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John
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Strome has proven to play well with Panarin, it might be the Panarin effect but nevertheless you don’t mess up a good thing. Also at 5 million he’s easily moved. Even if he scores 60 points in a season that’s well worth 5 million. He’s responsible defensively and can play wing as well. Smith I agree but our LD in the AHL might not be ready, what you can do is bring Rykov up and play Smith at FWD on 4th line or scratch him and try Rykov. It would be stupid for the Rangers to acquire a D man right now unless it was in a trade for a 1 year player but I doubt teams are going to be giving up quality cheap talent with the cap remaining the same. Smith is home after next year, could buy him out but really no need to do so. He didn’t play terrible this year and was effective on 4th line FWD. Plus he hits and is fast, we don’t have much of that and we need some board banging guys.