is this NYR team any better than last year's?

Why is it that whenever there's a terrible Rangers trade that makes me scratch my head, its always you who posted it?

Isles/ Rangers will never make a trade of that significance.

Not sure the purpose of that ranger islander trade. You retained 3 mill on Panarins contract so now your essentially paying the same amount of money for a much lesser player in Lee. Makes zero sense

The answer to that is no lol

Gentlemen. As a Ranger fan for 65 years, I will state for the record that the Blueshirts will never win a cup with Panarin and this contract. No room for the supporting cast. Are they better than 21-22. No, but they are not worse. I'd launch Trouba too for the same reason. Trouba makes sense at $6M, not $8M. Fox make's $9M (deserved). How does Jacob compare? The Ranger have 5 quality D; Fox - Lindgren - Miller - Schneider - Lundqvist. Excluding Fox, the remaining four are cheaper combined than Trouba, That won't be the case much longer. Crosby has been taking $8.7 to leave room for the supporting cast. He has 3 cups to his credit. Malkin took $9.5M. Ovechkin hasn't breached the $10M threshold and he has a cup. Last time I checked, Artemi's cup ledger has a goose egg. And he has downsides as all players do. I'm guessing that both of you are about 30 have no recollection of the 94' Stanley cup champs. Ditto for the Rangers of the 60s-70s. No grit. They have always overpaid for talent, Glen Sather and Jeff Gorton have more contractual disasters on their resume than anyone else I can think of. Of the 16 players with $10M or more contracts, only Toews and Kane in have won cups, but they weren't making $10 mil or more when they won those cups. Keep drinking the cool-aid, fellas. If the Rangers stand pat, they will be good, but not good enough. See you in four years when the Rangers will still be seeking to win a cup. By then that D core will be in the mid to late 20s, Kreids will be 35, Zman 33 .............

At least do something like Panarin for O’Reilly or someone like Hischier.

You won't launch Artemi unless you sweeten the pot. A #1 draft pick looks to the future. and Anders can be moved more easily because his contract reeks of sanity.

Re: Analytics are good, You proposal has merit except the Ryan's remaining contract length is one year, while Anders is locked in at 4 years. The Devils will not trade a 23 year old for a 31 year old.

To all: do any of you truly believe that the Rangers will win with this group? They can't bring back Strome (although I believe Copp is the better option, Vatrano - Motte .................. It will be the same story next year. For Islander fans, same question. The clock is ticking.

I'll put out the stand pat option next!