Will Borgen

But the reality is it wasn't, and he is going to hurt this team by being out of the lineup.

By having Will Borgen, Connor Clifton, Henry Okiharu potentially as your top three defensemen on the right side to begin the season is not ideal.

And hopefully he's able to come back in those remaining 78 games and be healthy and try to build off his career season last year where he had 61 points, a career high.

He said, "You wanna be 100%, you wanna help your team." They play all year long to get to the playoffs.

He was at captain's practice on Thursday, uh, informal practices.

David Pastrnak was off in Vegas at NHL media events, and, um, he does say [notification sound] he's going to learn, try to be a better person, try to be a better player, and ramp up for a delayed regular season debut.

With McAvoy out, Hampus Lindholm could play with Will Borgen to begin the season.

Uh, Connor Clifton moves up to RD2 alongside Nikita Zadorov possibly, while Henry Jokiharju slides into the third pair with Mason Lorey, if both of those guys are still around by that point.

And this is what we've kind of said was Sweeney's problem when he put the roster together in the first place.

Like, what are you doing with all these guys? Why did you sign Connor Clifton and then go out and trade for Will Borgen? Like, you already had a guy.

Like, why did you get another guy? Or, you know, just trade for Will Borgen and not sign Connor Clifton.

You didn't need it.

You had Frederick Brunet.

So last season, the defenseman with the most PK time.

Gavrikov, Schneider, Borgen, Soucy, Robertson.

Obviously, Borgen and Soucy not there this year.

Marcus Pedersen led all Vancouver players in PK time.

He's going to be a stalwart on the Rangers penalty kill.

And I think it's something that, once again, they don't want to have happen like we saw with Georgie Mirkova, with Fabian Laisel, Mason Lowry, Hampel, Sintoma, Nikita Zdorov.

A pretty solid left side of your defense there, and Charlie McEvoy, Will Borgen, and Henry Okiaru on the right side.

You have things locked down.

You're in a very good spot when it comes to that, but maybe you get a little bit more younger on the left side, whether that means moving Hampus Lindholm, moving Nikita Zdorov.

It's going to be Lindholm, McAvoy.

We'll do... you know, it's a door off Borgen and then, you know, how, whatever we want to do for the third pair, whether it's low rye or, or whatever.

Or do you say, you know what? He can handle the second pair.

We're going to put them with Will Borgen or we're going to put them with Mason low rye again and have Borgen be on the third pair.

Like.

there's a lot you can do with him and it's really going to be indicative of how good or not good he is.

They get Sean Durzi back i- in that trade.

They're able to trade Will Borgen.

Durzi brings an element, an offensive element that they maybe didn't-- they were lacking a little bit from defense.

They make the trade for Marcus Pettersson.

That is something they didn't have last year.

If you think about, okay, they had Gavrikov and Fox in the top unit.

The second unit was Carson Soucy and Will Borgen, neither of whom can be expected to give you much in the way of offense, even though Bor- Borgen had the same five goals that Durzi did.

They, it's not something that you would count on.

the second round pick in

27 got traded in the Borgen trade.

And the third round pick went to Columbus for the peak trade.

So now you're looking at, say you don't trade Zaka.