I'm not sure the VAN panic bridge/shorter deals will re-set the market after Makar, Miro, etc. And it doesn't help your team get under cap here since you have 4mil magically on LTIR : P

ltir isnt actually the ltir, its meant for they are traded away

You're going to be light on Fox's 8 year deal. Fox has got the Norris consideration on his resume. Fox is clearly in the 9's on a 8 year deal.

Adam Fox gets at least 8 x $9,000,000 as does Mika Zibanejad. And Jack Eichel at 25% is worth more then those pieces rather easily.

He once showed improvement but then he went back to the same lazy Ranger trades

Its funny, i thought the same thing.

Yeah those old bad habits are hard to break.

Man, if only CapFriendly had the option to trade players...

its kinda fun tho. im thinking a realistic offer should be othmann, schneider, strome, and 2 1sts

With or without the retention?
$2,500,000 is the same salary as Asplund, Caggiula and Pysyk.
Among them they will play over 184 games.
That much retention means the Sabres will need to sign 6 or 7 players to the NHL minimum.
Very hard to compete with that many marginal players on the team.
I have seen another option, take out Strome add Trouba and the Sabres add Miller and remove the retention.
While he is over paid, Trouba could be a great mentor for Dahlin and Power for the next five years.

I've advocated for Trouba, but the problem is his NMC. I really cannot imagine anyone waiving a NMC to play in Buffalo right now

In my mind, the trade only makes sense with including one of Trouba or Kreider, but their NMCs block it. If you don't trade one or the other, the cap becomes unbearable two years from now when Lafreniere and Miller and Chytil, etc, are up.

buffalo isnt trying to compete by any means. dead last in league competing? They need to rebuild

Thanks for the feed back.

Pretending that Trouba would go, I would say something like Trouba, Georgiev, Chytil, Kakko OR Kravstov, and a 1st round pick, for Eichel and Miller, is a good start. Strome can either be included in the trade, or dealt to to someone else for a pick (VGK and OTT has expressed interest, etc). You then run Eichel, Zibanejad, and Goodrow as your top 3 centers. It's possible you keep Strome until the deadline or whenever Eichel returns. Maybe if they are really in the playoff hunt you keep him, but I don't see him being re-signed if Eichel is on the team, of course

I made a team of this a while back, though admittedly I probably added a bit too much on the Rangers' side haha. But if you wanted to see a basic idea of how the roster would like after that. I probably would remove Zac Jones from the trade now, given Eichel won't be ready for some time now. Also Nick Ritchie is obviously unobtainable now, so put Dryden Hunt or Gauthier there, or someone else

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2669806

Thank you for responding.



The talent exchange of Miller, Colin for Trouba, Jacob favors Buffalo, but if the goal is to dump cap, it is still unfair but understandable.
Same for the exchange of Tokarski, Dustin for Georgiev, Alexandar, it still greatly favors Buffalo

Eichel, Jack
for
Kakko, Kaapo
Strome, Ryan
2022 1st round pick (NYR)
Is close to what I think Buffalo will get, the Rangers need to add piece to make it fair.
So take out Jones and Chytil I think you have a deal and Georgiev and Trouba are the pieces that put the trade over the top.

Let me also say, my son understand hockey better than any one.
He can see value without prejudice of rooting for a team interfering.
We discussed Jack being traded to the Rangers and felt Jack for Kakko, Strome, Georgiev and 2022 first would be the return.
Trouba, Jones and Chytil are too much, but not enough to get Dahlin.
As a said, only Shibbal18 would object to a trade that is absolutely one sided in Buffalo's favor.
Thank you for reminding me that you may have been the first Ranger ACGM who posted a Miller and Trouba swap.