There's no incentive for Winnipeg to do that.

Detroit accepts.

Montreal already has 5 forwards too many.
And that trade sucks for us. Destroys our future for holding onto Panarin when we can't win.
We counter with Xhekaj for Schneider

Habs easily declines

Orrr.. we can go back 20 years and do McDonaugh for Gomez again.

I mean if its on the table lol. . .

Lol, that trade destroyed my childhood haha.

Regardless of the trades they really need to do that to Trouba and get rid of him. Make his life as miserable as can be and force his hands. If he doesn’t waive park his ass in the press box and strip him of the ‘C’. A big hit every game or so isn’t that valuable when you can’t wake your team up in a do or die game 7 with the season on the line. That playoff showing has got me wanting to tear this entire team down to the ground and rebuild from zero.

Agree 1000%

I doubt Drury will ever blow it up though.

It is one thing to inherit mistakes but Drury keeps doubling and doubling down (Goodrow and Trocheck) by trying to win with this core as currently constructed as opposed to using the resources to address those fatal flaws in roster construction. In the process Drury has sacrificed future picks and cap with terrible long term deals with trade protections and 1 year rentals, without regard for the bigger picture. I personally will never agree with trying to go all in for 1 single playoff run (there are so many weird things that can happen in any single playoff I would rather have 6 years of being a contender vs 1 year of being a favorite) but even that aside Drury the Rangers treated last years playoff run as a sign this core was good enough despite the Rangers only making it to the ECF because Carolina and Pittsburgh's goaltending collapsed + crosby injury + Zib was shooting at a completely unsustainable pace + the kids basically turning into Tampa's triplets line from 2015 + Shesty from game 6 vs Pittsburgh onwards was money + shelling out valuable picks and Morgan for Copp and hitting on Vatarano for basically nothing. Basically, aside from Panarin doing his usual just stay to the boards and throw it across the ice and hope for the best, this team had every single thing going for it.

NYR caught a beat up Lightening team sleeping for the first 2 games --- when the Lightening woke up in the 3rd period of game 3 it went as well the rest of that series as game 7 against NJD did this year. They couldnt get the puck in the offensive zone and when they did it took so much to get it in there they didnt know what to do with themselves.

This past year they looked off the entire season and it was in large part because they were a slower team with less of a chip on their shoulder (despite adding Trocheck who these are things he should be adding to the table) and it was evident at the trade deadline. Instead of maybe saying this probably isnt our year but lets see what happens in the playoffs, the Rangers, go all in on redundant players and put themselves in a situation where they have Fox playing almost 40 minutes for a week 2 months before what they were hoping was a deep playoff run. How in the world do you go through a full season of Zib and Kreider as your top pk unit, shell out assets and not even address that fatal issue (not because they are bad at it but because why put that wear and tear on them when the job should be able to be done for much cheaper).

Its a shame because we really could end up in wasting away another 2 generational talents in Fox and Shesty because Drury is incapable of admitting what isnt working.