Bozak/Tavares Staal B/O read description.

Team: 2017-18 New York Rangers

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 6, 2017

Published: Jul. 6, 2017

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Just realized why Trocheck may not make sense and Bozak does. John Tavares is a FA next year. He hasn't signed with the Isles yet and who knows if he isn't going to, is waiting for them to make more moves or if he's unhappy with certain things like the stadium situation,etc. If he likes NY like he says he does, he may sign as a Ranger.

Throwing around the idea of buying out Staal. I know that it isn't "ideal" cap wise, but it actually isn't as bad as first thought. DG/Staal while on the team both cost $11.2M. If Staal is bought out and the younger kids (DeAngelo, Beregzelov who played well in KHL, Graves, Pionk) can make that 3rd line/7th D there still would be nearly $4M left in cap space. If Staal isn't bought out and remains, $880K left in space for call ups, etc.
This season will say a lot about Zibanejad and if he can be a teams 1C. If he can't, no big deal as we'd have 3 capable 50 pt Cs. Maybe Miller can play C as well and will rotate some games at C with Hayes who knows. If Zib has a great 60 pt year, awesome. If not and is in 50s it gives Gorts more reason to go hard after Tavares next summer.

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