Confirmed Trade: [SEA/NYR] Kaapo Kakko for Will Borgen, 2025 3rd, 2025 6th

[Voight]

Man, Tom Wilson really did a number on the Rangers.

 

[Tawnos]

How has Borgen been playing for the Rangers?

He's been a huge part of the Rangers defense settling down.

 

[MakoSlade]

Kakko is finally getting opportunity, and he's not squandering it.

He was a 2ov, brought in to a supposed "rebuild", that turned into a reload, and you don't ever play your prized prospect with your best player?

I saw Kakko play with Panarin 2 games.

One, he scored 2 greasy in front of the net goals.

The other he didn't point and they immediately switched it up

Kakko as a rookie, was having PP success, and was taken off.

He was yoyo'd to death. He had zero leash (especially with Quinn), where most top picks get playing time to learn from their mistakes.

Tell me the top 3 pick that got zero leash, never got to play with the best playerb(Panarin), and got embarrassed in a scratching in the playoffs when Ryan effing Strome was a dead man in the ice .

You can be the ultimate Pro-Ranger homer, Kakko did not get a fair shake, and I wish I knew why.

Kakko seemed hesitant, slow and stiff. I saw many times where he didn't shoot or move the puck in a timely fashion that killed a play. I recall one in the playoffs where he had an open net and hesitated and flubbed the puck. An embarrassing moment. That could fall on the Rangers for not giving him space to grow, or Kakko falling under too much pressure. Or a bit of both. Whatever it is hopefully the true player comes through. Sometimes you just need a change of scenery.

 

[Kegs]

He's in his sixth season since getting drafted and has only hit 40 points as his career high. There are people bumping this thread every game as if they have no dignity because he's on pace for 46 points now.

Come on, have some self respect. Kakko might turn into a 60-70 point player, if things go well. But don't make this into something it's not. The dude didn't cut it with the Rangers as a top 6 forward. He did not earn 19-20 minutes that he's getting now for a bad team that lacks forward talent and doesn't have any mandate to win. He couldn't even handle 16-17 minutes with the Rangers. Any time he'd get a bigger role he'd go invisible and fairly find his way back down the lineup.

Yes, maybe he would've been better off playing initially for a team that sucked and he could've done nothing for a few years and they'd keep throwing him back out there, but that wasn't the situation. He did not show scoring talent needed to be anywhere near what he was hyped as at 2OA. Sorry, you aren't convincing me that force-feeding this guy who struggled to beat 40 points upwards of 20 minutes a game all of a sudden makes him some great player he wasn't three weeks ago when we had nearly 5 and a half seasons of evidence on what he was.

Being in your sixth season as a 24 year old behind a stacked forward group says enough. The rangers gm is horrible and should be fired.