Waived: Tony DeAngelo

[hi]

Maybe he refused to acknowledge that the Penguins won the game last night

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

Which teams can afford to pick up a 4.8 million dollar cap hit? Too lazy to check

Ottawa
Los Angeles
Chicago
New Jersey
Columbus
Detroit
St. Louis
San Jose
Nashville
Dallas

EDIT: Florida could free up the space to take him pretty easily, as well, IMO. They're only short a couple of hundred grand. Anyone else is going to have to make a major move.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

What in the ever loving f***

 

[sabremike]

This can't be hockey related

I have heard it was due to him calling Tage a highly unglaphobic term when you were playing us last week.

 

[RGY]

Rangers just put one of last year's highest scoring defensemen on waivers after giving him an extension, and some of you think this is because they'd rather have Johnson or Smith in the lineup? That's next level idiocy.

I for one dont think they would rather have those guys in over DeAngelo... but putting him on waivers is just mind blowing given all the factors. Huge season last year, contract extension. Smh

 

[NYRFANMANI]

Jaw dropping news. What in the hell? Now it's guaranteed that we wont get anything in return?

Is it that bad? Is he an open Qhole?

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Clearly clearly this is not about hockey. This has been bubbling and something must have happened last night

He was on the ice for most of the goals last night.

 

[Tob]

Sounds like Vinny might know a little more

Sounds like Vinny's got a couch to move.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Wtf

 

[tlk]

This is madness.

Politics in the front office? Hope not.

 

[Profet]

He posted something about moving to Parler either last night or a while ago. That's all I know about. If I'm correct, he's also been a somewhat firm Trump supporter. Maybe it's all just built off of that.

 

[RGY]

But Kupo told me he was the next coming of Leetch

You really cannot go after someone when you have been a staunch Strome defender....

 

[Trxjw]

I for one dont think they would rather have those guys in over DeAngelo... but putting him on waivers is just mind blowing given all the factors. Huge season last year, contract extension. Smh

Sends a crystal clear message about how he's viewed around the league.

 

[Machinehead]

Jaw dropping news. What in the hell? Now it's guaranteed that we wont get anything in return?

Is it that bad? Is he an open Qhole?

Yes

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

Hard to hate on JD here. He isnt the only one in that room and he likely played a big role in getting Panarin here.

But overall losing DeAngelo for nothing is a natural disaster.

Definitely not just a JD problem. But things like the Kravstov/Andersson issue. The Johnson signing. The leash Quinn gets. These are all really bad situations. You can’t place the blame on one person. But he shares some of it.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

He sucks...good riddance

 

[Bob Richards]

This is bananas lol

 

[JohnC]

What reports are there that he’s a cancer?

I wouldn’t say there were reports that he’s been a cancer here, but the past is well documented.

I’ve seen “he’s very well liked in the locker room” a lot the past year, but as far as I can tell it’s really just a claim based off of his friendship with Strome and Lemieux.

I think back to the sickest guy in the league video. Jimmy Vesey looked like he couldn’t wait for the guy to get out of his face.

 

[BKGooner]

We know smith was awful. We know Johnson is awful. We know DeAngelo’s history, we know georgiev blew another game. We know Quinn has been outclassed by every coach we’ve gone up against.

I mean did he snap in that Lockerroom?

Maybe someone needs to snap in that room but there is a right way and a wrong way. Too valuable of an asset to give away for free imo.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Tremendous asset management here.

FO is a f***show just like the coaching staff.

 

[NYR94]

It's been an up and down beginning to the season for him. But I don't think his on-ice play has warranted being waived. I think something happened off the ice. Should be a wake up call to people who think personality doesn't matter as long as the guy has good metrics. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and hoped he would mature but now 3 teams have decided to move on from him and he's only 25.

He had the miscommunication with Geo in OT that led to the goal, right? Maybe a teammate or coach said something about that Tony didn't like and his response was enough to get the axe.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

If he is/was this much of a problem you'd think they would have moved on from him in the off-season. Unfortunately now we may lose him for nothing, which sucks.

I dislike the player but wanted him to succeed on the ice. This is all unfortunate. Even if no one claims him, you'd think the relationship between the parties has been irreparably damaged.

Was thinking last night, randomly, that I could see him having an Anthony Duclair-like career. Very talented, some good seasons, some not so good seasons, not really latching on because of issues not totally related to his play.

Not to venture too far outside the bounds of what's allowable discussion on this forum, but one wonders if recent events have led to a change/amplification of his behavior...

 

[Mandar]

Whatever the reason, I’d rather face him as an opponent than have him on our backline

 

[Machinehead]

Should have traded him before he went off the deep end again but whatever.

 

[Fitzy]

Maybe someone needs to snap in that room but there is a right way and a wrong way. Too valuable of an asset to give away for free imo.

They've been trying to trade him for almost a year. If he's waived now it means the offers weren't even worth revisiting.