The perfect trade candidate has emerged for the New York Rangers: GM Chris Drury must act now
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The New York Rangers could look like a different team in the future, as GM Chris Drury looks to reshape the roster. NHL Insider Emily Kaplan has given us some vivid terminology in what they could look like very soon.
That is "meat and potatoes", your basic heavy style of hockey we've known and loved as we've grown up to watch the sport.
This kind of philosophy is arguably what gave the Florida Panthers a Stanley Cup, as they mixed and melded speed, skills, and intensity.
The kind of intensity that the Rangers need to find, with heavy forechecking, quality depth that can score in vital moments, and someone who's not afraid to drop the gloves.
"Everything I hear about what Chris Drury wants to do to reshape his team - he's looking for a different identity. Meat and potatoes is a term I've heard a lot."
Grittiness and physicality. JT Miller is one example of the type of player Drury will now be targeting.
However, the next player Drury targets won't be a top-line center, but a depth goal-scoring option that currently wears a spoked-B.
Grittiness and physicality. JT Miller is one example of the type of player Drury will now be targeting.
However, the next player Drury targets won't be a top-line center, but a depth goal-scoring option that currently wears a spoked-B.
Boston Bruins pending UFA Trent Frederic. The bottom-six forward brings about as much grit and grind (meat & potatoes??) as the Rangers could want.
With the Bruins out of a wild card spot in the Eastern Conference, the team could start selling off pieces soon, which included Trent Frederic who has garnered a lot of interest lately.
Frederic wouldn't be a rental, but a piece that grows with the team beyond his rental period which the team needs to hammer out if they're to acquire him.
As Arthur Staple notes in his latest for The Athletic, "Frederic would be a costly addition, but you're acquiring a guy like that to keep him for a few years."
This season, he's been lacking the kind of play that made him one of the Bruins' best forwards, producing 40 points (18 G, 22 A) with the team last season.
Hss 6'3", 220-pound frame is used to punish his opponents and deliver hits that can stifle offenses across the league.
6'3", 220-pound frame at a high rate, with 147 hits in 55 games. Last year, he doled out a punishing 204 of them.
The Rangers should do what they can if they want to acquire Frederic, or else another Stanley Cup contender could swing back around to GM Don Sweeney and swoop him up.
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