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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 27, 2023 at 5:02 a.m.
Thread: Next Year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SociallyHawkward</b></div><div>Gonna cost much more than that to get rid of the goodrow contract. Probably stuck with him for a couple more seasons.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hawksguy81</b></div><div>Even with just 3 years left, takes more than a 3rd and a 7th to dump Goodrow.</div></div>

Keep in mind the cap is going to go up a minimum of 3-4 million a year over the next few seasons so the salary term will not look as bad - thinking a deal similar to the Nemeth salary dump would work (2nd and 3rd rd pick - no prospect sent back to NYR like in the Nemeth trade). This is the reason why I felt they should have just bought him out this year. The cap hits would have been more than reasonable. They could have used the close to 3.9 mil this year for 2 players that put up similar stats and would have stopped them from bargain basement shipping on day 1 of FA. Save picks for other trades
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 21, 2023 at 6:01 a.m.
Thread: Laf-Key-Cat
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Onlyfairtrades1</b></div><div>Drury would be instantly fired if he did that trade. Horrible idea for the Rangers.</div></div>

I can see Drury making that stupid trade - it's not like he has had a fantastic track record so far. Here are some of his greatest hits:

signed Nemeth for 3 yrs @ 2.25M a year.

wasted money signing Tinordi when there were plenty of more serviceable LD available

acquired Reaves and immediately gave him a 1 year extension for no reason.

Traded for Blais - gave up Buch for him. I know Rangers weren't going to be able to keep him in 22-23 but they would have been better off signing him to a 1 year deal and trading him at the deadline instead of using him to acquire a player that was always in and out of the doghouse in STL and most likely would have been cut if not for this trade

Traded for Tyler Motte twice - which he would never have had to do if he didn't sign Reaves to that extension

Not to mention his horrendous skills in cap management (only GM that never used paper transactions with waiver eligible players to bank cap space, didn't put Lindgren on LTIR combined with the ridiculous pursuit of a damaged Kane forced the team to play the last 25 games of the year extremely shorthanded - few games with only 15 skaters).
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 19, 2023 at 8:46 a.m.
Thread: Buyouts Galore
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jimbo1119</b></div><div>Your example of replacing Goodrow with Engvall and Acciardi is by all means acceptable. I wouldn't pick those 2 players...but the premise is fine. The issue I have is what's done here with Trouba. I don't know enough about Soucy to offer a real good opinion whether he'd be a good replacement for Trouba....but I don't dislike the premise- as long as the resulting CAP savings is invested in a player much younger than Tarasenko. To get out from under Cap committed to Trouba- only to commit that to a player who will be 37 when his contract is done is just foolish.</div></div>

I wouldn't commit to Tarasenko long-term - not with the multiple shoulder injuries over the past few years. Plus, there is definitely going to be team that would sign him for more than 5 mil a year.
Soucy is a huge left shot D who plays alot on his off-side. Not a player who is going to generate a lot of offense. I would rather take that 4 mil and use it on an actual RD like Mayfield - Mayfield is 2 years older than Soucy.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 19, 2023 at 8:34 a.m.
Thread: Cup Contender
Panarin will be tough to trade. Easiest way to open up time for LAF and Kaako - Panarin or Kreider can suck it up and play RW. I hope they do not try to shoehorn LAF at RW again. Another one I've seen alot in other mock rosters is Othmann at RW - if they are looking to go that route, they should let him play in the AHL to gain the experience and comfort under less pressure and a coach that has been pretty good with the young talent there.

Not a popular idea in ACGM but buyout Goodrow. Drop the player making 3.64mil and providing 30 pts and take that money and spread it across 2 bottom 6 players (preferably 1C and 1 RW) that combined will provide a minimum of 40-50 pts combined for the same cap hit as Goodrow. Who cares if the dead cap space 4 years from now is high - the cap increases year over year after the 23-24 season will be anywhere between 3 and 4 million dollars a year.

