They were going into rebuild. You dump salary and talent so you can suck and get earlier picks. He got a 1st, a 2nd and prospects. Remember that jt Miller didn’t become this good until after so his trade value was low
thieflikeme
Always look forward to the yearly Gorton sucks threads in regards to this trade where everyone forgets Gorton didn’t want to dedicate the 15 mil of cap space a year it would’ve taken to keep them. When word gets around that you’ve decided you can’t afford to re-sign a player their trade value tanks. Same happened with Buchnevich
supposablyhim
pretty happy with the way the blueshirts gave up and rebuilt. now we’re about to win the 2nd cup of my lifetime (fight me)
i follow a certain football team that keeps trying to win immediately and just keeps getting worse.
DSPGerm
Hajek the Kayak. Miss him
Attackoffrogs
Straight to jail.
nstc2504
That’s Stanley cup champion Brett Howden
vanya2112
Is this a done deal if it is this sucks
ConcentrateFlat3176
The Rick Nash trade makes up for it
Whoknowsthesedays
thought gorton was drunk when he made this trade and still do
calvin43
Dolan hated McDonagh as captain.
Jagr6810
They should’ve easily commanded cirelli or actually good prospects. Gorton got hosed
ExperienceNo7751
Upvoting for transparency—there was no other option. Mac and Miller deserved life-changing money and there was a < 0% chance Rangers could offer it.
Jonathan Miller isn’t Artemi Panarin, or even a Trocheck.
Mac Truck is donezo in 2022. Man gave the game everything and is a sure-fire 1st ballot HOF shoe-in.
Timing is what it is. Miller should have been kept, but was a Cap Casualty. I’d rather Gorton gamble the the future in 2018 than play-it-safe.
Jokercard08
If it weren’t for the Buch trade, this one would get talked about nonstop.
srslymrarm
This has some extreme retrospective bias.
Miller was never very good with us. At the time, Namestnikov–a younger player–was actually outproducing Miller, so that alone would’ve justified half the trade.
Meanwhile, our defense *sucked*. We needed to dump some salary and rebuild with defensive Dmen. Granted, McDonagh was great, defense included, but he was the last thread of an aging core that sorely needed a new direction. Hajek and the pick that would become Nils Lundkvist were not dumb moves toward that direction–they just didn’t pan out. But we stayed that course, and we finally have a team that manages defensively.
All this is to say… This trade completely made sense at the time for a team that was rebuilding. It made even more sense if you have any recollection of Miller’s play at the time.
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I forget who those picks turned into
Miller man. Fuck.
They were going into rebuild. You dump salary and talent so you can suck and get earlier picks. He got a 1st, a 2nd and prospects. Remember that jt Miller didn’t become this good until after so his trade value was low
Always look forward to the yearly Gorton sucks threads in regards to this trade where everyone forgets Gorton didn’t want to dedicate the 15 mil of cap space a year it would’ve taken to keep them. When word gets around that you’ve decided you can’t afford to re-sign a player their trade value tanks. Same happened with Buchnevich
pretty happy with the way the blueshirts gave up and rebuilt. now we’re about to win the 2nd cup of my lifetime (fight me)
i follow a certain football team that keeps trying to win immediately and just keeps getting worse.
Hajek the Kayak. Miss him
Straight to jail.
That’s Stanley cup champion Brett Howden
Is this a done deal if it is this sucks
The Rick Nash trade makes up for it
thought gorton was drunk when he made this trade and still do
Dolan hated McDonagh as captain.
They should’ve easily commanded cirelli or actually good prospects. Gorton got hosed
Upvoting for transparency—there was no other option. Mac and Miller deserved life-changing money and there was a < 0% chance Rangers could offer it.
Jonathan Miller isn’t Artemi Panarin, or even a Trocheck.
Mac Truck is donezo in 2022. Man gave the game everything and is a sure-fire 1st ballot HOF shoe-in.
Timing is what it is. Miller should have been kept, but was a Cap Casualty. I’d rather Gorton gamble the the future in 2018 than play-it-safe.
If it weren’t for the Buch trade, this one would get talked about nonstop.
This has some extreme retrospective bias.
Miller was never very good with us. At the time, Namestnikov–a younger player–was actually outproducing Miller, so that alone would’ve justified half the trade.
Meanwhile, our defense *sucked*. We needed to dump some salary and rebuild with defensive Dmen. Granted, McDonagh was great, defense included, but he was the last thread of an aging core that sorely needed a new direction. Hajek and the pick that would become Nils Lundkvist were not dumb moves toward that direction–they just didn’t pan out. But we stayed that course, and we finally have a team that manages defensively.
All this is to say… This trade completely made sense at the time for a team that was rebuilding. It made even more sense if you have any recollection of Miller’s play at the time.
Not nearly as bad as the Buchnevich trade