Much, much, much more than anybody predicted. I was hoping for a 4th rounder. Georgiev was going to become an UFA on July 13, no doubt. There is no way Drury would qualify Georgiev at $2.65M because Georgiev would almost certainly accept it. The Rangers can’t afford a backup for that money.
Drury did exceptionally well. Except Sakic is no slouch. He wins a lot of trades, and just finished building a SC Champion. Still, two thirds and a fifth is a lot. So there is something we don’t know yet. Sakic absolutely has an idea of what Georgiev would want. A few possibilities there. One, there is a contract coming soon. Two, both Sakic and Georgiev are comfortable with $2.65M number, play this year and see how this works for the future. Three, maybe Georgiev is a part of a bigger trade that Sakic is working on.
Regardless, nobody gives up 3 picks for a player who’d become an UFA in less than a week. Something is already in place.
I’m not doing Go Time for the Draft tonight. Baring a significant trade, the Rangers aren’t doing anything until around noon tomorrow.
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We were at the Frozen Four in Detroit in 2010. It was BC vs. Wisconsin. Kreider goes in on a breakaway and Stepan tries to catch. It didn’t end well for Stepan. Kreider scored and Stepan lost it, crashed into the end boards and left on a stretcher. McD was also in that game.
Another option at back-up goalie?https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1546600607900991488?t=6r_OvGRmy3dO8GGaO9De1Q&s=19
LA not interested in keeping Brendan Lemieux. Didn’t make a Q.O.
Coos,
As Groucho Marx said in Night at the Opera: “like a prince! Of course he won’t be able to afford to eat..but he can live like a prince”
Pitt not keeping Heinen …cheap grit that can score a little
Heinen was a Ranger killer for the Pens. He was one of the reasons the Bruins fired Cassidy. He couldn’t develop young players. Neither could Sully. Maybe the GM had something to so with it too. Good bottom 6 guy at the right price.
Rangers can’t afford Samsonov. He won’t be on the clearance rack.
Ok folks, going farther off the grid for a few days…see you late Wednesday or Thursday.
Be good to each other and LGR!!!
Good use of ‘farther.’ Farther/Further almost always used incorrectly.
Yawn…
Very interesting that both Friedman and Serravelli on their podcast, say that’s the Rangers will be going hard after Kadri. Both say in the 8 range for him. Another shoe would have to drop for that to happen. Also, Serravelli thinks Copp is going to get 6×6. 8 to 10 teams in on him. Said those teams are considered contenders to win.
Malkin Marionette for sale.
No strings attached.
We’re getting Malkin, Kane, Kadri. Give us the cup now!
Good morning, boneheads!
Just to remind you, this is what’s happening today:
▪ Restricted Free Agents may make contact with Clubs (including
their own) regarding potential interest, but may not sign new
SPCs or Offer Sheets until the opening of RFA/UFA Signing
Period
▪ First Buy-Out Period Ends (5:00 p.m. New York Time)
▪ Club’s ability to offer own potential UFA an eight (8) year SPC
expires (11:59 p.m. New York Time)
I don’t doubt the Rangers are going to go after Kadri. I’m just not sure $8M AAV, for what is likely to be a 7 year term, is something they can afford to commit to. I think they’ll go after Trocheck if Kadri attempt falls through
Kadri would look very good behind Zibanejad. At least on paper. Brings a lot of what they need in #2 center
Maybe Drury kicks the tires on Dvorak again… Maybe MTL will move him with Dach trade …would Kravstov and Hajek be enough?
Both of the seem pretty certain the Rangers are going after Kadri.
Trochek to Pitt, is the general thinking.
Malkin rumored to go to another team with cap problems, Florida. He lives there year round.
BobbyO,
It sounds like Drury is going big, at the 2C spot. Dvorak does not fit that.
Post Sports+ – Inside The Rangers
Kevin Shattenkirk and the scars that remain from the most damaging free-agent deals in Rangers history.
