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New York Rangers trade reports are continuing to intensify as NHL insider Elliot Friedman has now just linked them to two new goaltenders on the trade front and has revealed that Chris Drury is indeed working the phones despite Dylan Girard's amazing performance and these trade reports make absolutely no sense to a large portion of the Rangers fan base. We're going to break all of that down including some absolutely absurd advanced analytics revolving around the defense core that is blowing people's minds we're going to break all of that down and of course we got to talk about Pavel Dorofeev everyone is speaking out about that we're going to break that all down and much more guys on this episode of Rangers Digest but before we get into all of that if you're new around here make sure to hit that subscribe button we've noticed that a large percentage of you guys who watch the videos every single day are not subscribed to the channel and I'm doing a jersey giveaway here on the channel for whatever comes first. Either the Rangers make the playoffs or 15,000 subscribers. And thank you so much for 12,000 subscribers that we just hit over the weekend. So thank you guys so much for that. But let's waste no more time. You saw it in the intro. There's two goalies linked here to the Rangers now in a brand new report from Elliot Friedman. Vemelka from the Utah Mammoth, which I think is very interesting, by the way, considering that they have a working relationship, both of those general managers. They just made a big trade in the summer for Vincent Trocheck And that's all the Rangers got Sean Durzi, Cole Boldwin, right? So they've talked about it before I think it's pretty interesting there And they've also talked, apparently About Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen from the Buffalo Sabres And Elliot Friedman, you can see here the quote I think those are two guys that you looked at And, you know, both of these guys are very interesting names, right? You look at Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, great young goaltender Relatively young, I guess He's in his mid-20s From the Buffalo Sabres he's rocking a 4.75 million dollar contract until the end of 2029 so there is a little bit of term on that hey it could be you know in theory a good option when igor comes back you know uh with the cap going up great backup goaltender option great young option yeah yeah that makes a lot of sense that that could make some sense of Vemelka's a great young goaltender in his own right he's signed through 2030 as well on basically the same cap hit so clearly Chris Turi looking at something in that price range while these guys have a lot larger of a sample size in the nhl to go off of while that is true i would like to point all of your attention to the statistics to the analytics and i would like to point to you that out of those two goaltenders if you were to add the rangers current starting goaltender that they owe so badly according to some reports according to Elliot Friedman saying that they're checking in on goaltenders, that Chris Turi can't help himself. He's working the phones. If you put all three of them together, the Rangers currently have the best goaltender. The best goalie of all three of them, currently placed for the New York Rangers, is currently on the Rangers, is currently the starting goaltender between the pipes, putting on great performance after great performance including another good one yesterday where he only let in two goals and both of them coming in the third period. it is the rangers goaltender Dylan Gruntout of all of these options that we've covered that is actually statistically now that we have a larger sample size the best goalie in all of these talks you know we were talking about Stolarz now we're talking about Vamelka now we're talking about Lukinin there's other goalies that i mentioned Jordan Binnington the goalie that the rangers currently have in net is the best of any of them and we're still talking about we are still talking about trades how is this possible how is this possible Dylan Grant has a 929 save percentage league average isn't even 900 anymore and he has a 929 is it sustainable there's actually something i want to get to later in this video that suggests probably not however however he is playing well he is playing well and again that stat we'll get to that the analytics in a bit because i do want to cover it because it is a little concerning but there is actually a reason to believe that that and stay tuned for that will actually turn around so i want to get into that but his statistics are unbelievable this guy's unbelievable and you can see um you know Elliot Freeman talking about it too it could set a chain reaction around the league if they were to make a move for a goaltender if you're making a move for a goaltender like vamelka like um you know who called Pekka Lukinin the goalie that should be going the other way is Jonas Korpisalo Jonas Korpisalo in this case if you want to trade for another goalie like this should not play another i should not play a game period for the rangers he hasn't played yet he got hurt in preseason he should not play a single game for this franchise then he should be the guy going back to make the money work that's what maybe maybe that's what we're talking about right that i could see sure but then even then you're acquiring guys in these two guys and even with the Stolarz talk right and some of the other