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Monday, July 27, 2015

Rangers Lock Up Stepan for 6/39

The Rangers avoided an arb hearing that would have happened by signing Derek Stepan to a long term deal today.   This was sort of a must as Stepan is core, and it does seem he gave them a slight hometown discount by allowing them to keep his AAV under 7.   Nice job by Gorton getting all of the RFA's in a good to decent prices.  Now I expect them to make a trade or two to establish breathing room under the cap.  They have more core to extend over the next few years.

posted by Kalel9 @ 9:49 AM

4 Comments:

At 10:56 AM, Blogger Michael said...

Agreed Phil nice deal indeed. it's a good problem to have when you have to trade because your homegrown talents are developed into the types of players that warrant these deals. that said we definitely need to save room for Kreider and Hayes. I'm guessing Staal is the likely one moved.

 
At 12:22 PM, Anonymous MBN said...

6.5 AAV. Leaves them approx. $800,000 under the cap. Not much room, but then again, many really good teams are locked into cap ceilings.

 
At 12:47 PM, Blogger TB said...

doubt Staal can be moved as he has a no movement clause. Klein is likely the one out ..Good deal for both sides, hopefully Stepan keeps improving, it will make this look like a super steal!

 
At 12:48 PM, Blogger Kalel9 said...

They're got to make a trade or two now. I had heard they had some stuff ready for when Step signs.

 

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