There had never been a free-agent signing season like it, and for the sake of all those invested emotionally or otherwise with the Rangers, there will never be a 1999 again.
For that was the summer following Wayne Gretzky’s retirement with the Blueshirts. The franchise had missed the playoffs for the second straight time after having qualified for the tournament eight of the previous nine years and 18 of the previous 20.
The Ranger$ pledged to splurge, and they did, signing an entire prospective starting lineup of free agents featuring goaltender Kirk McLean; defensemen Stephane Quintal and Sylvain Lefebvre; left wing Val Kamensky; center Tim Taylor; and last but hardly least, Theo Fleury, who never, ever had the slightest interest in coming east until he received a legal bribe of $21 million over three years.
“Were there any other competitive offers?” I asked Fleury when he signed.
“Not really,” he said.
The Blueshirts committed $67 million in non-buyout guaranteed money to the sextet, not one of whom would play so much as a single postseason match for the club.
“I understand that teams around the league would like to see us crash,” then-Garden president Dave Checketts told me following the free-agent spree. “There’s no question about that. But that’s the nature of being in New York, anyway. People around the country hate the Yankees; the NBA would like to see the Knicks crash. I can live with that. That doesn’t concern me.
“What concerns me is our fans, who renewed their season tickets at a record 97 percent this summer. We’re not in Ottawa or Quebec, where they can stockpile high draft choices through one losing season after another.
“We can’t do that in New York.”
That was almost two decades before The Letter started a rebuild in 2018 that paved the path toward this season’s breakout.
There was no NHL salary cap at the time — that would not come until the NHL broke the NHLPA during the, ahem, negotiations, lockout and canceled season of 2004-05. Swings and misses on the open market did not carry the consequences for poor decisions that would accrue under the hard cap.
Fleury was not the first mercenary to accept a hefty sum to come to sign with the Rangers despite previously having expressed zero interest in living a New York lifestyle. That dubious honor belonged to Mike Keane, who signed a four-year deal worth $2 million per in 1997 after earning $700,000 his final year with the Avalanche.
Keane was out of place. His only memorable moment as a Ranger came when he inadvertently concussed teammate Pat LaFontaine in a mid-ice collision during a match on March 16, 1998, at the Garden. LaFontaine never played again.
But the Rangers were able to trade Keane — and fellow misplaced 1997 free-agent signee Brian Skrudland — to Dallas in exchange for Heartbeat Todd Harvey at the 1998 deadline. Thus, no long-term harm (other than to LaFontaine).
And so while signing Fleury or Kamensky or Keane, or someone such as Scott Fraser in 1998 or Vladimir Malakhov in 2000 (four years, $14 million!) were dreadful mistakes, they could be scrubbed from the books without future ramifications.
That was obviously not so with the adoption of the hard cap, under which mistakes would be ruthlessly punished under the CBA. That is why the 2017 free-agent signing of Kevin Shattenkirk to a four-year, $26 million deal was so much more damaging than, say, signing Bobby Holik to his five-year, $45 million contract in 2002. Ignore the fact that the Rangers completely misused Holik, expecting the league’s most feared checking center to morph into a first-liner simply by dint of how much he was being paid. Ignore the fact that Holik somehow led the Rangers with 25 goals in his second and final season with the club in 2003-04.
Even if you point the finger at Holik, it ultimately cost the Rangers nothing more than money when they were able to use an amnesty buyout on No. 16 after the hard cap had been codified into NHL law. The team moved on, and so did Holik. But in order to extricate themselves from Shattenkirk’s contract in 2019 after the defenseman’s second season in New York, the Rangers were hit with four years of dead space charges on No. 22, including the whopping $6,083,333 in 2020-21.
That final stomach punch makes it perhaps the most damaging free-agent signing in franchise history, much worse than the objectively odious seven-year, $51.5 million deal awarded to Scott Gomez in 2007.
