Rangers Wished a Defenseman in Return for Kaapo Kakko
Pierre LeBrun, TSN Hockey Insider, joined Jay Onrait on SportsCenter on Wednesday night and was requested concerning the commerce of Kaapo Kakko by the New York Rangers to the Seattle Kraken and who advantages most from it.
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Jay Onrait: “New York Rangers have traded Kaapo Kakko to the Seattle Kraken for defenseman Will Borgen in a 3rd and sixth-round choose of the 2025 NHL Draft. This comes a day after the 2019 second-overall choose was very outspoken about being a wholesome scratch Sunday. Kakko 14 factors in 30 video games this season.
Right here’s our pal Pierre LeBrun, our hockey analyst, to speak about various issues, together with Pierre this Kakko commerce that I believe all of us noticed coming. However boy, did it occur quick. Scratched on Sunday, outspoken about it afterward. Three days later, he’s off to Seattle. What was your response to the commerce, and who do you assume is perhaps subsequent?”
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Pierre LeBrun: “Yeah, effectively, to start with, Jay, you recognize, we’re not stunned, however not a lot due to how spoken he was at being scratched. I imply, that’s the plain response to the fact is, let’s give some credit score right here to my good pal Darren Dreger, who was the primary insider various weeks in the past on Insider Buying and selling, to say this man’s in the marketplace once more, Kaapo Kakko and he may get traded.
And on the time, I believe that it caught some folks unexpectedly, as a result of the main target was a lot on (Jacob) Trouba and on (Chris) Kreider, and the memo that Chris Drury had despatched out, in fact, Trouba was traded. However the actuality is, the Rangers have been speaking to groups on Kakko for fairly some time, manner earlier than he acquired scratched on the weekend and manner earlier than he had his feedback about feeling like he acquired singled out unfairly.
So this wasn’t a reactionary commerce, I assume is what I’m attempting to say. It’s been weeks within the making. And pay attention, there have been various groups that needed to get their palms on Kakko, who’s been disappointing for essentially the most half, when it comes to not discovering consistency in his sport, given his pedigree, since he’s been a Ranger. However plenty of groups actually needed the possibility to get the two.0 model and hope {that a} reset and a refresh may very well be good for him with them.
That’s why Seattle has been on him for some time, and I do know from exchanging messages with the Kraken tonight, like they’re fairly excited. They assume that he can discover his sport in Seattle. They actually hope he can and in the event that they do, the ceiling play on this commerce is for Seattle, not as a lot for the Rangers.
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They acquired a superb defenseman in Will Borgen and naturally, and it’s arduous to commerce for a defenseman, they usually want a defenseman after buying and selling Trouba. However the actuality is, the ceiling play right here is unquestionably for Ron Francis and the Seattle Kraken.
However one of many issues that I heard from, from one of many groups who additionally needed to get in on Kakko is that they didn’t have a defenseman to commerce the Rangers. The Rangers have made it clear the groups calling on Kakko, we’d like a D again, and Seattle was capable of step up there.
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