love the Carolina trade

thanks

its terrible but honestly trying to fit in the karlsson deal and future contracts, this is a straight up panic mode cap dump at this point

rangers don't need Cally, what is the point of the trade...?

Wtf is that Carolina trade

You don't just go into panic mode and sacrifice good players for nothing if you want to remain a good team for years to come. Add a prospect like Volkov/Stephens/Barre-Boutlet and draft pick or two into the Rangers trade to give them incentive to take Callahan. Find a promising prospect to trade Johnson for - if Carolina won't do it, there are other rising teams that desperately need depth scoring and have room for Johnson until his contract expires. He is expendable, so it's not the end of the world if you don't get a good return for him, but at the very least they should get a 1st or 2nd round pick that they can turn into a good prospect. No reason to waste assets like that.

The trade with the Leafs is fair if they can afford Girardi, but with $9,198,720 in cap space, there's no reason not to keep him until his contract expires, and there's a good chance the Leafs won't have the cap space to be spending $3 million on an aging depth defender. I'm also not sure why you didn't re-sign Erne until next year. They should re-sign him to a cheap contract, like $1.2 million at the most.

Also, Paquette and Andreoff should be as far away from the 2nd line as possible, Dennis Yan is not playing at an NHL level yet, and the fact that Point and Cirelli are on the fourth line is absurd. The first line is fine, but the lines should really be as follows:

Palat-Stamkos-Kucherov
Gourde-Point-Miller
Killorn-Cirelli-Joseph (Mathieu Joseph is probably ready for the NHL, and if they get rid of Callahan, they would need to call up a right wing)
Conacher-Paquette-Erne
Andreoff (13th forward)

Move Foote down to the minors to start the season. You can call him up if need be, but using him as a 7th defenseman would take away playing time and ruin his development. I'm not sure where Koekkoek went, but they have him signed and should see if he's good enough for the 3rd pairing with Girardi. Otherwise, they have Coburn. One of Dotchin or Koekkoek should be in the AHL, but I would lean towards Dotchin.