Saturday, June 19, 2010

Kasper Hangs Them Up

Beyond the Blueshirts tweets...

According to Sportsdaily.ru, former #NYR Darius Kasparaitis has called it a career & will become an assistant coach with SKA St. Petersburg.less than a minute ago via web

...Rangers could really use a Kasparaitis-type player on defense right now. Dirty, hard hitting and in-your-face. The exact opposite of Redden.

...unfortunately, not much success for the Rangers during Kasper's time with the team and his NHL career sadly ended for him in Hartford.

4 comments:

ted said...

Funny because i thought he retired right after Slats made him a millionaire 23 times over.

Kevin DeLury said...

Ba dum dum ching.

Anonymous said...

yet another strange reason redden hasnt been waived..although kaspar was only paid about 3.5-4.5 a year? but still...in a salary cap era we need every dollar we can get, lets hope slats does the same to redden as he did kaspar.

-andrew794

LI Joe said...

kaspar was put into minors late in his contract. with redden it sends a bad message for future free agencies to send a guy during his 1st or even 2nd yr to the minors. strongly appears you didn;t even give him a chance. that perception does lessen with each passing yr so at least after 2 full seasons is a heck of a lot better than during the 1st yr.

its worth the risk to send him down if you can get a stud like kovy. otherwise merely overpaying middling talent in yrs and $ could lead to same ol same ol