You’re barely outside of a playoff spot

Sure unless Uncle Gary rigs the lottery, I seriously doubt the Rangers are jumping up 12 spots to nab Byfield.

If the rangers wanted to they have the assets to move up. Just depends on who has the second

Rangers final 20 games are almost all against good teams and now without Igor, they will fall out of the playoff race. If they finish and their first round pick is around 10, then the pick they get from Carolina is around 22, they could package those picks together, along with a player like Strome and a prospect to move up the 8 spots to grab Byfield. All depends on who is picking 2nd. It won't be as difficult as people think once they come back down to Earth these last 20 games.

I dont think that package gets you 2nd overall. 10 + 22 + Kravtsov maybe gets you 3. I think teams will want overpayments this year to move up

Hockey not like football we dont see to many of those moving up into top 5 at the draft trades. If a team is in the top 5 95% of the time theres an extremely good player there and they will opt to take him instead of trading that pick away for an unknown. The price would be way too steep to move up that many spots.. maybe we get lucky again with the ping pong balls and can move into the top 10 at least and just pick the best player available.