Larry Brooks at the New York Post says that Nikolai Zherdev successfully plotted his own path to unrestricted free agency and an exit from New York...
"Zherdev could have rejected the Rangers' $3.25 million qualifier and signed in Russia. Had he done that though, the Blueshirts still would have owned his NHL rights for one more season. He could have accepted the qualifying offer, and become eligible for unrestricted free agency next summer.
Instead, the 24-year-old Zherdev filed for salary arbitration off a 23-goal regular season marked by pockets of indifference and a seven-game postseason in which he was AWOL.
Filing was a maneuver transparent in its objective to anyone who understood that the Blueshirts had come close to not qualifying the winger and would certainly not spend a penny more than the $3.25 million to keep him under contract."
David Staples at the Edmonton Journal looks at how Zherdev would fit with the Oilers.
...there has been way too much ink given to a player the Rangers are not interested in.
...i actually do think there could be a place for Zherdev on this team. But only if he'd be willing to give maximum effort on every shift. Which I'm not sure he's capable of doing.
...i hate to compare players from different sports but Zherdev reminds me of Oliver Perez of the Mets. On any given night these guys can be brilliant but those nights are too few and far in between.
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