That should get you into the playoffs, but more because of player growth/development than because of your Domi/Strome trade.

That could get you to the playoffs. No, “run,” though.

CBJ would take that.

NGL though, does it kind of feel like Domi and Strome are the same player?

It’s sure feels similar except Domi sucks at C, it’s why he has played W the last 2 seasons... so really we are downgrading a player to Domi, and being weaker at C. Seems like we need that youth to make a massive jump in development

Strome stats since becoming a Ranger (3 seasons): 178 games played, 50 goals, 86 assists, 136 points, +30. Domi the past 3 years: 199 games, 52 goals, 83 assists, 135 points, -18. Similar production and Strome has a better +/-. So we give up a center we know has good chemistry with Panarin and that we know the entire team likes, PLUS Gauthier, for a center that produces about the same, isn't as good defensively, and we have no idea how he will fit with the team or with Panarin. And his cap hit is $800k more than Strome for next season. NO THANKS. I wouldn't do the trade 1 for 1, let alone add Gauthier.

You can’t just look at points, and a +/- and say which player is better. Strome isn’t anything special and the entire world knows it. That’s why so many rangers fans are on here trading him.

Who said Strome was special? Plus, I did not just look at points, did I? I mentioned Strome is better defensively than Domi and he has good chemistry with Panarin and the team, which is an unknown in the case of Domi, right? I also mention Domi costs more, right? You have to read the entire post. The whole idea of a trade as I understand it is to make your team better, no? Give me one way in which this proposed trade of Strome and Gauthier for Domi makes the Rangers a better team?

I’ll take domi over strome any day of the week. I think strome rides coat tails and does basically nothing else.

What’s your evidence for him being better defensively? Plus minus? Is that really it? Domi is better defensively than strome. I was trying to say nothing special as a euphemism for this, but strome is nothing. He kind of reminds me of Ryan spooner when he had a 50ish point season and dopey bruins fans thought he was a player. He was nothing. Just like strome. Strome is a guy to balance salaries.

If the Rangers move Strome before his contract is up it has to be for an upgrade. Domi is great but this is a lateral move. The only way I see him being moved is if:

1. He's part of a bigger deal for an upgrade @ center involving his salary
2. Can't come to a deal on an extension and is moved so we can recoup something instead of letting him walk in free agency.

He's more valuable to the Rangers at this current time than being moved for future assets. I'd honestly rather see him get extended for a decent price than move him, but if the deal is right for an upgrade I don't think NYR would be opposed. Boy.. I didn't think I'd be saying that first sentence.. checks notes... ever?

Couldn't disagree more. To say Strome is nothing is just ignorance. 59 points in 70 games last year and 44 in 45 games this year, and he was still putting up points when Panarin was on leave. And I'll take a center that is +30 the last 3 years over one that is -18 because +/- is meaningful as it shows what is happening to a team when this player is on the ice 5v5. It's not the end all of stats, but it means something and +30 is light years better than -18. You can keep Domi because he is not more productive than Strome or better defensively.

Guess he should be off the trade board then. No worries. Not sure anyone wants him anyway.

LOL.....very adult reply. No worries, Rangers will be happy to keep him.

Seems like a lot of rangers fans disagree with you, given how many trades he’s thrown into.

And 99% of those trades are stupid Eichel trades that don't mean jack. They want to keep Strome unless it means getting a generational center, a fanciful idea.
As for this trade, this could have been a fair trade before this season started. But now? It's not even close.

I have no problem trading Strome if it makes the team better. This trade of Strome and Gauthier for Domi makes the team worse. I would be fine with trading Strome as part of a package deal for Eichel, but not at the cost's I have seen from most of the trade proposals on this site. I disagree with people, like you, who think Strome is "nothing special" or "nothing". People that think that either don't watch Ranger games or don't know a thing about hockey, so I disagree with that opinion, and as such, trades based on that assessment.

I just don’t see what he does well. It’s my opinion that so much of his offensive comes from the wizardry of panarin. I don’t think Chris Kunitz was a 35 goal guy either. I think it has much more to do with Crosby being an amazing player.

Of course he benefits from playing with Panarin, anyone would, but he still has to make the plays, the passes, the forechecking, the backchecking, and scoring himself to be productive. Do you see some of the passes he makes? I could score based on some of the passes he makes. He isn't Eichel, that's a given, but he is a legit 2C. Outside of 1 good year in Montreal, what has Domi done? Right now he's a healthy scratch by Tort's. That doesn't happen if a guy is playing hard and being defensively responsible under Tort's, but its reality for Domi right now. My argument is Domi doesn't bring anything extra to the table that Strome doesn't bring, so why make the trade? And especially considering Gauthier was thrown in, which is nuts.