On that note......sell or no sell? Only MM knows for sure. I still can't see him emptying what cupboard the Rangers have. MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL............enjoy the holidays.
Buy, sell ....... or both?
We cannot buy hard period. We don’t have the assets.
I don’t think MM sells hard with our play since he stepped behind the bench.
But, would it make sense to do both?
The OA market is saturated we can agree. Therefore, the odds of even getting what we paid for Hawel a few months ago, for our three OA’s, may be a stretch. So I can see MM standing pat in the OA area. I can also see him standing pat in net. Tough to trade this guy if we’re holding onto the OA’s. May as well keep Ingham here unless someone offers us a deal we can’t refuse.
That leaves Damiani. I’d say his value is in the neighbourhood of what Entwhistle went for last year (2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd). Both excellent 200 foot players but Damiani has way more offensive upside. Entwistle had 27pts in 29 games at the time of the trade and never scored over a PPG in the league. Damiani, the other hand, has 35pts in 31 games and scored at a 1.47 PPG clip last year.
Could we trade Damiani for that return and since we are keeping the OA’s and Ingham, buy inexpensive vets as I suggested a day or so ago and be no worse off than if we bought the inexpensive vets and hung onto Damiani?
If we could acquire the veteran help without parting with any second round picks, and then did a Damiani deal, we’d be that much further ahead in building the draft pick bank for a healthy run in 21-22.
That’s before we’d sell off the inexpensive help and Vukojovic after this season.