Don’t often see teams come out and announce they’re selling. Prepping the fan base for some bigger names leaving?Rangers really need it though. They didn’t have a first round draft pick for 4 years. It is really hard to remain competitive long term without contributions from the draft, and moving all your early picks makes it much harder to find contributors from the draft. From the 2012-2016 drafts the only real NHL players they’ve found are Brady Skjei, Anthony Duclair and Pavel Buchnevich, and Duclair was traded almost immediately.
Anyways guys who are obviously gone- Nash, Grabner, Nick Holden, David Desharnais. Likely gone- McDonagh, Zuccarello.
I think he is untradeable for a variety of reasons, but I kinda wonder what they would do if a Lundqvist deal presented itself. He’s got 3 more years left, I don’t know if they can get it turned around quick enough to where they are a contender with him still playing at a high level. It seems like they are ready to strip it down to the core, so timeline of Ludqvist being good and the team getting back to contention doesnt seem to match, but I guess in the NHL you can turn it around in a hurry.