Rangers in 7
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I think it depends. If Gorton is committed to rebuilding the team in the next 3-4 years with tanking, I think we could. If we are trading Hank, Klein, Nash, Staal, Girardi, and can get get 3/4 first round picks and a few decent prospects, I think we have a roster bad enough to be picking in the top 5 for the next few years. We have no firsts this year, but we could acquire a few with a fire-sale, and then we should have at least one early first for 2017, 2018, 2019 with a Leafs-esque bad team. I look at what the Leafs did, and I think we could do something similar. We actually have more talent to sell off than they did.
I posted this in the roster building thread last night, the plan for a contender in 2019-2020. The ?'s are positions that need to be sorted out and filled during the rebuild, hopefully from high picks and prospects acquired.
The Rangers never tank, at least on purpose. Would I be ok with what you are proposing? Yea. Do I think it will happen? No