goalies we've talked about here on the channel you're acquiring term and big term like a term is okay if it's he's signed for next year right that is okay especially if you're giving up Corposalo right but term in terms of the next three to four years i mean Igor is here right do you need i mean i guess you could with the cap going up to starting goaltenders i guess that could work Dylan Grand has been phenomenal to start this season and i see a lot of people saying sample size sample size sample size he had a 950 last year in three games and now he's a 929 in seven games like he might actually be good at this point like if it was two games and he had a 950 i'd be like man rookie goalie got lucky man feel good for him that's awesome great storyline he might just actually be good at this point and he's putting on genuinely good performances with a back end that statistically and analytically hasn't been very good which is crazy but their team defense is actually quite good and that's something i want to talk about later in this episode too so i cannot believe we're still talking about these trade rumors it's crazy and you can see the first four games of this season like he's dipped a little bit right you can see here on the chart he's dipped a little bit and by the way the game against the Devils huge outlier obviously his first four games he's rocking a .951 save percentage the last three he has a .903 he's still slightly above league average goaltending that's fine if you're getting average or above average from a guy that was in the AHL last year because you're like a 12 million essentially million dollar goaltender is hurt and and out for the year i think you're in a decent spot if he's able to continue to do this he had the one bad game and i said look at and according to digest sports.com it does say that it is still too early which like you know my opinion is he might actually just be good all right but um you know when you're looking at the one game the bad game i said can he bounce back from this mentally can he do that and he bounced back by letting in one goal and almost got a shut out in an overtime one nothing loss like i don't know how that i don't know man i don't know how people still want a goalie if you want to go out and get a goalie that's fine Jonas Korpisalo has got to go the other way and you can't give up that many assets you can't you just can't you can't give up that many futures don't give up anything that you know is going to help you in the future that's currently in hartford right so i i don't know again last night great performance from Dylan Grand i i i wish i know a lot of people are tired about me talking about him he's so good look at this .935 last night made 29 saves another good performance they played the Ducks by the way they're a good young team it's not like they played a bottom feeder team like they're expected to make the playoffs in the in the Pacific Division so um they look pretty good now one thing that i saw and i want to bring this up to you guys that suggests that this might not be sustainable but at the same time i don't know if these analytics themselves are sustainable that I saw the other day is that the Rangers pairings are one of the they're the worst in the NHL they are top 10 worst all three of them in the entire National Hockey League and you might be thinking Darius what are you talking about yes all three Rangers pairings I saw this yesterday the highest total for pairings in the National Hockey League expected goals against Pedersen and Durzi 6.7 they're second in the NHL Gavrikov and Fox 5.4 they're seventh and Schneider and Schmitz are 4.8 they're 10th the Rangers in terms of highest total expected goals against in the NHL all three pairings are top 10 in the NHL that is insane i don't know if that's sustainable there's no way that's sustainable that's almost shocking that they're that that they're playing as well as they are with with that right and then it goes even deeper if you go expected goals against per 60 uh Pettersson Durzi seventh Schneider Schmitz 10th and then Gavrikov and Fox absent from this top 10 which is good right so that is absolutely shocking to me when i saw that so in terms of around the league expected goals against all three pairings are top 10 and and then in terms of per 60 Schmitz, Schmitz, Schneider and Pedersen, Durzi are seventh and tenth still two pairings in the top 10 that i that was shocking when i saw that Dylan Grand is playing very very well their team defense the system that mike sullivan's playing the fact that they're actually getting scoring this year um although that did dry up and i do want to talk about that a little bit except for last night when it does dry up it gets pretty ugly um you know that that is i thought that was insane let me know if you like let me know how you feel in the comments about that because i did not realize that through the first you know little while of the season here that is absolutely uh wild to me so uh another thing i want to talk about is uh the metropolitan race the rangers despite all that despite igor being out look like an absolute freight train in this eastern conference this is fantastic to watch last little while how can you not be excited about this team right now this morning or as of last night on october 19th based on the results from last night the rangers now coming to today coming to their next game their next couple games toronto maple leafs on thursday too by the way first place in the metropolitan division