Rumors surrounding the New York
Rangers are coming fast and furious this morning. Some of the rumors concern what the Rangers
will do before the trade deadline, but others concern what will happen with the
team this summer and how it will impact next year’s cap situation. Since there are so many here are the deadline ones first.
Concerning the trade deadline:
Pierre LeBrun at ESPN
writes that the Rangers are definitely in on Bryan McCabe, but that the
Panthers are hoping the Kaberle deal set the market for McCabe and that the
Rangers do not want to approach that price tag for the Florida veteran. McCabe returned to the lineup last night,
after being out with a broken jaw, and would be a very good veteran addition to
the team, but not at anything near the Kaberle cost. The highest I would probably go McCabe is
similar to what Brewer got, possibly our extra second and Gilroy. The toughness, experience, ability to run a
power play and big shot make Bryan a very attractive target, but price is key.
In the New
York Post, Larry Brooks writes that it is unlikely the Rangers will claim
Souray. Hopefully this is right as the Souray
was put on re-entry waivers yesterday with Edmonton hoping that a team
looking for power play help would panic and bite on him.
Over at the Ottawa
Sun, Bruce Garrioch jumps on the
idea that Larry Brooks floated earlier this week in the Rangers interest in
Senators defender Filip Kuba. I hate
this idea the more I think about it, but here
is the original report from Brooks and my thoughts on the move. Garrioch also chimes in on the Rangers and their own defenseman Matt Gilroy saying..
New York doesn’t have any veteran blueliners and has been trying to move D Matt Gilroy all season.
Also, last night Jesse
Spector of the New York Daily News passed along a report that had multiple
sources claiming the Rangers have interest in Ottawa forward Chris Neil.
