Trade Reports ESCALATING... Reports Reveals HUGE Rangers Trade Update | NYR News

Trade rumors and reports are really starting to escalate revolving around the New York Rangers as multiple NHL insiders have revealed that the Rangers are looking to upgrade at the goaltending position after the news of Igor Shesterkin being ruled out for the rest of the season. We're going to break down some of the options some insiders have revealed the Rangers are looking at and why it's a bit of a puzzling move for the Rangers to go out and do something like this panic move. We're going to break down all of that and much more in this episode of Rangers Digest including the Rangers play tonight we're going to break that down and it is a rivalry game against the New Jersey Devils but before we jump into all of that a quick reminder to hit that subscribe button we've noticed that about 80 of you guys who watch these videos on a regular basis are not yet subscribed to the channel thank you so much guys for 12,000 subscribers i am doing a jersey giveaway at either 15 000 subscribers or the Rangers make the playoffs and right now second in the Metropolitan Division it's looking pretty good for the Rangers making the playoffs but we'll see how the season finishes out now there is a big report flying around that Anthony Stolarz has been inquired about from the Toronto Maple Leafs from the New York Rangers and if you see this from Darren Dreger he revealed that i think they've actually kicked tires on Anthony Stolarz now there's another report and i saw this this morning and we'll get to Anthony Stolarz on what that means specifically but there was another report this morning from Elliot Friedman on the New York Rangers goalie scout Scott Clemmensen being at the Buffalo Montreal game this week and he said he was in Montreal i assume to watch Lukinen play but we'll see where that goes there is a lot of smoke right now around Anthony Stolarz around Uko-Pekka Luukkonen from the Buffalo Sabres and let me tell you guys if one of these guys are to become a New York Ranger one of them makes more sense than the other and first of all i think both of them don't make as much sense as let's say a Jordan Binnington because you want an expiring contract but my point is i think no matter what happens here Braden Schneider is being attached to one of these trades and it's kind of an interesting situation because i think the Rangers need to trade Braden Schneider one way or another before this year's trade deadline but it's an interesting situation that the Rangers are playing very well do you want to do this right now and i'm not even so sure i have to be honest with you guys that the Rangers should be making a trade for a goaltender period like i haven't even mentioned that yet this far into the video i don't even know if that's a good idea and i don't even know why you would do it especially today or tomorrow or this week like Dylan Grunin has shown that he will be just fine and Jonas Korpisalo is coming back we'll get to that later in the video though but Anthony Stolarz is an interesting case to me so far this season with the Toronto Maple Leafs not great showings he has uh two wins though he's put up two wins so far he has an .875 save percentage and a 3.32 goals against average which i think is more of a team-ish stat anyway but over the course of his career has been a really good option uh and of course won a Stanley Cup in Florida just a couple seasons ago but if you look at some of his stats from the last couple seasons keep in mind by the way league average goaltending is like just under 900 now so last year in .893 on the worst teams in the league the year before that a .926 a .925 and uh when he was with Anaheim a .917 this is a good goalie this is a good backup option to take a little bit of weight off of your goaltending options for whatever team right any team so he has notoriously been a great option now the reason i don't believe this makes sense is because why would you trade for a goaltender that has four years left on his con his contract just kicked in this year at 3.75 million dollars a year that doesn't make sense especially with what you have with Dylan Grant was i right or was i right dylan grant can easily be at least a backup goaltender the Igor Shesterkin and then maybe you look at having another option as a third goaltender uh and obviously Jonas Korpisalo still here this year so to me this one i i can understand the sentiment of kicking tires but it better end there because i don't understand trading unless you're giving up Braden Schneider and something else is coming but all in all Drager did say that the Rangers have kicked tires on Anthony Stolarz it's more just exploring options uh and there has been no trade package uh you know out there but i am linking loosely Braden Schneider in a trade package uh to the Toronto Maple Leafs because they need defensive help so i think that's pretty interesting and uh we'll see exactly how that all plays out and you can see this uh as well comments by the way leave comments guys i'm going to be doing comments of the day every single video now but the rangers want to play uh a backup goalie and a fringe goalie this season then they're going to find out i think a trade for a starter with one year left makes sense for them and that's kind of where i was bringing in Jordan Binnington and that was that comment was from the Jordan Binnington video where i was talking about that and how that actually does make sense if you're going to go out and make a trade for another goaltender so Jordan Binnington would kind of make some