Where Drury Stands At Noon

because you would do a better job?

Since the Sens are reportedly in on Ryan Strome, I'm hoping the answer is really dumb.

Buch trade was great asset management.. certainly don’t want him at that contract if he is blocking Kakko and Kravs. Considering he might have got more in arbitration this was the better path. Also only 2 teams had any interest in the guy, we took the best offer since no other teams valued him enough to make a better offer, let alone an offer at all. Goodrow, Blais and nemeth are all guys we need and want. He hasn’t made a bad move yet. Drafting was actually better in hindsight, yes we all demanded a C in the 1st round but we did good and got a C in the 3rd round who will be a 2/3C guy in 3-4 years when needed.

In a year where the Rangers had tons of Cap space, they could have brought back Buchnevich for 1 year. Waited until more suitors arrived at the Trade Deadline, and then moved him for greater return. I like Blais, but there are more Blais' than Buch's out there to choose from.

Since it sounds like Nemeth is getting a 3 year deal, that makes 2 Free Agent signings of bottom tier Roster players that were way longer than they should have been.

I agree about the cap space point. But in the same argument I don’t want him as 1RW when the 2 more important kids could be there, then Buch as 3RW will lose value at 6M cap hit. Better to have Blais as 3RW or Goodrow or sign someone to a 1yr deal with cap space we have. But I get that we have the cap space