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Some time in the past few days, Rangers general manager Jeff Gorton looked at the gap between what he wanted to give Kevin Hayes in a contract extension and what the pending unrestricted free agent was looking for, and he decided it was too large to bridge. And so Gorton shopped the rising, 26-year-old center […]

This isn’t as much about the return the Rangers got from Winnipeg as it is about Kevin Hayes. Because once you accept the fact management never quite bought into No. 13 as a worthy and dependable enough core piece to award a five- or six-year contract extension at somewhere around $6-6.5 million per, then the […]

The road to rebuilding kept marching forward, as the Rangers dealt defenseman Adam McQuaid to the Blue Jackets just about one hour before Monday’s 3 p.m. deadline, getting fourth- and seventh-round picks in return. McQuaid, 32, was in the final year of a deal that carried an annual salary-cap hit of $2.75 million. The Rangers […]

Hopefully, Derick Brassard didn’t unpack all of his bags yet. The Florida Panthers traded the center to the Colorado Avalanche along with a conditional 2020 sixth-round draft pick for a third-round pick in 2020 at the NHL trade deadline, a few short weeks after acquiring him from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Brassard posted four points in […]

After wading through all of the possibilities, the Rangers came out on the other side of Monday’s trade deadline just about where they thought they would be. That is to say, they continued this rebuild by shipping out the present and focusing on the future. The trio of pending unrestricted free agents are all gone, […]

Mats Zuccarello’s second game out of a Rangers uniform won’t be for a while. see also Mats Zuccarellos Stars debut ends in a painful disaster Mats Zuccarello’s debut with the Stars started well and ended… The former Rangers star will be sidelined for a month after breaking his right arm in his Dallas debut, opting […]

Even Lou Lamoriello had to admit that just six months ago, this scenario was almost unfathomable. But the Islanders president was proud to watch Monday’s 3 p.m. NHL trade deadline come and go without making a move, his first-place team sitting pretty in his first year on the job and the first year for head […]

The disappointing Devils continued to look toward the future, and created a bit of an awkward situation in the process. General manager Ray Shero traded forward Marcus Johansson, an unrestricted free-agent-to-be, to the Bruins just before Monday’s 3 p.m. NHL trade deadline, bringing back a second-round pick in the 2019 draft and a fourth-round pick […]

Regarding the post-deadline Rangers: 1. Other than the two locker room-wrenching deals in which the Rangers sent away pending free agents Mats Zuccarello and Kevin Hayes in exchange for anticipated going-rate rental packages, nothing surrounding Monday’s deadline affected the Blueshirts nearly as much as Vegas extending Mark Stone for eight years at an annual $9.5 […]

No one had a more eventful trade-deadline day than newly acquired Predators forward Mikael Granlund. After the Minnesota Wild sent Granlund to Nashville on Monday, in exchange for winger Kevin Fiala, it was revealed the 26-year-old’s fiancée, Emmi Kainulainen, was in labor. “The Granlunds are honestly in labor right now, so to have this happen […]