We’re down to about 60 hours until the NHL’s trade deadline arrives on Monday at 3 p.m., and the Rangers are already on the deadline scoreboard after Frank Vatrano bought the Panthers for a 2022 fourth-round pick on Wednesday. There are still a lot of players available and the Rangers are interested, and now the time is starting to tick down. Is Chris Drury blinking at a previously rejected asking price? Does one of its fellow directors have too high a asking price for a rental?
Let’s turn around the well-used list of names associated with the Rangers over the last month or so and see where things stand, knowing that things have changed as you read this:
Claude Giroux
Reports circulated Thursday that Giroux refused to extend his No-Move clause to the Rangers or Bruins. One league source confirmed that Giroux was unwilling to keep the Rangers as a destination, possibly due to divisional rivalry between the teams.
We have no idea how far it got between Drury and Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher before Giroux pulled the plug. It seems he’s going to Florida, which could at least take the Panthers out of the running for some other wrestlers who have targeted the Rangers.
Rickard Rakell
The squeegee is still the logical piece available for Drury to pick up.
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