SY needs to inject some actual talent into this roster.. I'm not saying he still can't or won't, but moves like this if true, coupled with every single one outside of Debrincat suggest that's not his MO(Kane was a free gift for 4 months)
Like Ghost? Getting guys who are skillled and dependable is probably going to be mostly a promotion from within, imo. The skill injection on the blueline is Ed. But I also think it's a skill to be able to go out, play 20+ minutes every night, and not have us begging for him to be off the ice. How many defensemen have we went through the past years where we were desperate just to see them not implode every third shift they took?
And none of this is to say that I don't think we look to add high end skilled players, they're just really hard to get. We're still being connected to Kane. We've been talked about being in the hunt for Stamkos. Neither may happen, but I don't think them signing elsewhere will have anything to do with the money given to Trouba.
He doesn’t eat tough minutes anymore. He was in free fall this year in New York and played himself onto the third pairing and apparently off of a contender to a bubble team.
he played 20+ minutes a night every single month this past season until march, which is when Trouba broke his ankle.
I just don't see anything in his deployment or numbers, until his broken ankle, that says the Rangers didn't trust the guy. My worry would be that the ankle can't be fixed and rehabbed to what it was before.