Rangers Trade For Canes' Eric Staal

Mar 09, 2016, 22:30

Carolina Hurricanes F Eric Staal was selected 2nd overall back in 2003 from OHL's Peterborough Petes. If the team intends to keep Brassard and Stepan as the first and second line forwards, then they'll have to decide if they want to move Eric Staal to the wing in the top six or have him center the third line. If Staal can rediscover his past form and Rick Nash rebounds once he recovers from a bone bruise, the Rangers could be cooking as they enter the playoffs.

"Everybody saw the size and puck protection capabilities". He played in one game with the Capitals this season.

The trade reunites Staal with his brother Marc, a defenseman in his ninth National Hockey League season.

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"At one point when we had all hands on deck, we were playing real well". Perhaps playing with his brother Marc Staal will help him.

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Carolina received center Aleksi Saarela and two second-round draft picks. Or if NY feels that Staal is the missing piece to a Stanley Cup contender, they're going to have to pay up.

Under their rookie bench boss, the retooling Canes are on the periphery of the postseason, somewhere they have not been since the 2008-09.

However, Staal's statistics have decreased within the past 10 years. "There was a lot of trying times. For me it was time for this opportunity and this chance".

The Hurricanes are retaining 50 percent of the salary so Eric Staal will count the pro-rated portion of $4.125 million against the Rangers' salary cap. Staal can be an unrestricted free agent on July 1. In the playoffs, Staal was a point per game player with 43 points in 43 games.

"I have said repeatedly that it is our hope to reach an agreement with Steven on a new contract at some point", said Yzerman, "and with 27 games remaining in the season, our entire organization, Steven included, wants to focus on making the playoffs". The Rangers are playoff bound once again, and they will look to make a run at a Stanley Cup this season.

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Staal joined his new teammates at the morning skate Monday in preparation for the game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Madison Square Garden (7 p.m. ET; NHLN, SNE, SNO, FS-O, MSG).

If we dig a little deeper, though, it becomes clear that Staal hasn't fallen off as much as his box score may indicate. They needed him to find more ways to put it actually in the net, and for the last three years, he just didn't do that enough for a guy receiving $9.5 million this year and $9.25 million the two before.

This is a deal of two sides: There's what the Rangers got and what it cost them to get it. We're going to break these two things down separately because they contrast pretty drastically. "I think that's the message that management and coaches have, and we're sending it".

Reimer, who was amongst the league leaders with a. 932 save percentage heading into the all-star break, has been one of the bright spots on a rebuilding Leafs team. "He's going to fit in real well".

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