GDT: Free agent frenzy July 1

[GoAwayPanarin]

Vancouver looks like a dumpster fire, plus no Sedins this year.

Islanders look ready for the tank.

Vancouver has an excellent group of young talent thats either already playing in the NHL or NHL ready.

 

[Ghost of jas]

They're definitely bunched in there with the other mountain of suck.

I'll say this, I don't think there is a team out west who is worse than they are.

Maybe Vancouver. I still expect more signings from Montreal and the Isles (Lou will do something foolish.) Detroit hasn’t fully embraced the suck. Carolina was better last year, and when they acquire Hayes, that will help their center position. Dahlin will make Buffalo better, plus Hutton will be an improvement over Lehner.

 

[Good Intentions]

Rangers are a bottom 5 team. Which is fine. As long as the young core improves it's a successful season. Hank is Hank. The forwards are in pretty good shape. The defense is probably the worst in the league but will also likely look very different October 2019. This year is going to be rough but I don't think they will spiral downward too much longer

September '17: the assumption was Edmonton is WCF-bound, Winnipeg was mediocre at best, Vegas is three layers under the cellar, and Carolina is ready to contend.

Stop the declarations of certainty. You don't know. This is a roster with quite a bit of talent. For all the rejects rooting for a lost year to get a good draft pick, I have a list of a dozen NHL franchises that can't pick themselves off the floor because of a losing culture.

 

[Alluckks]

Sounds like he'd be great for a team with a premier young Center, another great Center prospect coming up soon, and the recent #1 overall pick!

Oh wait...

lol

 

[Ghost of jas]

Oreilly's better then stastny AND they got a 1st from Winnipeg when they traded him to them at this past deadline .That is ****ing fantastic asset management

They’re still not better than Nashville or Winnipeg.

 

[Alluckks]

Why did Buffalo make that trade? Why not just keep O’Reilly?

They traded him because he didn't want to be there and didn't mesh well with management (apparently his teammates liked him though)

They traded him for that sub-par (putting it lightly) package because they wanted to penny pinch and didn't negotiate a trade well

 

[LaffyTaffy]

Zucc Hayes and ADA for Drai Lucic 2nd Puljujarvi who says no

 

[GregSirico]

U named 5 teams worse than us and a handful who are borderline and u don't see why I put em more in the 6 to 10 range instead of bottom 5?

Maybe I'm just pessimistic.

 

[Lays]

Zucc Hayes and ADA for Drai Lucic 2nd Puljujarvi who says no

Oilers..

 

[TheGuarantee]

Vancouver has an excellent group of young talent thats either already playing in the NHL or NHL ready.

Time shall tell

 

[BobMarleyNYR]

Montreal reached with 3rd pick and Arizona reached with 5th pick by other people’s standards. They are confident with their picks as the Rangers are with Kravtsov. Can’t judge these decisions for years so why are we still kicking this can around.

Honestly, it does get irritating when they reach like they've got some ace in the hole that never makes it... there have been at least two such picks in the firt three rounds every year for the last 15... '03 was chock full of them... and I'm no pro scout, I just always see 10-20 higher ranked guys available especially in our second rounds (more like 75 in some cases). They swing for the fences in the 2nd and usually pop foul it. Let's hope for better this time.

Again, I'm not the expert and maybe I'm just focusing on bad things... Stepan was kind of a reach, and a smart pick... and after round 2, it's been very good.

 

[Avery16]

St. Louis still isn’t a Cup contender.

We’ll all know for sure in a matter of months.

 

[TheBloodyNine]

Oilers
Senators
Hurricanes
Toronto

All teams I think the Rangers would be good trading partners with. Maybe even in a 3 way (ooh la la!)

 

[Webster]

Some bad comments on that one...welcome to Blueshirts junkyard

 

[Lundy HOF]

Huh? The Rangers have done great at taking players with potential that had a bad start to their career and getting them back on track and playing decently well

Boyle
Stralman
Pouliot
Grabner
Brassard (to a lesser extent)
Holden
Stempniak

Brass I will give you even though he was a decent player when we got him. He certainly elevated his game here. However, the original quote was around him (Yak) being a 60 pt player here. That is more than just getting back on track. He would go from being a fringe NHLer to a legit top line winger. We never get THAT type of luck.

First overall aside, it’s like the blind hope here (and necessary luck required) if Pionk actually becomes a top 4 D. We usually get “lucky” with bottom 6ers rather than lucking into a “difference maker”.

Apologizes if that didn’t come across in my post.

 

[Klaus3154]

Honestly, it does get irritating when they reach like they've got some ace in the hole that never makes it... there have been at least two such picks in the firt three rounds every year for the last 15... '03 was chock full of them... and I'm no pro scout, I just always see 10-20 higher ranked guys available especially in our second rounds (more like 75 in some cases). They swing for the fences in the 2nd and usually pop foul it. Let's hope for better this time.

Most fans just read scouting reports look at highlight videos and look at rankings then they think they are a draft expert. I do have to admit I didn’t ever watch a full game in which Kravtsov, Wahlstrom or Dobson played in. Who am I to judge what players should be taken and criticize the scouts who have actually watched every single game these players have played.

I have heard a rumor from an Islander fan that the Islanders had Kravtsov ranked higher the Wahlstrom, Don’t know how true that is.

 

[Lundy HOF]

Zucc Hayes and ADA for Drai Lucic 2nd Puljujarvi who says no

Probably them. It’s a TON of cap space to take on but Drai is a legit #1 and I think Pulj still has that top 3 pick “shine” although it is certainly dimming.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Where do you guys predict Kravtsov ends up this season?
AHL? KHL? NHL?

 

[Alluckks]

Brass I will give you even though he was a decent player when we got him. He certainly elevated his game here. However, the original quote was around him (Yak) being a 60 pt player here. That is more than just getting back on track. He would go from being a fringe NHLer to a legit top line winger. We never get THAT type of luck.

First overall aside, it’s like the blind hope here (and necessary luck required) if Pionk actually becomes a top 4 D. We usually get “lucky” with bottom 6ers rather than lucking into a “difference maker”.

Apologizes if that didn’t come across in my post.

Ohh, yeah, I don't see 60 lol but I wouldn't be overly shocked if he popped for 20 goals and 45 points here, a la Pouliot

 

[Sarge13]

Where do you guys predict Kravtsov ends up this season?
AHL? KHL? NHL?

KHL

 

[Alluckks]

Where do you guys predict Kravtsov ends up this season?
AHL? KHL? NHL?

KHL for a year

 

[bobbop]

surprised that james neal hasn't gotten a deal yet after the year he had in vegas

Let me tone that down a bit. Not a good locker room guy. That eliminates some teams.

 

[Boruto]

I just creamed my pants realizing that Tavares is going to get booed like crazy likely at both the barclay and the NMC.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

I just creamed my pants realizing that Tavares is going to get booed like crazy likely at both the barclay and the NMC.

Are the Islander fans going to attend those games before the team moves to Quebec? He might get off easy if they keep the same attendance patterns.

 

[TheTakedown]

"But omg Gorton and character wtf"

Everybody wants these guys, because these guys are actually hard workers. It's not just Gorton looking for a good locker roon