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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
I am not giving up Rittich AND moving down in the draft for Raanta. replace Rittich with McCollum or no trade down. I am really high on Rittich's potential and current ability level.
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McCollum isn't getting traded because he's the only goalie in the system who meets the expansion draft exposure requirement.
For the Rangers, if they trade Raanta, they'll lose a different player, likely either Grabner or Hayes.
Under the rules of the expansion draft, they must expose 2 forwards who are under contract for next season, and they currently only have 7 forwards under contract for next season (Nash, Stepan, Kreider, Zuccarello, Miller, Hayes, and Grabner). Of those, Hayes and Grabner are the likely odd men out.
If the Flames plan on leaving Brouwer exposed, they have 3 players who meet the exposure requirement (Brouwer, Stajan, Bouma). They could send one of them to New York, which would allow the Rangers to protect either Hayes or Grabner.