Bjorkstrand and Kunin

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Created by: ChytilMania

Team: 2020-21 New York Rangers

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 18, 2020

Published: Jul. 19, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

DeAngelo Trade: Rangers trade our best offensive defenseman to Columbus in exchange for an excellent two way forward destined to break out. Rangers get much needed depth and defensive help from Bjorkstrand, and Colombus gets a top 4 defenseman to slot in for them when the contracts of Murray and Savard expire in a year. To help match the value, Andrew Peeke is added and Smith is put in at a salary of 3 million which is dumped on to Colombus for a single year.
Georgiev Trade: Rangers trade a fringe starting goalie to the Wild who have a very well-rounded team, but subpar goaltending. We improve their goaltending situation and receive a solid two-way 3rd line center in Kunin.
Sabres Trade: I've seen trades similar to this one on this website so I just put it out there to get rid of Strome.
Overall, this team is much better up front, but defensive help is still needed, especially on the left-side. The hope here is that Trouba can rebound and become a better all around defenseman under the new system.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Lemieux, Brendan	2	$1,125,000
Kunin, Luke	2	$2,900,000
Di Giuseppe, Phillip	1	$800,000

Trades

NYR

Kunin, Luke [RFA Rights]

MIN

Georgiev, Alexandar [RFA Rights]

NYR

2020 2nd round pick (BUF)
2021 4th round pick (BUF)

BUF

Strome, Ryan [RFA Rights]

NYR

CBJ

Deangelo, Anthony [RFA Rights]
Smith, Brendan ($1,350,000 retained)

Buyouts

Kevin Shattenkirk: $6,083,333
Dan Girardi: $1,111,111
Ryan Spooner: $300,000
Brad Richards: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

Brendan Smith: $1,350,000 (31.03%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$68,033,133	$0	$9,212,500	$13,466,867

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Panarin, Artemi $11,642,857$11,642,857 LW NMC UFA - 6	Zibanejad, Mika $5,350,000$5,350,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Kakko, Kaapo $925,000$925,000 ($2,650,000$3M) RW RFA - 2
Kreider, Chris $6,500,000$6,500,000 LW NMC UFA - 7	Chytil, Filip $894,166$894,166 ($350,000$350K) C, LW UFA - 1	Buchnevich, Pavel $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW, RW, C UFA - 1
Kravtsov, Vitali $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) LW, RW RFA - 2	Kunin, Luke $2,900,000$2,900,000 RW, C RFA - 2	Bjorkstrand, Oliver $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Howden, Brett $863,333$863,333 C, LW UFA - 1	Gauthier, Julien $863,333$863,333 ($300,000$300K) RW UFA - 1
Lemieux, Brendan $1,125,000$1,125,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Lindgren, Ryan $925,000$925,000 ($212,500$212K) LD RFA - 1	Fox, Adam $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD UFA - 2	Shesterkin, Igor $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) G UFA - 1
Miller, K'Andre $925,000$925,000 ($300,000$300K) LD RFA - 3	Trouba, Jacob $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 6	Lundqvist, Henrik $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 1
Staal, Marc $5,700,000$5,700,000 LD NMC UFA - 1	Peeke, Andrew $916,667$916,667 ($850,000$850K) RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Hájek, Libor $833,333$833,333 LD UFA - 1
Di Giuseppe, Phillip $800,000$800,000 LW UFA - 1

Jul. 19, 2020 at 2:38 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

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I have to think Minnesota and Columbus very easily pass on those deals.

If Buffalo makes that trade, its out of desperation and have exhausted all other center options.

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Jul. 19, 2020 at 2:38 p.m.

Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan

Am Yisrael Chai

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CBJ has the one of the more deeper defenses and needs offensive contributors and Bjorkstrand is arguably there best one.

Rest is okay but don't see MIN doing that when they have Stalock and Kahkonen.

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Jul. 19, 2020 at 3:24 p.m.

MNBassman

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Wild counter with Zuccarello for Georgiev...

Jul. 19, 2020 at 3:34 p.m.

Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan

Am Yisrael Chai

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Quoting: MNBassman

Wild counter with Zuccarello for Georgiev...

Young starter for regressing $6M Salary Dump for next 4 years? reason why we didn't retain Zucc.

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Jul. 19, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.

Jacketsman61

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Jarmo wouldn’t even take that phone call. So awful

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Jul. 19, 2020 at 4:09 p.m.

MNBassman

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Quoting: Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan

Young starter for regressing $6M Salary Dump for next 4 years? reason why we didn't retain Zucc.

I know. I was being a smarta$$!

However, because of the Wild’s dearth of right-shot forwards and centers (Kunin is best on the Wing but can also play center), i have to believe it would take more than Georgiev to pry Kunin away.

Jul. 19, 2020 at 4:10 p.m.

MNBassman

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Quoting: Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan

Young starter for regressing $6M Salary Dump for next 4 years? reason why we didn't retain Zucc.

P.S. The Rangers were very smart to let Zucc go.

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Jul. 19, 2020 at 5:09 p.m.

Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan

Am Yisrael Chai

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Quoting: MNBassman

P.S. The Rangers were very smart to let Zucc go.

I attested for MIN here lol. Yes they we're. Kreider too.

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Jul. 19, 2020 at 5:40 p.m.

Bluejackets2000

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Jul. 19, 2020 at 6:59 p.m.

#10

Viqsi

mostly harmless

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That Jackets trade is a "go **** yourself" level offer. DeAngelo is of zero interest to this team no matter how much you pump him up - we have absolutely no need for more offensive defensemen - and making us take back a cap dump AND throw in our best blueline prospect to "level" things is egregiously insulting.

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