Rangers only do that Pens deal If it comes with an extension. No one is paying that much for Gourde.

Make future teams, this will empty our wallet, picks & depth. He'd be an expensive pure rental. Pass

Even if we drop a prospect or 2 on the Gourde deal, it’s still 50% retention and a tremendous improvement on Bonino as 3C, but yes ideally we would pay less. Really looking at Guentzel as another top 6 goal scorer with a proven track record, but I agree if a rental likely would not want to give up as much. Thankfully Wheeler seems to have seriously improved and Laf looks great. If Kakko can get back and up to speed quickly, I wouldn’t mind a smaller addition like Duclair if the price were right.

The issue is going to be that A the Pens are still in it and B they won't want to trade in the division. So it would have to be a very unfair trade to the point where NY would have to be crazy to do it.

I mentioned that no one would do this above. The deal above won’t make Rangers or Pens fans happy which means it is closer to realistic than we may believe, but I get your point. Objective was to see what this team would look like with a major acquisition and it would look pretty damn good in my opinion.