Goodrow Wavers Question

Created by: Letsgorangers55

Team: 2023-24 New York Rangers

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 13, 2024

Published: Feb. 13, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

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Can someone please explain why the Rangers don't just put Goodrow on waivers?

Let's say there are 3 ways to get rid of a player. #1 a trade, #2 a buyout, #3 waivers.

To me waivers seems like the lesser of those evils.

If the Rangers buy out Goodrow they're still on the hook for part of his salary every year until the buyout period ends which is even longer than his current contract.

If the Rangers trade Goodrow (which will be hard to do with his semi NTC) they will have to attach a 1st or a valuable piece just to dump him and not even get anything back.

So why not put him on waivers? If he makes it down to the AHL without being claimed, I understand that only a little over 1 million $ will be buried and the Rangers cap is still accountable for the rest. But isn't that the best option?

Are the Rangers that worried that another team would claim him off waivers and that's just letting him go for nothing? Because it would be the same situation and actually worse in a trade. I just don't get it. Can someone explain

Trades

NYR

Waivers

BOS

Goodrow, Barclay

Buyouts

Brad Richards: $0

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$83,500,000	$75,554,916	$610,892	$882,500	$7,945,084

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Panarin, Artemi $11,642,857$11,642,857 LW NMC UFA - 3	Zibanejad, Mika $8,500,000$8,500,000 C NMC UFA - 7	Kakko, Kaapo $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW RFA - 1
Kreider, Chris $6,500,000$6,500,000 LW NMC UFA - 4	Trocheck, Vincent $5,625,000$5,625,000 C, RW NMC UFA - 6	Wheeler, Blake $800,000$800,000 ($300,000$300K) RW NTC UFA - 1
Lafrenière, Alexis $2,325,000$2,325,000 LW, RW RFA - 2		Vesey, Jimmy $800,000$800,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Cuylle, Will $828,333$828,333 ($82,500$82K) LW RFA - 2	Edström, Adam $846,667$846,667 C, LW RFA - 2	Pitlick, Tyler $787,500$787,500 RW UFA - 1
	Brodzinski, Jonny $762,500$762,500 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Miller, K'Andre $3,872,000$3,872,000 LD RFA - 2	Fox, Adam $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD UFA - 6	Shesterkin, Igor $5,666,667$5,666,667 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Lindgren, Ryan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD RFA - 1	Trouba, Jacob $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 3	Quick, Jonathan $825,000$825,000 ($100,000$100K) G M-NTC UFA - 1
Gustafsson, Erik $825,000$825,000 LD UFA - 1	Schneider, Braden $925,000$925,000 ($400,000$400K) RD RFA - 1
Jones, Zachary $812,500$812,500 LD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Chytil, Filip $4,437,500$4,437,500 C, LW UFA - 4

Top Comments

Feb. 13 at 5:23 p.m.

Rags21

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Because they clearly value what he brings on and off the ice lol

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Feb. 13 at 5:25 p.m.

Letsgorangers55

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Quoting: Rags21

Because they clearly value what he brings on and off the ice lol

I just don't get it. Is that literally the only reason? Brodzinski is way better than him and is doing way more than him and so is Jimmy Vesey and both of them are working for peanuts compared to Goodrow.

Feb. 13 at 5:36 p.m.

Rags21

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Quoting: Letsgorangers55

I mean I’m sure Drury is starting to realize it was a mistake and I can see a buy-out coming in the off-season. Lavi doesn’t move goodrow up the lineup like Gallant (thank god)

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Feb. 13 at 5:42 p.m.

Bcarlo25

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the short answer is its just not that simple. if they buy him out in June, they actually get a cap credit next year, which I didn't think was a thing, but CF is telling me it is. Then its $1m for a year, then there's one year where its $3m, then $1m for the next couple. I'm guessing drury has a much better idea of what their long term cap structure will look like, and which option is better.

Also, in terms of waiving him this year, saving a little over $1m or whatever, what do they do with that space? Is what they can do with that space worth more than what he brings to their team? far too often with stuff like this, fans fall into the trap of thinking GMs are stupid. they aren't. Sometimes they have lapses in judgement, but they rarely do things for no reason.

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Feb. 13 at 5:53 p.m.

jfkst1

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Quoting: Bcarlo25

Also, in terms of waiving him this year, saving a little over $1m or whatever, what do they do with that space? Is what they can do with that space worth more than what he brings to their team? far too often with stuff like this, fans fall into the trap of thinking GMs are stupid. they aren't. Sometimes they have lapses in judgement, but they rarely do things for no reason.

The chain of thought in trading Buchnevich and acquiring Blais and Goodrow was very stupid. GMs take illogical risks all the time. Just because they can claim a justification for an action doesn't make it smart.

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