Isn't Miro a natural RW? Though I've not really seen much from him other than husttle and good hockey sense, I'd hate to lose him, especially to the Rags.
He is listed on the Caps site as a LW. I know the team has been shuttling a few guys back and forth between LW and RW because of their shortage of dedicated RW'ers. In fact, Protas was a RW when he moved up to L1, though there was also some scuttlebutt about Ovie at RW sometimes. Whether that was an effort to get Protas time at LW or whatever, I do not know.
With regard to reservations that people have about giving up particular young players, I understand that. But the price for a guy like this is going to be high. I'd like to think that, say, Lapierre and TVR could get it done, but I doubt it. The alternative, which the Rangers MAY be looking for, for all I know, is draft picks. But they'd probably have to be high, because now the Caps look as though they could be a team whose picks would be toward the end of the round.
All of this is why I asked the question at the end of my original post - is the Caps' performance thus far sufficient to justify a move like this? It isn't an easy call - the bloom COULD come off the rose as the season progresses. There are some players who have broken out or are playing over their career-established heads right now, and we could definitely see regression later in the season.
The other factor to take into account is that, while Lindgren and Thompson have been OK in goal so far, they haven't shown themselves to be elite. But I think, in no small reason because of their cost, we ARE going to ride with them this year unless/until injury strikes, and even in that event, we may just bring up one of the Hershey goalies to fill in. Is THAT a good enough enough tandem to consider making what would look to be a pretty big move with some risk at this point? We all know of conditions where a good team runs into elite goaltending and gets knocked out. To this point, signs are that we can't expect to be the team with elite playoff goaltending.
