#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.
#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
by 5cotland
28 Comments
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
I love this, makes the buch trade more digestable.. Watch Blais shine on the blues too lmao
I really like this trade. I know there were rumors we’d get Tarasenko, but I never thought it’d happen
wait, what the wtf? this is an absolute steal, right? am I missing something?
I always hope skill players fit in immediately based on their “gifts” but I still have memories of Eric Staal.
So let’s hope Tarasenko is more Vatrano/Copp and less Staal as far as chemistry with the new team goes.
When is he eligible to play for us?
I love the trade- just allow me to nitpick here: what would it have cost us to get retention on mikkola? we have 90k in cap space atm and id like to have room to bolster teh 4th line