New York Rangers roundtable: What will happen by the trade deadline?

John Williams

Holden is gone. Grabner is gone. A second rounder and a third rounder were brought in along with 20-year-old defenseman Yegor Rykov and 24-year-old defenseman Rob O’ Gara have been brought in.

The rebuild has begun.

As far as what’s about to come for the Rangers, Rick Nash will be on the move very soon. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say he is going to get traded to the San Jose Sharks. I think they want to make one more playoff run. Joe Thornton will be back soon and him and Nash have worked some magic together many times over on Team Canada. Would their 2018 first rounder, along with rookie Timo Meier get it done? Who knows?

I don’t think Ryan McDonagh or Mats Zuccarello get dealt but there are two others I expect to be traded. The first is upcoming UFA David Desharnais. He will probably go for a sixth or seventh rounder and that’s fine by me.

I obviously have no sources or inside information on this, but my gut tells me that J.T. Miller is traded, too. Just throwing that out there…