Originally started by two college friends in August 2020, Ice Cold Takes: A New York Rangers Hockey Podcast, features the hockey conversations you would have with your friends, family, and people you meet at the bar. Joey DiMeglio hosts the show, welcoming all guests, including players, writers, analysts, and even Twitter personalities, to talk New York Rangers hockey and make bold, but spot-on takes that are chilled to the bone!
It's tough with Mika. Yes his 5v5 production was horrid but look at what he's responsible for every night. PP, PK, Playing against top players, Faceoffs ....etc. The guy is a really high end swiss army knife. Maybe a top 10 "All Around" player in the league. Just the threat of him and CK scoring a short handed goal keeps other teams honest and a little more conservative on their power plays. I want more from Mika offensively but we have to acknowledge how he affects every area of the game. We'll see what happens this season. Didn't help that he was with guys like Wheeler, Roslivic, Kakko.... etc on the top line.
It's not HOW they can but who would the Rangers give up and will they, as for the young prospects they look pretty good and hard to give up and Tkachuk has a huge salary on his head do the Rangers want to fall into that hole again Tkachuk did score 37 goals , 37 assists in 81 games and coming to a new team i don't see that repeated the first season but he will score 20+ goals.
Rangers fans biggest concern is another $10 or $11 million dollar a year goalie contract. Long term. If that happens your team is going to be handicapped again trying to round out and build a Champion.
You guys are idiots if you think Ross Colton is Barclay goodrow Colton is miles better and more useful than chytil even when healthy or kakko and Colorado needs cap space so he won’t be too expensive
This trade ain’t happening but also ullmark is not that good he ain’t gonna make Ottawa a better team bruins D helped his numbers the year he won the vezina it was kinda a joke he’s a mediocre starter
There’s isn’t one person on your roster I would trade my captain for. Not Adam Fox, not Panarin - no one. You’d have to drastically overpay with a crazy package for anyone to even consider this. Come back in 4-5 years if the negotiations on his next contract start going sour. Until then, Ottawa laughs and hangs up.
Dreams of Rangers fans. What are we going to do with another LW?? Panarim, Lafrenierre, Kreider, Othman. He's a great player but they would want at least Lafrenierre +
He will either go to St. Louis or New Jersey. His wife is from New Jersey, he’s also related to Tom Fitzgerald and he’s friends with the hughes family. They call each other family. Only reason he goes to St. Louis is because his dad played for them and it’s his area. Less than a 1% chance he ends up on rangers. It’s njd or St. Louis if he ever leaves.
Only way this is possible is if Brady tries to force his way out by demanding a trade. I don't see it happening. More realistically we'll end up with Kane and a few other pieces. I'd still like to take a shot at landing Anthony Duclair. I think we could work on the top liken with Mika and CK.
@@icecoldtakes Sure. I think Kane will make himself affordable if he gets term. 2.75 to 3.5 for 3 years would be fine. Not a bad option. Guentzel, as an option is more expensive but obviously the better player. We need to fix the defense so I'd lean towards the cheaper option at forward.
Also, Kane is eligible for performance bonuses since he's over 35, so that would help the cap situation. Although, they'll need as much space as possible for next year
@@icecoldtakes I didn't know that. I wonder if somehow Drury could hit a homerun and land both guys. I have a feeling Kane just wants another Cup and money is less important at this point. Getting a multi year deal is what he's after. I think he has a young child if I remember, and doesn't want to do these 1 year deals until he retires.
LOL the Sens are literally building around Brady. What makes ppl think the sens are going to give up Brady. Staios has been totally clear hes not being traded.
Because they haven't won or even come close to competing for a playoff spot in his 6 years in the league. We'll see if things change now that they have Ullmark
I know. They traded for Ullmark while I was finishing up the video. Like I said midway through the video, it's just a hypothetical. Probably not going to happen now
I agree with you about drury needing to be willing to move some pieces and sign big fish trade kakko trade lindgrens rights trade Othmann if the right deal comes up and trade or buyout chytil but Tkachuk ain’t happening unless he tells Ottawa I wanna be traded
Also rangers fans need to stop talking about the Buch trade like it was this big fleecing and terrible Gming from Drury he had to get rid of him for salary cap reasons and needed to get something no team was gonna trade a 1st or a top 6 player for buchs RFA rights in 2021 also fans gotta stop complaining cuz Trocheck wouldn’t be here if we kept Buch
Lindgren is a bigger problem on the blue line lindgren should be traded in the next month hopefully and if he does come back they cannot afford to pay him 4 mil lindgren is a bottom pair D man playing him with fox has dragged Fox down and given lindgren a false value I get the players like him and he’s heart and soul but he’s honestly pretty bad puck mover, he’s terrible offensively, not a good skater, and very undersized for the style he plays especially and he gets hurt all the time he’s a good PK guy but doesn’t deserve a raise cuz he’s a good PK guy and plays with fox
Sorry for your loss.... As a family full of Devil fans some of us remember game 6 and game 7 of the Devils vs Rangers finals I still (at times) feel the pain.. We won 3 cups since (should've been 5), but when we eliminated the Rangers last year, down 2 games to 0 I felt a little pay back. I personally think the Rangers owners don't care, you guys are fans for life.(they know it) and until you stop buying to a losing team you will get what they give you and be happy.. Maybe your kids will finally wake up and change Jerseys... Our true enemy is not your team it is and always will be the hated Flyers.. Take care..
