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Posted: Jul 3rd 2009 12:10 PM ET by Kevin Schultz (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Rangers, NHL Free Agency

Ah yes, another July 1 passes and the Rangers make another splash in the free agent market. This year they signed the oft-injured and cranky
Marian Gaborik to a five-year deal worth $37.5 million, and tough guy
Donald Brashear for two years and $2.8 million. Also, former big July 1 signing,
Scott Gomez, was shipped off to Montreal in a seven player deal that brought back forward Chris Higgins, among others.
But will all the superstar swaps and signings pay off for the Rangers? They've made similar moves for the past two years and have a grand total of eight playoff wins and a mid-season coaching change to show for it. So is this summer different, or are the Rangers sticking to the same big money strategy that has failed them before?
Posted: Jul 1st 2009 8:40 PM ET by Bruce Ciskie (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Rangers, Wild, Eastern, Western

When
Marian Gaborik turned down a ten-year, $78 million offer from the Wild last summer, it was clearly not just about the money.
After all, a $7.8 million annual average was about as much as he could possibly hope to earn, especially if he got a ten-year deal. Instead, this was about a fresh start for Gaborik. That fresh start will happen in New York, after Gaborik
agreed to a five-year deal with the Rangers Wednesday evening.
Posted: Jun 30th 2009 5:30 PM ET by Adam Gretz (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Canadiens, Rangers

Give Rangers general manager Glen Sather credit; he found somebody to take on one of the team's ugly contracts when he sent
Scott Gomez to the Montreal Canadiens for
Chris Higgins, Doug Janik, Ryan McDonagh and Pavel Valentenko on Tuesday afternoon. Gomez, 29, signed a seven-year, $51 million deal with the Rangers prior to the 2007-08 season, and the signing proved to be a mistake from the very beginning.
Posted: Jun 23rd 2009 12:00 PM ET by Kevin Schultz (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Devils, Flyers, Islanders, Penguins, Rangers, NHL Free Agency
It's officially the offseason, meaning the time is right to look into the future. We continue our division-by-division preview of the potential wheeling and dealing with the Atlantic Division. It will be an interesting summer for the five teams in the Atlantic. Four teams made the playoffs, including the eventual Stanley Cup champion, and the one team that didn't make it -- the New York Islanders -- holds the first pick in Friday's draft, which isn't a bad consolation prize. All around it was a pretty successful season for these five teams.
Posted: Jun 18th 2009 3:30 PM ET by Bruce Ciskie (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Canadiens, Rangers, Senators, Red Wings, NHL Awards
The real NHL awards will be handed out Thursday night in Las Vegas, so FanHouse decided to hand out its own special awards for the 2008-09 season. It takes a special player to get paid a lot of money. In the salary cap era, you expect guys who are signed to big-money deals to produce. When they disappear into the Witness Protection Program, it's usually a notable occurrence. With that said, we present nominees for the 2008-2009 Witness Protection Award, and boy do we have some options to pick from.
Posted: May 9th 2009 11:32 PM ET by Eric McErlain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Capitals, Rangers, NHL Press Box

Just a few minutes ago as he sat at a podium following his team's
4-3 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, it was obvious that Washington Capitals head coach
Bruce Boudreau was more angry than heartbroken.
Who could blame him? Washington, a team that got two goals from the best player in the world,
Alex Ovechkin, had played its most complete game of the series, yet still couldn't find a way to win.
In the end, this game turned on two sequences on either end of the ice in the overtime period. The first came early in the period when Washington center Dave Steckel, one of his team's more consistent performers, couldn't put the puck into an open net early. The second came just a few minutes later, as an
Evgeni Malkin pass intended for Sidney Crosby deflected off the stick of sprawling Capitals defenseman Tom Poti and through the legs of a stunned Simeon Varlamov.
Posted: May 3rd 2009 2:05 PM ET by Tom Mantzouranis (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Rangers
Markus Naslund, at one point earlier in the decade an elite winger, has decided to retire. Naslund would be entering the last year of a two-year, $8 million contract with the Rangers in a five-year point decline that saw him disappointingly put up 46 in New York in 2008-09. Unable to keep up with
John Tortorella's fast-paced scheme, Naslund could have forced the Rangers to buy out his deal and pocket some money, but he chose to retire outright instead.
[New York Post]