#NYR officialise: F Vladimir Tarasenko et D Niko Mikkola à New York en échange d’un choix conditionnel de premier tour en 2023, un choix conditionnel de quatrième tour en 2024, Sammy Blais et Hunter Skinner.
#NYR make it official: F Vladimir Tarasenko and D Niko Mikkola to New York in exchange for a conditional first-round pick in 2023, a conditional fourth round pick in 2024, Sammy Blais and Hunter Skinner.
— Mollie Walker (@MollieeWalkerr) February 9, 2023
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so Bread-Mika-Taras, Kreids-Trotch-Vesey, Kid line, Krav-Goody-Goat? If yes, than team looks very godd.
Will they play against Seattle I wonder
Get Tyler Motte back and this team is going to be a fucking force
Wow this is the missing scorer we’ve needed. Awesome haul.
PogChamps
We gave up less than we gave up for Copp last year. Great trade to get a possibly-point-per-game RW who should not be out of place on lines 1-3, plus a stay at home depth LHD.
The trade return for Tarasenko AND a depth NHL D will likely end up: #25-32 overall, #88-96 overall, AHL/ECHL Dman in Skinner, Blais cap dump (negative value)
Copp last year: #30, #55, 5th for 6th pick swap, Morgan Barron (actually usable NHL forward)
Fleeeeeeeeece
Sammy Blais, we knew you were destined to be Warm Body Thrown In With A Trade Like This.
Thank you for your service.
When can he sign an extension?
WHAT IS GOING ON
I mean. It’s a nice trade. But imagine if we just didn’t trade Buchnevich at all since we could have afforded him the past 2 years.
We’d have had 2 years of Buchnevich, 2 firsts and Morgan Barron instead of 60 games of 0 goals from Blais and 40% of a season from Tarasenko whose a downgrade from Buchnevich.
The worst of our firsts and some junk for a half-season of Tarasenko. Seems a reasonable rental to me, and gets Vesey back in the bottom six which is more appropriate for a player of his calibre. Mikkola is a nice little bit of gravy as an upgrade on Harpur/Hajek.
Anyone else have uncontrollable laughter? Like this can not be a real trade. My coworkers asked my I was dying of laughter. This trade is why. Highway robbery 😂
I was worried we’d overpay but wow that’s an amazing package!
Such a good move
Wow. We flat out won the trade.
Holy shit this is a great for us.
But, think if we would’ve drafted him. We would have missed all those years of Dylan’s toughness.
Sincerely, Rangers Facebook
Slot Vladdy in top line. Drop Goody and Vesey to the 4 th line. Put Kravy with Kreider and Vinny.
I’m already sad that it’s just a rental
I have this feeling that there was a GM meeting a while back where Drury just beat the ever-loving-shit out of another GM and now they all just kinda go along with whatever he wants.
Wow
and we didnt lose kravtsov? what a fucking steal
God I hope he plays tomorrow. Friday night at the garden
We fuckin’ on the Rangers bed tonight boys
We’re not allowed to bitch about Drury for *a while*
This seems incredible for us. Terasenko is a rental but what a fucking rental, and we get Blais tf outta here and all we give up is the worse of our two first rounders and a 2024 third.
I feel like I’m missing something
Niko took Dryden Hunt to the ice once. Pepperidge farms remembers
This is just the second part of the Buchnevich deal. You have to view them together
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does this mean Timo is going to the Devils? Because that would be shitty.
St Louis Fan coming in Peace.
I hope you guys enjoy having Big Daddy Vladi, even if it’s just a short run. Yes he can score but he is also a total hoss. His calves are like tree trunks, he is big and tough and ignore what others have said about him not being his best. The Blues have…issues. The wheels fell off in the bubble and we never found our way out. It’s not one thing it’s a lot of things, but It sure wasn’t Vladi. I think there is the real potential for some magic to happen with the addition of him. I think you would have done good on the deal with just him but he had a NTC and could pick his place. Being the greatest city in the world has its benefits I suppose…
The fact that you got Mikkola too makes this a no brainer. Our D blows and he was a bright spot but we spent so much on bad D we couldn’t afford to keep him next year anyway.
So I guess I know who I will be following this playoff run. Go Rangers!
My problematic ass just bought a knockoff tarasenko Russia jersey
It’s a good trade imo also take into consideration Tank isn’t going to command his current cap for his new contract should we look at extending if it works out, he’s had a rough few years as others have mentioned and that has to be taken into consideration. I like it gives us a top 6 RW so we don’t have to play bottom 6ers up there. Might just work out fine
Get me a 7th D and an energy guy for the 4th line and we’re good to go.
Booo, Tarasenko stinks now. His production took a drastic decline and nobody even mentions him anymore.
Time to fire up NHL 23 and fix my rosters
Blais wasn’t working out and we badly needed a 3rd pairing D so we didn’t have to rely on Harpur. The Blues games I’ve watched this year have always had me walking away feeling like Tarasenko looked solid in all areas of the ice. I haven’t watched all their games, but the blame being placed on him for the Blues’ issues has struck me as misguided all season.
Fucking stoked for this.
So long useless Blais ✌️😁
Let’s Go Rangers. Hip hip…hooray!!
Best part is… STL retains half his salary! What a move!
Unbelievable the Rangers make this nice trade and naturally form some outstandingly fitting lines through 1-4, and a third of the comments are people sweating where to shoehorn fucking Kravtsov into things.
The answer to that question is « nowhere barring injuries. » Vesey is 5x as valuable to this team in 2023 than Krav is. Hell, even Gauthier is more valuable. Get over it.
ESPN gave the Rangers an A for the trade. Couldn’t read any details or what they thought of the Blues’ return as it was behind the ESPN+ pay wall.
Anyone wanna help out with a little copypasta?
This may be the Rangers biggest steal since Adam Graves for Troy Mallette.
I like Mikkola already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQkrGa73cAA
the funniest thing about this is i still remember how many people were adamant that Blais replacement level ass was going to be a capable middle 6 winger