The Rangers have announced that they have officially bought out the final year of Tony DeAngelo’s contract.
The buyout will save the Rangers $4.4 million in cap space but create dead cap hits for the next two seasons of (CapFriendly):
The Rangers offered DeAngelo the chance to terminate his contract and allow him to become a free agent but DeAngelo turned them down.
Chris Drury spoke late last night and said (NYR):
The Rangers are slated to have the following picks during the second day:
With the 16th pick, the Rangers selected LW Brennan Othmann of Flint of the OHL.
He is 6-0, 175 and The Hockey News says that his best case is Gabriel Landeskog. TSN also mentioned Landeskog as a comparable.
6 PM: Elliotte Friedman said on the NHL Network that this was a trade about the “bigger picture” for the Rangers and them looking at their desire to add grit and their salary cap as it relates to new deals for Shesterkin, Fox, Zibanejad and the players coming off entry-level.
3:50 PM: The Rangers have traded Pavel Buchnevich to St. Louis for LW Sammy Blais and a 2022 Second Round pick.
Blais, 25, is 6-2, 205 and had 8 goals, 7 assists, and 103 hits last season in 36 games for St Louis.
In his career, he has 17 goals, 18 assists with 366 hits, and an average of 11:31 per game in 119 games.
2PM: Frank Seravalli tweets that Georgiev requested a trade “a while back.” He also ssays that Georgiev “wasn’t exactly known as a favorite teammate” witih the Rangers. (Daily Faceoff)
10:50 AM: Larry Brooks tweets that Buffalo’s “demands” for Eichel remain “fantastical.”
Brooks adds that the offers for the Rangers pick tonight have been “few and hardly enticing.”
9 AM: The Rangers have the 16th pick, though the 15th player selected, in tonight’s first round of the NHL Draft.
The Rangers hold two picks in the third round tomorrow, three in the fourth round and one each in the fifth, sixth and seventh.
Tony DeAngelo will be placed on unconditional waivers at 12PM today to begin his buyout process. (LeBrun)