Did I miss something? Seems to have been a few Panarin trades today.

Drury said he wasn't pleased with panarins play in the playoffs

Oh. So, something that’s likely forgotten in a week or something I should pay attention to?

I'm gunna say forget it because panarin has a nmc so...

I'm going to borrow your team here for an AGM if you don't mind @NYRxLundqvist. I'm thinking a 3-way with Chi, where Boston gets Kane so that Panarin would waive, Debrusk, Chytil, Kravtsov, Bos 2023 1st to Chicago. Pastrnak with 10mx8 to NYR. Just need to figure out how to balance the trade still.

What would the Rangers expect for Chytil and Kravtsov?

Don't see the rangers moving chytil rn especially with how he played in the playoffs but I think if this magically happened and bost could get panarin for pasta
Kane for debrusk, beecher, and a 1st or 2 seconds (idk bostons pick situation)
Then sign ryan strome in free agency and a line of panarin strome Kane would be a chemistry dream I think

I think they could sign Dylan Strome too instead for cap purposes and get great chemistry, since Kane played with him I think.

But idk how Marchand and panarin would get a long lol

Lol, they can play Hall with Bergeron and Marchand, and make sure to keep Strome, Kane, Hall and Bergeron between them on the bench and locker room.

Was Drury happy with Lafreniere’s playoff performance?

Idk probably the whole kid line was good and yes even kakko played decent

Laf played his best NHL hockey in the playoffs, imo

Panarin is better than Pasta and cap hit is essentially the same, no go

Panarin (4th in pts among active players) and Pastrnak (5th in goals among active players) are comparables, one is just a playmaker so he has more pts, while other is a goal scorer

In the last 6 years Pasta has a 1.09 Pts/G ratio (14th best), and the 5th most goals (behind Matthews, Ovechkin, Draisaitl, and McDavid).

Panarin has 1.15Pts/G (tied for 9th) which is good for 6th most points in the last 6 years (Kucherov missed a whole season, so he has 25 points less but a 1.33Pts/G, so you can think of Panarin as 7th most).

If you compare just career pts total it looks like Panarin is way better maybe, but you got to take into acc that Panarin started 7 years ago when he was 24 and was pretty much a pt/g since. Pasta started 8 years ago when he was 18, but it took him 2 years to get to a pt/game+ production which is why I compared them based off the last 6 years.

Even if you look at career totals though Pastrnak has a healthy amount of goals more than Panarin. If you think of goals being worth 2 points since they are arguably twice as important, Panarin would only have 12 more pts in two less games.

Pasta may tuck more goals but Panarin makes everyone around him better. Ryan Strome is about to get 5.5AAV+ because of him

That the kind of comes with the the job of a playmaker though vs a sniper. One can also argue that Pastrnak helped Marchand's career and Hall last year.

At the end of the day no one gets assists if a goal isn't scored, but you can get an unassisted goal.

The two are really two sides of the same coin. I already went back and forth with another guy a ton on this, so that's all I'll say for now.

Pair Panarin with Brad Marchand and Taylor Hall and he pots 30 along with 60+ assists. Pasta is amazing not taking anything away from him but Panarin is over a PPG with guys who have no reason being in the top 6.

Brad Marchand was never a PPG guy until Pastrnak broke out (Bergeron and Pastrnak (essentially) hit a PPG for the first time the season after), I'm not going to say Pasta made Marchand because the truth is the Pastrnak-Bergeron-Marchand line found a way to dominate together. However, they all benefited from each other.

As for Taylor Hall, he had a terrible season in Buf last year but when he moved at the end of the year to Bos he was a PPG playing with Pasta, this year Hall had 61 pts which is better than last years production.

Jeff Skinner had a terrible year in Buf last year with 7 goals and 7 assists, this year he had 33 goals and 30 assists.