Quoting: STL9992
81 percent is not a good PK unless your PP is top in the league which it’s not. Also you are just thinking about right now when walman and sunny would be playing next year for a great price since fox is up for a new contract, he will be getting 8 a year… at least. Rangers if they don’t make any moves have roughly 21 mil in cap space you have 2 bottom 6 centers coming off the books and sunny is a steal at his term now at 2.6 I believe. Walman can be signed for cheap under 1.2 million and then you guy will still have room to let kids play and sign fox, Blais and strome if they wanted to keep him around. The Rangers are going to be handcuffed if fox wants to cash out now
Just so you know, during that time the rangers ranked 10th best @ 81.8% (and that includes Seattles limited action at 85.7%). The best was 86% and the 8 teams above them are the ones you would expect (VGK, BOS, CAR, TBL, NYI, COL, WSH, EDM). PP has absolutely nothing to do with PK as the players you are trading do not help the rangers improve in that area. Over the course of the season the PP will average out to the ~20% it has been the past few years. Not really worried about that. They have the 10th best also since the 2017-18 season
Barron is still on the books, so is Chytil. You can find a 4th line center for cheap, teams do it every year.
Robertson is still on ELC next year so he will still be cheaper. He is already better than Walman. Where does Walman fit in with Lindgren, Miller, Jones on the LH side as he wouldn't supplant any of them (let alone Robertson)? Definitely not on the RH side with Fox, Trouba, Lundkvist and Schneider all above him.
Bet: Fox is going to take a team friendly deal since he FORCED his way to NYR. I'm guessing it will be a 4 year deal so he can get paid once the cap goes up and trouba/panarin are off the books. If it is an 8 year deal, it may still be 8.5m or less because he wants to be a NYR for life.
This is a stupid move and clearly you are not a true NYR fan for proposing it