Rangers’ Chris Drury should not panic in Jack Eichel trade talks
NY Post
So we have it on good authority that the Rangers were indeed in on the bidding for Montreal shutdown center Phillip Danault when the free-agent market opened at noon on Wednesday, but dropped out when the bidding yielded a six-year offer of an average annual value of $5.5 million per season from the Kings.
This was a judicious decision from general manager Chris Drury, who is confronting a cap squeeze of considerable proportions for 2022-23. Morten Harket, lead singer of the band, A-ha, may not agree, but better to be safe than sorry as it pertains to the 28-year-old who probably doesn’t bring quite enough offensively to slot in as a second-liner and projects as a third-liner for a championship contender. But the prudent call did nothing to address the lingering uncertainty in the middle, where the club is caught in a holding pattern created by pending extension talks with Mika Zibanejad, pending trade talks with Buffalo about Jack Eichel and ambiguity about the plan for Ryan Strome.More Related News