I'm high on the young Cs we have as much as the next guy, but I don't think you can comfortably trade BOTH Zibanejad and Hayes yet. They're just not ready for 1C minutes. It's wiser to keep at least one of Zibanejad/Hayes and bring them along.

I don't get the intrigue with Dickinson or Chiarot. Dickinson is just a 23 year old defensive C. His offensive production is basically nonexistant by every metric. His shooting percentage is pretty much normal, but all of his GF and scoring numbers are really bad. Chiarot is about to be a UFA which means you have to pay him next year, and he's not good.

So you traded our top line center for a 1st, a defensive C that apparently doesn't even make your lineup when we struggle to put pucks in nets, and an okay 25 year old winger that you put on the 4th line...And then traded who would then be our top line C for another okay winger, a 1st, and a 6th, and traded Claesson for Chiarot, which I wouldn't do one for one. Claesson is a year younger and has honestly not looked any worse in my eyes.

It just seems to me like you are overvaluing 1st round picks for us. At some point, we need to cash in and develop talent, and keep our homegrown talent. It feels to me like you gave out the high quality assets we had to get first round picks and that's really the driving factor here. The difference between trades like Nash and McDonagh were that we don't have term or age control; those players were on expiring contracts or we weren't prepared to keep them. Zibanejad has years left, and Hayes could easily come under contract for 5 years this offseason. Plus they're really entering their prime. I just don't think the extra players you got back justify it.

I don't get why the conditional pick would get WORSE if Zucc re-signs with San Jose. I also think that the Sharks are a bad pairing for us, since their prospect pool is very very weak.

Completely agree!

You cannot move both Hayes & Mika, even moving one of them at this point in Andersson's and Chytil's development would push them to play in match up situations they just aren't ready for. I can see a window to maybe move Hayes at the deadline, IF one of the two kids proves ready to take over 2C....and my belief is that's a big if.

Also, I don't see the sense in moving Mika for two middle of the road prospects and a pick. Mika has shown to have elite level talent (if not production) and only just turned 25 years old in April. His age puts him still within the Rangers rebuild window. Where is the need to move him? Unless the Rangers are blown away with an offer, he really should be one of the "untouchable" assets on the team.

Overall, each one of the trades are underwhelming, I can definitely see the Rangers getting more at the deadline for every one of these players.