Then make Drury signs up for some cap management classes so he understands that he should be doing paper transactions with the waiver exempt players (Cuylie, Othmann, and Schneider) to bank cap space - every team in the league seems to understand this concept except the Rangers.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 19, 2023 at 8:14 a.m.
Thread: Buyouts Galore
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jimbo1119</b></div><div>Maybe some of this could happen if the were able to trade Trouba. With a little retained salary he becomes an attractive add to many teams. Of course there is the NMC issue. But buying out Trouba and Goodrow? not happening.

Buyouts are a very bitter pill. If done to extend players off ELCs or to acquire either a young player (signed with term) or an RFA- then the buyout might make some sense. But to use the gained CAP to invest in UFA's? That's just extremely poor asset and CAP management.</div></div>

If you are performing a buyout on a player who is in the same age range as a UFA you are going to sign with that money that is going to either fill a bigger need on the team or provide the opportunity to sign multiple players with each one of them having the ability to duplicate the 1 player's production why would it be poor asset and CAP management. Wouldn't 2 players making a combined 3.64 million and putting up a combined point total b/t 50 &amp; 60 pts be better than 1 player making the same amount of money and only putting up 31 pts.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 18, 2023 at 4:39 a.m.
Thread: WHAT IF NYR never made trades with Winnipeg
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>xxToothxx</b></div><div>Would have rather have had Copp( w/out the 5.6 hit) than Kane this past year. What a waste of time and resources to accommodate him. Now that was an overpay!!</div></div>

I hated the Kane move for plenty of reasons and I also considered that an overpay because everyone knew he was hurt - that 2nd rd pick could have been used for something else.

But what I hated more was how the Rangers mismanaged the roster the entire season (1st issue actually was from previous season).
1) They get Reaves in 21-22 and immediately sign him to that 1.75mil extension - that money cost them a chance to re-sign Motte at the end of the 22 season (then they have to use another pick to get him again this past season).
2) All season they should have been performing paper transactions with Schneider to gain cap space.
3) They held onto Kravtsov too long and picked up Motte too early (and taking on more salary in the process).
4) When Lindgren got hurt, he should have went on LTIR (missed 17 of the last 23 games - really only played the last 5 games of the season which were meaningless). That 3 mil (Lindgren's salary) could have been used to get a different forward like Max Domi or split the money across a few forwards (i.e. Bjudstad and Bonino for example).

Instead, they decided it was better to play short-handed to barely get enough space to get Kane. I honestly believe if they would have just put Lindgren on LITR and not had to play multiple games at end of the year with only 16 skaters (couple of games they had 10 forwards and 4 D) they would have gotten out of the 1st round - they were too tired.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 17, 2023 at 7:12 p.m.
Thread: WHAT IF NYR never made trades with Winnipeg
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>xxToothxx</b></div><div>NY is not the team that gave Copp 5.6 mil.
They got what they paid for and then some. NY went to ECF with Copp being a big piece.

Despise people spouting off ignorant comments with ignorant reasoning.</div></div>

I am not denying he was a piece that helped NYR get to the ECF. I still feel it was an overpay. Frank Vatrano was acquired for a 4th rd pick (BTW - another big piece to the team in getting to the ECF). Compare his career stats to Copp (Vatrano:482 GP 211 pts .473 ppg Copp: 565 GP 244 pts .431ppg) - pretty similar. If talking the playoff run Copp had 14 pts (cost Barron 22 1st rd pick, 22 2nd rd pick and 5th rd pick) and Vatrano 13 pts (cost 22 4th rd pick). 1 extra playoff point for what was given up is an overpay.

I did not say NY gave him that money. The first portion of my reply provided reasoning on why I felt it was an overpay for Copp. The 2nd portion of my response was providing this years stats as further proof of an overpay. I am pretty sure DET was expecting more than 9 goals for the money they paid Copp.