Newly sigend Ranger Marian Gaborik has spent his entire career, up until last week, with the Minnesota Wild.

Obviously Gaborik wanted to talk about his time with Minnesota and did so with Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Gaborik on Minnesota:

I’ve been here for nine years,” he said. “I just wanted to say a few things. I felt I owed it to the community and the people here to say thanks to all the fans that have been unbelievable through the years.

“The building was sold out every game, and the people, in general, were always nice. I wanted to thank my teammates I played with through the years, and the coaching staff, and the whole organization that pretty much brought me here and made me part of their family. I wanted to thank the ownership, too, and Mr. [Craig] Leipold and everyone.”

Gaborik didn’t buy a house in Vancouver, as was widely reported, and never recieved an offer to stay with the Wild.

“I had no decision to make in order to stay here because I haven’t gotten any offers under the new era of management,” Gaborik said. “So I had no decision to make. Now I’m a Ranger and I’m excited about that.”

On the Rangers and NYC:

“They were there right away,” he said. “If you feel that somebody is that interested, then you give them a lot of consideration, and they were the favorite from the get-go.

“I haven’t played there that often, but when I have played there, just Madison Square Garden and the city overall, it’s amazing, something special. It’s going to be something new for me and I’m looking forward to that.”

The more and more I think about it, I am excited for the Marian Gaborik era to start. He obviously had deep feelings for Minnesota and the Wild organization and hopefully over his next five seasons in New York he can get those same type of feelins.