Confirmed Signing with Link: [NYR] Jonny Brodzinski signs extension with Rangers (2 years, $762.5k AAV, two-way)

[uncleben]

Brodzinski has spent most of the season with NYR's affiliate Hartford, where he is putting up over a PPG

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[Kupo]

LFG!!

 

[One Winged Angel]

Bang

 

[Yog S'loth]

Still the best of the veritable army's worth of Brodzinksi brothers.

 

[Rude Dog]

Can someone explain why he would need to go on waivers. I never understood it. The concept of a player going on waivers is to see if another team will give him a chance to play in the league. Florida is obviously doing that. Just don't understand it. Hoping there is a good explanation.

 

[RickChartraw]

Jonny Brod gets a pinned thread. let's go.

 

[uncleben]

Can someone explain why he would need to go on waivers. I never understood it. The concept of a player going on waivers is to see if another team will give him a chance to play in the league. Florida is obviously doing that. Just don't understand it. Hoping there is a good explanation.

Brodzinski does not need to go on waivers
If NYR wants to send him down, then he will need to, though, just like any other waiver-eligible player

Florida needed to waive Lindbohm because of a specific clause in the CBA that any player playing in a non-North American league that wasn't on a team's 90-man roster, has to go through waivers before joining.
The idea is to stop teams from negotiating with free agents saying, "You go play in Europe. Make money. We'll save cap space and bring you in as a ringer after your season ends."
I mean, teams can still do it, but now every other team in the League has a chance to say, "uhh... hey, wait a second..."

 

[Machinehead]

Can someone explain why he would need to go on waivers. I never understood it. The concept of a player going on waivers is to see if another team will give him a chance to play in the league. Florida is obviously doing that. Just don't understand it. Hoping there is a good explanation.

It's going to end up being a non-issue anyway.

He's Hartford's captain and pretty important to the operation down there, so the Rangers will want to hang onto him. For another NHL team, he would be pretty insignificant.

Why burn a bridge over nothing? Nobody will will touch him.

 

[Chainshot]

Hope that's enough to pay for the food bill for the small legion of Brodzinski's out there.

 

[eco's bones]

He’s been up with the Rangers in emergency situations but really he’s a great AHL player but very mediocre at the NHL level.

It’s also about having veteran leadership for your first and second year minor league prospects. Guys that those prospects can look up to both on and off the ice. Most teams have 2/3/4 guys like that in their organization.

 

[cwede]

Can someone explain why he would need to go on waivers. I never understood it. The concept of a player going on waivers is to see if another team will give him a chance to play in the league. Florida is obviously doing that. Just don't understand it. Hoping there is a good explanation.

wrong thread, it seems , as re the Petteri Lindbohm thread, and him needing waivers after signing w Panthers?

I believe the 'why' is this -
(a) after training camp, teams have to get to the prescribed roster limit of 23 active players.
(b) PL is joining Fla org now,
(c) for a vet to join the roster now, after not being involved in the roster cutdown, waivers are required, as otherwise this would offer a loophole around roster limits

 

[JT Kreider]

He’s been up with the Rangers in emergency situations but really he’s a great AHL player but very mediocre at the NHL level.

It’s also about having veteran leadership for your first and second year minor league prospects. Guys that those prospects can look up to both on and off the ice. Most teams have 2/3/4 guys like that in their organization.

Hartford has been a wreck the last few years its about time the Rangers start investing more resources down there

 

[TBF1972]

LFG!!

at least you have now a replacement at 1c for boo