Équipe: 2022-23 Rangers de New York

Date de création initiale: 20 mars 2022

Publié: 20 mars 2022

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Rakell acquired at the deadline, for picks/prospect assets (potentially/probably, one of Lundkvist or Kravstov). On the depth chart, he will swap places with Kakko if necessary.

To make room for the upcoming extension, Strome walks in free agency (maybe trade his rights for a low pick if possible), and Chytil is promoted to the 2C. This is a pretty big gamble. But if he's going to succeed, this will be the place and the time to do it.

The backup goalie can be anyone. Blais is given a do-over contract. Kakko signed to a short term prove it contract.

Next Year Rangers have 13 contracts signed with 14.8mil in projected space, with major pieces Laffy (~4mil), Miller (~3mil), and Chytil/2C if he doesn't succeed (~4mil) to sign. That leaves 3.8million for 4-7 contracts. While those contracts will be bottom 6/bottom pair/backup goalie/scratches, that's still ridiculously tight.

I don't really agree with doing this, just trying to put on paper how a Rakell trade/extension could look. I do suppose you'd have to leave out Vatrano to make it work for the future, or give him a short term deal.