The 4th becomes a 3rd if NYR makes the playoffs
So this is basically what I’ve been thinking he’ll get for a while
Plus skinner for mikkola is fair

And a comeback from the depths. Just an unreal run that can't be forgotten. And to beat Boston, too. The entire league was rooting for you on that one.

I'm assuming you mean Skinner, and not Robertson. If you did then no. No! We're not doing this. Hunter Skinner was in the AHL for 2 years and then got demoted to the ECHL. He's included solely so that the Rangers can stay under the contract limit while acquiring both Mikkola and Tarasenko. He's not a prospect. We'll be lucky if he becomes Steve Santini. He's nothing. Don't talk yourself into nothing.

He's not nothing. He's a 21 yo D-man with some promise, just not as much as Robertson.

They definitely should have traded Barbashev, but like...idk, if you think you're going to be good you're unlikely to trade off your roster for futures, and retain salary.

Could Armstrong have maximized value by trading Tarasenko last year? Maybe, if there was a team that wanted him and had the caps space and it was a team he wanted to go to. Pretty much all UFAs are going to fetch more if they have a year left on their contract rather than 3 months. But we have no idea if that was the case. The Rangers were not going to trade for Tarasenko last summer.

i think all things considered they played their cards as good as they could have.

Look I respect your optimism but there is nothing here to suggest he's anything close to Robertson. Just being young doesn't automatically mean you have promise.

Look on the bright side. You didn't get stuck with Kravtsov.