The New York Rangers, desperately trying to find solutions to what is increasingly becoming a nightmare season, make their second trade of the last 20 days.

Trading Jacob Trouba was a necessary move in the big picture, but it did not solve monumental problems on defense. They hope right-handed defenseman Will Borgen can help.

Meanwhile, Seattle is also out of the playoff picture. They may not have the hysteria currently present in New York, but this is a team that needs to change its makeup and inject some youth at forward.

Is this trade likely to help the Rangers turn things around? What can Seattle realistically expect from Kakko after he failed to live up to the hype in New York?

Here are trade grades for both the Rangers and Kraken.

New York Rangers

The New York Rangers' problems right now are well-documented.

They're playing atrocious hockey and, if the season ended today, wouldn't be a playoff team. But the real story has been very public discontent within the organization.

Kaapo Kakko's recent complaints about being a healthy scratch were only the latest installation in a season-long melodrama.

With a team needing wholesale change, it's no surprise that they moved on from the disgruntled winger.

The reality is that these developments only expedited the inevitable. Kakko was due for another contract in the summer and the organization is stocked with young wingers on the up-and-up. Gabe Perreault, Brennan Othmann and Brett Berard will all be fighting for full-time NHL status next season, with Adam Sýkora not far behind. They'll need cheap, young players to fill up the lineup as they attempt to find more expensive solutions to problems on defense and maybe at center.

So on that front, the Rangers made a reasonable assessment of the state of the organization and team needs.

Here's the problem.

It feels like Kakko has been around forever but he is still just 23. There are players just breaking through at that age. Even if the Finnish winger has plateaued in his development, he is a 45-point winger with a strong defensive presence and could be a capable NHLer for the next decade. That's a valuable player in the NHL landscape.

And what do the Rangers have to show for it?

When Will Borgen is on his game, he can be a useful defenseman. He brings little offense, but the 6'3" Minnesota native is a good skater for his size. He can retrieve pucks and find exits out of the defensive zone. He's a decent enough defender against the rush, a glaring weakness for the Rangers. At his best, Borgen is a shutdown third-pairing defenseman.

But Borgen has been very poor for Seattle this season. Statistically, the righty has been one of the worst defensemen in the NHL in all facets: offensive, defensive, and overall impacts. It's possible the Rangers just made their defense even worse.

The Rangers are betting that Borgen wasn't a fit for new head coach Dan Bylsma's systems, but to what end? Even if he figures it out in New York, it will be as a third-pairing defenseman who becomes an unrestricted free agent in six months.

Ignore Kakko's history as a second-overall pick. The Rangers traded a young middle-six winger who plays a 200-foot game in return for spare parts. It's hard to see how, even in the best-case scenario, this does much of anything to change the trajectory of their season while offering little in the way of long-term help.

Grade: C-

Seattle Kraken

Let's get this out of the way; Kaapo Kakko has not lived up to second-overall billing and never will. He has work to do to even cement a spot in the top-15 of a 2019 redraft.

Once all expectations are decoupled from that history, it's easy to appreciate what the Finnish winger brings to the table. For most of this season, Kakko was an important part of the team's best line. He has great defensive habits to take away lanes and win pucks. He is extremely strong around the walls, holding pucks forever and extending offensive-zone cycles.

With the combination of size, instincts, and work ethic, Kakko is phenomenal at making plays all over the ice to tilt play in his team's favor.

What hasn't developed for Kakko since his days in Finland are his hands. It takes him too long to process play and get the puck off his stick, whether that's an extra delay in his shooting motion or a struggle to beat a defender in open ice.

He is just 23 years old, though, and he probably was impacted a lot by expectations that he inherited as a foreign teenager in the New York market. Maybe Seattle can unlock more in his game. Maybe Kakko will find his way and become a 50-point top-six winger. If he does, it's a steal for Seattle.

Even if not, one can safely project Kakko as a fixture on the Kraken third line for the next five seasons. The price for that type of player is typically much more than third- and sixth-round picks plus a depth defenseman who fell out of favor. Consider, for instance, that both Tanner Jeannot and Beck Malenstyn brought back second-round picks over the summer despite being far worse players.

Grade: A