Rangers’ potential plan to replace Filip Chytil could be wrong move

Rangers’ potential plan to replace Filip Chytil could be wrong move

There is little off the last eight weeks and 26 games, in which the Rangers went 12-12-2, to suggest that this team is a third-line center away from the Cup, unless, as the old joke goes, a 30-year-old Mark Messier is available to fill that role.

But even then, even if you could fill the void created by Filip Chytils heart-rending end to the season with someone as substantial as Messier, one would have to take a leap of faith that Igor Shesterkin will morph into his 2022 version by the time the playoffs begin after a second straight disappointing season, this one more concerning than last, to have confidence entering the tournament.

So, honestly, is this the year to go all-in at the deadline? Is this really a Cup-or-Bust season or are the Rangers more likely to go bust if they think this is somehow equivalent to 1994? Thats my view: This team is lacking too many playoff necessities to sacrifice a future that could arrive as soon as next season after summer renovation.

But sources have indicated that is not the view from the executive suite. Indeed, we are told that the hierarchy that includes chairman Jim Dolan and president/general manager Chris Drury has intentions of diving into the deep end of the pool as March 8 approaches.

Rangers_potential_plan_to_replace_Filip_Chytil_could_be_wrong_move3Filip Chtyil is out for the season after suffering a setback from a suspected concussion. APBecause I know. Sam Rosen unwittingly fibbed 30 years ago. The waiting was not over. The waiting now is at three decades. The Letter and the subsequent deadline purges were six and five years ago. There is urgency, especially with a team replete with 30-year-olds and no-move/no-trade contracts that despite itself still holds first place in the division.

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Were told that Calgarys pending free-agent center Elias Lindholm is at the top of the Blueshirts wish list and indeed had been even before Chytil was ruled out for the year. His name, according to a well-placed individual, has been at the forefront of internal discussions kind of the way Patrick Kanes was last year and even after the Rangers jumped the market to acquire Vlad Tarasenko nearly a month ahead of the deadline.

Lindholm, a 29-year-old Swede, is a top-six guy who would be playing down in the Rangers lineup but would give the club impressive depth down the middle. He is not the bruising checking center that Id create for the Rangers if the league would give me an AI tool for that purpose, but he is a substantial player who would improve the team at five-on-five.

But Lindholm, whom the Flames may still try to keep with another offer on a contract extension, is expected to be the prize deadline rental property. Calgary surely will conduct a bidding war that would likely yield a first-rounder plus at least one legitimate prospect and perhaps a young, NHL-ready player.

That would be a pill poisonous enough for the Rangers to swallow, but in order to incentive Flames GM Craig Conroy operating at his first deadline after assuming the job last summer to move quickly and abort the auction, Drury would have to overpay, probably considerably.

Rangers_potential_plan_to_replace_Filip_Chytil_could_be_wrong_move3Calgarys pending free-agent center Elias Lindholm is at the top of the Rangers’ wish list. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConIt could take the first-rounder and, say, Kaapo Kakko. Or maybe the Flames would prefer Will Cuylle or Brennan Othmann. Maybe theyd want a second-rounder in addition. And though the Rangers could accommodate Lindholms $4.85 million cap hit, doing so would leave little to address other weaknesses so the cost would be even higher in order to get Calgary to retain 40 or 50 percent of the contract.

For a rental.

But an overpay for Lindholm which by definition they would be obligated to do in order to obtain the veteran who, by the way, is 9-32-41 in 49 games with two goals in his last 25 games, and welcome to the party! would be a historically Rangerish move.

Of course the Rangers must fill that slot in the middle of the third line sooner than later. I would prefer that the team focus on adding physically inclined players who would make the team a much tougher opponent against which to play against.

Yes, Adam Henrique would improve the club, but only by degrees. If Anaheim GM Pat Verbeek as tough in the conference room as he was in the corners asks for anything more than a second-rounder plus a B-level prospect in return, the Rangers should not make the deal. He is good, and I cited him as a potential acquisition months ago, but he is not a game-changer.

By the way, if it is true that the Rangers and Canadiens wont talk about available third-line center Sean Monahan because theres some sort of thing going on between Drury and Montreal executive VP Jeff Gorton, thats probably good for the Blueshirts. Monahan surely will be an overpriced rental. We also have been told that even if the dynamic is not palsy-walsy, it would not stop the teams from striking a deal if one were to make sense.

Id look into Sean Kuraly of the Blue Jackets to fill one of those roles and Id surely have more interest in him out of Columbus than the perpetually available center Jack Roslovic, who doesnt move the needle. Thats how I feel about all the middling, middle-six centers on the market and available to the Blueshirts at too high of a cost.

Rangers_potential_plan_to_replace_Filip_Chytil_could_be_wrong_move3Columbus Blue Jackets’ Sean Kuraly, center, celebrates a goal against the Canucks. APId check on Ryan Hartman of the Wild, a team whose general manager, Billy Guerin, is one of Drurys closest friends within NHL front offices. Id check on Luke Kunin of the Sharks. I would scour the earth for a mean, crease-clearing, third-pair left defenseman. Id do smaller, targeted strikes.

The Rangers, though, it sounds like they want to go big. It sounds like the Rangers want to be the Rangers.

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