Will the Rangers Make More Moves in the Offseason?
Dave Pagnotta of The Fourth Period was on TFP The Hotsove on Saturday on Sirius XM NHL Network Radio and says the New York Rangers had a lot of irons in the fire but were not moving off their price for Vincent Trocheck.
NHLRumors.com Transcriptions
Peter Berce: “The Rangers, Dave, Vinnie Trocheck was not moved. Why wasn’t he moved?”
Dave Pagnotta: “They had a price, a specific price that they wanted met if they were going to move Vinnie Trocheck, and they didn’t get it. And he’s still a Ranger. They can certainly explore this later on in the offseason.
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He still has three years left on his contract, so, and it wasn’t, there was no urgency in having to move him. We know Minnesota and Carolina were two teams in the mix. I think Detroit at one point, Montreal at one point, just trying to gauge things. But again, whatever the price was, it was a steep one, and no one wanted to pay it.
So he’s still a Ranger, and the Rangers are still trying to figure out exactly what they’re doing here, what direction they’re going, how this retool is really going to be formed. And there was talk, I know Adam Fox‘s name was starting to be tossed around a little bit more. We know Braden Schneider generated interest.
There were also some teams that were poking around on (Alexis) Lafreniere again, and I’m curious to see how that plays out over the summer too. But no, they had a number of irons in the fire. They just weren’t able to hit the mark. They weren’t able to get what they wanted, so they held on to him.”
NHLRumors.com Note: Rangers GM Chris Drury had to get the return right for Vincent Trocheck. While players like Jacob Trouba, Artemi Panarin, and Chris Kreider could choose where they wanted to go, the return for Kaapo Kakko from Seattle was not great. Will Borgen is not the type of return you get for the 2nd overall pick from the 2019 draft.
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Drury made the team worse, not better. So he needed to ask for a high price for Trocheck since the other returns were underwhelming. But what makes things worse is that it was just UFAs and Sam Carrick that got traded. With Letter 2.0, there needed to be more, and there wasn’t. This didn’t need to happen; everyone knew the Rangers’ position.
So the question is who remains after the NHL Draft and Free Agency on July 1st. Could Adam Fox, Mika Zibanejad, Alexis Lafreniere, and Vincent Trocheck be on the move? Are the Rangers getting a reputation for being a place players don’t want to go now?
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