It’s apparent that Glen Sather has something up his sleeve. What that is only time will tell. For the Rangers, today meant ridding themselves of Scott Gomez and his monster hit on the cap and adding two players they hope are long-term players in Chris Higgins and Ryan McDonagh. Higgins, a three-time goal scorer, and [...]
Be sure to keep it here all day for coverage of the first day of free agency.
I will be at the NHL studios with EJ Hradek and Rob Simpson on NHL Live! — I will be Twittering all afternoon and will be hitting the blog as well. Come tomorrow, our generic SNYRangersblog Twitter feed and [...]
Ninth Update July 2: Heatley did not waive his no movement clause and is still property of the Ottawa Senators. The Senators have paid the $4 million bonus. Heatley apparently preferred the Rangers of San Jose Sharks as destinations.
This is just messed up. Have a feeling that LA will finally make their move and trade [...]
As previously mentioned, the Rangers acquired defenseman Ryan McDonagh as part of the trade that sent Scott Gomez to Montreal.
McDonagh was Montreal’s first pick in 2007 at number 12 and was ranked as their top prospect.
Hockey’s Future also had McDonagh ranked as the 18th best NHL prospect:
McDonagh is the Canadiens top prospect. A first-round draft [...]
The Calgary Flames have signed defenseman Jay Bouwmeester to a five year deal worth $6.6 million per season.
The Flames acquired the rights to Bouwmeester on Saturday in a deal where they sent Jordan Leopold and a third rounder to Florida.
Good move for Flames as their move to acquire JayBo’s rights payed off. They didn’t give [...]
Fifth Update: Carp, who first said that the Dany Heatley deal would happen tonight, has backed off that statement.
Now it sounds as if the Rangers are done for the night—I was wondering why they had the Glen Sather conference call so early. And if they are done for the night, that probably means they are [...]
Michael Obernauer of the Daily News speculates about how the Rangers may have an advantage over the Sens in the possibility of a Dany Heatley trade. If Heatley isn’t traded today, the Sens will have to pay him $4.0 million owed to him in his contract. They are desperately trying to avoid that — so [...]
Steve Zipay is reporting that the Rangers have extended qualifying offers to Dane Byers and Greg Moore.
He also reports that defenseman Vladimir Denisov and center Joe Barnes were not tendered making them free agents.
Byers is a very interesting canidate to fill a spot on the fourth line next season. He missed most of last season [...]
Beyond The Blueshirts has an interesting piece today on KHL team Atlant Mytishchi making it known that they want to sign Rangers RFA Nikolai Zherdev.
One of the assistant coaches on the team is a former one of Zherdev’s who had this to say:
The Rangers know about Zherdev’s possible departure for the KHL. The management [...]
Want to give a few predictions on where a few of the top free agents will land. Tough to give numbers, but I will try.
Marian Hossa: Red Wings – 7 years/$52 million
Mike Cammalleri: Capitals – 5 years/ $33 million
Sedin Twins: Maple Leafs – 8 years/ $63 million
Marian Gaborik: Wild – 1 year/ $6.5 million
Nik Antropov: [...]
