Kreider is staying

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Boston is the only team I would see him possibly resigning IF they cleared space. Colorado knows he is purely a rental and has no interest in paying a premium price. I’ve been saying this the past few days. It’s not about me just wanting to keep him. If the trade was a slam dunk then by all means trade him but I don’t see it

 

[Thirty One]

Bruins just traded for Ondrej Kase

I think they have to be out on Kreider

Don't think that would take them out.

 

[I Eat Crow]

I know Anaheim is going to be liquidating, but why trade a young piece like Kase?

 

[EpicDing]

Don't think that would take them out.

I think it does if their 1st is included as is rumored.

 

[Kovalev27]

That means we’ve got a signed Kreider or a deal with Someone else is about done. That’s a plan b move clearly

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

Don't think that would take them out.

Their first is going in the trade. I can’t imagine Gorton would do the trade without a first unless Studnicka is coming back.

 

[Trxjw]

They're only trading for Kase because they're trading DeBrusk for Kreider.

Kidding.

 

[Edge]

Am the only one with a weird expression on their face at the notion of giving up a first for Ondrej Kase?

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

Am the only one with a weird expression on their face at the notion of giving up a first for Ondrej Kase?

Backes is in the trade too so really it’s a first for Kase AND cap space