It seems to be a foregone conclusion that Patrick Kane will be traded to the NY Rangers next week. The Rangers need to bank cap space to make it work, and they also need a third party to absorb 25% of Kane’s salary and cap hit. Any Patrick Kane trade to the Rangers is going to take time, not to work out details, but for the cap space to work. And this sequence of events needed starts today.
For the sake of this post, we are assuming Vitali Kravtsov is included in the Patrick Kane deal, and will not be moved prior.