Date de création initiale: 3 août 2021

Publié: 4 août 2021

Équipe: 2021-22 Rangers de New York

The main piece here is obviously the Dvorak trade. Rangers overpay for him to get Arizona to eat half his cap hit. On top of the players they get, the Yotes get a high draft pick for each year that they retain salary to help their rebuild. It gives the Rangers a very cost controlled C to fill a need.
The trade with Vegas is based on speculation that they want Strome. So they get Strome with an extension in exchange for Smith to make the cap work for VGK (and give them a bit extra space) and the Rangers get a future 1st as well.
The Rangers use their cap space to take on Koskinen's bloated contract for a year for good pick.

This gives the Rangers 3 solid forward lines they can roll as well as that physical presence in the bottom 6/4th line that they've been talking about. Dvorak also gives them a long term C option at a steal of a price to re-sign all their upcoming RFA's. It also gives a fallback plan if Mika can't be re-signed.

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