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Confirmed with Link: Rangers re-sign Henrik Lundqvist [7 years, $59.5M, $8.5M AAV, Full NMC]

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mike14 said:
Unless Lundy goes down with a long-term injury I can't see how this team is going to get the young topflight talent it needs, so I guess the plan (as much as Sather has a plan) is to keep overpaying for top 6 UFAs with questions marks.
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That's why the team has been swinging for the fences with guys like Fast, Thomas/Kristo, St. Croix, Duclair, Buch, etc. Sure, the vast majority turn into nothing, but the hope is that 1 or 2 become top-6 forwards on the cheap ECLs.
 
Awesome that he will be a Ranger for life.... But really? Was a team really going to give him 8.5 per year into his declining years? Yea pay him for what he's done but if he really wanted to be the highest paid give him 7.2 per year and he should be happy to get that... Meh just my feeling. I'd rather win (and have the extra money tho with Sather that means little) then have a hall of famer in his twilight years.
 
Beacon said:
That's why the team has been swinging for the fences with guys like Fast, Thomas/Kristo, St. Croix, Duclair, Buch, etc. Sure, the vast majority turn into nothing, but the hope is that 1 or 2 become top-6 forwards on the cheap ECLs.
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really hope duclair and buch pan out within the next 4 years

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would be a solid top 6
 
For those that complain that 7 years is too long - Goalies don't regress as fast as normal players.

Hasek, Roy, Brodeur, Thomas, etc... the good ones tend to last long.
 
kenjets36 said:
For those that complain that 7 years is too long - Goalies don't regress as fast as normal players.

Hasek, Roy, Brodeur, Thomas, etc... the good ones tend to last long.
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32 is pretty dam young still and I think he has plenty of elite years left
 
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Over payment in years. At least it's only 7 years. I would have preferred 5 years at that money. I guess money & job security was more important to Hank than winning a cup. No way that is ever happening now unless we get very lucky, which we won't because this is the NY Rangers we are talking about. And a no movment clause. FML SMH RME!
 
silverfish said:
Is this how people actually think?

I wish I had your optimism.
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Reminds me of 5 or 6 years ago, when all of us fans were grasping at straws and projecting a top-6 that included Ethan Werek and Alex Bourret. Let's not forget Jessiman and Marc-Andre Cliche rounding out a top-notch third line. :laugh: :cry:
 
mrhockey193195 said:
Reminds me of 5 or 6 years ago, when all of us fans were grasping at straws and projecting a top-6 that included Ethan Werek and Alex Bourret. Let's not forget Jessiman and Marc-Andre Cliche rounding out a top-notch third line. :laugh: :cry:
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This is what makes me want to puke when I log onto this site. The overvaluing of prospects and decent to average homegrown players is sickening
 
He needed to be signed so why the crying?

Without him the team doesnt make the playoffs the next 5 years till we tank enough to get some good draft picks.
 
I think it would be very reasonable to expect either Fast or Kristo to turn into a top-9 RW (giving us Nash on the first, Cally on the second, and Fast/Kristo on the third); Hrivik, Buch or Duclair to become a top-9 LW (giving us Kreider, Hagelin and Hrivik/Buch/Duclair); with Miller, Lindberg and Nieves or Tamb becoming our second, third and fourth line centers after Stepan.

That still leaves us with Brass and Zuccarello to upgrade somewhere.
 
Fitzy said:
Glad to call Henrik Lundqvist a career Ranger.

The rest of you... I don't believe in telling people how to feel about things, but you should be a little more appreciative of what he has done. By the end of this contract he will be far and away the best goalie in NYR history (An original 6 franchise) and probably one of the top 5 career Rangers.
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Excellent post.
 
Green Blob said:
He needed to be signed so why the crying?

Without him the team doesnt make the playoffs the next 5 years till we tank enough to get some good draft picks.
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That money could be better spent on aging UFAs to come here and underperform. Come on man, get with the program.
 
Money aside, I turned on the news when I got home and caught a Lundqvist interview where he referenced how happy he is that he'll be "a Ranger for life." And Ive got to admit, I got a little emotional.

Ive been watching this team since the late 80's, and the only other great player that retired as a career Ranger was Richter, and it never really felt like he retired because he didnt go out the way he wanted to. The suits even traded Leetch.

I think we should be happy and proud of this, instead of worrying about 2020 or bickering over dollars. Because if theres one thing I can guarantee when this contract is over, its you'll be watching Lundqvist's # being risen to the rafters and you will smile.
 
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