Modifié 10 juill. 2019 à 13 h 7
Quoting: BSpadaro83
Lol. Nothing different except these two major things regarding a #2RD who is only 30 coming off injury compared to at 3rd at best line winger who is 39 and fell off a cliff ... also the Rangers Cap position is significantly different than Toronto, who had to get Kap, AJ, and still Marner under contract, where the rangers can re sign their RFA's to bridges, long extend Trouba, and just trade some spare parts to get under the cap for a positive return. Are you serious bruh?
Yeah, players will fall off as they get older. What's Shatty's excuse? Oh, a knee injury he had surgery for over a year ago. He played 73 games this season bro and put up worse pts/G numbers than the year he was supposedly "playing in pain". To says he's a #2RD at this point is a big stretch. He's never been strong defensively, but made up for that by putting up 10+ goals and 40-45 pts a season. At his best he was a #2RD behind Bouwmeester . Now he's still suspect defensively, but isn't putting up the 10+ goals and 40-45pts to make up for it . How is he still a #2RD exactly? He's more like a #3RD with an opportunity to bounce back (heard the same excuse with Kesler, Perry, and Eaves - never happened), more than Marleau at least. However, Marleau only had 1 year on his deal, while Shatty has 2 at 6+M. Yes, Marleau and Shatty are not the same people, but both are under-performing players on extremely unattractive contracts and they both held/hold power with those NTC/NMCs.
TOR could have just moved AJ and Kap. NYR can just move Kreider and Strome. That's a perfectly legitimate option. I was just under the impression that, by going after Trouba and Panarin, the NYRs management were looking to make a good run this year. However, if you're telling me they'll keep Shatty to move out players that are contributing more to the team, then fine. Clearly I misjudged the NYRs management. It would appear totally counter-intuitive to me, but clearly you know better.
P.S. The bridge is dead, good luck getting Buch under 3.5M. Trouba wants 8M. Deangelo is going to get paid too. Gonna need at least $15-16M to get all those guys locked up. Just a cool $7M to find. Good luck.