Strome

Deangelo is getting more

Give him 2 years at $4.75 mil to see if his production continues. Away from Panarin he sucks

I'd do that, sure. I'd also be willing to go to arbitration. I can't see that being much more than $5m, for max 2 years. 2 years lets you know where Chytil is in his development, and you can re-address a Strome extension with Lundqvist, Staal and Smith all off the cap.

Whilst Strome does have the speed and playmaking ability to keep up with fast players, it seems to me like Strome is a sub-0.5ppg player up to now who's had one inflated year while riding shotgun with Panarin. There are many tell-tale signs of this being a one-off career year for him, including:

- His career average is 0.52ppg. This season he's at 0.84 ppg.
- His last 6 seasons his points totals were 28, 30, 34, 35, 35, and 59....... Not hard to spot the outlier.
- This season he is being spoon-fed minutes with sheltered offensive minutes with 54.6 oZS% and 19:35 ATOI, by far the highest in his career.
- Shooting % in 2 years with Rangers is 15.4%, which is 5.1% higher than his career average.
- 104.4 PDO this season, which is 9th highest in the league among forwards with at least 50 games.
- He has raked in PP points playing with Panarin, Zibanejad, and Deangelo, with 14 PP assists. Before this season he had only 26 PP assists in 7 seasons combined. Needless to say it's likely that he sees a big drop in points once Kaako or Chytil take his PP1 time.

All of those combined are signs of a player with heavily inflated stats, and it's unlikely that he'd be anything more than a 35-40 point player without PP1 time and tons of offensive ice time.

That all said, Rangers are probably better off keeping him than trading him, but I'd only sign him to a ~2 year contract so as to not overcommit on him.

Neither Strome nor DeAngelo should get more than Zibanejad's 5.35 per. This scenario allows that to happen, even without a buyout.