sense but I want to talk about this I want to talk about Dylan Garand why are you going to go out and make a trade why are you going to go out and make a trade period Jonas is coming back and he's going to be the backup goalie and Dylan Garand is going to be a starter look at the comparison to the other goalies we're talking about Stolarz and Binnington Garand is just blowing them out of the water Garand has a 950 save percentage what Garand has a nine i'll say it again 951 save percentage and you might be like oh well that's pretty impressive and whatever he's played three games four games so far this the four games this season um yeah i guess that could be impressive but small sample size in his NHL career he has a .950 save percentage in his career has he let in some stinkers yes but i think he can carry some of the weight for a while like he's showing that he's fine he's fine and he's young like he's fine and Jonas is coming back it'll be okay if they have to kick a game to Spencer Martin i could see that becoming a problem and maybe that's where you want to bring in more experience maybe that's where you want to bring in a Jordan Binnington but um you can see there's another comment if you really go for the playoff if you're being serious about the playoffs Binnington is a must-have so people are on board with Jordan Binnington to a degree so let me know in the comments how you feel about all of that i don't think right now i have to be honest guys don't trade for a goalie do not trade for a goalie i was saying earlier maybe you look at it if there's a goalie you're going to trade for i mean UPL is very interesting i think it makes more sense than Anthony Stolarz UPL is very interesting from the Buffalo Sabres and if you include maybe Brayden Schneider in that trade or any trade for a goalie that could be an interesting trade package depending on what's coming back the other way it could make some sense at least for the year until Igor returns next year but and by the way Igor's full cap is not off the books by the way they're only saving about four million because they didn't put him on season ending LTIR only on the regular LTIR which is like what if they make the playoffs are they opening or leaving the door open that if they make the playoffs he can come back like i think that's pretty interesting so anyway tonight the rangers in new jersey let me know how you feel about all of that the uh rangers playing the new jersey devils which i've circled here on the calendar as a guaranteed win is what i believe i referred to it as a couple videos ago and i had new jersey devils fans in the comments saying how could you disrespect the devils like that's the nhl i'm gonna stand by that this is a guaranteed win for the rangers tonight yes and if they lose that's gonna look horrible tomorrow and i'll have to come here and uh have we'll have some fun with that if they lose but they won't they won't they are second in the metropolitan division right now the carolina hurricanes is off to a really hot start as well with 13 points but the rangers right there in second with 12 points and in the entire conference as well looking pretty good so excited to see what they can do tonight if they can do some damage to the devils who are sixth in the metropolitan standing so um should be a good game should be good we know jack hughes is pretty fired up he wants to get going here a couple lineup changes that the rangers have made cobalt when was sent down yesterday justin dowling has been called back up he's going to be the fourth line center tonight the rest pretty much the same Dylan Girard is going to be getting the start tonight Lafrenière has been on fire ladies and gentlemen he's been awesome so i'm looking for him to score yet another goal um like to see more consistency out of him you're starting to see a little bit more consistency out of him so that's always been the biggest thing for me that Lafrenière just needs to play whatever he's doing in a game because we've seen games where he can be physical we've seen games where he can put up points where uh maybe he's assisting more we've seen games where he takes over and he gets two three goals and they come in bunches he needs to be more consistent he also notoriously loves to play over the last couple seasons the New Jersey Devils so um he needs to come up big here or sorry the opposite he does not play well against Devils excuse me i'm thinking of a different player but we'll see how that all shapes up tonight and need another big performance out of JT Miller as well and you have to wonder how hurt he was last season but again one guy that's going to look to make an impact on the other side tonight is Jack Hughes it looks like your starting goaltenders tonight are Dylan Garand and Nico Dawes so that would be your goaltending duo tonight it'll be a big one but guys let me know in the comments your predictions for tonight's game the rangers win their third straight or the devils stop the rangers run and pick up some big points that they need themselves and again JT Miller huge factor for me tonight as well as as well as uh you know Alexis Lafrenière in there he needs to have a big game too but let me know how you feel in the comments below guys i do not think that the Rangers should trade at least right now unless proven otherwise that they should be trading for a goaltender it just doesn't make sense to me but i do wonder if Braden Schneider would be included in any trade package for Stolar for Binnington one thing's for sure though uh you can always count on Chris Drury to do something that doesn't make sense