A few things:

1) Swap Howden for Lias. And you can drop that 3rd to like a 6th. You're giving up a really nice asset.
2) Foote isn't great and really just clutters up the trade. Drop Foote and the 1st rounder and you have yourself a pretty even deal.
3) I'd rather not even wonder what rationale you're using to hypothetically put Howden above Chytil on any depth chart...

Most NY Ranger fans rather give up Andersson and keep Howden.

I agree 100% with your second and third points.

I'd at least add Stall to one of the D pairings merely for a veteran presence. The average age of your 6 D is 21.6 yo.

Howden played well last year and he could play 2nd or 3rd line center I figured they could switch and I'd rather keep Howden over Anderson because of his performance last year

Yeah again...I wouldn't consider most Ranger fans to be smart though.

By Veteran presence do you mean someone who is slow? As if older guys don't make any of the same mistakes the kids do?

I'll definitely take Foote for the 20th overall. He's a RHD that's 6'4" and he's primarily a defensive defenseman, but has put up a ton of points (31 in 76 games in the AHL, 70 in WHL). He is a hulking defenseman that we desperately need.
In two years we could have the following in our top 4
Sergachev - 6'3" 215
Miller - 6'5" 200
Foote - 6'4" 215

You can see what Boston and St Louis have done with their defensive cores, all bigger defense that can skate. This gives the rangers an amazing core, and this is without Skjei who himself is 6'3" 215.

That's interesting that you believe that...I like to use On-Ice Metrics to see what affect a player has on those around him.

This really communicate how putrid Howden has been.

Out of 450 Forwards who have logged at least 250 mins this year.

Howden Ranks:

443rd out of 450 in Expected Goal differential
447th out of 450 in Shot differential
446th out of 450 in Scoring Chance differential

There is no Forward in the NHL that ranks lower than Howden in all 3 categories.

But hey if you need a visual representation. Here's one: https://hockeyviz.com/fixedImg/wowy/1819/NYR/howdebr98/wrap

hmmm that's interesting that you think that

I'm not sure what reality it's based on.

Surely you know that

McAvoy is 6 ft
Krug is 5-9
Grzelcyk is 5-9
Clifton is 5-11.

That's ....the majority of the team's defense. 6 ft and under.

But hey it's the offense that REALLY has the size.

Acciari is 5-10
Debrusk is 6-0
Krecji is 6-0
Marchand is 5-9


The average NHL'ers height is 6-2. The Bruins have 3 skaters in total above 6-2. Boston is the 7th shortest team in the league.

The LAST thing the Rangers need is another defensive defenseman...

In addition to this you also have to consider he played 38.3% of the time with Jimmy Vesey and 16.2% of the time with Namestnikov, players who horrible shooting percentages.

Shooting percentage would only affect Goal Differential...And also Vesey and Namestnikov had shooting percentages of 11 and 9%. Not horrible at all..in fact the same as guys like Hayes and Zucc.

Boston also has Chara at 6'9" and Carlo at 6'5" but I see how you conveniently left them out. And McAvoy at 6' is an average sized defender, Krug and Grzelcyk are undersized.
And i also said St Louis (they don't have a defenseman under 6'2") and you just glossed over that.
I never said smallish defensemen can't hack it in the NHL today. You need some size on the back end that can take the tough shifts.

Rangers desperately need someone that is competent in the defensive zone. They do not have one that'll be on the team next year. I'm not saying the Dan Girardi's or Marc Staals, I'm talking about the new age defensive defenseman like Parayko. One that can skate and keep up and at the same time can dominate other players physically while putting up respectable numbers for a defenseman (30-40 points). If you only focus on offense, you have a team like Toronto who will struggle to make it far if the other team can shut down their top guys. Look at the last time the rangers went to the cup-- it wasn't because their offense was amazing. It was because they were stout defensively. The reason the rangers lost in the cup final was because they were outmatched by a larger LA team that had more balance then the rangers (the rangers went too far defensive). This being said, they do need to have a balance of players that can put up points injected with your size, which is why defenseman like Fox and DeAngelo will be valued going forward.

lol Tampa says hell no

BriseBois hangs up the phone and laughs his ass off