Ryan Lindgren was on NHL Network on Monday night and said:
1:59PM: Lindgren will be paid $2 million next season, $3 million in 2022-23 and $4 million in 2023-24.
He will still be an RFA when this contract expires and have one-year before becoming a UFA.
1:35PM: Lindgren’s deal is three-years and a cap hit of $3 million per season. (Larry Brooks, Elliotte Friedman)
1:33PM: The Rangers have announced that Ryan Lindgren has agreed to a three-year contract extension.
Lindgren, 23, was slated to be a RFA this summer. He did not have arbitration rights.
Earlier today Lindgren was named the winner of the Players’ Player Award, “which is given annually to the Ranger who, as selected by his teammates, “best exemplifies what it means to be a team player.”
The Rangers have announced that Adam Fox has been named Team MVP and Ryan Lindgren was named the winner of the Players’ Player Award and.
From the Rangers:
Artemi Panarin received the second-most votes for the award this season.
From the Rangers on Fox:
Adam Rotter: Fox was the Rangers best player this season and really the only choice. He was their most consistent player, despite ending the season on a six-game pointless streak, and never really wavered despite all the minutes he was playing night to night. He’s going to be, or at least should be, a finalist for the Norris Trophy and this past season is hopefully Fox just scratching the surface. He’ll be even better equipped to play those big minutes night to night next season and just better overall as he goes from a second-year player to a third-year player. We know that the Rangers have held off naming a captain since Ryan McDonagh is traded and that the thought had always been that Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad were the leading candidates, with mentions of Jacob Trouba and the possibility that they were ultimately holding it for Alexis Lafreniere, but I think Fox has to be right up there in consideration.
The Players’ Player Award which “has been given annually since the conclusion of the 1958-59 season and recognizes the Ranger who, as selected by his teammates, “best exemplifies what it means to be a team player.”
Jesper Fast had won the award the prior five seasons.
Lindgren is the first defenseman to win the award since Ryan McDonagh in 2013-14 and is only the fourth different defenseman to win the award in the past 30 seasons (Jason Strudwick 2007-08, Brian Leetch 2000-01 to 2003-04).
From the Rangers:
Adam Rotter: Lindgren will always be overshadowed on his defense, by his partner if Fox, by K’Andre Miller, Jacob Trouba and probably Zac Jones, Braden Schneider and Nils Lundkvist, for a variety of reasons, but like Dan Girardi before him, he’s plays the tough minutes, always has multiple stitches or a black eye and he must really be hurt if he isn’t in the lineup. He, and Jacob Trouba, provide a lot of the toughness that the Rangers were missing last week and it’s nice that his teammates recognize him for that with this award.
Brendan Smith was named the winner of the “John Halligan Good Guy Award” that “recognizes a player for their cooperation with the media throughout the season.”
Adam Rotter: Since the moment he arrived from Detroit Smith has never been afraid to speak after games or practices and be accountable for what happened. I think you could argue him for the Players’ Player Award as well and I think he accepted his role as a mentor and leader on these young teams and the Rangers will miss him if he isn’t re-signed.
The NHL has fined Ryan Lindgren “$2,486.56, the maximum allowable under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, for interference” on Jordan Eberle on Thursday.
Lindgren was given a minor penalty, cross-checking, for the incident.
Lindgren spoke with the NHL Department of Player Safety recently for a hit against the Avalanche but he was not assessed any supplementary discipline.
9PM: The NHL Department of Player Safety determined that Lindgren would not receive discipline.
They tweeted, “While there was significant head contact on this play, Lindgren took a proper angle of approach, did not extend outward or upward and hit through Donskoi’s core. Therefore, under Rule 48.1 (i), the head contact was determined to be unavoidable.”
10:08AM: The NHL’s Department of Player Safety has announced that Ryan Lindgren will have a hearing on Wednesday for an illegal check to the head of Jonas Donskoi in last night’s first period.
Lindgren was not penalized on the play.
Colorado coach Jared Bednar said after the game that he hadn’t talked to the trainers but “news isn’t good if he didn’t come out for the rest of the game. I watched the replay, shoulder right to his jaw and his cheek, no call, so we have to take care of it ourself and that is what we did.”
The NHL’s Time on Ice sheet lists Donskoi as playing an eight second shift in the second period last night. That is the only time he played after suffering the hit.
The Rangers have announced that Filip Chytil and Ryan Lindgren have been called up from Hartford.
From the Rangers release:
Speaking about Chytil on Monday, David Quinn said “one of the things we like that Fil has done is that he has gone down there and been productive offensively but he has also done the things he has to do to have success at this level.”
The Rangers had two roster spots available so they did not need to send anyone down to make these moves.
Adam Rotter: Filip Chytil, if he’s here for good, will likely play in the middle and probably force Lias Andersson either to the wing or to Hartford. For tomorrow, if Mika Zibanejad is out, he’ll slot in next to Chris Kreider and either Jesper Fast or Kaapo Kakko and the Rangers will take things from there.
Where Ryan Lindgren slots in, unless there is an injury, is not as easy to see. On the left side the Rangers have Marc Staal, Brady Skjei and Libor Hajek. Hajek is the easy to bench for a game or two but I think he is making good strides. Both Skjei and Staal have had struggles with Staal’s lack of foot speed becoming a bigger issue and Skjei continuing to show flashes but following them with long stretches of inconsistency. Lindgren brings everything that David Quinn wants in terms of physicality and battle level so he would be a welcome addition, but for which player remains to be seen.