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DS1119

Just wondering if/when the Rangers make a push for Nash.

badbrains

neilybabes86 wrote:

and somehow the pens are gonna get ryan suter :roll:

I swear super Mario has something on the league or something. This team always seems to get what they want when they want it. Staal doesn't want to stay, np, we'll just get suter instead. :(

neilybabes86

DS1119 wrote:

Just wondering if/when the Rangers make a push for Nash.

jackets are not being serious in their choice of players in return

we would ..for the right deal

Bathgate66

NYR 2nd Round Pick
Cristobal Nieves

http://www.msg.com/videos/cristoval-nie ... p-625.html

Bathgate66

going forward without Prust

http://thehockeywriters.com/new-york-ra ... don-prust/


A grinder, a penalty-killing specialist, and a heart-and-soul player. All three of those accurately describe Brandon Prust. However, one description that most likely won’t be accurate for Prust after July 1st is a ‘forward for the New York Rangers’.

According to multiple reports, Prust and the Rangers weren’t close in negotiations for a new contract, and the two sides seemed reluctant to budge from their latest offers. According to the reports, Prust was looking for a three-year contract that would pay him $2.2 million per year. Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather was willing to give Prust a three-year deal, but he wasn’t willing to give the forward, who made $800,000 last year, more than $1.8 million per year.

Since being acquired from the Calgary Flames halfway through the 2009-10 season, Prust has become a big part of the Rangers’ identity. The London, Ontario native has added grit, toughness, and a willingness to block shots before it became a prerequisite to play for John Tortorella. Prust’s style of play earned the respect of his teammates, and made him a fan favorite at Madison Square Garden. In 2010-11, Prust was voted by the fans as the winner of the Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award, given to a player who goes “above and beyond the call of duty.”


(Icon SMI)

Although Rangers’ management and Prust haven’t been able to come to terms on a deal, the respect and admiration between both sides appeared to be evident before the reports surfaced. In talking about Prust, Sather said, “I like him, the team likes him, everybody likes him.” In Prust’s end of season interview, he indicated that he wanted to return to the Rangers, saying that he “loved it here, and we have a good thing going.” There was also a little bit of foreshadowing in that end of season interview. When asked about what would happen if the Rangers didn’t meet what Prust felt his market value was, the forward said, “money is a factor, but it isn’t the biggest factor for me.”

As much as the Rangers would like to have Prust back, they made the right move by not signing him to the three-year/$6.6 million contract. Even though he was at the head of the Rangers’ own free agents that they wanted to bring back, the need that they have to address in order to take the next step is offensive help. If the Rangers were to re-sign Prust to that contract, they would be overpaying for a grinder and potentially limit the number of options of help they would have to look at via free agency.

While Prust has been valuable to the Rangers, the notion that he is irreplaceable isn’t valid. The Rangers will be able to find a grinding-type forward through free agency that can provide what Prust gave to the Rangers over the last two and a half seasons. Sather has said that he plans to be “aggressive” in free agency, and one name that is at the top of the list as a replacement for the fan favorite is Zenon Konopka, who made less than Prust last year and probably won’t ask for (or get) more than $2 million per year on the open market.

Whether or not Prust will get the contract he wants remains to be seen. However, that deal won’t come from the Broadway Blueshirts.

neilybabes86

we cant give prust that much money..sucks but we cant do it

kenshunt

i would prust is the man lol, serious though i've loved the guy all the way back from his junior days with the london knights

neilybabes86

Prust gone......dammit

thank you for your 110% effort every game...you will be mised

we signed asham to replace him

we just couldnt give him4 years 10 mil

asham is alot cheaper and the same type of player

save the money for other places


just hate to lose good team guys who are fan favorites

igotid88

We lost Brandon Prust

rival.

i don't know who has less of a brain... prust or his agent.

took a little more cash to go to the non-contending canadians? fan favorite in NY indeed, but another classic case... if he really wanted to stay he would have.

green disease.

neilybabes86

rival. wrote:

i don't know who has less of a brain... prust or his agent.

took a little more cash to go to the non-contending canadians? fan favorite in NY indeed, but another classic case... if he really wanted to stay he would have.

green disease.

i hear ya 100% ,but a guy like prust has to take every single year and as much as possible
he can't sign 2 years instead of 4 ....he needs to max out his free agency because this was probably his last chance to sign a very good contract

sucks but its the nature of the beast


which is exactly why we signed asham...big difference is he doesn't kill penalities but he is the same type of player ....for half the contract prust got

asham has now been on every team in the division and is the player you hate until he is on your team
he can play that 4 th line role well....and has played with rupp in jersey and pitt

Bathgate66

NYR also signed Michael Haley

Gary Carter

Bathgate66 wrote:

NYR also signed Michael Haley

:fp: :fp:

i loved Haley to death and so did many other icelanders fans. he's a excellent 4th liner player. he put up crazy goal for his role in the minors. ranger fans won't miss prust one bit.

neilybabes86

Gary Carter wrote:

Bathgate66 wrote:

NYR also signed Michael Haley

:fp: :fp:

i loved Haley to death and so did many other icelanders fans. he's a excellent 4th liner player. he put up crazy goal for his role in the minors. ranger fans won't miss prust one bit.

yea he jumped boyle.... another guy u hate until he is on your team


our 4th line is set.....now we need some scoring :?

badbrains

J, if we were gonna sign asham, we could've signed parros for 925,000! Same type of player but way better bang for your buck. He's a lot smarter then that asham! So now we have a line of asham, Haley and Rupper, for what? Could've added asham and Haley's contracts for Pruster, mite have had to tinker a little but could've made it work. I'm hearing Nash to rangers still. Heard he wants only ny or Toronto. That's what I'm hearing. Dubi, jt miller, erixon, 1st rd should be enough. Or Thomas maybe u can convince zucc to go there, plenty of playing time in columbus for him. There's a deal there to be made as long as its realistic. Glad slats ain't caving in. But still shaking my head at the signings yesterday.

Bathgate66

neilybabes86 wrote:

Gary Carter wrote:

Bathgate66 wrote:

NYR also signed Michael Haley

:fp: :fp:

i loved Haley to death and so did many other icelanders fans. he's a excellent 4th liner player. he put up crazy goal for his role in the minors. ranger fans won't miss prust one bit.

yea he jumped boyle.... another guy u hate until he is on your team


our 4th line is set.....now we need some scoring :?

i vaguely remember that.
Go Rangers !

rival.

fathead back in a devil's uniform, no surprise there. but was surprised it was a two year deal and not a one year. guess that is why he hired an agent to try and drain as much cash as possible from a bankrupt team.

parise close to announcement, probably within 48 hours of hearing. i am thinking of flying to vegas and putting cash on minnesota.

neilybabes86

rival. wrote:

fathead back in a devil's uniform, no surprise there. but was surprised it was a two year deal and not a one year. guess that is why he hired an agent to try and drain as much cash as possible from a bankrupt team.

parise close to announcement, probably within 48 hours of hearing. i am thinking of flying to vegas and putting cash on minnesota.

once he signs... players are gonna roll

minnesota would be great.....

neilybabes86

i just read that the jackets ARE NOT asking for Kreider McDoungh or stephan now

wtf is the problem??

igotid88

neilybabes86 wrote:

i just read that the jackets ARE NOT asking for Kreider McDoungh or stephan now

wtf is the problem??

I don't want to trade those guys for Nash