It only works if Trouba is on LTIR until the end of the season. Maybe we could have fudged the numbers, but who were we getting with that cap space? It wasn't cap space that held us back, it was the cost.
This was a buyers market, nobody gave up very much. Did you see that Hanifin, Guentzel, etc fetched? Nobody traded a top prospect so i dont see how everyone's so jazzed that we managed to hold onto Perreault, it was never going to cost him or even Othmann.
We could have traded for Guentzel and didn't because we didn't like the cost. Wasn't a matter of cap space.
Clearly, left field corn did not happen.
i mean we all know vegas is fudging the numbers....and we have the assets to acquire someone it was that drury didnt want to trade them for a rental (which im ok with)
That's what we can see, sure. But there's no way we can see the real time calculus of the GMs. They could've tried to fleece Drury in real time but when he said no they consummated other deals with less packaged.
Or hes only going to need to miss 2-3 weeks. I’m sure if they go on a run and build a cushion they’ll take their time getting him back in.
It's March 8th. Season ends on 4/15. Only 2 weeks of the season after he returns. If they wanted to, they could have put him on LTIR. Interesting that they gave a timeline for Trouba. They didn't for Fox, Kakko or Fil.
2-3 weeks of rest? Stop going down to a knee every 5 minutes and maybe you wouldn't have welts all over your legs. At the worse, maybe someone tells him that playing goalie is not effective and can get you hurt.
He's been similar to Edstrom, but he's more physical and fights.
The Rangers are enamored with bad players
Hanifin.
He was - it was a paper transaction for cap reasons.
