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Salary Cap: 2014/2015 New York Rangers roster & salary cap

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FORWARDS
Carl Hagelin ($2.250m) / Jason Spezza ($7.000m) / Rick Nash ($7.800m)
Chris Kreider ($2.500m) / Derek Stepan ($3.075m) / Martin St. Louis ($5.625m)
Benoit Pouliot ($1.650m) / Derick Brassard ($3.750m) / Mats Zuccarello ($3.400m)
Brian Boyle ($2.300m) / Dominic Moore ($1.300m) / Derek Dorsett ($1.633m)
DEFENSEMEN
Ryan McDonagh ($4.700m) / Dan Girardi ($5.500m)
John Moore ($1.750m) / Anton Stralman ($3.800m)
Conor Allen ($0.925m) / Kevin Klein ($2.900m)
GOALTENDERS
Henrik Lundqvist ($8.500m)
Cameron Talbot ($0.563m)
BUYOUTS
Wade Redden ($0.000m)
Brad Richards ($0.000m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $71,100,000; CAP PAYROLL: $70,920,833; BONUSES: $850,000
CAP SPACE (20-man roster): $179,167

Or this, trade Staal and JT Miller for Jason Spezza, resign Stralman and this could be a tight fit. But we add a right handed shot to the forwards, a true #1 centerman basically replacing Richards to play with Nash.
 
rvdnsx said:
FORWARDS
Chris Kreider ($2.250m) / Derek Stepan ($3.075m) / Rick Nash ($7.800m)
Martin St. Louis ($5.625m) / J.T. Miller ($0.894m) / Marian Gaborik ($6.000m)
Benoit Pouliot ($1.650m) / Derick Brassard ($3.750m) / Mats Zuccarello ($3.400m)
Carl Hagelin ($2.250m) / Dominic Moore ($1.250m) / Derek Dorsett ($1.633m)
Daniel Carcillo ($0.825m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Dan Girardi ($5.500m) / Ryan McDonagh ($4.700m)
Marc Staal ($3.975m) / Kevin Klein ($2.900m)
John Moore ($1.750m) / Dylan McIlrath ($0.703m)
Conor Allen ($0.925m) /
GOALTENDERS
Henrik Lundqvist ($8.500m)
Cameron Talbot ($0.563m)
BUYOUTS
Wade Redden ($0.000m)
Brad Richards ($0.000m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $71,100,000; CAP PAYROLL: $69,918,333; BONUSES: $1,791,667
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $1,181,667

I know Miller as a 2nd line center would be pushing it but he would have two solid vets on his wings.
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You would first have to switch Nash and MSL, as I don't recall MSL playing his off-wing. I don't think Gaborik would be coming back to NY, and I don't think he'd do it at $6 mil. Moore and McIlrath as a pairing would be rather disastrous, as Klein has helped steady Moore (and cover up if he gets caught) quite a bit.

I'd save the money on Gabby, resign Boyle and Stralman, and have Nash play 1st RW and MSL 2nd RW. I'd try to move a D-man for a #1 or #1 C if nothing is found in FA. Staal for ROR is a popular idea.
 
Aufheben said:
lol come on, the Gaborik ship has sailed. Keep Stralman and Boyle. That $7.8M next to Nash makes my stomach turn...
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The way he talks about the Rangers, he seems to feel bad for them. He even tweeted this morning that he tipped his cap to the Rangers organization for being a class act. True we did ship him out and asked him to waive his NTC, but that was directly due to Torts. Could he have bitter feelings towards the Rangers, of course. But if the Rangers can't acquire any talent up front via trade, UFA's will definitely be looked at and Gabby has shown that he can play and play well here in NYC. Seeing how hard the Rangers played this postseason, he could definitely be intrigued by a return to Broadway. There is of course the obstacle of the Kings who are stacked and that may prove to be too much for him to leave them. He isn't asked to be the "go to guy" there, just a supporting player, and he gets to play with Kopitar. But I do think he could return and do well here, also takes some pressure off of Nash if they play on different lines.
 
It wasn't too long ago that Mcd-G and Staal-Stral were out there against the top 6 of each and every team in the east and shut them down. Trading a top 4 D, while potentially losing one, pretty much garuntees a fringe playoff team because those minutes aren't easy to replace.

I would love to add a top tier center... but at the cost of Staal without being able to replace him would be a backwards move. The guy that could replace him and has in the past for the better part of two seasons while the Rangers won games is in Nashville, with Kevin Klein taking his place.

Kevin Klein has some of the worst nerd stats out there, and is a stretch 4 defender, but maybe serviceable with a guy like Staal anchoring him.