For not only was Gomez one of the club’s three best players (with Jaromir Jagr and Sean Avery) in the 2008 first-round victory over the Devils, but the Rangers were able to acquire Ryan McDonagh, for goodness sakes, as part of the exchange for the center after 2008-09.
Bad signing.
Great outcome.
That can’t be said about the two-year, $8 million deal handed to Dan Boyle following the 2014 run to the Cup final. As a one-off, Boyle doesn’t qualify as one of the team’s worst free-agent decisions.
But the deal was not made in a vacuum, for then-GM Glen Sather signed Boyle instead of retaining outgoing free agent Anton Stralman, who had been an integral part of the Cup run as Marc Staal’s right-side partner.
So it wasn’t just the presence of Boyle, who never fit into then-head coach Alain Vigneault’s Point A-to-Point B system and wound up being scratched for what would be his final game on an NHL roster — the elimination Game 5 of the 2016 first round against the Penguins for which the Blueshirts dressed seven defensemen, including Dylan McIlrath and Rafael Diaz — that made the move one of the team’s worst.
It was that Boyle played instead of Stralman.
And even if the front-loaded, nine-year, $60 million deal signed in 2011 by Brad Richards became a bit of boondoggle, the Blueshirts went to one Cup final and one conference final in No. 19’s three seasons in New York before he was on the end of an amnesty buyout.
The Rangers won’t be diving into the deep end of the free-agent pool when the bell rings at noon on Wednesday this year. They won’t create the tsunami they did three years ago in signing Artemi Panarin to a seven-year, $81.5 million deal that has paid off for both the winger and the organization.
There will be nothing akin to the five-year, $37.5 million signing of Marian Gaborik in 2009 that, by the way, was made possible by clearing Gomez’s cap hit off the ledger two days before (thanks again are owed to the Canadiens).
Rangers GM Chris Drury instead will be seeking to find role players who might be under the radar when they hit the open market. Drury will be looking to see whether he can replicate the value the organization received from then-GM Jeff Gorton’s 2020 signing of Kevin Rooney to a two-year deal for an AAV of $750,000.
Drury will be searching for the kind of bargain Michael Grabner became after signing a two-year deal for an annual cap hit of $1.65 million in 2016.
By the way, you know the best part of having negligible cap space entering free agency? It eliminates the chance of making a Shattenkirk-like mistake.
After going through more than a few poor decisions ahead of a period in which the Blueshirts won’t make an historically bad one, let’s instead end on a happy note and rank the Rangers’ best free-agent signings:
1. Wayne Gretzky, 1996: 2 years, $8 million including option
2. Artemi Panarin, 2019: 7 years, $81.5 million
3. Marian Gaborik, 2009: 5 years, $37.5 million
4. Brendan Shanahan, 2006: 1 year, $4 million
5. Michael Nylander, 2004: 3 years, $8.9 million
6. Martin Straka, 2005: 1 year, $3.1 million
7. Michal Rozsival, 2004: 1 year, $703,000
8. Benoit Pouliot, 2013: 1 year, $1.3 million
9. Michael Grabner, 2016: 2 years, $3.3 million
10. Dominic Moore, 2013: 1 year, $1 million
BDL Dvorak would be a solid add,…..versatile and can win face offs…plus a nice contract
Didn’t say he wouldn’t be. Just that the insiders are saying they are going big.
How big can they go with the cap space they have ?
thanks for the article 3CP
Basically Brooks is saying, the Kadri stuff is not true. The insiders are saying it is. Agents have been known to throw the Rangers name out there to boost their guys number. One thing we have learned for sure about Drury is, he does not let information out about his plans, so I’m sure the insiders information is coming from the Kadri camp.
Looks like Hajek signed for $800K (less than QO), but i’s one-way. One year contract.
Did Nemeth get put on waivers yesterday? If not, does that mean he’s not getting bought out today?
