What Do we do now

The rangers will have a tough time getting panarin because of the logjam the just put themselves in with Trouba. Trouba will ask for 7.5 for at least 6 years, and they still need to sign Deangelo, buchnevich, Lemieux, and letteiri. that will take up about 5-6 million for those players, which leaves only 6 million to work with. They should hold out on Kreider for a rental, but get rid of namestnikov now. Kreider can be useful once he gets a full season with Mika and adds to his trade value. You aren't getting much for Vlad as he is now 26 with an AAV of 4 Mil. He is still young, but hasn't proved himself to be at least worthy of a top 9 role on other teams.

This is a bad take from top to bottom. Rangers can fit him relatively easily. Trade Vesey and Strome for picks, Buyout smith, and bridge ADA, Buch and Lemiuex. Thats basically it. Belesky buried and Claesson as 7D. Having Kravtsov and Kakko make it simple.

They can fit Panarin if they want to it’s jusr do they want to pay him for 7 years at 11 mill plus