Sunday, June 8, 2008

Blue Chips & Season Ticket Prices

Larry Brooks at the New York Post reports on possible free agent scenarios for the Rangers...

"So, are the Blueshirts better off with a combined $6M investment in Rozsival and projected third-pair defenseman Melichar, or with a combined $6.5-7M investment in Orpik and, say, impending Montreal free agent Mark Streit, who would play on the third pair and on the vacated power-play point?

Up front, are the Rangers more likely to win the Stanley Cup within the next couple of years if they re-sign Jaromir Jagr for a base of approximately $5M, or if they instead the cut the cord and invest the $7M per for which Marian Hossa, who in his own breakout postseason, was Pittsburgh's most consistently dangerous forward?

Are the Rangers more formidable with Hossa on the first unit playing with Scott Gomez and Chris Drury, and Brandon Dubinsky lined up as second and third pivots? Or are they better with Dubinsky playing with Jagr while Gomez seeks a compatible second-line winger and Drury is again dispatched to the third line? There is no guarantee Hossa will sign with the Blueshirts if he gets to July 1, but we have heard nothing to suggest he would not."

...good luck Glen, hope you make the right decisions.

Brooks on next year's season ticket prices...

"Why are we getting this feeling that the longer the Rangers take to send out their season-ticket invoices, the more painful they're going to be to open?"

...as a season ticket holder I don't like the sound of that.

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