The selection of Lias Andersson with the seventh overall pick of the 2017 draft turned some heads and drew intrigue at the time, but I never thought that 63 games into his NHL career that there would be speculation about trading him. But that’s the “dilemma” we find ourselves in.
Larry Brooks of the New York Post dropped a story after the Rangers’ 6-5 loss vs. the Florida Panthers, a contest in which Andersson skated 7:36 or just the third-fewest minutes of his 2019-20 season. Brooks’ overall premise is that Andersson finds himself below Mika Zibanejad, Filip Chytil, Ryan Strome, and Brett Howden on the depth chart, and at some point something is clearly going to give.