Idlerlee
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Zuccarello is 29 years old. He is as good as he will ever be. He can maintain this level for another year but the production drops at the other side of 30. The Rangers need younger impact players. If Zuccarello is as good as everyone here says,the Rangers should get a solid return. There is no trade restriction in place. The Rangers can trade him anywhere.The money isn't crazy like Nash who is owed $16.2M in actual money and the Rangers hands are tied to 12 teams for a Nash trade. Gorton has added three younger impact players in Buchnevich,Zibanejad and Vesey. He wants to get younger. He knows the Rangers have a lot of work to do. I would not pigeon hole myself into focusing on just right handed shooting D. A right handed shooting winger. Nashville acquired Forsberg from the Caps for Erat. The trade is not happening today or next week or next month. Another winger with a higher ceiling than some of the Rangers wingers.
The Rangers had a first round grade on Gropp. Gordie Clark said Gropp is just as good as anyone taken in the 2nd half of the first round in 2015. Time will tell. Clark and his staff have been more right than wrong. If Gropp does become a regular NHL top 6-9 left winger with size,speed and a great shot,is it still a horrible trade? Time will tell.
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Acquire as many young players as possible and worry about where they play later. It creates more depth. Opens up other trade possibilities.
For the record, I enjoy your posts and I believe you do know a lot more about hockey than I do. But I have to disagree with this statement vehemently.
There is no set scale to when production drops. Zucc just posted a career season and we have no indication that he has reached his ceiling.
From my understanding, there is no good trade to be made here that the team needs, ie. the D. Shattenkirk is obviously the worst possible trade for this team so hopefully that is not happening, and all other teams have no good reason to trade their great prospects for Zucc.
There's this intense narrative on these forums this summer that players whom are closing in on 30 are on the cusps of being outdated relics on problem contracts, and we should all try to get as young as entirely possible.
Buch and Vesey havent even had a NHL game to show for, I wouldnt be so quick to bank on them being extremely productive just yet.
In a sport where good players are productive well into the north of their 30's, its really strange to suddenly see people stress out about 28-30 year olds and the need to move them for people who wont hit their prime until 25-26. So essentially what everyone wants is 2 years of prime for everyone then trade them away for another youngsters, because asset management.