In today's New York Post, Larry Brooks expresses his dissatisfaction with the Rangers on a number of issues including having too many marginal forwards signed in the $1million range, raising season ticket prices, and Sather going back on his policy against no-trade or no-move clauses by giving Markus Naslund a full no-move clause and Wade Redden the annual right to give management a list of eight teams to which he cannot be traded. Here is an excerpt...
"It also seems Wade Redden needed a sweetener to take his $39M, seven-year deal. So the GM gave the defenseman the annual right to give management a list of eight teams to which he cannot be traded, and it will just be unfortunate if Atlanta should want him in a deal for Ilya Kovalchuk, won't it?
Brutal."
...while I don't always agree with Brooks, I'm with him on all of his criticisms. Except for the idea of the Rangers being able to re-sign Shanahan if they didn't hand out so many $1M contracts to marginal forwards. I just really didn't want Shanahan back.
Brooks' article also covers the NHL's labor agreement which Brooks says artificially inflates overall league revenue, meaning small-market teams such as the Columbus Blue Jackets, are forced to spend money they don't have to keep up with the revenue growth generated by large-market teams. See here.
1 comment:
What bothers me about this article, is that Sather was handing out no trade contracts, but didnt feel Avery, the heart and soul of this team was worthy of any knid on no trade contract.
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