If a combination of Spezza and Stone/Greening/Wiercoch or salary relief could be had for a package of Brassard, JMoore, Dorsett, Kristo/or a pick... I'd pull the trigger since it makes the Rangers team a better team and addresses needs while the Rangers can backfill those roles. OTT is a money in-money out team, and Spezza is to only be paid $4M this year. He's in a walk year, and I'd offer him a 3 year extension at most.

I'd look at the following line up as a winning one that upgrades this year team, and its weaknesses. More RH shots, cheap fast youth. High Faceoff percentage. High scoring top 6 with good support, and a rock solid D, with an upgrade on character, and size. A roster such as the following would allow for better matchups, more looks on the PP, more options on the draw.

The only missing element would a RHD that can QB the PP. If there is a way to keep Stral and use Klein as trade bait for that role (perhaps to Washington with his old coach on a deal with Mike Green coming back with salary retained), this is pretty much a stacked team with options.

Nash (30-30) Stepan (20-40) MSL (30-40)
Kreider (25-20) Spezza (25-40) Zucc (15-40)
Hags (18-18) Miller (15-20) Fast (10-10)
DMoore (8-10) Vitale (5-10) S. Bernier (5-10)

McD-G
Staal-Stral
Allen-Klein

FORWARDS
Rick Nash ($7.800m) / Derek Stepan ($3.075m) / Martin St. Louis ($5.625m)
Chris Kreider ($2.551m) / Jason Spezza ($7.000m) / Mats Zuccarello ($3.500m)
Carl Hagelin ($2.250m) / J.T. Miller ($0.894m) / Jesper Fast ($0.805m)
Dominic Moore ($1.600m) / Joe Vitale ($1.150m) / Steve Bernier ($1.175m)
DEFENSEMEN
Dan Girardi ($5.500m) / Ryan McDonagh ($4.700m)
Marc Staal ($3.975m) / Anton Stralman ($3.700m)
Conor Allen ($0.925m) / Kevin Klein ($2.900m)
GOALTENDERS
Henrik Lundqvist ($8.500m)
Cameron Talbot ($0.563m)
 
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rvdnsx said:
The way he talks about the Rangers, he seems to feel bad for them. He even tweeted this morning that he tipped his cap to the Rangers organization for being a class act. True we did ship him out and asked him to waive his NTC, but that was directly due to Torts. Could he have bitter feelings towards the Rangers, of course. But if the Rangers can't acquire any talent up front via trade, UFA's will definitely be looked at and Gabby has shown that he can play and play well here in NYC. Seeing how hard the Rangers played this postseason, he could definitely be intrigued by a return to Broadway. There is of course the obstacle of the Kings who are stacked and that may prove to be too much for him to leave them. He isn't asked to be the "go to guy" there, just a supporting player, and he gets to play with Kopitar. But I do think he could return and do well here, also takes some pressure off of Nash if they play on different lines.
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Respectfully, no way I sign him and let Stralman AND Boyle go. I don't want to sign a player because he feels bad for us.

Auf's plan to relieve Crick Nash's stress: trade him to a non-playoff team again.
 
RangerBoy said:
The Rangers need to add size and strength. The Rangers stepped up in class against LA. Lost in 5. You can blame the officiating. Cop out. The Rangers looked overmatched for long stretches. The Rangers need to improve the roster and not concern themselves with just bringing everyone back.
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+1

Bring back the same team next year and my guess is the Rangers won't last two rounds.
 
bto131 said:
who says so? Colorado already has too many centers and need more defense. trade Staal+ or staal+pick and its a good hockey trade for both teams
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Well, it should be taken into consideration that ROR played LW for basically the entirety of last season, so...
 
bto131 said:
who says so? Colorado already has too many centers and need more defense. trade Staal+ or staal+pick and its a good hockey trade for both teams
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Theoritcally and logically yes, but Colorado won their division with a no name defense, and guys like Nick Holden and Andre Benoit playing top 4 minutes.

They don't need Staal, but their 4 centers (two of which that played wing), accounted for a lot of their offense. It's not a trade Colorado makes.
 
Wolfy said:
It's what they mentioned on TSN last night, I don't know how they came to this figure but they talked about his long term market value.

According to them such an offer could come from teams on the bottom end of the standings looking for a good playmaker, like Flames, Oilers or Isles.

And that Zucc is wanted because he has a future and became Rangers point leader this season.
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Are you high? The Oilers would want another small skilled winger?
 
Larry Brooks

The Rangers simply have to get bigger. The Kings’ size and ability to get to the net and cause havoc for Henrik Lundqvist was the decisive factor in the finals. If the Rangers are playing with the big boys now, it can’t only be about players putting on their big-boy pants. It’s about Sather getting bigger boys who can go toe-to-toe with the Jeff Carters, Dustin Browns and, yes, Milan Lucics of the world.
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http://nypost.com/2014/06/14/blueshirts-only-goal-get-back-to-the-finals/

Then Brooks goes through a list of players the Rangers have to keep and are part of the team going forward.

