I see some suggesting that the Rangers have some of our better players like DeAngelo, Buchnevich, Trouba, Strome on the trade block, but I highly doubt any are.
The trade block is not the same thing as players you’d be willing to trade in a hockey deal to make your team better.
I think the team has probably 3-4 players who are not realistically available (players such as Shestyorkin, Fox, Panarin, Zibanejad).
There’s also a category of players who are available but have negative value (Staal, Smith, Lundqvist). The team simply wouldn’t be able to trade them without retaining due to their contracts. There are also players who could be available but don’t yet have or don’t have the type of value in a trade to consider them individually anything other than extremely unlikely to be traded (youngsters like Chytil, Lindgren Kakko, Howden, Georgiyev, Lemieux, Gauthier, or lower tier veterans like Fast, McKegg, Di Giuseppe).
That makes players such as DeAngelo, Buchnevich, Strome, Trouba the most likely to be traded from an individual percentage standpoint, if we make a trade. They have real value. That’s simple to figure out. That doesn’t mean any will be traded. The team is in no position where it has to trade any of these players, and there are more lower tier players who are lower percentage options to be traded individually, but might collectively equal the same likelihood to be traded, and make up the players that get traded, if anyone does.
I think the answer for the Rangers here is none. There is no obvious answer.
As to who I’d like to be there, I’d only place Georgiyev. I have no issue with Lundqvist backing up Shestyorkin next season. I don’t see the positives of keeping Georgiyev. Get for him what you can. Aside from that, nobody else. I’d be willing to trade nearly anyone, but I’d only place Georgiyev on the block. I think the Rangers wasn’t too much in return for him though, so I don’t expect he gets traded.
, next year if we move away from Freddy we might be calling.
