[Rumour] Brooks: Flames & Jets have contacted Rangers with regards to Raanta

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by GranteedEV

Do the people who think it's "foolish" to not want to throw Rittich into this deal have the same opinion if it's Gillies and not Rittich?

I'd easily replace Gillies in that deal and still do it. We could only hope that Gillies could get to Rannta's level of development, goalies rarely turn into starters. Great deal for us.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Lord Carnage

Is it just me, or does that make zero sense for Winnipeg? They'd have to expose Hellebuyck if trading for Raanta, which seems to make zero sense from their perspective...


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It could be just the Rangers trying to the Flames to up their bid.

Although, Hellebuyck didn't exactly win anyone over last season.

[Rejean31]

Heck, if the rumours are true that Carey Price or Cory Schneider might be available, I hope Tre goes all in for one of those guys. The cost would be higher but goaltending would be solved for the foreseeable future.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by GranteedEV

Do the people who think it's "foolish" to not want to throw Rittich into this deal have the same opinion if it's Gillies and not Rittich?



Could we extend Johnson to meet the requirement?

Sure you could. But why would he sign if he is going to be exposed?

[Samonadreau]

Originally Posted by Rejean31

Heck, if the rumours are true that Carey Price or Cory Schneider might be available, I hope Tre goes all in for one of those guys. The cost would be higher but goaltending would be solved for the foreseeable future.

Were there actually any vindicated rumors or was it just fans spit-balling?

[IrishSpring2013]

Originally Posted by Weitz

Sure you could. But why would he sign if he is going to be exposed?

having a bona-fide nhl contract for one.. thats not exactly a guarantee through the off season..chad johnskn had a good stretch for the Flames and Sabres in two seasons but it's not like hes for sure to get another nhl deal...

Nhl contract today for any 31 teams > maybe having one later

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by Weitz

Sure you could. But why would he sign if he is going to be exposed?

If we offered Chad Johnson a 1.9 million x 2 year contract, I think he would accept the risk of being claimed in expansion vs the reward of job security in his home town.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Samonadreau

Were there actually any vindicated rumors or was it just fans spit-balling?

Fans spit-balling. Neither is being shopped.

[jlh2640]

A big no thanks from me. Guy is not the answer

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Do the Rangers stand to lose any decent players in the expansion draft outside of Rataa? If so I would imagine the trade offers have to be better than whatever would be the player that Las Vegas would take off their roster.

I think their protected list is projected to be:

Nash, Stepan, Kreider, Zuccarello, Miller, Zibanejad, Hayes
Staal, Girardi, McDonagh
Lundqvist

Which would leave
Fast, Grabner, Lindberg
Klein, Paliotta
Raanta
as the most attractive unprotected assets

[Love]

Yo, analytics guys. How is Klein? Could be a potential partner for TJ on that second pairing.

[Geeoff]

I would think the Rangers would convince Girardi to waive his NMC or buy him out? I don't see them exposing Klein and keeping Girardi.

[TheScorpion]

Klein is okay analytically on a pretty bad Rangers team (in that respect).

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

I think their protected list is projected to be:

Nash, Stepan, Kreider, Zuccarello, Miller, Zibanejad, Hayes
Staal, Girardi, McDonagh
Lundqvist

Which would leave
Fast, Grabner, Lindberg
Klein, Paliotta
Raanta
as the most attractive unprotected assets

So you can argue they would prefer maybe LV taking Raanta than Klein.

[dammage79]

Fast is a good young asset as well. Cannot count him out of LV taking him.

[FlamesAddiction]

Yeah, the Rangers have a lot of expansion bait. Grabner is another Vegas could realistically take. I could see them keeping Raanta around until the expansion draft is over as a way to hopefully entice Vegas to keeping their paws off of anyone else. But if Vegas does select a skater, the Rangers would then trade Raanta to another team.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

I think their protected list is projected to be:

Nash, Stepan, Kreider, Zuccarello, Miller, Zibanejad, Hayes
Staal, Girardi, McDonagh
Lundqvist

Which would leave
Fast, Grabner, Lindberg
Klein, Paliotta
Raanta
as the most attractive unprotected assets

That doesn't meet the exposure requirements. They'd have to either sign Fast or Lindberg (or Puempel or Pirri) to a new contract in the next week or leave Hayes unprotected.

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by getbak

That doesn't meet the exposure requirements. They'd have to either sign Fast or Lindberg (or Puempel or Pirri) to a new contract in the next week or leave Hayes unprotected.

Which according to the article the Rangers are in the process of signing one of Fast, Lindberg, or Puempel to an extension, but their agents have taken a hardline stance realizing the Rangers need them to satisfy the expansion requirements. Given the stiff penalties for not meeting the requirements and potentially letting Hayes go for free, they will likely cave to one of those guys.

According to the article they are going to let Pirri go unqualified.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Love

Yo, analytics guys. How is Klein? Could be a potential partner for TJ on that second pairing.

I haven't heard the Rangers being interested in trading him, and if we made a deal pre-expansion we'd probably immediately lose him to Vegas anyway.

[Freeway]

Klein is an answer to precisely zero of the problems the Flames have.