How are the Rangers adding bigger bodies and where will those big bodies play if everyone on the team is back? Never mind how the Rangers will pay them.

There are no easy decisions.
 
Arthur Staple

Just about every RFA the Rangers have is in line for a significant raise. Derick Brassard made $3.7 million this season; he's not someone who can be sacrificed in the name of salary-cap management. Ditto Mats Zuccarello, whose $1.15-million salary turned out to be one of the bigger bargains in the league. Chris Kreider will get a big bump from his $1.35 million.

That's three young, crucial forwards for the Rangers who will be eating up a large chunk of the Rangers' $17 million in cap space (closer to $24 million if and when Richards is bought out).

Among UFAs, Anton Stralman proved his value and then some. He might end up being better suited as Ryan McDonagh's defense partner. Unlike the RFA group, Stralman can expect to be paid handsomely should he reach July 1 without a deal. The other problem is that top-four defensemen are a rare species on the open market, so the Rangers would not be able to replace Stralman so easily.

The harder decisions come at the depth end of the forward group. Dominic Moore, Brian Boyle and Benoit Pouliot are unrestricted. Boyle and Moore showed that being a mediocre-to-solid regular-season player is perfectly fine when you can ramp up your game in the postseason. Boyle is only 29, which means he'd likely get a Brandon Prust-type deal (four years, $10 million) at the very minimum as a free agent.
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http://www.newsday.com/sports/colum...offseason-decisions-for-glen-sather-1.8450764

The Rangers need an $80M cap and not the $69M-$70M projection.

$53,187,500 for 12 players. $46.5M for 11 players without Richards.
 
rvdnsx said:
FORWARDS
Carl Hagelin ($2.250m) / Jason Spezza ($7.000m) / Rick Nash ($7.800m)
Chris Kreider ($2.500m) / Derek Stepan ($3.075m) / Martin St. Louis ($5.625m)
Benoit Pouliot ($1.650m) / Derick Brassard ($3.750m) / Mats Zuccarello ($3.400m)
Brian Boyle ($2.300m) / Dominic Moore ($1.300m) / Derek Dorsett ($1.633m)
DEFENSEMEN
Ryan McDonagh ($4.700m) / Dan Girardi ($5.500m)
John Moore ($1.750m) / Anton Stralman ($3.800m)
Conor Allen ($0.925m) / Kevin Klein ($2.900m)
GOALTENDERS
Henrik Lundqvist ($8.500m)
Cameron Talbot ($0.563m)
BUYOUTS
Wade Redden ($0.000m)
Brad Richards ($0.000m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $71,100,000; CAP PAYROLL: $70,920,833; BONUSES: $850,000
CAP SPACE (20-man roster): $179,167

Or this, trade Staal and JT Miller for Jason Spezza, resign Stralman and this could be a tight fit. But we add a right handed shot to the forwards, a true #1 centerman basically replacing Richards to play with Nash.
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Too tight. The cap isn't going to be that high. Current projections are around 69 mil.

179K isn't enough space for call ups and you've only got a 20 man roster, so we have no spares. The only way we can reasonably fit Spezza is if Nash is going the other way.
 
Rangers need a 1st line center but I don't see them being able to address that with their cap issues. Amnesty Richards and hope Stepan gets better. Brassard can do a legit job of being the 2nd guy. Miller gets a real chance next year. I expect Dominic Moore back--Brian Boyle I'm not so sure.

I don't like the idea of losing Stralman to free agency and then moving Staal. That's your second pair. It would be bad enough just losing Stralman. I can't see giving Anton more than $4 mil per. Not much offense and really he's not a first pair guy. Great playoffs from him but IMO someone is going to overpay and a good chance that later on won't be happy because he won't be the fit for his new team that he was for the Rangers.

If we're going to move Staal it's during the regular season after we see how our defense is playing out. The Rangers might have to move him like Callahan because of his upcoming free agency but knowing your needs mid-season is an advantage over knowing your needs pre-season.
 
AHB said:
I'm on board with this.
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eco's bones said:
Rangers need a 1st line center but I don't see them being able to address that with their cap issues. Amnesty Richards and hope Stepan gets better. Brassard can do a legit job of being the 2nd guy. Miller gets a real chance next year. I expect Dominic Moore back--Brian Boyle I'm not so sure.

I don't like the idea of losing Stralman to free agency and then moving Staal. That's your second pair. It would be bad enough just losing Stralman. I can't see giving Anton more than $4 mil per. Not much offense and really he's not a first pair guy. Great playoffs from him but IMO someone is going to overpay and a good chance that later on won't be happy because he won't be the fit for his new team that he was for the Rangers.

