Équipe: 2017-18 Rangers de New York

Date de création initiale: 16 juin 2017

Publié: 16 juin 2017

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Per the rumors, the Rangers capitalize on the Canadiens' stupidity (Gomez-McDonagh, Subban-Weber, etc etc etc) yet again and trade Marc Staal and a pick for Galchenyuk.

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Eklund/Landeskog-for-Ceci-e3--Habs-NOT-finished-NYI--Duchene-Fris-Buzzcast/1/85783

Ordinarily, I'd never have suggested this trade (or thought it was realistic). Let's just say that it happens as rumored.

With lots of (nice) holes on D vacated by Girardi, Staal and Klein, and with a new overload at C with Galchenyuk, the Rangers take advantage of the Wild's D-surplus ahead of the expansion draft and acquire Brodin for Stepan and Grabner, while Minnesota makes an agreement with Vegas (for picks) not to select Spurgeon or Dumba (whichever is left unprotected). The Wild comfortably replace Brodin with Eriksson Ek. Rangers also re-sign Smith, who decides to return despite a bidding war because he felt increasingly comfortable with NYR's system (etc) after he was acquired at the deadline.

Rangers have enough cap space to re-sign their RFA's and also outbid other teams on Condon -- necessary because of Lundqvist's decline with age, evident last year.

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