i know they're tied with carolina but they come into first place and it it's not like it was like you know something that they started last and they came up no they've been like good the whole time they've been good the whole time now one last thing i want to talk about because everyone's talking about Pavel Dorof fab and i really want your thoughts here in the comments guys i think this is and he has five points so far this season all right i now think and he's operating half a point a game which is not great obviously um i think this is a player this is where i'm going to stick my flag this is a player that is snake bitten rather than he's bad and he's not going to figure it out he is going to figure it out his line again last night with Ty Cartier and JT Miller was rocking an 80 expected goals for and an 80 i believe 88 high danger scoring chances percentage for that if that continues and they continue to put numbers up in the 70s right like every single game that they're playing together now they split them up for a bit last week then the ranger like the scoring kind of dipped and and mike sullivan put everything kind of back together the way it was at the start of last season obviously for the last game they look good i didn't even mention the top lines goal which like Gabe Perreault had five seconds to tuck that puck in the empty net like top do not touch the top line top line's awesome second line though if you look at the advanced analytics in terms of numbers like that it's not sustainable that this guy will remain snake bitten like this his plus minus doesn't look good all that type stuff he is going to get going i have faith it is a problem right now you'd like him to get going but it really isn't a problem because the team is winning right so as long as the team was winning everything is okay but when things dry up it gets ugly because he's not scoring right so it looks even worse so he's got to get going i'm not trying to make an excuse for the guy he absolutely has to get going but if you look at all the numbers i it has to turn around he has to start producing at some point and like the opportunity he missed last night is uh is tough so you know let me know how you feel about that he's been super super inconsistent this year and that's something that i've talked about with Lafreniere and a lot of rangers right consistency man you need consistency especially with the fan base we want to see players be great consistently and it's hard to do in this league it is but when you're paid to do it like that when you're paid to score goals you have to show the results right we're not going to be looking at at the end of the season if they miss the playoffs or whatever like oh they look great and expected goals for hooray right like it's not going to happen so he has to start actually producing last thing i will mention here from NYR Louis, a lot of opinions on Mike Sullivan are starting to shift, I'm a big fan, I was talking about it last year of the new system and the structure that he's brought to this team because I feel like this team was lacking a lot of direct north-south skating, uh defensive structure, especially defensively under Peter like it was used to always talk about structure and I'm like, I hey man, I have eyes and I watch the games, there is no structure here especially defensively, I'm a big fan of what Mike Sullivan's done with that, there's a lot to be said about how he lost the room and how things ended in Pittsburgh and there was a lot of conversation about that last year but people like NYR Louis and a lot of fans are starting to turn the page on that especially coming to this year because he has the personnel to put it together now and not only the personnel, the players themselves, I want to give credit to the players to have bought into what Mike Sullivan has put together here and when that happens it's a beautiful thing because you have results like this where you wake up this morning first place in the Metropolitan Division with a goaltender that was in the AHL last year and there's so many question marks around the the team when that injury to Igor happened and you wake up this morning first place the team looks like they're bought in, you're firing on a lot of cylinders and you're, you know, crossing off a lot of you know things that were question marks this offseason and Lafrenière looks great, like there's so much to be happy about, so let me know he's playing at a 90 point pace right now, by the way, fire me up that's awesome man, so uh let me know how you feel about everything we discussed in the comments below i don't think it makes any sense for the rangers to make a trade at this point for a goaltender if you start to see three bad performances in a row if you start to see two and he can't really bounce back he's hard on himself you know the the mental aspect of the game is starting to catch up with dylan grant let's start having those conversations and maybe that's not even wise because that could be considered a panic move but i don't think there's a reason to panic at all or even make a trade right now i really don't and if you do it's corpus allo going the other way and dylan grant still has to stick around and maybe you split the games because right now with those defensive analytics numbers and the fact that you know dylan grant statistics look the way it does why would you panic and make a trade. Let me know how you feel in the comments below. And I do think Dorfia is going to pick it up at some point.