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Confirmed with Link: Rangers Buy Out Contract of Henrik Lundqvist

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New York City said:
Sorry, but I don't understand treating Lundqvist like a saint who cannot be criticized. Eli Manning was dragged through the mud toward the end of his career and he deserved love more than Henrik does.

If he and the Rangers had mutually agreed to void the remainder of the contract, now that would have been impressive and praiseworthy. But the NHL continued to be a business today. I appreciate Henrik's tenure as a Ranger; he's definitely going to get his #30 retired here. The fact remains, though, that it was more than past his time to go.
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Lundqvist had the more consistent career and was better overall than Manning. Manning was a decent to good QB who had like two great seasons, two good seasons, and two of the most memorable playoff runs in any sport in this region. Ever since the 90s it's a rings based business so that's why Manning is probably going to be remembered in higher circles than Lundqvist.
 
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ElLeetch said:
I'm torn between him just retiring from the NHL and ending as a career Ranger, and wanting him to play another 2 seasons, to get the 31 wins it would take to get him into the top-3 all time.
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If he loves it he should enjoy being no. 2 somewhere. Perhaps being perfect support for a up and coming goalie. Maybe battling Anders Nilsson in Ottawa.
 
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New York City said:
Sorry, but I don't understand treating Lundqvist like a saint who cannot be criticized. Eli Manning was dragged through the mud toward the end of his career and he deserved love more than Henrik does.

If he and the Rangers had mutually agreed to void the remainder of the contract, now that would have been impressive and praiseworthy. But the NHL continued to be a business today. I appreciate Henrik's tenure as a Ranger; he's definitely going to get his #30 retired here. The fact remains, though, that it was more than past his time to go.
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There is zero reason to mutually retire when he wanted to play still, had guaranteed money due to him. The reason people are still sentimental about henrik is due to how long he played and today is the first official day he is no longer a ranger in 15 years. People are feeling nostalgic and remembering good times, soon tho will be a time where people can be more then critical.

I believe people also dragged eli through the mud longer as the team tanked and eli played much longer as a sore spot. Over the past few years georgiev has been able to play and take some of the potential frustrations of lundqvists downfall down a bit
 
Roo Returns said:
Ever since the 90s it's a rings based business so that's why Manning is probably going to be remembered in higher circles than Lundqvist.
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I still find the funny thing about when golf is talked about its lkke the majors are the only thing important because they are similar to championships. I always laugh and shake my head when for instance tiger woods was winning regular tournaments but he didnt win a masters or us open and its like he was a failure.

Personally i feel winning it all is important but sometimes great players fail ie lundqvist, Barkley, some thought ovechkin was a failure
 
I'm glad he's finally gone!! Now we can start to actually rebuild our team.
 
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THE JAM said:
Nevesis - hopefully you will survive not getting anything from Lundqvist's agency for always promptly 'explaining' that any goal he let in was actually not his fault ;)
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Imagine how much money he made all those years... :laugh:
 
Oak said:
I'm glad he's finally gone!! Now we can start to actually rebuild our team.
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Trxjw said:
$5.5m this year. $1.5m next year.

~$12m in dead space this year between Hank, Girardi, and Shattenkirk. Richards was a compliance buyout so he doesn't count against the cap.
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From a business standpoint, you just cant juggle any better than Gorton has. All of that dead space money used in years where they have many elc's. Simply had to be done.
Pardon me, but I wasnt willing to go through (yet again) what this organization has done for waaaay too many years. Keeping players BEYOND their productiveness, and forcing the team to LOSE players they may have liked to have signed. So, when push comes to shove.......keep Hank and Marc, or possibly lose Tony D. or any other upcoming expiring contract? Zbad anyone? So, I have cried somewhat, but am fully expecting tears of joy, when we sign the players we need to, followed by a Stanley Cup that yes......Hank deserved, but apparently God doesnt give a man EVERYTHING. (Much pun intended)
 
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Roo Returns said:
Lundqvist had the more consistent career and was better overall than Manning. Manning was a decent to good QB who had like two great seasons, two good seasons, and two of the most memorable playoff runs in any sport in this region. Ever since the 90s it's a rings based business so that's why Manning is probably going to be remembered in higher circles than Lundqvist.
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At the end of the day, Eli will be remembered as the greater NY sports icon. It's about the Championships.
Since both are team games, there are just too many variables to quantify to use other metrics
 
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yada said:
There is zero reason to mutually retire when he wanted to play still, had guaranteed money due to him. The reason people are still sentimental about henrik is due to how long he played and today is the first official day he is no longer a ranger in 15 years. People are feeling nostalgic and remembering good times, soon tho will be a time where people can be more then critical.

