{"id":4515,"date":"2020-06-09T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rangers-mailbag-how-the-jacob-trouba-partner-search-could-play-out\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:00:00","slug":"rangers-mailbag-how-the-jacob-trouba-partner-search-could-play-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rangers-mailbag-how-the-jacob-trouba-partner-search-could-play-out\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rangers mailbag: How the Jacob Trouba partner search could play out"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Rangers mailbag: How the Jacob Trouba partner search could play out<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 9, 2020 |<\/span> 9:00am <\/p>\n

\n You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York\u2019s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series<\/a> of regularly published mailbags. In today\u2019s installment: the Rangers. <\/em><\/p>\n

The Rangers\u2019 biggest need is for a partner to play with Jacob Trouba. Would you trade a defenseman like K\u2019Andre Miller and maybe a draft pick for Jonas Brodin, who was supposedly available at the deadline? \u2014 Gerald S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And here I thought Rangerstown was all-in on the rebuild. It would be folly to trade for Brodin, who would fill the top spot on the left side brilliantly but who will be entering the final year of his contract at a $4,166,667 cap hit en route to unrestricted free agency. The Rangers are not in the \u201cone player away\u201d mode that would justify trading a prospect with Miller\u2019s upside for a one-season rental. (Do you expect the Blueshirts would be in position to sign the soon-to-be 27-year-old Swede to a long-term extension for an expected going price of $7.5 million?)<\/p>\n

Brendan Smith impressed everyone with the way he played as Trouba\u2019s partner in the nine game<\/a>s that followed Brady Skjei\u2019s trade to Carolina, but that\u2019s not likely a long-term pairing. Libor Hajek, still just 22, will get a shot to compete for the job (maybe even as soon as next month). So, in time, will Miller.<\/p>\n

But David Quinn also has the option of splitting the Ryan Lindgren-Adam Fox tandem and moving Lindgren up to Trouba\u2019s left if the team can find a compatible partner for Fox.<\/p>\n

I recently listened to a podcast on Steve Durbano. I see the Rangers had two picks in round 1 in 1971 and took [Steve] Vickers and Durbano \u2026 and passed on Larry Robinson. Any intel on what The Cat (Emile Francis) might have been thinking then? \u2014 Robert Candeloro <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bruins selected a defenseman named Ron Jones, who played a total of eight games for Boston and 54 in the NHL, sixth overall and I don\u2019t know what GM Milt Schmidt was thinking, either. California selected defenseman Ken Baird, who played a sum of 10 games for the Golden Seals and in the NHL, 10th overall, and I don\u2019t have a clue what GM Fred Glover was thinking, either.<\/p>\n

Robinson would go second behind first-overall Guy Lafleur in a 1971 redraft (unless you prefer Marcel Dionne) and not 19th, as was the case. So many general<\/a> managers would have some explaining to do. Of course, scouting in 1971 was not the sophisticated business into which it has grown.<\/p>\n

Do you feel Colin Campbell did not know how to utilize Alex Kovalev? He traded away one of the best skating and puck handling forwards of his time. \u2014 Raymond Lahey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kovalev could be a maddening player to coach, but Campbell in particular seemed to have no patience for, and limited app<\/a>reciation of, No. 27. The Rangers botched it with Kovalev. Indeed, the relationship between Campbell and Kovalev would have dominated the Twitter<\/a>sphere if the medium had existed in the 90s.<\/p>\n

What If \u2026 [Mike] Richter stops that 70-foot shot from Ron Francis in Game 4 up by two goals? They probably win the Stanley Cup because the 1991-92 Rangers were probably a better-skilled team than the 1994 one. \u2014 Frank Bifulco<\/strong><\/p>\n

The better-skilled team doesn\u2019t necessarily win, or should I refer you to last season\u2019s first-round, four-game sweep of the Lightning by the Blue Jackets? Perhaps a stronger team, such as the 1993-94 squad, would have been able to overcome the gaffe by Richter. The bigger picture \u201cwhat-ifs,\u201d applying to this instance, however, are whether Roger Neilson would have made it through 1992-93 coming off a Stanley Cup and whether it ever would have been necessary to bring Mike Keenan to Broadway?<\/p>\n

Which ill-fated trade do you think set the organization back more \u2026 [Sergei] Zubov\/[Petr] Nedved to Pittsburgh for [Luc] Robitaille\/[Ulf] Samuelsson, or [Ian] Laperri\u00e8re\/[Mattias] Norstrom\/Ray Ferraro\/Nathan LaFayette to LA for [Jari] Kurri\/[Marty] McSorley\/Shane Churla? \u2014 James Sena<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh deal was not even close to as damaging as was that foolish trade with the Kings.<\/p>\n

I know the league wants more offense and power plays, but isn\u2019t it time to get rid of the ridiculous delay of game penalty for putting the puck over the glass? Does anyone really do this on purpose \u2014 even if they do, how is this any different from icing? \u2014 Mike D<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ridiculous, at all. In fact, players would do this intentionally all of time if it were eliminated.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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