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ntbaer
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bradpark - there was also Eric Lindros, John MacLean, Kaspariatis, and Sergio Momesso
7/2/2007 1:46 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By ntbaer on 7/02/2007How are they going to pay Shanahan, Prucha, and Lundqvist? I can't believe they gave Gomez 7M/year.
http://www.tsn.ca/tsn_talent/columnists/bob_mckenzie/

7/2/2007 1:56 PM
sergei91
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*werd*
7/2/2007 2:12 PM
ntbaer
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thanks
7/2/2007 2:14 PM
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ntbaer-we can go back a little further....phil esposito
7/2/2007 2:27 PM
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I'm a bit too young for that one, but I do dislike him for his sub-par coaching and GM skills with the Rangers.
7/2/2007 2:33 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By ntbaer on 7/02/2007
bradpark - there was also Eric Lindros, John MacLean, Kaspariatis, and Sergio Momesso
and Valeri Kamensky. I think Shanahan will resign and I read they will have room for Lundquist.



B'WAY BONANZA By LARRY BROOKS

July 2, 2007 -- On the first big-market day of the NHL's salary-cap era, the Rangers, the biggest-market team of them all, flexed their muscles yesterday by signing prize free-agent centerpieces Scott Gomez and Chris Drury to contracts worth a combined $86.75 million over the life of their deals.
On the first day of 2007 free agency was one on which GM Glen Sather went for the ultimate reward while also assuming risk beyond the nature of the contracts that will account for $14.4M of the club's $50.3 cap space.
For in paying the toll to get Gomez across the Hudson and Drury downstate from Buffalo, Sather and the organization subtracted Michael Nylander - a known quantity working with Jaromir Jagr the last two years -from the equation.
The Post has learned that Sather made an effort to keep Nylander from becoming a free agent yesterday morning, but that No. 92 was determined to test the market. When Nylander, who will turn 35 in October, received offers of four years at more than $20M, Sather declined to match.
From the moment the season ended in Eastern elimination by the Sabres, the Rangers had targeted Gomez and Drury - 2004 USA World Cup and 2006 USA Olympic teammates - as 1 and 1A to fill the second-line center hole.
From the moment three weeks ago that Nylander first seemed destined to test the market, the Rangers hatched the plan to try to unite the Yankee Doodle Dandies on Broadway. It was a strategy revealed exclusively by The Post.
"Initially, we thought Michael was going to be here so we didn't think we'd be able to sign both," Sather said via conference call last night. "But when we decided not to sign Michael, we jumped at the opportunity."
The 27-year-old Gomez, a two-time Cup winner in New Jersey, signed a seven-year, $51.5M front-loaded contract under which he will earn $10M this season. He is a dynamic, speed-oriented puck carrier who tied for the NHL lead in assists in 2003-04 with 56.
Drury, the Connecticut-born kid who will turn 31 in August and is regarded as one of the great big-game, character players in the NHL, signed a five-year, $35.25M deal that will bring him home after tours in Colorado, Calgary and Buffalo.
It was Drury, of course, who scored the back-breaking, tying goal for the Sabres with 7.7 seconds to go in regulation of Game 5 in the eastern semis. Drury and Gomez - who spoke by phone last night - each have at least partial no-trade clauses, a deviation of precedent under Sather, who maintains cap maneuverability to sign Group II free agents Henrik Lundqvist, Brendan Shanahan, Sean Avery and Petr Prucha.
Gomez is the second big-name Devil to sign as a free agent with the Rangers in recent years. His friend Bobby Holik signed a pre-cap, five-year, $45M deal in 2001. That signing failed because the Blueshirts didn't know how to use him. "I'm going to the greatest stage there is, and the most pressure - New York City," Gomez told The Post. "I got a great contract, but with the contract comes the pressure - and I like it, I want it.
"I'm so excited, but it's not the excitement of the money. It's the excitement of having the chance to win the Stanley Cup in New York."
7/2/2007 3:35 PM
sergei91
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i hate gomez
7/2/2007 3:43 PM
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I'M JUST GLAD ITS NOT SCOTT STEVENS
7/2/2007 3:47 PM
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I guess the Rangers lines would look something like this (assuming they sign the bolded players):

Straka – Gomez – Jagr
Shanahan – Drury – Prucha
Hossa – Cullen – Avery
Hollweg – Betts – Callahan/Orr

Malik – Rozsival
Tyutin – Mara
Girardi – Pock/Staal

Lundqvist
Montoya


7/2/2007 4:06 PM
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Thats not half bad, really, is it?
7/2/2007 6:07 PM
ntbaer
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Assuming that everyone plays to their potential - on paper it is a better team than last year.
7/2/2007 6:10 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By ntbaer on 7/02/2007How are they going to pay Shanahan, Prucha, and Lundqvist? I can't believe they gave Gomez 7M/year.
Bob McKenzie

7/2/2007 12:58:30 AM

Everybody is saying the New York Rangers spent so much money on Scott Gomez and Chris Drury that maybe there is not enough money for Brendan Shanahan. Think again.

The Rangers have lots of room under the salary cap right now. They are sitting by our count at around $37 to $38 million in salary committed to next season. They still have to sign Shanahan - likely around $4 or $5 million - as well as restricted free agent goaltender Henrik Lundqvist and forward Sean Avery. After that, they are pretty much done. There is plenty of money to get those three signed - between $12 and $13 million to take care of Shanahan, Lundqvist and Avery.

This is good shopping by the Rangers. Not only do they get those top two centres in their lineup, but they also managed to bring back everybody that they wanted to bring back.
7/2/2007 11:15 PM
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I hate the Rangers
7/3/2007 6:37 AM
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Quote: Originally Posted By ntbaer on 7/02/2007I guess the Rangers lines would look something like this (assuming they sign the bolded players):

Straka – Gomez – Jagr
Shanahan – Drury – Prucha
Hossa – Cullen – Avery
Hollweg – Betts – Callahan/Orr

Malik – Rozsival
Tyutin – Mara
Girardi – Pock/Staal

Lundqvist
Montoya


I wonder if Montoya stays in NYR for much longer though. He's a good prospect, but I think they are set on Lundqvist for the next few years. I wonder if he ends up following Maloney out to Phoenix via trade to help with their goalie woes????
7/3/2007 9:08 AM
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