Trade credit to @BeterChiarelli

Please finish the roster! Not cause it's like the rules or anything but I'm really, really curious as to how this would work for the Rangers as a whole. I don't know their system well enough to do it myself.

I think NYR would have to add one of their 2nds (or maybe a 3rd or 4th)

Just did. Lines are a little funky but oh well. I definitely think there’s a fit, but it’s all based on if either of the trade clauses allow it.

NYImeth amirite folks

But jeez do they need RD 😵

Philly doesn't do this. Trouba's contract is even worse than Hayes's an Philly doesn't need any RHD.

The term is the same and the cost is hardly more than a league-minimum player.

Unless the plan is to extend Ristolainen I don't follow your logic at all.

Even if we wouldn't extend Risto we could just get a RD from FA instead of trading our 2C for one.

The UFA market for quality right-handed defencemen starts and stops with Klingberg this offseason. The only quality RFA names that exist belong to interdivisional rivals; if Klingberg doesn't want to leave Dallas or the Flyers can't match what will realistically be a Trouba-sized bid for his services, then Philadelphia is probably looking at another season of mediocrity.

The way I had pictured the aftermath of this trade is that Frost would become the incumbent #2C and Laughton retains his position as the #3C. Is Morgan not ready for that kind of deployment? Will he ever be at this rate?

👎 id rather not. Thats a bad contract which is something lou has been trying to clear out. Hes also not an upgrade to anything next year.

Am I missing something with this, why would Philly ever do this trade (I get that its Chuck Fletcher we talking about here but c'mon)?
From what I gather Trouba's been playing on a level befitting someone on the bottom pair whereas Hayes is actually a good 2C?

Would rather have Hayes than Trouba from a Philadelphia perspective. Flyers have Ellis and Sanheim can play the right side if necessary. Or they can extend Ristolainen or find a middle/bottom pair defensemen in the Free Agency market. Hayes is one of the better players Philadelphia has up front, can't see them trading him away.

Philly doesn;t need a RD this year, but with Braun and Risto as UFAs, its possible in the offseason. (While Cam York is a LD, Egor Zamula is learning RD, so a provorov-ellis, york-trouba/risto, sanheim-zamula defense in 22-23 is possible)

Hayes carries more value both in production and contract (length and salary).

The only way it works is if Frost/Foerster develop, NYR add something remarkable (a 2nd and more) or a 3rd party retains 2mil of trouba or more. As another poster said, Philly probably re-signs Risto in that 6mil range, and moves JVR to afford it rather than Hayes.

I think even based on limited sample size in Philly, Risto is resigned for 6-6.75 or Flyers take that Trouba money and go for Klingberg.

Trouba says nice try. Probably Hayes also