RANGERS NEWS AND NOTES MON 6/27: RFA's, Lindros, Rumors

 RANGERS RFA QUALIFYING AND NON-QUALIFYING OFFERS ANNOUNCED

The following RFAs in the Rangers organization did not receive qualifying offers and are now free agents:

Luke Adam, Michael St. Croix, Chris McCarthy, Josh Nicholls, Michael Kantor and Samuel Noreau.

RFAs who were qualified and whose rights the Rangers retain include:

Chris Kreider, JT Miller, Kevin Hayes, Dylan McIlrath, Tommy Hughes, Mat Bodie, Marek Hrivik and Nicklas Jensen.
A player can accept his qualifying offer and play under that contract for one season. A player can also reject their qualifying offer to work on a different kind of contract.

LINDROS HHOF BOUND 

Former Ranger Eric Lindros has been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2016.

Lindros was acquired on Aug. 20, 2001 in a deal that sent Pavel Brendl, Jan Hlavac, Kim Johnsson, and 2003 third-round pick (Stefan Ruzicka) to Philadelphia for Lindros and future considerations (conditional first-round pick, conditions not met.) Aug. 23, 2001 - P.J. Stock signed as free agent.

In 192 games with the Rangers from 2001-2004 Lindros scored 66 goals, 92 assists including 73 points in 72 games in 01-02.

RANGERS RUMOR RUMBLINGS

Pending NY Islanders UFA Matt Martin has come up in discussions as a possible signing the Rangers might be looking into come this Friday. Martin just finished a four-year deal with the Islanders with a cap hit of $1 million and an actually salary of $1.3 million and should be able to be signed for 2.5-3M per season. Martin is an effective 4th liner but is not a "penalty killer" so the 2-3M range may be a little steep for a 4th line player with cap restrictions.

Many UFA names from the KHL have been linked to the Rangers with the thought of making Pavel Buchnevich's transition to the NHL a little bit easier. Names included were Nikita Nikitin, Anton Khudobin, Viktor Tikhonov and Alexander Radulov. Radulov has reportedly returned to the KHL. Tikhonov is a young skilled player that hasn't been consistant who served as translator for Artemi Panarin while with the Blackhawks. Former Ranger Pavel Valentenko's name has been thrown around as well. The Rangers main concern the Rangers have  is Buchnevich does not speak English and the only other player on the Rangers who does is Chris Kreider along with this being his transitioning year from KHL to the NHL.