I believe people also dragged eli through the mud longer as the team tanked and eli played much longer as a sore spot. Over the past few years georgiev has been able to play and take some of the potential frustrations of lundqvists downfall down a bit
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What I meant was terminate his contract like Ilya Kovalchuk/Kings and Dustin Byfuglien/Jets have done recently. If he still wants to play then great, but a buyout actively hurts the Rangers. If Lundqvist can't find a starting job in the NHL (and it seems unlikely that he'll be able to), then this effort will look especially fruitless.

Your second point probably has truth to it, but Lundqvist's departure from the Rangers has not been a happy one. In his last season with the Rangers, he got benched despite his large contract and his final moment was a mediocre playoff performance when Georgiev should have been playing to begin with if Igor was unfit to play the first two games.

Basically Henrik will get his due of celebrations and nostalgia when he retires and eventually gets his number retired. Right now, though, he is and has been actively hurting the Rangers and deserves to be criticized. As I said, the NHL continued to be a business yesterday.
 
Take this with a grain of salt but a relative plays golf with someone who knows Tony D well. He told him that everyone pretty much hated Hank (thought he was a huge diva) and his only friend on the team was Zucc.
 
RaXp said:
Take this with a grain of salt but a relative plays golf with someone who knows Tony D well. He told him that everyone pretty much hated Hank (thought he was a huge diva) and his only friend on the team was Zucc.
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I'll take this with beyond a massive grain of salt as it's most likely exaggerated if even remotely true. I'd guess the actual truth is Lundqvist was a 38 year old fading star on a team of players <25. It really wouldn't come as a shock if he wasn't hanging out in the hotel playing XBOX with DeAngelo and Strome. I don't think that means everyone hated him. Look at Hajek's comments from last week on Hank.

However if I do take a look at this at face value here's my takeaway: Lundqvist is perennially lauded for his professionalism, insane work ethic and how seriously he takes preparation.

So it would not shock me at all if Tony DeAngelo, notorious for having character and maturity issues, hated him. And just FYI that says WAY more about DeAngelo than it does about Lundqvist.
 
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RaXp said:
Take this with a grain of salt but a relative plays golf with someone who knows Tony D well. He told him that everyone pretty much hated Hank (thought he was a huge diva) and his only friend on the team was Zucc.
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He's accomplished more in his career and done more for this franchise than everyone in that locker room combined. Couldn't care less what they think of him.
 
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Glen Sathers Cigar said:
I'll take this with beyond a massive grain of salt as it's most likely exaggerated if even remotely true. I'd guess the actual truth is Lundqvist was a 38 year old fading star on a team of players <25. It really wouldn't come as a shock if he wasn't hanging out in the hotel playing XBOX with DeAngelo and Strome. I don't think that means everyone hated him. Look at Hajek's comments from last week on Hank.

However if I do take a look at this at face value here's my takeaway: Lundqvist is perennially lauded for his professionalism, insane work ethic and how seriously he takes preparation.

So it would not shock me at all if Tony DeAngelo, notorious for having character and maturity issues, hated him. And just FYI that says WAY more about DeAngelo than it does about Lundqvist.
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Yeeeeah.

And I can also see Tony extrapolating "me and my bros, Stromer and Lemmy, don't like that pretty boy libtard" into "everyone."
 
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Lemieux is apparently on the latest episode of Spittin Chicklets. I have no intention of listening and supporting Barstool, but I'm definitely curious about what he says about Hank.
 
I agree with @Glen Sathers Cigar in that Hank, post-Zucc and married with kids, is at a different point in life than the majority of the other players now on the team. He probably kept to himself more and didn't socialize as much.
 
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RaXp said:
Take this with a grain of salt but a relative plays golf with someone who knows Tony D well. He told him that everyone pretty much hated Hank (thought he was a huge diva) and his only friend on the team was Zucc.
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Well Hank was by far the oldest guy on the team I’m sure he found it difficult to relate to all the millennials and zoomers coming up the last couple years .
 
RaXp said:
Take this with a grain of salt but a relative plays golf with someone who knows Tony D well. He told him that everyone pretty much hated Hank (thought he was a huge diva) and his only friend on the team was Zucc.
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Maybe they were just jealous of his manhood.

Sean Avery - “And I admired the fact that he was the most well-endowed teammate I had ever seen, by a considerable margin”.
 
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Do folks here want him to sign with a contender and try for the cup, go back to Frolunda for a year or two, or just straight retire?
 
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