Confirmed with Link: [SEA/NYR] Kaapo Kakko for Will Borgen + 3rd + 6th

[bleedblue94]

This is such a blah return and I don't believe for a second there wasn't a targeted market for where nyr would ship him, as in they would not send him to certain places.

Borgen is such a meh player, him coming in says someone else is going out. Don't think it's just lindgren.

Drury did the obvious thing and went after kakko, but the vets are where this battle will happen. I'm indifferent until they actually trade an impactful vet and not just the usual or expected names.

 

[ThePeoplesPeople]

22% of Borgen's career goals are against the Devils. This was obviously an analytics based trade.

 

[TheGortonConspiracy]

Lol.

So our 2nd overall pick, 23 year old winger pacing for 40 points on 13 minutes of icetime a game with virtually no PP time amounts to a terrible 6/7 D and a couple of picks that will, in all likelihood, amount to nothing.

It just doesn’t make sense. The trade is immediately horrendous.

 

[Greschner4]

Drury

What in the absolute f*** is Drury doing.

What an absolute disaster he's becoming.

Making things personal because he’s a douchebag.

 

[DanielBrassard]

He would've gotten killed for making that trade too.

At least it would have made sense in a year where the team had a chance to win, now you get a paltry return for him anyway.

 

[will1066]

Kinda insane Drury refused to add him into a deal for Guentzel at the trade deadline just to trade him for return like this.

Circumstances

 

[I Eat Crow]

Feel awful for Kakko. Should have never been 2OA.

I agree with you most of the time but this is absolutely incorrect.

I remember watching the World Championships in his draft year and thinking about how sure of the thing he looked that tournament.

Absolutely a two way winger with a 60 point floor. The harsh reality is that this organization failed to develop him properly. David Quinn and scratching him Game 6 in 2022 ruined his self confidence.

 

[mike14]

I'm not a huge KK guy but I would have thought he'd return more than this just based on GMs still seeing some 'potential' in him that they could unlocked. 3rd, 6th and a UFA D-man with only 2.5 full seasons of hockey seems like a good trade from Seattle's POV.
Hopefully Othmann can get back up to speed quickly and we see him in KK's spot before too long.

Go well Kaako, it was an interesting time in Ranger-land with you around.

 

[Profet]

Hey guys!

This trade is horrific.

But also..
Guitar guy and his church of Kakko tshirt is no more... Right?

 

[McRanger92]

Hahahaha

 

[Mike in Houston]

Well at least in Seattle he'll only be able to shove it up our ass twice a year.

 

[Gardner McKay]

Kinda insane Drury refused to add him into a deal for Guentzel at the trade deadline just to trade him for return like this.

I think this says it all tbh.

Kinda makes me hope the Avery rumors are true. It can't possibly be worse than this.

 

[rangers1314]

Fly high, free bird

 

[UnSandvich]

And i thought the organization was already an embarassment

 

[Ktel16]

What the f***.

 

[zlev]

what a sad f***in franchise this is. there wasn't a better defenseman available?

 

[qwertyaas]

Drury

Making things personal because he’s a douchebag.

This move is just so useless outside of theories of it being personal.

It's a shit return. Gives them nothing of value now. And nothing in the future.

This was selling beyond even low. He was throwing Kakko in the f***ing garbage heap.

 

[mas0764]

Pathetic return, pathetic organization.

1 Cup in 80+ years. Don't know how to develop talent. Punts on kids in favor of loser veterans.

Completely mishandled this kid from the beginning. The epitome of the habitual failure of this franchise.

 

[Jaromir Jagr]

The only good thing is this almost certainly makes us worse so we are well on our way to tanksville.

 

[DumpnChase12]

This is a blessing in disguise for Kakko. Away from this toxic NYR situation. He will be ok, good luck bud...

 

[inranger94]

Drury is such incompetent fool.

 

[17futurecap]

Love the beat saying the Rangers have been after Borgen for a long time, like that makes it better. Also why the f*** have they been after Will Borgen for years?

 

[kovazub94]

Traded Kakko for Krap

 

[Kodiak]

I get that Drury felt like he had to move Kakko, but could he at least try to help the team with the return? Why are we adding a fifth RHD?

 

[will1066]

Feel awful for Kakko. Should have never been 2OA.

This. CS grossly overrated him, with non-translatable skills to NA ice.

I don't care about the return. He didn't do anything here. Now gets a chance elsewhere, new scenery will do him good hopefully.