Day: June 23, 2008

The Rangers and Jaromir Jagr hope to meet this week about discussing a new deal. Jagr is set to become a free agent July 1st, but both he and the Rangers have indicated they’d like to see if they can’t work something out.

2008 draftees Michael Del Zotto and Derek Stepan will be in New York this week to go through the annual prospect conditioning camp. The Rangers have invited 28 players, which typically includes recent draftees, existing prospects and a handful of invitees (none of whom typically feature in the Rangers future).

In our second installment, we take a look at day two of the Rangers’ draft, and the addition of six more prospects, as well as the departure of Alex Bourret after just over a year with the Rangers.

Along with the trade of Bourret, the Rangers also sacrificed a seventh round pick as well as their 2009 fourth rounder to reclaim the pick they had dealt to St Louis at the deadline for defenseman Christian Backman. The pick was traded early on day one of the draft by St Louis to Nashville in exchange for goaltender Chris Mason, setting up the opportunity for the Rangers to reclaim their original pick