Drury has time to worry about the cap hit of whichever UFA he signs for 2C. Just because this blog has been losing sleep over that concept for 2.5 years doesn’t mean his plan was ever going to be any different lol
Tom- not sure on Nemeth I think I read they’re trying their best to move him to avoid a buyout so they may wait until the second window if there is one(?)
July 12 UPDATE: The Rangers might sign back Strome. Or they may try to keep Copp. They might let both walk in free agency. They may persue a UFA center. Nemeth might get traded or bought out. And Gauthier re-signed….
:sigh:
Hajek may not be a PP qb and he may not play like he’s a WWE wrestler but I really have no problem with them keeping him around for depth. I trust him in his zone more than I trust Zac Jones that’s for sure.
BDL the Kadri stuff isn’t true because it messes with Brooks’ idea about them putting Patrick Kane in the top 6.
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Larry will be writing about Toews next
If he’s motivated, and his heart is in it, Towes is the guy to get as the stop gap. Those are big ifs, I know that. But he would be cheap in assets, and you could probably get the Hawks to do 50%.
I don’t think Toewes legs would be in it
I miss Shattenkirk.
MotZ getting bought out.
JamesG- The second window buyout will only open if the Rangers have any arbitration filing(s). Regardless, Nemeth wouldn’t be eligible for a second window buyout because his Cap hit is less than $4M
Vince clarifies my Nemeth question.
Unless Drury has a trade in place for Nemeth, was it really the right move to not buy him out?
Nemeth buyout didn’t make a whole lot of sense, at least not for this season, since the cap savings would only be 1.5M as opposed to burying him for 1.125M and not having future impacts. Would help specifically next season, but they can probably move him before then.
Ilb,
Have you read Brooks latest, and is what he is suggesting realistic?
My son who lives in Chicago and follows the Hawks says the rumor or back story is that Toews is suffering from long COVID but refuses to even admit he had COVID and that it resulted in him missing a season. He looks like Mika when he came back from COVID, but has never gotten his jump back. He’s not the same player. A Hossa style retirement may be in his future. OTOH it could be like MJ’s baseball experiment being a gambling suspension. Just a Chitown urban legend.
Not popular with fans but maybe Drury keeps Nemeth and shops at the 5 and dime
BDL, just read it. It’s realistic in theory. I just think that it would involve Kakko ++. And because of that, I wouldn’t do it.
I actually believe that Nemeth will bounce back, but Drury needs cap relief. Trading him,(and obviously selling really low), is the first place to gain some cap relief. If he’s not part of a bigger deal for a center, I’ll bet Yzerman takes him back with a sweetener.
I wouldn’t do it because 6-7 year contracts for 31 year olds are a really bad idea, even at half price, and even more when you are emptying the cupboard to make it happen
Ilb,
Follow up question, do you think Brooks thought of this all by himself, or did someone whisper in his ear?
Don’t know, BDL. Brooks is certainly capable of coming up with out of left field ideas. But because he isolated Kakko from the rest of possible untouchables and spent extra time on discussing him as a possible blue chip in Kadri trade, it’s quite possible this idea came from somewhere else.
One thing I disagree with him. I wouldn’t be so attached to the next year first rounder. With Kadri in the lineup it isn’t going to be much better that this year’s. Getting Kadri is clearly seriously going for it next year, so all hands on deck.
Next year’s draft is expected to be pretty deep, so I would only trade the first if they can make it count.
Also. You may need the first rounder for being a buyer at the trade deadline
If that’s what it costs to have Kadri here for $3.5M-$4M and it also protects Kakko from being traded, I wouldn’t hesitate. I don’t know if you can get anyone better than Kadri for late first rounder next deadline.
If not Kadri, I wouldn’t be surprised if Strome came back after having dipping his toes into the market.
There was no way Talbot was staying in MN and Guerrin needed as much cap relief as be could get.
Thank you for deleting the political post…. Nobody needs to see that sh*t when this place, for many, is a break from the daily stresses of life….
Still think we could get Samsonov.
I use his brand of luggage.
