Guest Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Why for the Rangers? They have two excellent young goalies in Shesterkin and Georgiev. Both have proven they can play in the league and sending one to the minors (non-existent minors) might be a tough move to pull off. They save 2.5 mil from their cap hit this year. Why for us? Lundqvist is only on the books for one more year as opposed to Loui's two years left. It gives us cap relief when we need it the most, next summer. Lundqvist can still play and gives us a great goalie tandem with Demko for next year. It softens the blow big time if we let Marky walk (the extra 2.5 mil hit over Loui is not bad compared to what it would cost to resign Marky). Lastly, we cement ourselves as the number 1 team in all of Sweden and may as well change our colours to the blue and yellow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklas Bo Hunter Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 would rather target Getzlaf from ANA 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildcam Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 16 minutes ago, VancouverHabitant said: Why for the Rangers? They have two excellent young goalies in Shesterkin and Georgiev. Both have proven they can play in the league and sending one to the minors (non-existent minors) might be a tough move to pull off. They save 2.5 mil from their cap hit this year. Why for us? Lundqvist is only on the books for one more year as opposed to Loui's two years left. It gives us cap relief when we need it the most, next summer. Lundqvist can still play and gives us a great goalie tandem with Demko for next year. It softens the blow big time if we let Marky walk (the extra 2.5 mil hit over Loui is not bad compared to what it would cost to resign Marky). Lastly, we cement ourselves as the number 1 team in all of Sweden and may as well change our colours to the blue and yellow No would not take on more salary, that extra 1.7 million for Lundqvist will affect us signing players this year... Marky walks we sign a veteran backup under 3 million we now save 3 million as Marky will get at least 6 million as a UFA... We are very tight against cap, every million effects not signing another player.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Am.Ironman Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 34 minutes ago, wildcam said: No would not take on more salary, that extra 1.7 million for Lundqvist will affect us signing players this year... Marky walks we sign a veteran backup under 3 million we now save 3 million as Marky will get at least 6 million as a UFA... We are very tight against cap, every million effects not signing another player.. You would actually save more by going the King Henrik route. You are only paying 1.7M for the backup to be Lundqvist because he gets paid 1.7 more than Eriksson. Eriksson is replaced from within (Motte, Macewan) so his replacement costs very little cap. That being said I don't think Lundquist waives to get traded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 This makes no sense for the Rangers. There has already been chatter that the Rags may buyout Lundqvist's remaining year of his contract, in order to make room for Strome, Lemieux, and DeAngelo's RFA extensions. Trading Lundqvist, who has 1 year left on his contract for a two year remaining contract, even at $2.5M less, makes no sense for them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconuts Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 I just don't see Lundqvist being prepared to play anywhere but New York. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Lundqvist's buyout is 5.5M followed by 1.5M which is less than 2 years of Eriksson at 6M. Also adding Eriksson costs them more money. The costs of Lundqvist's buyout is 3M vs 5M still owed to Eriksson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJockitch Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 I like losing the second year of Louie. If no Markstrom, then he would be a decent bridge kind of player. Just don’t see the benefit for NY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCNate Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, wildcam said: No would not take on more salary, that extra 1.7 million for Lundqvist will affect us signing players this year... Marky walks we sign a veteran backup under 3 million we now save 3 million as Marky will get at least 6 million as a UFA... We are very tight against cap, every million effects not signing another player.. LE + Markstrom @6 = 11, vs Lundqvist @8.5. We save 2.5 million, which in our cap spot is a pretty big deal. Dump Baertschi for a pick and you have the money to go after a guy like Dillon for our D. We'd need to add more for NYR to take it. Virtanen/Stecher could be enough. Edited September 22, 2020 by BCNate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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