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Gaborik Signs with Rangers, 5 Years
by Alanah McGinley on 07/01/09 at 08:19 PM ET
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From Darren Dreger via Twitter:
TSN is reporting Gaborik to the Rangers. 5 years x $5.75 [million]
Update 5:23pm ET: From TSN --
Former Minnesota Wild winger Marian Gaborik has agreed to a five-year contract with the New York Rangers.
The Slovakian forward will earn $5.75 million per year.
Update 5.29pm ET: UPDATED SALARY—TSN corrected their story, now saying the salary amount is 5 years at $7.5 million.
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Sather never fails to disappoint, does he? Get rid of one under-performing undersized player whose contract hamstrung you...to sign a potentially dynamic but injury riddled player to a long term deal for about the same cap hit. 7.5 million a year for five years for a guy with Gaborik’s injury history seems like a big risk…
Posted by Dan from Pittsburgh, PA on 07/01/09 at 07:34 PM ET
I guess he didn’t get his 10 years. Either way, the Rangers are taking a chance. Hopefully Lundqvist doesn’t remember that 5 goal night Gaborik had on him.
Posted by Josh from Tampa on 07/01/09 at 07:35 PM ET
They need to get Sather out of the NHL and quick...The league needs a good team in NY and he has no F-in clue. Who will be his center? Not that he will play very much. This is sad....................
Posted by kevin from boston on 07/01/09 at 07:40 PM ET
For 5.75 I was saying it was good. For 7.75? An injury prone player? Really Sather? You started off getting Gomez outta here… great. Now you sign a player that’ll play half their contact…
Posted by Adam on 07/01/09 at 07:42 PM ET
7.5 for an injury prone player may seem like a bad idea, but just remember, when a player is on IR, they don’t count towards the cap. It will be an interesting year in NY.
Posted by bsalamon on 07/01/09 at 08:46 PM ET
The Rangers had a long history of loose purse strings way before Slats came along!
Posted by Mac from Canada on 07/01/09 at 08:59 PM ET
Just wow. I have no other words for this.
For the Rangers’ sake as well as his own, I hope his new unbreakable bionic groin holds up.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/01/09 at 09:06 PM ET
Yesterday, Sather gets off the hook for the horrible Gomez contract. 24 hours later, he saddles his team with the same contract, only with a far more injury-prone player. Thank God the Penguins have Ray Shero and not a moron like Sather.
Posted by cs6687 on 07/01/09 at 10:58 PM ET
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