Bro, Igor is 20 games into his career. Prime? He could just as easily have a sophomore slump, which is way more frequent than rookies keeping up his pace. Lindgren is a rock? A rookie will come in replace a 45 pt vet d man? ADA will do something from junior, and it will just work out? Again, everything breaks perfect.
Where is OUR precedent for dumping cap? We never pull it off. Boston has eaten cap on their dumps twice. Toronto paid a 1st to dump a contract and will miss the playoffs. They are not a template. Their left side is garbage. They have better scoring than us and they will still miss. That is a cautionary tale. If gorton moves out staal with our 1st next season, he needs to be removed immediately.
Our offense will get better? How? Show me. We will have to subtract to keep 1 player. Panarin is having the second best season for a ranger ever. You can't bank on that again. Or Kreider have career highs two years in a row as a 29 year old. There is no cap to bolster the roster let alone fill holes left by buch or strome.
No problem acquiring bottom 6 help? We haven't done that in years and we had cap back then.
I'm giving you firm examples. All of your answers are unicorns. It's not just getting one single break, it is all of the stars aligning.
None of the above is a crazy risk?
Igor is in his prime? His career has been going for some time. He's new to the NHL but these results are not new. You wanted precedence? but now you're contrary to precedence.
We never got to the point of being able to dump cap... hence we never were at the end of contracts. You cant move a bloated contract with 3-5 years left, which is not what I've suggested. Moving a contract that expires in a year, ( where the cap hit is greater than the actual salary ) is not some unprecedented move. You're framing prerequisites and criteria to suit your narrative.
Kreider Zibs Buch
Panarin Strome Fast
Kreider Zibs Buch or Kakko or Kravtsov
Panarin Chytil Strome or Kakko or Kravtsov.
I can't tell if you're purposely being naive but getting bigger production and further development from Kakko, Chytil and eventually Kravtsov? Players like Miller and Lundkvist? Further development of Fox and ADA? Yeah I know,... uNiCoRnS to think we continue to improve
I'm actually talking about pieces we already have and pieces that are close.
What do you suggest? Trade all the vets? and then what? wait? What are we waiting for? Wait for Zibs to get paid $14M? Wait for the kids to make UFA money? Wait for Shesty to make 10% cap? What's your plan? more futures and picks?
Everything is a bunch of 'ifs'. What if all the draft picks fail. What if Zibanejad demands a trade. What if Panarin falls apart. What if Chytil never develops. What if Kakko is a bust. You can add all the what if's that are contrary to your view.
