I don’t see a good fit with them. Who would we want in return? Personally I push kreider to Boston for debrusk. Georgie to any team that wants a cost controlled n1 starter and willing to take Smith as well even if we retain 1.5m along the way.
The loss isn’t. Not even close to being Hanks fault. However, the first goal? How about saving that and making a statement? 2014 Hank stops that in a big game where he’s called on to be the man. I miss that dude.
Just to play. You aren’t going to convince a pro athlete to hang up the skates when he still thinks he can play at an NHL level. You just aren’t. This is all most of these guys know. They play until they either don’t want to or the league doesn’t want them. It’s just that simple.
You can’t sell an athlete on retirement when he feels he can still play. Never can, never will. You can hope he would be willing to be traded. That’s the best you’ll get.
I actually don’t know. I don’t remember them specifically saying anything other than the last Ranger defenseman. Would make sense to say regular season but being how rare it is, I don’t know why they would bother saying only regular season lol