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Gentlemen. As a Ranger fan for 65 years, I will state for the record that the Blueshirts will never win a cup with Panarin and this contract. No room for the supporting cast. Are they better than 21-22. No, but they are not worse. I'd launch Trouba too for the same reason. Trouba makes sense at $6M, not $8M. Fox make's $9M (deserved). How does Jacob compare? The Ranger have 5 quality D; Fox - Lindgren - Miller - Schneider - Lundqvist. Excluding Fox, the remaining four are cheaper combined than Trouba, That won't be the case much longer. Crosby has been taking $8.7 to leave room for the supporting cast. He has 3 cups to his credit. Malkin took $9.5M. Ovechkin hasn't breached the $10M threshold and he has a cup. Last time I checked, Artemi's cup ledger has a goose egg. And he has downsides as all players do. I'm guessing that both of you are about 30 have no recollection of the 94' Stanley cup champs. Ditto for the Rangers of the 60s-70s. No grit. They have always overpaid for talent, Glen Sather and Jeff Gorton have more contractual disasters on their resume than anyone else I can think of. Of the 16 players with $10M or more contracts, only Toews and Kane in have won cups, but they weren't making $10 mil or more when they won those cups. Keep drinking the cool-aid, fellas. If the Rangers stand pat, they will be good, but not good enough. See you in four years when the Rangers will still be seeking to win a cup. By then that D core will be in the mid to late 20s, Kreids will be 35, Zman 33 .............