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

RangerBoy

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Just saw this quote in Toronto Star....I'd like to know where Francis saw that offense:

“Kaapo is a young dynamic forward who brings skill and offense to our club,” Kraken GM Ron Francis said in a statement. “We’re excited to have him join us.”
Kakko hasn't been a dynamic forward with skill since the 2019 Word Championships.

I had Kakko as my twitter avatar for nearly 6 years. I held out hope Kakko could still find a way to be a part of the team but it wasn’t working. It's been nearly 6 years. Crazy.
 

TheWrongWay

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This franchise is a disaster. Rotten from the top down. Hoping that one of Dolan's sons has his head on right and will do what's necessary when he has the power. Clean the front office out. Drury, our scouts, our coaches. Everything is rotten here. Can't draft, can't develop, can't play basic hockey. The team's culture is mediocrity. The asset management by every single GM in the history of this team has been abysmal. Loser culture through and through.

Spot on and being realistic, the organization has no incentive to change.

Rangers, Leafs. 1 combined Cup in the last 50 years. Both teams worth over 2 billion.

Two teams, in major cities, with entrenched 100-year-old fanbases. Both teams will likely malfunction along while continuing to increase in value. Simply because fans will never be able to hold either organization to any real accountability.

It's why I detached and won't put a penny into this team.

The only way this team will be forced to be run seriously is if ownership sees fans getting serious about not funding perpetual decades-long garbage.
 

Raspewtin

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i'm not surprised this was Kakko's value. he's really not that good.

i'm annoyed at the return though, for sure.

Just saw this quote in Toronto Star....I'd like to know where Francis saw that offense:

“Kaapo is a young dynamic forward who brings skill and offense to our club,” Kraken GM Ron Francis said in a statement. “We’re excited to have him join us.”
the only thing "dynamic" about Kakko are fans' ability to distort what he is and can be.
 

chosen

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The im don't protests are so cute.

So you think there was a better trade and Drury actively said nah I'll take the worse package?

There may have been elsewhere a slightly better value, but there's no way kakko as a horribly mismanaged 2oa pick was being dealt to more than may 10 teams in the league. You think nyr would consider trading him anywhere nearby or in the east and want to have people talking about him like buffalos Reinhart? Kakko isn't as good but the point stands, there a reason he's on Seattle.
The only reason he is in Seattle is because Laviolette shit on him instead of whom he should have shit on.

Soon Laviolette will be gone and Kakko's floor remains a good 3rd line player.

If he gets PP time he becomes a top 6 player.
 
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McRanger92

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All I know is Drury & Co. NEED to stop having their dirty laundry aired out to the public because they are actively tanking the value of their own assets by letting all of this bullshit play out in the media each and every f***ing time something happens. Even aside from the player dissatisfaction, there's been so many stories that have played out in the media in the last ~5 years that make this organization look like a clown show.

Andersson, Krav, Kakko all having their complaints be very public. This is now 3 young, promising players that all had their value absolutely driven through bedrock for one reason or another that could have otherwise been moved quietly and without all this fanfare. There was whatever happened in Hartford with Drury and Krav/the Wolfpack team. Anderson being injured and all his other off-ice stuff. Kakko's entire career/play time/usage/numerous healthy scratches.

We've seen NHL players like Strome speaking up against a coach to the media. Now Kakko.

The Trouba+Goodrow nonsense, both of their post-move comments, and all the apparent NYR fallout all playing out publicly.

Everything with Ramsay and the whole "information leaking" debacle playing out relatively publicly.

This entire debacle with the core quitting on multiple coaches and now the GM, all playing out publicly. Having whatever is going on referred to by the media as a circus worthy of a documentary. Knowing that it's such an open secret is dejecting as a fan.

Either this is a team of the absolute biggest prima donnas to have ever laced up a pair of skates, or Drury & Co. are truly the biggest jerkoffs in NHL history and have no idea how to manage people.

Remember when Drury was known for running such a tight ship?

I think the bloodletting of the organization over the next few weeks and months will ultimately be a good thing. The rotten core and locker room is getting a much needed reality check.
 

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