My post from yesterday disappeared. Ill try to make it quick. The last month doesnt hold much weight for me. Team was out of the playoffs and played .500 hockey against all non playoff teams aside from the win against the wild. Most first lines have at least 1 PPG player, at this point the Rangers do not. Im not sure what Trachecks value is but he isnt going to get a PPG player for us, nobody on the FA market to sign and we dont have the assets to trade for a PPG player. This team will go forward with basically 2 second lines and a 3rd and 4th.
Honestly, I dont care anymore. All I care about is that we get a top 5 pick, we dont blow our load, pick the BPA and we manage the off-season/free agency the right way. Thats it, thats all I want. I dont want us chasing and overpaying any players in a trade. I also dont see any benefit to trading Trocheck in the off-season.
If the team ends up last in the East again next year… to quote the infamous Lt. Col. Frank Slade, Dolan needs to take a flamethrower to the entire organization and get rid of JT Miller. If he doesnt waive his NMC, buy him out, I dont care, get him off this team.
There is no FA that will come in and put us over the top so Id stay away from all of these upcoming FA. I love Trocheck, he is a playoff guy and good leader but this team didnt make the playoffs with him, trade him and get whatever assets you can get for a soon to be 33yo 50 pt guy. Keep rolling with the younger players, like last night when Sully didnt start to play them until the third and look what happened, they came back. Re-aquiring Miller was a mistake even if it meant getting rid of Chytil. We took his Cap hit for 5 years at 8 mil per. Watching Sheary on the PP just makes me laugh at how pathetic Sully is, this guy wasnt even in the NHL last season.
