CaptainMorganBarron

Gross was a mistake, they never should have drafted him, should have taken a forward.

How good is Fast defensively and on PK according to those advanced stats?

what exactly is a 3rd liner money? 4th liner UFAs look usually for 1 to 2 mil.

The problem is he is a RW we have Kakko, Buch, Gauthier, Fast?, Kravtsov on the RW If we let Fast go and sign Anderson Kravtsov again is stuck in AHL he might flip out and leave for KHL for good. He is probably flipping out that they made him come to the playoffs and chose to play garbage Fogarty over him when Fast was out.

Would any team offer us a big package for Kakko?

BTW Canadiens are up 2-1 vs Penguins, while Rangers choked. Why? Could it have something to do with their coaching staff vs ours? Look who is running our offense and PP: https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=4072 a guy with almost no coaching experience.

Why is Georgiev not part of the future? he is younger than Shesterkin. What if something happens to Shesterkin? What if Wall and Huska suck? Miller I am sure is ready for NHL next season.

Only sure change is McKegg won't be back.

Also I am confused, we outhit the Canes so the grit and physicality, while are always needed, were not a reason we lost this. Our offense wasn't able to produce, we also have very weak offense all season long from our bottom 2 lines, and the Carolina coaching staff is way better than ours.

only our 1st rounder, but not our 2nd 1st rounder.

ok fine. How about Kevin Klein?

the difference is only about 2 million, but also consider taxes, longer season, more travel, dirty looks from all the Rangers fans, etc. I think he will probably get plenty of gifts from the Rangers and possibly be hired as a Swedish scout in the future?

ask Naslund or Drury... Don't forget he can get probably 2 or 3 mil playing starting role for Frolunda and they play fewer games.

That is what I am trying to figure out. I feel like our playoffs got sabotaged somehow.

Buyout the only option? What about retiring from NHL? That is the best and most logical option.

when does the camp begin for next season?

so who are these gritty physical players going to replace? on forward we got: Lemieux who is obviously physical. Zib, Kreider, and Panarin are not going anywhere. Buch and Howden are gritty and physical. Kakko is only 19 I doubt he is getting replaced yet. Di Giuseppe, Fast, Gauthier and McKegg are all gritty. McKegg will be gone so his spot could be upgraded possibly same with Fast. That leaves us with Chytil and Strome. Is that who they are replacing? On defense we got Smith and Staal who can only be bought out, but they are ok physically and are gritty. Trouba is pretty physical but needs to be moved because of his contract and terrible defensive mistakes he is making. Lindgren is physical and gritty Fox is not getting traded probably, but he is not very physical so maybe they do consider trading him. ADA is a bit more physical and gritty than Fox. Hajek maybe is not very gritty or physical, but he doesn't have much trade value.

I told you they will likely overreact and make some bad trades.

But their season is over... And it obviously was not COVID.

So did they announce why Shesterkin was unfit to play the first 2 games?

Actually would make sense to package Gauthier for Crouse.

I keep debating in my head, nobody is completely garbage, everybody has some good qualities. Lundqvist of course has to retire. McKegg makes no sense to bring back Fast no idea if they bring him back I guess it depends on several things I guess they might qualify Di Giuseppe Due to NMC they likely need to trade Trouba We have a lot of softish non physical players like Kakko, Chytil, Kravtsov, Panarin, Strome and many more that aren't very good defensively and aren't trusted at penalty killing.

Sounds like a coach that really wanted to win...

I am saying why he all of a sudden put together this line that hasn't played together much. Gauther I think was playing with Howden and Lemieux prior to COVID and Di Giuseppe was playing with Kakko and Chytil.

the ex-Hurricanes line, nice, why did the coach suddenly combine them? Another line jugglin' clown?