To NYR - Gaudreau and D. Ryan
To Cgy - L Andersson, P Buchnevich, M Robertson and 2021 1st
First and foremost the Rangers need a graceful exit with King Henrik. A trade or retirement. A lot of this also depends on whether one of Kreider or Gaudreau can/is willing to play RW. This allows them to ease Lafreniere in at 5-on-5 playing 3rd line to start. If he’s as good as advertised they can look at moving Chytil, Howden or even Kakko for a haul.
Why Derek Ryan? He’s a player that the Rangers don’t really have at the moment and with just 1 year left he can anchor a 4th line and kill penalties. Why does Calgary trade him? For cap space and because they want to play Bennett at centre.
Believing they are now a contender the Rangers expect the 2021 1st rounder to be in the 20s.
The Rangers re-sign DeAngelo, Lemieux and Georgiev on 2-3 year bridge contracts and UFA Jesper Fast for a solid but small raise. Strome is the loser here but perhaps the Rangers can get a nice draft pick for his RFA rights as his Panarin-inflated counting stats make him look better than he probably is. One of the teams with a lot of picks (ie Jersey or Ottawa) will probably give up a 2nd or 3rd for him.
Panarin-Zibanejad-Kakko
Gaudreau-Chytil-Kreider
Lafreniere-Howden-Fast
Lemieux-Ryan-Kravtsov
NShore-Gauthier
Smith-Trouba
MStaal-Fox
Lindgren-DeAngelo
Hajek
Shesterkin
Georgiev
Got that in $1,5 million under the cap.
Expansion list
Forward - Panarin, Zibanejad, Gaudreau, Kreider, Chytil, Howden and 1 of Fast, Lemieux or Gauthier
Defense - Trouba and 2 of Smith, DeAngelo and Lindgren
Goal - Georgiev
With Lafreniere, Fox, Shesterkin and Kakko safe from the expansion draft the Rangers are in a good position
Calgary Roster
Tkachuk-Monahan-Buchnevich
Mangiapane-Backlund-Lindholm
Lucic-Bennett-Dube
LAndersson-Gawdin-Rieder
Giordano-XXXXXX
Hanifin-RAndersson
Valimaki-Kylington
Rittich
XXXXX
Lots of Cap space (18 players signed with $17 million space left) for the Flames to look for a goalie, defenseman and forward. Hall, Murray and Brodie could maybe fit in that.
Calgary gets Buchnevich who can play both wings around the top 9. Give Lias Andersson a restart on his NHL career and Robertson for their defensive prospect depth plus a 2021 1st rounder
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