We go through this daily. You go through every NHL roster, some guys are overpaid and some underpaid. You can endeavor to fill the roster entirely with guys who are underpaid but it doesn't necessarily follow that the roster will be any good. The Rangers can afford to overpay Trouba by a million or two to fill an important role on the team if the team is not otherwise strapped for cash. The issue is not Trouba's contract, it's Lundqvist's, Staal's, and Smith's. Those guys can readily be replaced by guys making a fraction of their cost. Who can the Rangers readily obtain to eat Trouba's minutes at a lower cost? Fox, ADA, and Lundkvist aren't ready for that. I guess you can trade Trouba and just deal with the roster gap for a couple years until someone emerges as ready for the role, but you saw how well that worked out when Pionk was here. I'm fact, we bitch about it daily on the left side with Skjei.
