Ranking Gorton’s moves (#2)

[YoSoyLalo]

The Zibanejad trade won the first poll in a landslide with 87% of the votes.

Added Zuccarello for a 2nd and 3rd to the poll. Please suggest what to add next.

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[Fugazy]

I'll go with the Fox trade. Traded from a surplus of draft picks for a legit #1 defenseman.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

That was easy for me. Nash trade, who then retired after the season.

 

[Blue Blooded]

Stepan and Raanta for DeAngelo and 7OA by some margin.

 

[bl02]

Fox trade but wasn't easy because the Nash trade is looking pretty tremendous as well right now but we really still don't know what we have with Miller.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Nash trade.

Also disappointed that you left Webster out of the Zucc option LOL.

 

[nyr2k2]

I feel like we should establish that you can't "take the next step" on these. Like, The Nash trade, you shouldn't be able to consider that Spooner became Strome, as that's listed separately. And the draft picks, the result of them, that's separate, too.

Or we don't care.

 

[Blue Blooded]

I feel like we should establish that you can't "take the next step" on these. Like, The Nash trade, you shouldn't be able to consider that Spooner became Strome, as that's listed separately.

That's why I think the DeAngelo trade is a clear cut above. I do take for granted that we would have signed Fox in the 2020 offseason though, but that was the reason we got him so cheap in the first place.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Imagine if we didn't draft an absolute bust with that #7 pick.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

If it was as clear as what the returns turned out to be then I would have picked the Arizona trade here.

But I'm trying to objectively weigh how I felt about the trades when they were made with how they turned out. Stepan was still a good player with term left on his deal and I was at the time underwhelmed with the return.

DeAngelo has been a home run on his own though.

 

[EpicDing]

Went with the Fox trade. Honestly not sure what there is to add.

 

[LokiDog]

It’s the Stepan trade. Lias has turned out to be a disappointment so far but getting the #7 overall and DeAngelo for a backup and a guy who basically fell off a cliff.

 

[Raspewtin]

Imagine if we didn't draft an absolute bust with that #7 pick.

still think it says a lot that we drafted a useless, zero sum player with the 7th overall and this is still 2nd best.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

I went with Nash. Lindgren was the guy I wanted back in that deal and they got the first and a roster player for an expiring contract.

Taking Belesky's contract on to increase the return was also a good move.

Add Gauthier for Keane. This one really can't be judged for a few more years, but for the sake of this poll.

 

[NYRangers0723]

If Kandre Miller turns out to be as good as we hope that trade might be one of the best I’ve seen. Even the Boston GM admitted he messed up in that deal basically

 

[Edge]

Went with ADA.

Three years later, the Rangers have a defenseman who is scoring at around a 20 goal, 60 point pace, at age 24, while Arizona has a 30 year old middle/bottom six center, and a fringe starter.

Taking Andersson and the 7th pick out of the equation that's an insanely lopsided trade.

 

[The New Russian Five]

Stepan and Raanta for DeAngelo and 7OA by some margin.

Would agree if the 7OA wasn't approaching complete bust status.

 

[Irishguy42]

All these choices are being made with hindsight in mind, yes? Or judging him based on the view of the move at the moment it happened?

Cause I think some of the moves can definitely be more favorable because of hindsight and may not be fair to other more recent moves which haven't aged. And like @nyr2k2 said, expanding on them to include the prospects drafted with picks and whatnot have an impact (Nash trade tree in particular). Not really fair, right?

Annnnnnnnnnnnnyway...Stepan+Raanta for 7OA+ADA is my choice.

 

[Edge]

And, not unlike the Tampa trade, the ADA deal with Arizona also shipped out two players currently making a combined $10.75m in salary right now --- including one guy whose movement clauses were about to kick in.

 

[CasusBelli]

Arizona trade barely beat the Fox trade — but only because Lias wasn’t even top-10 material.

 

[True Blue]

The Nash trade technically led to the Strome trade

 

[bbny]

It was between the ADA trade and the Strome trade for me. I went with the Strome trade.

Other trades turned out nicely, but we received a legitimate 2nd line center for a guy who had to go to Europe to continue his career. That is highway robbery.

 

[YoSoyLalo]

Went with the Nash trade because of how much we ended up getting out of it. But the next few choices are gonna be razor thin, there are a lot of great moves to choose from at the top. Ada/Strome/Fox trades are all A+’s.

 

[bbny]

Went with the Nash trade because of how much we ended up getting out of it. But the next few choices are gonna be razor thin, there are a lot of great moves to choose from at the top. Ada/Strome/Fox trades are all A+’s.

The Fox trade is knocked down a peg because he pretty much forced the trade here. Gorton still deserves credit because he could have chosen to wait until this upcoming summer to flat out sign him for nothing, but taking no chances and trading for him a year early was obviously 100% worth it.

 

[nyr2k2]

The Nash trade technically led to the Strome trade

Yeah that's why I think we shouldn't be expanding on the actual parameters of the deals when we evaluate them. We should only consider the actual assets obtained; not what those assets were later traded for or who we drafted with a pick.

Like if Lundqvist's 7th was acquired for some chud 20 years ago, you'd have to say that was the greatest trade we ever made. But you should only be able to look at it as the random for the pick, and nothing further. IMO, anyway.