“Iltalehti” journalist Markku Jokisipilya spoke about the problems of the Russian Minnesota Wild forward Kirill Kaprizov, goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov, and also commented on the situation of a number of other Russian hockey players who. are awaiting a hearing on charges of giving a bribe.
“This is just a small piece of the big picture. The merits, titles and achievements of Russian athletes now mean absolutely nothing. Now anything can happen. Known players are just one of those groups that found it easier to evade military duties.
They developed various schemes so that they could not do military service. But hundreds of hockey players could be in danger – only a few were singled out in order to have an exponential intimidation story, ”Iltalehti quoted Jokisipil as saying.
Consequences are coming. Feel for CCCP.
Where is Kravtsov? I keep expecting to see his name pop up in one of these articles.
ORF,
He’s spending his summer vacation in Hartford…. LOL
Not sure how much interest Samsonov will generate but why would he want to back up Shesty? He’ll get 20 games and no shot at being a #1.
Oh! I just at his numbers. He has really tailed off since his rookie year. He may need to reset his game. Benny might help him. Also Caps don’t have a goalie on their roster yet.
I hope he’s not summering near the Black Sea.
I’m sure it’s already been brought up but we might have a new fourth line center since Brett Howden wasn’t qualified🤣🤣🤣
Johnny Hockey is leaving Calgary. Probably headed for the Metropolitan division. And probably not his favorite team in Philadelphia because they don’t have the cap room while continuing to pay JVR >7MM per.
ORF- My thoughts exactly re: Samsonov’s numbers last year, getting him cheap and Allaire helping him find his game.
TYM,
Johnny hockey also apparently leaving an 8 year 80+ million dollar offer from Calgary on the table to go ufa. Not about money for him
Before people get all antsy in the pantsy about which Ranger rival is getting that guy can we at least keep it in perspective that he will go where he thinks he will win and spare some of us the “oh the pain!!” Crap ? Thanks
Delilah could get Samsonov.
Gonna be interesting if we see more prominent players signing FA contracts in states this year
Will we have a fresh free agent frenzy post tomorrow morning ILB?
TYM,
I’m sure that’s the plan. ILB is old but he’s not that forgetful yet!
Bobby I think this will be similar to the year that those horrible contracts got handed out to Ladd, Backes, Okposo etc. Tomorrow will take a handful of the “names” off the board and things will be quiet but progress from there.
Very few top teams have a ton of money to spend so if it’s about winning you may see some of those ‘home team discounts’ we talk about so much around the league.
Honesty I have no idea what Drury will do and I’m sure as always there are multiple scenarios that can play out. But with that said I don’t see Kadri or Malkin coming here. It will be nice to have some answers- that’s for sure.
Malkin re-signing in Pittsburgh.
Are you kids ready for a brand new shiny toy papa Drury gonna get for us tomorrow?
$24.4 million dollars over 4 years for Malkin. A guy who basically got no knees anymore.
Drury isn’t Sather. Not just looking for the next shiny toy. Not Gorton either who buried his head in the sand and said “I don’t know what to do so I’ll extend what I have and tell everyone we like our team.” Drury trying to build a cup winner. Might not have our 2c tomorrow, but if we don’t we’ll at least have a rental at the deadline.
So much for the Russian contingent on the second line….
Looks like Skidney put his foot down in Pittsburgh. Good. Safer for Malkin to be in Pittsburgh.
Other than Nemeth, I’m quite happy with Drury’s body of work so far. I trust him to do what’s right. He’s not going to make a splash just to make a splash. Yes, it may irritate the crap out of us fans bc we’re all about instant gratification, but good things come to those who wait sometimes.
Sounds like it’s Trocheck.
BDL,
Molly’s article this morning made me chuckle because it’s three guys I’ve had a preference for at different times.
I’d be fine with those additions
What’s a good over /under on games played for Malkin over four years?
I’ll put it at 120…
James,
Friedman has Trocheck to the Rangers as the most likely result.
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