Friedman stated earlier in his 31 Thoughts that the cap may not be going up as much as had been speculated.
If true, that is good news for the Rangers. Cap-strapped teams will have less flexibility and allows a team like us to maximize our young, cheap surplus.
This off-season just keeps getting better and better!


Go Gorton Go!
- TommyGTrain

Maybe he should inquire about McKinnon lol holy smokes hes unreal. I’m kidding obviously. But yea, his plan is really coming together!

Just looked at his salary, 6.3!!! That’s it???? Jesus that a bargain

McKinnon- 6.3
Lucic- 6.0

Yea but the 8 pick probably won’t play right away anyway. I don’t think Caufield, for instance, would play right away
- Slimtj100

Ya but why trade that pick for guys even further away from playing? Maybe COL would make a trade from 4?

Kreider Zib Chytil
Panarin Strome Kravtsov
Kakko Andersson Lemeuix
Smith Howden Maroon

Hajek Trouba
Staal ADA
Lindgren Fox

Skjei Buch Vesey Nam Fast all traded

Kreider Zib Chytil
Panarin Strome Kravtsov
Kakko Andersson Lemeuix
Smith Howden Maroon

Hajek Trouba
Staal ADA
Lindgren Fox

Skjei Buch Vesey Nam Fast all traded
- nyrangers9479

but none of their acquisitions in the lineup?

dumping Fast and signing Maroon? (frank)ing ewwwww

Friedman 31 thoughts NYR:

On what the Rangers' summer will look like:
- It will be an "interesting" summer, want games to start to matter.
- With big markets out of the playoffs, cap might not go up as much as was thought
- Rangers will want good players from teams in a cap crunch.

- Re offer sheets: They could conceivably drop the condition on the 2020 pick to Carolina (make it strictly a 2nd) if they needed to use the third in an offer sheet.
- Rangers will be "using all their muscle" to improve this off-season.

Brendan Smith buyout numbers

2019-20: cap hit only 970K (Girardi still 3.6 mil)

2020-21: cap hit jumps to $3,145,833 (but Girardi's goes from 3.6 to 1.1 mil)

2021-22: 1.145 mil

2022-23: 1.145 mil

CLAUSE DETAILS: 2017-19: Player submits a 15 team trade list. / 2019-21: Player submits a 10 team trade list.

if I read this correctly, July 1st, Smith's approved trade list goes down from 15 teams to 10 teams, so if a trade were to happen, easier to do before July 1st

Ya but why trade that pick for guys even further away from playing? Maybe COL would make a trade from 4?
- nyrangers9479

You can’t say pick 8 is closer then pick 18 without even knowing the players lol cmon man

You can’t say pick 8 is closer then pick 18 without even knowing the players lol cmon man
- Slimtj100

well he just advocated trading Skjei Buch Vesey Nam Fast for absolutely nothing in return

well he just advocated trading Skjei Buch Vesey Nam Fast for absolutely nothing in return
- jimbro83

I don’t wanna get into it but Trouba for x amount of assets/players at 8 yrs at what 8-9 mill per? Is better then EK for no players at 7 years and 3 mil more a year how exactly? doesn’t make any sense to me and it never will. They’re both injury prone if anything they’re both terrible ideas then

I don’t wanna get into it but Trouba for x amount of assets/players at 8 yrs at what 8-9 mill per? Is better then EK for no players at 7 years and 3 mil more a year how exactly? doesn’t make any sense to me and it never will. They’re both injury prone if anything they’re both terrible ideas then
- Slimtj100

I don’t wanna get into it but Trouba for x amount of assets/players at 8 yrs at what 8-9 mill per? Is better then EK for no players at 7 years and 3 mil more a year how exactly? doesn’t make any sense to me and it never will. They’re both injury prone if anything they’re both terrible ideas then
- Slimtj100

I am in the camp that they are both terrible ideas

I am in the camp that they are both terrible ideas


- jimbro83

You better get over it quick when Karlsson pulls that jersey over during the presser.

- JRR1285

I just don’t get it. A lot of fans want Trouba. It’s quite frustrating

Kreider Zib Chytil
Panarin Strome Kravtsov
Kakko Andersson Lemeuix
Smith Howden Maroon

Hajek Trouba
Staal ADA
Lindgren Fox

Skjei Buch Vesey Nam Fast all traded
- nyrangers9479

We are not signing Panarin to put him on the 2nd line with Strome

We are not signing Panarin
- mdw7413

Fixed.

Fixed.
- JRR1285

You TJ and Karlsson can go (frank) right off

You TJ and Karlsson can go (frank) right off
- mdw7413

That's a super hot 3 way.

That's a super hot 3 way.
- JRR1285

Karlsson, I don't know about you other 2 degenerates

You better get over it quick when Karlsson pulls that jersey over during the presser.
- JRR1285

oh I promise I will

I've said it before, I am scared of signing Karlsson because he is entering his 30's and his leg issues but I'd get enthused real quick if it actually happened

We are not signing Panarin to put him on the 2nd line with Strome
- mdw7413

every single thing he posts, I feel like doing this

literally every single time

every single thing he posts, I feel like doing this

literally every single time
- jimbro83

I don't get it. If we sign the most dynamic forward we have had in years, why the hell do you put him on the 2nd line with Strome

I don't get it. If we sign the most dynamic forward we have had in years, why the hell do you put him on the 2nd line with Strome
- mdw7413

Better matchups.

Karlsson, I don't know about you other 2 degenerates
- mdw7413

I don't get it. If we sign the most dynamic forward we have had in years, why the hell do you put him on the 2nd line with Strome
- mdw7413

and apparently Buchnevich is just absolutely gone from the team for absolutely nothing

like we had to put up with all his growing pains for 3 years, everything finally clicks, he's become really good, there are other Russians coming for him to play with, naaaaaaah, lets just dump him, we have Lemieux

Better matchups.
- JRR1285