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Speculation: Derek Stepan Negotiations (9/19-Dreger: "Unlikely" Stepan signs before season opens)

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Blue Blooded said:
But in the end, it is pretty childish clinging to Couture's contract and saying "The Sharks got Logan for $2.875M, so we should get you for the same! Waaaah!". Even though it may be a good comparable, $3M and change is still a steal for a player of Stepan's calibre.
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Wait who's doing that? Are you saying the Rangers are only holding off solely because of a waaah factor? I would think it'sto preserve more money on the cap and to make sure that they don't rush into an overpayment with their RFA. I have not had any problems with how they have handled their RFA's in the past either and can't complain about saving cap space despite our inability to properly allocate it to UFA resources. No sense compounding one issue with another
 
shinchanyo said:
Wait who's doing that? Are you saying the Rangers are only holding off solely because of a waaah factor? I would think it'sto preserve more money on the cap and to make sure that they don't rush into an overpayment with their RFA. I have not had any problems with how they have handled their RFA's in the past either and can't complain about saving cap space despite our inability to properly allocate it to UFA resources. No sense compounding one issue with another
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I'm saying I'm doing that! :cry:

Maybe that wasn't clear...

I just felt that I listed a ton of hardline arguments when in truth I'd just be relieved to see Stepan signed for ~$3.25M. (Even though I still think he should take less)
 
I would hope Stepan is signed within 48 hours so he can join the team in Alberta. The Rangers haven't worked on any of their system stuff. The coaches have discussed ideas and concepts but they haven't worked on much. Then the coaches use the skates and scrimmages to see which players get it without needing to practice it 20 times.
 
I'll be very pleasantly surprised if Step comes in and plays well from the start.

He already had the pressure of keeping up with last year's numbers for twice as many games. Now he's going to have the pressure of being a holdout along with the pressure of everyone blowing up his play and taking it for granted that he's a PPG center now. Also, two top 6 forwards will be out for the start of the season, so if he's not on the top line, he's going to have slim pickings for linemates.

Just seems to me like he's backing himself into a corner in terms of building the expectations on himself in an increasingly complicated and non-ideal situation to start the season.

We'll find out a lot about the player he's going to be in the coming years from the way he reacts to all of this.
 
The truth of the matter is that we have no idea who's "at fault" if anyone actually is. For all we know, they're moving towards each other and a deal will get done before the western trip.

As of right now, I'm presuming that this will get done eventually and, when it does, I will hold no animosity towards either party. If talks should break down, Slats trades him or he signs an offer sheet... then, I'll read the reports and may or may not get pissed at someone. But for now, frustrating as it is, I really don't see the point in taking sides - and I especially don't see any sense in attacking each other.

Honestly, the current Stepan and Lindberg arguments almost feel like they were fabricated because we don't have anything legitimate to fight about. :)
 
BrooklynRangersFan said:
The truth of the matter is that we have no idea who's "at fault" if anyone actually is. For all we know, they're moving towards each other and a deal will get done before the western trip.

As of right now, I'm presuming that this will get done eventually and, when it does, I will hold no animosity towards either party. If talks should break down, Slats trades him or he signs an offer sheet... then, I'll read the reports and may or may not get pissed at someone. But for now, frustrating as it is, I really don't see the point in taking sides - and especially not in attacking each other.

Honestly, the current Stepan and Lindberg arguments almost feel like they were fabricated because we don't have anything legitimate to fight about. :)
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Seems more to me that Sather hasn't moved an inch.
 
Jeff Gorton spoke to Craig Custance

So how do you identify which players get the bridge and which players to commit to long term?

"That's a tough question," said Rangers assistant GM Jeff Gorton, talking in general terms and not about Stepan. "In this day and age, we have a cap team and having the type of players that we have on our team, making the kind of money we have, sometimes it's circumstance more than the player."

And that's what is happening with the Rangers right now. They clearly like Stepan, but they are squeezed financially, which makes the bridge deal the preferred course of action.

"It has nothing to do with the player, especially in this case," Gorton said. "You have a cap that's going down. Then a bridge becomes a more appealing contract to us. We have to get through this year. That's basically the genesis of it. It's that simple."
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http://insider.espn.go.com/nhl/blog/_/name/custance_craig/id/9680686/nhl-challenge-rfa-negotiations

The Rangers got Matt Oates off the long-term deal for Stepan. The Rangers have too many 4th line no dimensional players making too much money. That's another issue.
 
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