nydailynews.com - 7/2/2008
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The Rangers opened the Cablevision vault and lavished a total of $59 million upon a couple of defensemen who are upper-echelon players but hardly game-breakers, agreeing to the terms Michal Rozsival and Ottawa's Wade Redden.
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... I'll take that over the Rangers just as an example. After free-spending last off-season, they now have $33 million wrapped up in five players (one very good goalie, two good but not great offensive defensemen, and two second line centers neither of whom make a habit of scoring a lot of goals) for four years. Outside of Henrik Lundqvist I wouldn't say that's necessarily a great group to be building around and it doesn't leave a lot of flexibility for other moves particularly in mid-season. I don't know. We'll see but I like what we have better. ...
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... Here’s one even the most hardcore Ranger fans will get behind. This summer the Blueshirts doled out $32.5 million for five years of Wade Redden and $20 million for four years of Michal Rozsival. And for all that they’re a combined -15. This is bad resource management and pretty much the reason the Rangers were unable to get Mats Sundin. The rumor is one or both of them are ...
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