Is this a Realistic NYR team

I'd say it's pretty realistic. There's nothing that jumps out and makes me scratch my head. As a personal preference though, I hope the Rangers don't take on any salary dumps or anything like that. We may have money now but in a few years we'll need to re-sign pretty much every young guy on our team and having cap strain then is really going to suck. Plus this also takes us out of the Panarin/UFA race but I guess it's your team. Still pretty good though.

Kadri would be offer the books by the time Kakko and Kravtsov come up for contract renewals. Check out the long term outlook and you will see we would have loads of cap room.

Taking the Marleau contract and buying it out is a one year cap hit. Not like it puts a long term impact on the cap.

Did Kreider run over your dog?!? that's a really bad return for the Rangers.

How is that a bad return for Kreider? Minnesota would not do Zucker for Kreider 1-1 so throw in Pionk who is expendable and a draft pick. Zucker is younger and cost controlled for 4 years and Kreider's next contract will exceed Zucker's by probably $1M+. Both are 20 goal scorers so it's not like the Rangers would lose any scoring ability.