Friday, June 20, 2008
Rangers Free Agent and Draft News
Yesterday we said that the Rangers still had not offered Jagr a contract and now we know that the Rangers will NOT offer Jaromir Jagr, Sean Avery, Brendan Shanahan, Mich
al Rozsival, and Martin Straka a contract before July 1st. I do not mind getting rid of Shanny, Straka and Rozsival as Shanny has shown his age for a year and a half now, Rozsival is overrated and will get more than he deserves, and Straka is just not effective anymore. Jagr and Avery on the other hand are pretty importatnt to this team. Jagr turned his season around late last season and was the best player and well Avery is Avery that is enough said.
With Sean Avery wanting $3.5+ it is believed the Rangers will not sign him and let him go somewhere else possibly San Jose or Los Angeles and the Rangers will try and sign Darcy Tucker whos contract is supposed to be bought out soon. Another replacement would be newly signed Sweed Andreas Jämtin.
No where does Larry Brooks say that they will not be signed, but by not offering them a contract before July 1st makes it a very strong possibility. Especially Jagr and Avery.
Then there are two major draft trade rumors. The first one is:
New York Rangers trade:
Fedor Tyutin
Brandon Dubinsky
20th pick
51st pick
LA KINGS trade:
Mike Cammaleri
2nd pick in draft (most likely Nikita Filatov)
and the 2nd one
Rangers trade:
Brandon Dubinsky
20th pick
Blues Trade:
4th overall pick
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