Friday, July 04, 2008

Manhattan Revolving Door Just Spins And Spins

If you're an NHL fan, and especially if you're a New York Rangers fan - like your Humble Blogger - then this is the time of the year when you realize: you probably aren't even going to recognize your team, come October!

In the case of the Rangers:

Jagr is out (gone to play in Russia for a ton of rubles)

Wade Redden is in (6-year contract, $39 million... are they crazy?)

Avery is out (off to Dallas and the Western Conference; good riddance, I say)

Markus Naslund is in (2-year, $8 million contract)

Fritsche and Zherdev come over from Columbus in exchange for Tyutin and Backman (at least the four players won't have to get used to drastically different jerseys!)

Defenseman Dmitri Kalinin is in (most recently with Buffalo)

Straka and Shanahan are unrestricted free agents and thus probably headed elsewhere (unless I've already missed them signing with other teams)

I just have to hope that the new additions, along with Drury, Gomez, Lundqvist and the others who still remain from last year's Conference Semi-Final run, can come together to form a team to be reckoned with. Or maybe Slats has more wheeling and dealing yet to do before the start of the 2008/09 season...

1 comment:

Boneman8 said...

You mean Sean Avery...Steve Avery sounds very familiar to me...maybe a ball player?