Judd Zulgad

One interesting thing is Chris Drury, who is under immense pressure.

I'm not sure he keeps his job.

The Rangers GM, who, by the way, I'm not sure deserves to keep his job.

So I don't feel bad for him at all.

But one of the interesting things, and I've seen this referenced, you know, Charlie Stromo was drafted by the Wild in what, 2023?

He has remained in college since then.

He has to sign his contract, so his first contract, by August 15th of this year, or he becomes a UFA.

And if the Rangers, if he gets traded, now he's from here.

He's from, I think, Rosemont, if I'm not mistaken, right?

That sounds correct, yeah.

Yeah, and so if he says, you know what, I don't really want to play there, he just has to be patient.

he will not go back into the draft he will be an unrestricted free agent free to sign wherever he wants and i'm sure the rangers are like hold on a second here first of all we're currently a dumpster fire second of all this kid has played at wisconsin michigan state in east lansing and he is from the midwest no guarantee that he's like you know where i really want to play the rangers so

All in all, I don't blame the Rangers one bit.

And I do think that if you want Trochak,

that it's Yurov, it's your first round pick in 27, and it's probably a prospect defenseman.

Other than that, I just don't think the current offer, if this was indeed Billy's final, Bill Guerin's final offer age, I don't think it's going to get it done.

And in this case, I sort of, I guess the more I think about it, side with the Rangers and say, I don't blame them.

I'm not going to take that chance.

No, and I, you know, we've discussed this for a couple of days now.

The Yurov piece makes perfect sense.