The Rangers really overpaid for Copp.

Way too much for a player who never had more than 15 goals or 40 points in a season. He only had 9G 33A for DET this year - all that for 5.625 mil a year.

NY is not the team that gave Copp 5.6 mil.
They got what they paid for and then some. NY went to ECF with Copp being a big piece.

Despise people spouting off ignorant comments with ignorant reasoning.

I am not denying he was a piece that helped NYR get to the ECF. I still feel it was an overpay. Frank Vatrano was acquired for a 4th rd pick (BTW - another big piece to the team in getting to the ECF). Compare his career stats to Copp (Vatrano:482 GP 211 pts .473 ppg Copp: 565 GP 244 pts .431ppg) - pretty similar. If talking the playoff run Copp had 14 pts (cost Barron 22 1st rd pick, 22 2nd rd pick and 5th rd pick) and Vatrano 13 pts (cost 22 4th rd pick). 1 extra playoff point for what was given up is an overpay.

I did not say NY gave him that money. The first portion of my reply provided reasoning on why I felt it was an overpay for Copp. The 2nd portion of my response was providing this years stats as further proof of an overpay. I am pretty sure DET was expecting more than 9 goals for the money they paid Copp.

Would have rather have had Copp( w/out the 5.6 hit) than Kane this past year. What a waste of time and resources to accommodate him. Now that was an overpay!!

I hated the Kane move for plenty of reasons and I also considered that an overpay because everyone knew he was hurt - that 2nd rd pick could have been used for something else.

But what I hated more was how the Rangers mismanaged the roster the entire season (1st issue actually was from previous season).
1) They get Reaves in 21-22 and immediately sign him to that 1.75mil extension - that money cost them a chance to re-sign Motte at the end of the 22 season (then they have to use another pick to get him again this past season).
2) All season they should have been performing paper transactions with Schneider to gain cap space.
3) They held onto Kravtsov too long and picked up Motte too early (and taking on more salary in the process).
4) When Lindgren got hurt, he should have went on LTIR (missed 17 of the last 23 games - really only played the last 5 games of the season which were meaningless). That 3 mil (Lindgren's salary) could have been used to get a different forward like Max Domi or split the money across a few forwards (i.e. Bjudstad and Bonino for example).

Instead, they decided it was better to play short-handed to barely get enough space to get Kane. I honestly believe if they would have just put Lindgren on LITR and not had to play multiple games at end of the year with only 16 skaters (couple of games they had 10 forwards and 4 D) they would have gotten out of the 1st round - they were too tired.