Day: June 3, 2016

Many are the New York Ranger fans, bloggers, forum posters and unpaid experts calling for big roster changes before the next puck drops. Big, when you consider most are hoping Rick Nash, Kevin Hayes, Marc Staal and Dan Girardi are all on the other side of the rink, when the summer ends. Indeed a monumental task for Mr. Gorton, when you consider contract effects on teams salary caps, no move, and no trade clauses. So monumental the afore mentioned experts will be disappointed when reality kicks in, and maybe Nash and Hayes are the only two moved.

If Gorton is able to move Staal and Girardi and their cap gobbling contracts, for any nugget of note, then just give him the “Executive of the Year” already, he will have earned it. Realistically there will be a market for Nash, he’s had his ups and downs, usually, season ups and playoff downs, but teams will be calling. He’s been a goal scorer most of his career and hopefully a couple three teams will think he can do it again. The problem for those who want him gone is replacing his 104 goals in 248 games. For the stats geeks that’s 35 goals over a 82 game season for three years. Certainly respectable numbers and in the park for his salary range. If they trade him, they better get some scoring back or the offensively challenged Ranger attack might be positively anemic without him.