This team can absolutely win the Cup. They are very talented upfront with depth, deep on D with talent and size, and obviously great in goal. Add in a tight cap situation with no real rise in the cap for at least another year, and Drury needs to push his chips in. You know Kane badly wants to be here, how many players comment on how disappointed they are another team made a trade like Kane did when we traded for Tara. He named us and the Leafs on his initial list of teams he'll be willing to go to. And with Toronto dealing for O'Reilly and Acciari that takes them out for Kane - both cap wise and they need D not another scorer. Toronto also showed us the way Drury needs to play it to get Kane, have a 3rd team be in the mix and eat 25% of Kane's cap hit, so we only have to pay 25%, like the Leafs are with O'Reilly. If Kane sticks to his guns and says get me to the Rangers Drury needs to get it done - and I say strike ASAP Drury, don't wait 2 weeks until DL day. Imagine these lines: Kreider/Z/Tara Pan/Tro/Kane Laf/Chytil/Kakko Vesey/Good/Gauthier - great 4th line On D Mikkola as your 6th dman, Harpur as your 7th dman, and Hajek as your 8th dman is very big and deep. Go make it happen Drury. This is our year - Rangers are winning the Cup with one more big move.
Give them Kravtsov, Jones or a 2nd and Lesychyn for Kane+retained salary, however they need to make it work.
