Quoting: Campabee
honestly speaking, if you want to fill the 2 Center role you are going to have to give up one of Kreider, Kakko, Buchnevich or Panarin. Unless your plan is to trade 1st OVA! By my estimation Panarin, Kakko and 1st OVA are likely not being traded. So that leaves Kreider or Buchnevich the question then becomes who does your trade partner want. Likely 9 out of 10 teams are going to want Buchnevich as he is simply the better player. Most Montreal fans would consider a Kreider trade as sacrilegious after him injuring Price LOL. So your probably not getting an offer for Kreider to the Habs, so your going to have to suffer through a lot of Buchnevich proposals.
The issue with it for me is not trading Buch or DeAngelo, of course you have to give to get. I'm a big Buch fan which hurts but I know that he's an appealing piece for a lot of teams.
It's that the return, to me, isn't good enough. Brook is a throw-in; the whole reason we can trade DeAngelo is because we have no use for a mediocre prospect with Trouba and Fox here to stay and with Nils Lundkvist on the way for the bottom pairing spot. For us, Brook would just be another D prospect eating minutes in Hartford; it just doesn't move the needle. Armia is a pending UFA whose signing rights are not really worth anything (a player who would get big money like Kevin Hayes' signing rights was only like a 4th or 5th round pick, a player like Armia whose UFA market would be much smaller would be worth much less). If you removed those two pieces, it wouldn't change the value of the deal to me at all.
Domi and a 2nd are cool, but I'm personally not a big Max Domi fan, I personally wouldn't think to target him because a) I'm not certain the Rangers would be looking for another very offensively minded player who struggles defensively; I would think that they would be trying to target a player that brings more to the table defensively, since that's an area they struggle and b) I'm not convinced of his value as a 2C (though this is of course arguable, I'm not saying this as a "you're wrong" type comment, just explaining my pov).
The 2nd is nice because we don't have one this year but if we're trading NHL talent in Buch/DeAngelo for Domi to plug a hole at 2C, I don't think a future asset is something that's so appealing to the Rangers that it acts as the sweetener it is meant to be; if the Rangers are making a trade like this, it's to trade from a position of strength (winger that we have many of and our 3rd pairing RHD that should be playing a higher role and that we can replace with a prospect already in our pipeline in the next couple of years) to address a position of weakness (2C) in the interest of significantly improving the team right now, and the 2nd doesn't really help us do that directly.
It's not a bad idea by any stretch, there have been rumours I've seen of NYR inquiring about Domi, this is all just my personal take. I'm sure he would cost more, but I would personally be more interested in acquiring Danault because while he may not have the offensive abilities that Domi has, he brings a lot to the table defensively and in the faceoff circle that I think would be useful to diversify the Rangers and I think is a more steady C vs Domi being, to me, more of a winger, and probably would have similar contract demands. Again, not trying to dump on the proposal, just giving my opinion.