Available Cap Space – $350,500
Need – Defense
Analysis – The window for the Rangers may be closing and the defensive corps that has been central to their Stanley Cup Final appearance in 2014 and a Conference Final finish last season is beginning to show cracks. Veterans Dan Girardi and Marc Staal have slowed after years of wear and tear as shot blockers and 39-year-old Dan Boyle is on his last legs.
GM Jeff Gorton has little room to work with and might be able to create a small amount of cap space by demoting or trading Tanner Glass or Viktor Stalberg or move pending UFA defenseman Keith Yandle, who they will be unlikely to re-sign. Gorton’s options are likely limited to adding an inexpensive bottom pairing defenseman to the current group to make one more run at the Cup.
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