If we're going to move Staal it's during the regular season after we see how our defense is playing out. The Rangers might have to move him like Callahan because of his upcoming free agency but knowing your needs mid-season is an advantage over knowing your needs pre-season.
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No that can't happend but we most likely needs to get rid of some cap in d from here, letting Strålman go is the lazy move but not a very smart one, Staal will get what 6M next summer and Girardi is locked down at 5.5 while Anton maybe could be signed for about a million less than that. Then there is asset management Girardi and Staal held some big value if we want to address some needed holes.
 
Stop coaching Pat

That could begin with the re-signing of top-four defenseman Marc Staal, the alternate captain who is under contract for $3.975 million through next season but would prefer that a deal is in place before 2014-15.

Unfortunately, Staal’s partner, unrestricted free agent Anton Stralman, likely has priced himself out of the Big Apple.

The Rangers were haggling with Stralman’s camp over a $3 million annual price tag during the regular season, but Stralman is a righthanded, top-four defenseman coming off a career year, and lefthanded Andrew MacDonald set the market for defensemen by inking a six-year, $30 million extension with the Philadelphia Flyers. Stralman’s agent, Marc Levine, said Saturday that he and the Rangers have not been in contact since February. That may mean nothing, or everything.

The Blueshirts seem to believe that Kevin Klein, at $2.9 million per year, can fill Stralman’s top-four role. That is no guarantee.

Unrestricted free agent forward Brian Boyle, 29, should be back. He wants to stay in New York, plays both center and wing, takes faceoffs, and is the Rangers’ top penalty-killer. Plus, he’s the anti-Nash: Eight goals in his last 120 regular-season games; nine goals in 58 career playoff games.

Benoit Pouliot, 27, could return relatively on the cheap, but his slew of offensive-zone penalties in the postseason probably softened the excitement.

Dominic Moore, 33, could command too high a price on the open market when free agency begins at noon on July 1.
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http://m.nydailynews.com/sports/hockey/rangers/1.1830318

The trading deadline was March 5. The Rangers had other more pressing issues. They don't negotiate contracts with the team playing in the playoffs. Management has not had an opportunity to talk with their free agents.

Staal needs to be signed by the beginning of July or the Rangers should move him. Re-sign Stralman. Sather/Gorton can't get into a staring match with Staal for the next 8 months. Staal wants 6 years and $6M and the Rangers are offering 4 years and $5.5M with neither side willing to budge. Then the Rangers agree to meet the terms in February. What's happened with Lundqvist and Girardi. Lundqvist got his contract in December. Girardi got his 5 days before the deadline. Those deals could have been done in the summer.

Brooks wrote the Rangers can't afford to let Stralman go and they should re-sign Staal too. That will be a huge chunk of the cap invested in the top 4 D with McDonagh being the only offensive guy in the group and then people will complain about the Rangers not generating enough offense from their defense. Those 4 D will cost $20M. Even if the cap goes to the low $70M's in 15-16,that's a lot of money invested in 4 D. McDonagh is the only one who generates any offense.

Stop coaching Pat thinks Boyle is a must sign. He will get 3rd line money to be a 4th line player for the Rangers.

The Rangers won't be able to keep all of their players.
 
A team needs $1M to operate the team during the season. You aren't going to play the same 20 players all season. An extra F and extra D needs to be on the team. 22 players on the roster. Leave room for call ups or any trades. Waiver claims. Short term injuries.

$3.7B is $69,632,500 upper limit. $60,550,000 mid-point. $51,467,500 floor.
 
The Blueshirts seem to believe that Kevin Klein, at $2.9 million per year, can fill Stralman’s top-four role. That is no guarantee.
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If this isn't just speculation and the Rangers' organization actually believes this, then they deserve whatever they ****ing get for being so completely inept and moronic.

I thought Klein was solid most of the playoffs, but he is nowhere near the player Stralman is.

:shakehead
 
Anyone suggesting Spezza is out of their ****ing mind. Hes damaged goods and a good bet to slow down considerably over the next few years.

I'd rather have Kadri on this team than Spezza and I'm not really a huge Kadri fan. At the least hes got room to improve and isn't breaking down (not to mention I think he'd actually be pretty dynamite with MSL and Hags.)

As far as size goes, I've always been intrigued by Marcus Foligno. Don't know how much it'd cost to get him but it seems like Slats always misses the boat on these type of players when they become available.
 
Stralman could be asking for to much...also with everything going on in SJ you can just see Sather blowing up our kids to get Thornton
 
Ail said:
If this isn't just speculation and the Rangers' organization actually believes this, then they deserve whatever they ****ing get for being so completely inept and moronic.

I thought Klein was solid most of the playoffs, but he is nowhere near the player Stralman is.

:shakehead
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Seriously. Signing Staal and letting Stralman walk for nothing? Horrendous asset management if that happens, and if it does, we won't be doing jack next year.
 
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