Quoting: AndrewLadd
They did get lucky partially but Gorton has made some good moves. Strome for Spooner and a lot of his draft picks (namely Nils Lundqvist.) He does have some stinkers tho (Trouba contract lol) but every gm has those
I wouldn’t say partially - I think they moved 6 or 7 spots to draft kakko, obviously they won the lottery this season. They lucked into 3 top line wingers and a franchise D 😂
Trouba trade was terrible, don’t understand why they extended kreider for 7 years (thought it was made no sense the day it was signed), signing Jack Johnson .... what I’m saying is luck played a bigger role in the rangers rebuild more than gorton.
There are teams that have executed rebuilds properly, but then you have teams like Edmonton, Buffalo , Florida, calgary , the isles from 2010-12 who had multiple high picks and it didn’t translate into being contenders.
Like I said, I hate some of the moves lou has made , but he’s also made some solid signings like eberle and Nelson. Lee actually lived up to his contract this season, but he’s not going be a top 6 winger when he’s 34, which is why he’ll likely be bought out before than. That’s why I would’ve let him walk and play bellows/ho-sang. The komarov contract was brutal , no defending that one.
I just wish they went with something like this next season
Beau-barzal-eberle
Lee-Nelson-ho-sang
Bellows-pageau-wahlstrom
Dal colle-cizikas-clutter
Pelech-pulock
Leddy-Dobson
Aho-mayfield