LOL. You want retention plus a 1st round pick for Goodrow. Rangers say pound sand with your absurd offer.

Referencing this trade.

Retention doesn’t make or break the trade, but in my opinion a first is absolutely a fair ask to eat 3 years of that contract.

Referencing this trade.

Retention doesn’t make or break the trade, but in my opinion a first is absolutely a fair ask to eat 3 years of that contract.

Your opinion, which means nada to the Rangers. His contract is an easy buy out if Drury wants cap space so there is ZERO chance they give up a 1st round pick to trade him. ZERO.

That’s fun and all but they will buy him out before paying that cost. Either a team wants him and he’s willing to go or it’s a buyout.. not a dump

The buyout in year three is pretty rough no? As a general rule I’m not estatic about taking a cap dump over two years, so if that truly is how the rangers will approach that problem I wish them the best of luck.

The buyout in year three is pretty rough no? As a general rule I’m not estatic about taking a cap dump over two years, so if that truly is how the rangers will approach that problem I wish them the best of luck.

You underestimate the value of flexibility, 6 year buyout at this structure is somewhat limiting especially in the year his cap hit is ~3.5.

Also, I hate to break it to you, but neither your opinion nor mine makes a difference to any executive at the NHL level. Judging by your aggressive style of replying I think you are missing the point of posting on this forum, or at least deriving some sort of pleasure from attempting to put others down. In any case, you are now added to the ignore list not because you shared an opinion on the post, but because you seem like a generally unpleasant person.

You underestimate the value of flexibility, 6 year buyout at this structure is somewhat limiting especially in the year his cap hit is ~3.5.

The Rangers could easily trade him with 50% retention knocking his cap hit down to $1,820,834 and even give a 3rd team a 4th or 5th round pick to withhold half more making his cap hit $910,417. Plenty of teams would take that and run.

Or, they could buy him out and here are the numbers:

Year 1 - They gain $247,222 in cap room
Year 2 - Cap hit is $1,002,778 or 1.1% of the cap which will probably be $91.5 million +/- by then
Year 3 - Cap hit is $3,502,778 or 3.8% of cap if it doesn't go up
Years 4 - 6 Cap hit is $1,111,111 or 1.1% of cap if it doesn't go up

The Rangers have no other dead money so a Goodrow buy out would have minimal impact on their cap situation and flexibility and would not be limiting at all.

Either option is way better than your proposal of giving up a 1st round pick to trade him.