The Rangers have been eliminated from the 2013 playoffs by the Boston Bruins in game 5 of their series. After the expectations were cup, there will be major changes, the Rangers will most likely fire head coach John Tortorella and buyout Brad Richards, who they signed in the 2011 offseason on a 9 year, $60 million contract,he is currently in year 2 of that deal. Needless to say he has not been living up to that deal. In my opinion, the Rangers should sign Ryan Clowe to a 2 or 3 year deal, for about 10,000,000 per year. They should also sign Jaromir Jagr to a 1 year deal worth $52,000 or the veterans minimum, and Jarome Inginla, to a $20,000,000 contract, for 3 years. In the draft they should try to pick up Max Domi son of former NHL enforcer Tie Domi. Instead of buying him out the Rangers should trade Brad Richards to (in my crazy completely not true wishful thinking mind) the Colorado Avalanche for Seth Jones, but in reality they should maybe trade him for a 2nd or 3rd round pick and maybe a prospect from somewhere. However, I have now realized the entire article I have been neglecting the salary cap, the Rangers only have $13,555,833 in salary cap space, and after playing around with capgeek’s salary cap calculator the salary cap space is only 7,826,131. That is after I resigned, Carl Hagelin, Mats Zucarello, Ryan Clowe, Derek Stepan, and Ryan Mcdonaugh. I also signed Bobby Ryan, called up JT Miller, Dylan Mcilrath and Ryan Bourque, who is the son of Hall of Famer Ray Bourque. I also traded Aaron Asham and demoted Michael Del Zotto. So after all of that the Rangers would have $9,751,131 in salary cap space. The Rangers NEED to free up more than 9,751,131 in cap space because Henrik Lundqvist, Brian Boyle, Ryan Callahan, Darrell Powe, Michael Del Zotto, Marty Biron, Ryan Bourque, Stu Bickel, Anton Stralman and Dan Girardi are all free agents, and they will all demand top dollar. I think the Rangers can get Lundqvist and Callahan cheap, because they like being rangers and for the better of the team will sign cheap, but Del Zotto is probably going to demand top 5 defensmen money, and so is Dan Girardi, I would be fine with letting Bickel go, but we need Biron. Marty Biron, is a starting NHL goaltender who is just behind one of the best goalies in the NHL. They should resign Bourque too, who will probably ask for a few million dollars, depending on how he plays next year and if he is called up or not etc… As well, Malkin is a free agent and he is going to demand lots of money and the Sedins’ will as well, and Stasny will probably demand upwards of $15,000,000. I truly believe the Rangers will not win a cup unless something serious happens aka James Dolan sells the team, I understand that will not happen but I would love for it to happen.
No comments:
Post a Comment