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Lindgren is a 2nd pair LD playing on the 1st pair because he's Adam Fox's buddy. He's a decent defenseman who is also part of the reason that Igor is over-worked on a regular basis.

One year deal is fine. The Rangers will have a much better idea of what their off-season liabilities are next year.

Nobody should be paying through the nose for any 29 year old player who is not the best at his position when the deal is consummated. Really nobody should be paying through the nose for any 29 year old on an 8 year deal if you look at the actuarial tables for peak player performance and decline. However as many people believe, most GM's don't look more than 2 years out and pretend the latter stages of the deal just don't exist.

Good deal for the Rangers. Glad they got Schneider locked up early.

He is deceptively fast when he is on the move in a straight line. Maybe one of the faster Rangers due to his stride length.

It's depressingly like CapFriendly. $56.5M in cap charges next season for 10 players and we likely need to sign Laf and Igor to large contracts. Edit: Lindgren and Schneider will probably be at $6.5M also so we're talking 12 players for $63M plus Laf and Igor and very little cap space for the missing 5-6 players at the NHL level.

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It's very hard to have an ex-Captain on the team. It's really hard to do that when it's already clear a breakup is happening and it's only a matter of when. Obviously it's situation normal all fucked up at this point but that doesn't mean things can't get more SNAFU.

In theory Mac Jones is the 3rd pair LD at this point. Could the Rangers get away with Ruhwedel and Jones as the 3rd pair? Sounds iffy to me but maybe at 12 minutes they could handle it?

Ultimately Trouba is either going to play somewhere else for $6M or not play this season. That or Drury is going to let the process own the Rangers, which would be unfortunate given the realities in play this season, next and post 2026. I don't doubt that some aspects of the current impasse might damage the Rangers ability to negotiate with free agents down the road. However any contract they sign with anybody will likely feature similar issues in the last few seasons. Teams deal with this stuff all the time.

If anything Drury was too nice here. He should have just waited for the list and slammed the trade through after noon when the list was submitted. It would have hurt the Rangers chances to sign any of the big free agents but there were ways around that also by agreeing to a deal and then trading Trouba after the deal. Cap-compliance is not in effect until later in the fall. Edit: Note that this is not a reporting issue if the Rangers asked Trouba for his list and mentioned Detroit in the process.

How do the Rangers handle the Trouba Captaincy with both sides knowing he's gone after next season, maybe sooner if the Rangers can find a trade before the deadline? I just think it's gone too far at this point for him to return in a leadership role in that locker room.

The sequence Drury will probably try is: 1. Work out a deal with a team not on his list. a) If Trouba reports the problem is solved. b) If Trouba doesn't report it's actionable under the CBA although it is not clear exactly how this would be resolved. This is where the trade needs to be artfully crafted. The Rangers basically need to take back a 1 year cap hit under the range of Trouba's cap hit. Then if Trouba does not report to the team he is traded too both teams can agree that the trade stays in place and the new team terminates the contract. The Rangers can then buy out the 1 year cap hit they acquired. The benefit for the Rangers in this case is a cheaper buyout and not having to deal with the whole scenario next season again. 2. Waive Trouba and hope somebody claims him. a) If Trouba is claimed the problem is resolved. Not the Ranger's headache any more. b) If Trouba is not claimed it is probably simplest to assign him to Hartford and accept the fact that this year's cap relief is minimal. Next year the Rangers buy out the last year of his contract.

Do we know what his list is? I'd assume all the Canadian teams are there plus probably Detroit based on reporting. After that probably San Jose, Anaheim, LA, Seattle, Colorado. I'd have assumed Utah was there also. That's close to the number he can block. Maybe 1 or 2 more teams also.

The next big overplay is Trouba's. Just a guess.